Grammar and language issues that drive you utterly berserk - Pet peeves

[Preferred Penne]

I feel like every other Tik Tok/short video I see has the caption "POV: You're (doing a thing)".

Does anybody out there even know what "POV" means?

 

[Dysnomia]

Some people laughed at me today for writing "the cow is of the bovine ilk" because "Haha you think you're so smart, but you don't know the animal is spelled ELK!" I was offended in the moment for some reason, but by the time I got home it's already funny to me.

I will admit I thought "segue" was spelled "segway" (the thing with wheels) until I hit college.

I still use segway and I don't care. Blame the retarded scooter thing. I sure do.

I feel like every other Tik Tok/short video I see has the caption "POV: You're (doing a thing)".

Does anybody out there even know what "POV" means?

All it takes is one TikTard misusing a word and getting enough views. Then everyone else who wants more views copies it. I'm starting to think TikTok is some experiment in creating the ultimate hive mind.

 

[Flatline]

I love when people sperg so hard over grammar but utterly fail at punctuation and sentence structure.

What was the error in my post?

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I will admit I thought "segue" was spelled "segway" (the thing with wheels) until I hit college.

I had the opposite problem. I had only seen it written down so I pronounced it "seeg".

 

[a hapless toad]

What was the error in my post?

Oh sorry, there weren't any! I quoted you because of the egregious semicolon misuse in the post after yours.

 

[Preferred Penne]

While reading various posts by people seething about the election, I've realized that almost all of them misspell the word "bawling" as "balling". It doesn't drive me crazy so much as it makes me laugh.

 

[soup peddler]

I don't like GOATed and don't understand GOATed. I understand G.O.A.T, but saying something is GOATed is just a line of retardation my brain can't follow

 

[Pedophobe]

I've seen more than one person type "etc" as "ect." It isn't as rage worthy to me as the above, but it peeves too. Proves that they don't understand that "etc" is short for "et cetera."

I'm seeing it a lot lately on our precious antipodean grange. Y'all need to do better.

 

[Ambidextype]

When liberals or jews are triggered, they say "I'm shaking with fear." etc. And some of them still utilise that expression even now.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

I try to catch myself on:

• “sorry” vs “excuse me”
• “that” vs “which”
• “they” when I mean “he”
• AAVE-isms
• ESL-isms
• overly convoluted sentence structures
• Combining e.g. and etc.

I also dislike when people replace AD or Anno Domini with CE. Even Anno Domini is a bit lax. You should write it out in a full sentence like this: “the two thousand and twenty fourth year of the reign of our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ”.

Some people laughed at me today for writing "the cow is of the bovine ilk" because "Haha you think you're so smart, but you don't know the animal is spelled ELK!" I was offended in the moment for some reason, but by the time I got home it's already funny to me.

What were you trying to communicate, besides your familiarity with words which have fallen out of favour, such as bovine and ilk? If I heard that exchange I would laugh at you.

People mixing British English with American English without realizing, I assume due to social media or TTS. Just stick to one spelling.

The stand spelling per Australian English is mostly the same as British but goes with the New World for some words. There is also a trend towards Americanisation due to US-localised spellcheckers.

Irregardless

The prefix Ir, means not. Regardless means without consideration.
If it were a "real" word, it would literally mean the opposite of how people use it.

Portmanteau of irrespective and regardless. Unfortunate but forgivable.

I see many native English speakers spelling "a lot" as "alot." I understand the reasoning behind why many people think that it's spelled "alot", but this is something they should have learned in English classes during middle school.

Maybe they’re just misspelling allot? I’m sure that happens a lot.

When people say "in any way, shape or form". It's fucking cringe, just say "in any way" and you won't sound like a faggot. And I swear more than half the time they omit the comma and write "in any way shape or form", what the fuck is up with that?

In no way, shape, or form will I stop using emphatic set phrases because fags like you are obsessed with not being “cringe”. Live a little, pussy.

People would say that a person "is bias" so often I swear it was more common than correctly calling someone biased.

This is one of those ones I’ve definitely (defiantly) engaged in. I think these types of misspellings arise because it’s slightly difficult to enunciate the -ed final consonant in biased. Arguably it works if you frame it as “he is so biased that he is the embodiment of bias: he is bias itself”.

I have not seen this on the farms yet, but for the love of fucking Vishnu, "learning" is not a noun. Knock off this pajeet shit and learn real English.

