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

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MainCharacterMan said:
Pronouncing niche wrong.
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Oh this reminded me of one that drives me berserk!

Cache and cachet.

I hear so many people pronounce cache (KASH) like the word cachet (kaa-SHAY). STOP IT.

Disclaimer: caché is a French word and isn't pronounced like either, but although I may be a frog, I do not speak French.
 
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Semi-related, but I have to use this program that automatically grades your work as you type it out. It hates Oxford commas, and you will lose points if you use them. It will also force you to switch out words that mean identical things, but they don't make sense in context, especially if you are using scientific jargon.

Whenever this malicious pile of code pisses me off too much I just resort to going into the chat section, and threaten to pour water on its hardware.
 
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Hitchhiker said:
Semi-related, but I have to use this program that automatically grades your work as you type it out. It hates Oxford commas, and you will lose points if you use them. It will also force you to switch out words that mean identical things, but they don't make sense in context, especially if you are using scientific jargon.

Whenever this malicious pile of code pisses me off too much I just resort to going into the chat section, and threaten to pour water on its hardware.
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Are you studying to become a stenographer or something? I don't understand how it would make any sense otherwise.
 
SFINAE said:
Are you studying to become a stenographer or something? I don't understand how it would make any sense otherwise.
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No, I'm in a Forestry related program. It doesn't make sense, but the teacher is really lazy, and if the AI rates the writing over 85 points she just gives us a 100. From what I've heard the people that run it just went around different schools offering professors 50 dollar gift cards to Starbucks, or something like that if they used it.
 
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The Feline Solution said:
As an ESL fag this helps me, i always felt unsure if s' is the correct way to write it. Not unsure enough to look it up myself apparently.

I get irrationally mad at people who use foreign words and pronounce them wrong. We got a ton of loan words from different languages that we pronounce wrong/badly in the german language (for example, we call sweatshirts pullovers but we pronounce it like one word, not like pull-overs. Kinda hard to make clear what i mean in writing) and i am okay with that but when you are a YT video essay faggot and pronounce oeuvre as "oover" because you are a filthy, monolingual yank it brings my piss to a boil. Same for jap media content narrated by english speaking nerds, "hurr, i am sorry i am probably butchering this word". Fuck you, nigger, it takes a second to look up and listen to how shit gets pronounced properly on forvo.Please be patient, i got language autism

Guilty (:_(What's even worse is that i struggle with commata more in my native language than in english.
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To be fair, it’s understandable why you would be confused. I hope you took my comment in jest, as that was my intent. I’m a grating shitbag, but, most of the time, it’s just a pissy ribbing.

The reason I say it’s understandable is because numerous ivory towers of grammar have become disgustingly corrupted by degenerate, strong-arming mutants and feeble enablers unwilling and unable to stand on their principles.

The protectors of grammar have utterly and completely failed to uphold their oaths, allowing the most baffling incorrect usage of terminologies and, worst of all, punctuation to go unchallenged. It’s lead to shitty writing and some of the most confusingly constructed syntaxes you could ever read being published in the most esteemed halls of modern literature.

In the ways of which gentle hearts and minds have allowed barbarians to erode social norms and ethics, the same has happened within English grammar. That there is even the gumption to bring a debate about a possessive apostrophe at the end of a noun/pronoun that ends in “s” or an apostrophe and then “s” is appallingly disturbing. This is like whether irregardless is a word. It isn’t and should be corrected, but there is always some bottom-feeding shitfuck that likes to raise the question because they think, “I’m raising important and nuanced questions that challenge orthodoxy.”
 
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Pedophobe said:
Hi Farmers

Just a quick PSA - effect is a noun, affect is a verb.

"This affects me."
"This has an effect on me."

There are other use cases but let's not make this any harder than it already is.

Have a lovely day.
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A simple way I taught myself this difference was, “special effects affect the movie.”
 
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ThisHill2DieOn said:
The reason I say it’s understandable is because numerous ivory towers of grammar have become disgustingly corrupted by degenerate, strong-arming mutants and feeble enablers unwilling and unable to stand on their principles.
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I witnessed that myself with the german language, there were two language reforms when i was in school and suddenly words were getting spelled in a way that made no sense, for example Djungel (jungle) turning into Dschungel (which would sound absolutely retarded if you'd actually pronounced it like that in High German) or such abominations as Schifffahrt (boat trip, cruise) now being spelled with three fucking f's instead of the much more sensible, and forever the only correct form to me, two f's.
I think there was a third reform when my kid brother (more than a decade my junior) was in school, i can't even count how often i read stuff in my language and go "What the fuck, that is not how that's spelled!" in my head these days. There are also a ton of new grammar rules but i can't get into that, as i said, i already struggle with something as simple as correctly placing commata.
MainCharacterMan said:
Pronouncing niche wrong.
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Drives me fucking nuts hearing anglos pronounce it as "nitch". Fucking philistines.
 
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The Feline Solution said:
Got me there. I usually use commas, even in german. Guess the language sperging got to me.
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Let’s just cut to the synthesis and agree that, being a wholly unique term, “commatas” can be used, in only unique circumstances where the author, in an effort to poorly imitate his forebears, especially those of the early American century, uses an effluent and obscene amount of commas, unnecessarily and frivolously, in any of his writing.

A comatose inducing amount of commatas.
 
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Pedophobe said:
Hi Farmers

Just a quick PSA - effect is a noun, affect is a verb.

"This affects me."
"This has an effect on me."

There are other use cases but let's not make this any harder than it already is.

Have a lovely day.
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Effect is also a verb (roughly meaningto cause something to happen ("effect change")), and affect is also a noun, meaning roughly a characteristic or way of being ("a flat affect") (though the accent is on the first syllable when a noun).

But yes, people do mix up effect and affect in the way you mention.
 
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