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

[Illegal Meme]

I see way too many people spell "passed" as "past", as in "Joe past away".

 

[Shart Attack]

"Equally as." I don't care if some autistic grammarian can cite some obscure reason it's technically excusable. It's redundant, and saying it makes you sound like a teenage girl whose brain has been melted by Twitter.

Also people using "lead" as the past tense of "to lead" instead of "led." I think I see "lead" used incorrectly more than I see "led" used correctly these days.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

When people say “sneak ‘peak’” instead of “sneak ‘peek’”. You’re teasing a look at something, not a fucking mountain summit. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve seen brand advertisements make this mistake.

 

[cybertoaster]

Using Your instead of You're and viceversa.

Not even ESL mofos make that mistake.

 

[gh0stiexo]

People that say "I could care less"

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Lol last week I got a comment in a meeting to go over some doc: "Dorothy, you're always good at calling out the punctuation and wording things!"

The shade! I laughed.

Haters are mad because I make them fix things


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I hate "a myriad of_______" rather than "myriad _______." I've investigated and have to concede it is not considered wrong*. So this has to go into the category of irrational personal nits. But it does bug the shit out of me.

* from Merriam-Webster: "Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it."

 

[The Last Stand]

There are adults that don't know how to use "good" and "well" properly.

He sews good. No, he sews WELL. TLDR: use "good" to describe nouns. Use "well" to describe verbs.

Example: It's a good sweater. He sews well.

 

[Hinttitroniikka]

Adjective+ness for something there's already a noun for. "Gratefulness" is gratitude, "warmness" is warmth, "coldness" is cold, "faithfulness" is faith or loyalty, those are examples I've seen in the last month alone. I excuse kids and as-a-second-language speakers for putting together sentenced the best they can, but "gratefulness" was from, if I remember right, someone on a podcast talking about their new book.

I don't usually care much about spelling mistakes because of my low respect for English and Anglos, but it's depressing when mistakes reveal how little someone reads books, or how much of what they read is poorly written social media. But it's interesting to me because somehow the meaning is delivered anyway. I wonder if there's any research into that yet.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Adjective+ness for something there's already a noun for. "Gratefulness" is gratitude, "warmness" is warmth, "coldness" is cold, "faithfulness" is faith or loyalty, those are examples I've seen in the last month alone. I excuse kids and as-a-second-language speakers for putting together sentenced the best they can, but "gratefulness" was from, if I remember right, someone on a podcast talking about their new book.

I kind of agree. But personally I can see "warmness" and "coldness" being used informally of a person i.e. "having a warm/cold demeanor." Although you could also use "warmth" and "callosity/hardheartedness" to mean the same thing, so yeah.

 

[Hinttitroniikka]

I kind of agree. But personally I can see "warmness" and "coldness" being used informally of a person i.e. "having a warm/cold demeanor." Although you could also use "warmth" and "callosity/hardheartedness" to mean the same thing, so yeah.

You can say "warmth" and "cold" about a person. To my ears, "coldness" is acceptable, I guess, but "warmness" will always make me do chudface. "Hotness" to refer to a physically attractive person is somehow better than "heat" but for spicy food, or actually high-temperature things, I can't stand it.

This is all just my personal opinion about these nouns, none of this is really that wrong and languages are always in flux or whatever.

 

[AnOminous]

Adjective+ness for something there's already a noun for. "Gratefulness" is gratitude, "warmness" is warmth, "coldness" is cold, "faithfulness" is faith or loyalty, those are examples I've seen in the last month alone. I excuse kids and as-a-second-language speakers for putting together sentenced the best they can, but "gratefulness" was from, if I remember right, someone on a podcast talking about their new book.

The most recent of those has been around since the 16th Century, but most of them go all the way back to Middle English at least.

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't like how YouTubers or Twitch streamers misuse the TOS acronym. TOS stands for "terms of service." They'll use it like: Is this TOS? Is what "terms of service?" Where's the "against" term? I hate it when people skip words.

 

[Preferred Penne]

When people say "till this day" instead of "to this day".

For example, if you said "I enjoy this TV show till this day", that would indicate that something happened today that changed your opinion.

 

[Finnish Air Force]

Comma splices. I used to think people were simply lazy, but now I think most people are simply retarded.

 

[Gargamel]

Apostrophes where they don't belong, especially from members of the supposedly superior White Master Race (aka white niggers).

Ex. "Nigger's are dumb"

 

[FamicomGorby]

Every motherfucker that uses the word "infamous" as a synonym for famous.

 

[PFM]

When white people change the way they speak when talking to black people. Do blacks not notice this shit? It drives me fuckin' nuts.

 

[Screamer_2]

When white people change the way they speak when talking to black people. Do blacks not notice this shit? It drives me fuckin' nuts.

scheet.

 

[FamicomGorby]

When white people change the way they speak when talking to black people. Do blacks not notice this shit? It drives me fuckin' nuts.

On that, people who speak normal english but throw in an accent whenever they see a Spanish name or word.

 

[The Last Stand]

People should learn the difference between "is" and "are." You would use "is" for singular nouns and terms.

Ex. He is leaving. An iPhone is a type of smartphone.

"Are" is used for plural nouns and terms. Actually, the pronoun "you" is an exception for that.

Ex: We are leaving. How many Xboxes are in stock? You are crazy.