Learnings is such a common term in business. “What are some learnings we can take away from this project?” I’ve never stopped to think if it’s grammatically correct but it’s certainly pervasive.

I had the opposite problem. I had only seen it written down so I pronounced it "seeg".

Yeah I have done this too. It took a 4chan meme for me to realise that viola voilà , which I had been reading as “vee-o-lah” “vo-i-la” for years was the word that magicians say after a trick - wallah!

 

[Yukako]

I've seen a few people misspell "voila" as "walla". It took me a while to realize what they meant.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

If I heard that exchange I would laugh at you.

It's a famous poem that I wrote up on the board. "The cow is of the bovine ilk / one end is moo, the other, milk." That's why my coworkers were saying I spelled it wrong. And if you think Ogden Nash poems are too lofty for the workplace, I'm going to laugh at you- I know them all from grade school.




If you are going to nitpick, it's spelled voila or voilà btw, not viola. So I'm not sure how you thought it was spoken "vee-oh-la." A viola is a string instrument.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

It's a famous poem that I wrote up on the board. "The cow is of the bovine ilk / one end is moo, the other, milk." That's why my coworkers were saying I spelled it wrong. And if you think Ogden Nash poems are too lofty for the workplace, I'm going to laugh at you- I know them all from grade school.

It’s a bit bizarre for your coworkers to have that response then, given that elk would break the rhyme. They really must be stupid.

I suspect that Ogden Nash is more famous in America than internationally, I am not familiar with his work. In context of a poem that is maybe 70 years old, the line is fine.

If you are going to nitpick, it's spelled voila or voilà btw, not viola. So I'm not sure how you thought it was spoken "vee-oh-la." A viola is a string instrument.

Yes, I suppose I must have thought it was “vo-i-la”. My apologies for recounting that anecdote incorrectly and misspelling a French word in this thread, about English.

Edit: this reminds me of another pet peeve - superfluous commas. See above for example.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Why the fuck do people use "women" as a singular instead of "woman"

 

[deputydogshit2.0]

I’ve recently noticed people who phrase a statement as a question (obviously, this is while writing). “I don’t see my apartment number on my billing statement?” That is not how question marks work. Either say “my apartment number is missing.” Or “why is my apartment number missing?” Anything else sounds passive aggressive and plain stupid.

I have been bitchy enough to reply “Are asking me or telling me?”

 

[A Real Munson]

I’ve recently noticed people who phrase a statement as a question (obviously, this is while writing). “I don’t see my apartment number on my billing statement?” That is not how question marks work. Either say “my apartment number is missing.” Or “why is my apartment number missing?” Anything else sounds passive aggressive and plain stupid.

I have been bitchy enough to reply “Are asking me or telling me?”

Maybe they want to convey an upward, valley-girl-esque inflection at the end of their sentence?

I hate this too.

 

[deputydogshit2.0]

Maybe they want to convey an upward, valley-girl-esque inflection at the end of their sentence?

I hate this too.

Upspeak. Maybe the worst thing to happen to the English language in the last 100 years. I HATE it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I also dislike when people replace AD or Anno Domini with CE.

The use of CE (for christian/common/"vulgar" era) is over 300 years old. Possibly 400, which makes it only a couple of years younger than the church down the road from me.

Why the fuck do people use "women" as a singular instead of "woman"

I'm going to guess it's because they can't spell.

 

[Flatline]

Why the fuck do people use "women" as a singular instead of "woman"

The situation gets even worse when people use "women" or "woman" as an adjective: "We need more women teachers" or "She was the only woman scientist in the lab."

 

[Megaton Punch]

It really bothers the hell out of me when people say "my dumbass". I basically never saw it prior to maybe a year ago, and now it's everywhere. They'll say things like "my dumbass thought you said [something]". What makes it especially annoying is how obviously wrong it is when you sound it out. Dumbass and dumb ass are said differently. The slight pause is a hint, you see.

I'm guessing some retarded zoomer influencer said it and made it a thing that people parrot unthinkingly.

It's even worse when they end a sentence with "err".

"Are you leaving now, errrr.....?"
"Did you need anything else, errrrr....?"

It's not "errrr", it's "or". As in "are you leaving now, or...". The end of the sentence is unnecessary because it's obvious how it ends.