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

[Flatline]

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

How do you handle is and are when referring to "data?"

 

[The Last Stand]

How do you handle is and are when referring to "data?"

Good question. I'd use "is." Data is A collection of facts or statistics. Singular.

His data is inaccurate without information to provide context.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

It annoys me when people say “as per usual” instead of “as usual”.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

The stupid portmanteau people make of the words "leary" and "wary" as demonstrated by the sentence:

I was weary of the ugly man dressed like a woman.

I'm sure you've been raked across hot coals for this post already but:
1. Weary is a word
2. Misspelling "wary" as "weary" isn't making a portmanteau
3. Leary isn't a word. Leery is. Leary was a dude who did a lot of LSD in the 60's

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Here's a great example. I hate how Trump types by capitalizing random words in his rants. I'm also sure he comma splices on the regular. Look how disjointed and cluttered this post is.

I’ve seen a lot of old people whose first language is English typing like this as of late. I don’t know why they do it, since I assume they’ve been writing/typing for decades at this point.

 

[Botchy Galoop]

3. Leary isn't a word. Leery is. Leary was a dude who did a lot of LSD in the 60's

Apparently, I also did too much Owsley in the 60's. Surprisingly, I received very little correction, so thanks for yours. It was a garbage post.
Point being, people use the the word weary, when they mean either wary or leery. They combine the 2 words and come up with weary...which is not their intended meaning...at least I don't think in most cases it was their meaning.

I still don't know when or why people started calling the 'ground' the 'floor'.
Please advise.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

I hate that too. It's pure autistic Chris-Chan randomly capitalizing things shit. Only autists do this. This is why autists love Trump so much. He also misspelled "Capitol," the important time that word is spelled with an "o" because he is an autistic faggot who sucks cock.

This miserable idiot can't even speak English.

Uhhhh sorry sweaty but Washington DC is the capital (of the US), he wasn't talking about the Capitol.

 

[Anasa Tristis]

I hate marketing retards who use adjectives as nouns in their copy writing to be clever. Like "Eat fresh!" Or "Eat organic!" Or "Eat healthy!" You cannot fucking eat fresh, organic or healthy. Those words are adjectives, not nouns. You faggots.

My iphone does not have the word "prostitute" in its spell check. If I screw up spelling it in a text, the spell check catches it and underlines it in red, but then it says No Replacements Found when I tap on it for the correct spelling. Fuck you, Apple. And I don't know if it came in the most recent update, but suddenly my contacts have an "add pronouns" feature. Rope yourself, Apple.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm sure you've been raked across hot coals for this post already but:
1. Weary is a word
2. Misspelling "wary" as "weary" isn't making a portmanteau
3. Leary isn't a word. Leery is. Leary was a dude who did a lot of LSD in the 60's

That said, I am both wary and weary of mentally ill perverted men in dresses.

 

[innocent jogger]

Uhhhh sorry sweaty but Washington DC is the capital (of the US), he wasn't talking about the Capitol.

It's "sweetie" not "sweaty". Unless you are implying that he sweats a lot. Which is...a weird thing to include.

That's a misspelling I see more and more lately and it is dumb.

 

[NaggotFigger]

Retards that literally use tonetags. MATI: Nobody in such life would understand tonetags, unless if you are a zoomer that cannot save your life to say something normally and formally.
Or those zoomer and Gen Alpha speech that no normies would care about.

 

[Active User]

The sweaty thing is deliberate. It's playing off of how calling someone sweetie in such contexts is going to already be blatantly insincere and patronizing by upgrading it to an outright insult that sounds somewhat similar.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

That said, I am both wary and weary of mentally ill perverted men in dresses.

Same

It's "sweetie" not "sweaty".

Uh, sorry sweaty i don't listen to mansplainers

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I hate marketing retards who use adjectives as nouns in their copy writing to be clever. Like "Eat fresh!" Or "Eat organic!" Or "Eat healthy!" You cannot fucking eat fresh, organic or healthy. Those words are adjectives, not nouns. You faggots.

To be fair, this isn't incorrect, just really annoying.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

When I was a young'un, I learnt the difference between "weight" and "mass" in physics. There was a phase where I was overcorrecting those using weight, but nowadays I don't know. Do I use "mass" and risk coming off as a snot? Or do I disappoint myself and go along with the mainstream?

 

[Active User]

Mass is the total amount of matter and remains constant no matter what, while weight is the measurement of the gravitational force on said object. We normed them to be the same on earth at standard temperature and pressure, so in day to day life they're mostly interchangeable. The difference matters whenever gravitational acceleration differences would matter.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Do I use "mass" and risk coming off as a snot?

There's no reason to use "mass" day-to-day because everything we do is here on Earth with steady gravity, which means if something has a mass of 1 kg, it weighs 1 kg.

You just sound like Jimmy Neutron autistically correcting someone saying "salt" by telling them it's sodium chloride.

 

[innocent jogger]

The sweaty thing is deliberate. It's playing off of how calling someone sweetie in such contexts is going to already be blatantly insincere and patronizing by upgrading it to an outright insult that sounds somewhat similar.

I did not know that. Goddamn that is nigger-level stupid slang like "kek". (Yeah, I'm an oldfag so get off my lawn!) fr fr no cap sweaty skull emojis and sheeeit.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

Mass is the total amount of matter and remains constant no matter what, while weight is the measurement of the gravitational force on said object. We normed them to be the same on earth at standard temperature and pressure, so in day to day life they're mostly interchangeable. The difference matters whenever gravitational acceleration differences would matter.

There's no reason to use "mass" day-to-day because everything we do is here on Earth with steady gravity, which means if something has a mass of 1 kg, it weighs 1 kg.

You just sound like Jimmy Neutron autistically correcting someone saying "salt" by telling them it's sodium chloride.

Thanks, the correcting was something I did only as a kid of course.

 

[Hyperbolic Steroids]

When I was a young'un, I learnt the difference between "weight" and "mass" in physics. There was a phase where I was overcorrecting those using weight, but nowadays I don't know. Do I use "mass" and risk coming off as a snot? Or do I disappoint myself and go along with the mainstream?

You'd sound massively autistic to use mass instead of weight unless you're among colleagues in the lab.