[quote]elevationgain wrote:
Much like vroom’s pet peave,…
GAINER[/quote]
It really pisses me off when people mispell “peeve”!
Another one is “too” and “to.”
I’m going too the store? Wrong. I’m going to the store. I did that to? Nope. I did that too.
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
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Good book.
“Compared to …” and “compared with”.
See Sonnet XVIII for reference. They are different FROM each another (there’s another people should learn) and should be used in their correct contexts .
The overuse of “ironic” when they mean “coincidence” (noted already but added for emphasis).
Use of “because” when “as” is correct.
“Fulsome”, as in “fulsome apology”. Sure, I can make it insincere. You want sarcasm with that?
But the word/phrase that puts me in a Crowe-like rage is “alleged/ly”.
For example, when reporters are detailing a crime and the ding-a-ling reporter says "the alleged victim … " or the “alleged accident”. It’s lazy. GRRRR.
Angry now. Time to squat …
“How much times did you go to the gym this week?”
“How much sandwiches do you want?”
"I’ve seen this movie too much times. "
People drive me crazy with that everyday.
What about words and phrases that do not make any since… like:
1 “I would be more than happy to do that for you.” - This sounds like a dangerous mental condition.
2 “Cotton balls!” - Sounds like a horrible medical condition.
3 “Cumquats!” - WTF is a cumquat? Anyone ever ate one? Anyone want to eat one?!
I attribute these phrases to good ole Mr. George Carlin. Mastermind of F@cked up words and phrases.
OD
[quote]Professor X wrote:
“Hella”.
“I eat hella food”
or
“I have been lifting hella weights lately”.
This shit is only funny when Cartman says it…and even then I sometimes want to kick his cartoon ass.[/quote]
Dream on … Cartman would kick your @ss … unless he was hella “faded.”
BFG
[quote]vroom wrote:
Hey, use of “their” is a way to get around the his or her conundrum.
The student will bring their homework to class…
The student will bring his or her homework to class…
Isn’t it becoming pseudo-acceptable for this purpose?[/quote]
In this case, the correct phrase would be “All students will bring their homework.”
Conundrum solved.
The whole there/their/they’re mix up bugs me, too. Also:
people who never capitalize their sentences.people who don’t put a space between the period and the new sentence.i find this really annoying.oh and people who dont capitalize i dont understand the proper use of commas and who forget to put an apostrophe when they use conjunctions.i have nothing against using conjunctions even if its technically not excepted in more formal writing put in places like this forum its okay.and people who dont get the difference between accept and except like in the sentence i just wrote which really shouldve used accepted but i used excepted instead to prove my point about how annoying it is.
This one isn’t incorrect grammar but more an example of people trying to sound self-important: sportscasters who feel that they must identify the game every time they make a statement when it is obvious what game they’re talking about. For example, you’re watching a football game, and the sportscaster will say something like “This has been an excellent football game. Those guys on the field are some tired football players right now, but I bet their coaches are some happy football coaches right now.” Thanks for that clarification; I may have thought he was talking about golf.
people who say Nuculer… as in NEW KYU LER…
It is Nuclear… as in NEW CLEAR.
… and people who say “Happenstance”.
[quote]Original_Demon wrote:
What about words and phrases that do not make any since… like:[/quote]
Sorry, had to point this out.
“sense”
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
In this case, the correct phrase would be “All students will bring their homework.”
Conundrum solved. [/quote]
Actually there is no conundrum in the first place. “The student will bring his homework” is the correct way to say the sentence in question. In most languages, including English, that differentiate between a masculine and feminine form (his vs her), the masculine is understood to encompass both when referring to a mixed group. However, only in English (and I’d go further and say only in America) does anyone feel the need to say “his or her” or “their” or any other nonsense, and this is because of the feminazis, like BostonBarrister said.
Don’t change the language to fit the agenda of a radical group. Or as my English teacher in high school said, “Don’t take offense when none is intended.”
“For all intents and purposes” …it’s amazing how many people say “For all intensive purposes”
[quote]Sabrina wrote:
You are not walking towards it, you are walking toward it, etc…
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Wrong, one is american, the other is british; neither is incorrect.
I don’t like the phrase “constructive criticism.” To criticise is assess the merit and demerit of. Criticism is not, by definition, something terrible. Whenever I hear someone say “constructive criticism”, I always hear: “I’m going to tell you what a dumbass you are, but I don’t want to look like the bad guy.”
Or “heigth” instead of “height.”
I also hate when I type “teh” instead of “the.”
Using a lot of quotation marks really bugs me, too.
These aren’t phrases, but…
Expresso
Libary
Jewelry (when pronounced jew-la-ree)
Realtor (when pronounced real-a-tor)
It was said earlier, but “I could care less” gets me every time. Well, if you could care less, what’s stopping you?
[quote]Original_Demon wrote:
3 “Cumquats!” - WTF is a cumquat? Anyone ever ate one? Anyone want to eat one?!
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kum•quat also cum•quat
n.
- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella, having small, edible, orangelike fruit.
- The fruit of these plants, having an acid pulp and a thin, edible rind. It is the smallest of the citrus fruits.
FWIW - I’ve haven’t a clue what they taste like.
[quote]Aleksandr wrote:
Sabrina wrote:
You are not walking towards it, you are walking toward it, etc…
Wrong, one is american, the other is british; neither is incorrect.
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Actually, both are english.
British dialectic preferences aside, if you are an American, in America, choosing between toward and towards, one is correct and that is toward.
?Toward? is correct. ?Towards? is not.-
http://ospa.utdallas.edu/Publications/VIG/07mistakes.htm
toward, towards It’s “toward,” not “towards.” -
http://www.umkc.edu/ucomm/standards/style-tt.html#T
Also, orientate for orient.
“it begs the question…”
I have rarely seen this phrase used correctly(virutally never)on an Internet forum/group/list and I’ve been using the internet since before the WWW was invented…
[quote]flynniec6 wrote:
Original_Demon wrote:
3 “Cumquats!” - WTF is a cumquat? Anyone ever ate one? Anyone want to eat one?!
kum?quat also cum?quat
n.
- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella, having small, edible, orangelike fruit.
- The fruit of these plants, having an acid pulp and a thin, edible rind. It is the smallest of the citrus fruits.
FWIW - I’ve haven’t a clue what they taste like.[/quote]
They actually taste pretty good! Kinda have an orange taste to them. Orange and apricot maybe.