Grammar Police (What ticks you off?)

[teddybaerli1]

I was member of another forum where this one member continuously referred to his laptop as a labtop.

That's cute!

 

[twoton]

"A cup of cino" (cappucino)

Hmm....I might start using that one myself.

 

[ohiorod]

I try not to judge people, but grammar and spelling have caused me not to hire several professionals over the years.

I think the ones that bother me the most are the switching of there, they’re and their. That is nails on a blackboard for me to read!

 

[Squirrel1]

I try not to judge people, but grammar and spelling have caused me not to hire several professionals over the years.

I think the ones that bother me the most are the switching of there, they’re and their. That is nails on a blackboard for me to read!

Agreed.

 

[ohiorod]

I hadn't known that Pittsburgh was noted for that. I had thought that it was most noted for a particular pawnshop.

I live in Wheeling, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh and we inherited many of their dialect colloquialisms. My favorite while growing up was the word ‘readed’. ( I know ; it is not a word) Apparently, it came from the concept of the word ‘ ready’ or to prepare or to clean. People would tell their children to get their room “ readed up”. I remember a nun explaining to me that it wasn’t a word. I thought she was nuts, as I heard the word everyday and frankly, I still hear it at least weekly 25 years later.

 

[Squirrel1]

I live in Wheeling, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh and we inherited many of their dialect colloquialisms. My favorite while growing up was the word ‘readed’. ( I know ; it is not a word) Apparently, it came from the concept of the word ‘ ready’ or to prepare or to clean. People would tell their children to get their room “ readed up”. I remember a nun explaining to me that it wasn’t a word. I thought she was nuts, as I heard the word everyday and frankly, I still hear it at least weekly 25 years later.

I've heard that, but pronounced readied.

 

[ohiorod]

I've heard that, but pronounced readied.

Yes, but in this case it was always a verb such as ‘ go red up your room’ or ‘I reded the room up’ . The addition of the word ‘up’ just made it worse!

 

[FRE]

I try not to judge people, but grammar and spelling have caused me not to hire several professionals over the years.

I think the ones that bother me the most are the switching of there, they’re and their. That is nails on a blackboard for me to read!

I sometimes make that mistake myself but generally find and correct it during proofreading.

 

[328982]

This song typifies the misuse of "me":

It contains the sentence, "Me and my wife settled down.".

I love the Weavers, very influential, sort of prototype for the Springfields.

 

[Fuzzy_]

Meta analyses that include "studies believe that.."

Papers that include "this paper will attempt to..."

Using "anxious to" instead of "eager to."

Using "infamous" as a compliment.

 

[Beanie]

It’s usually the usual, Written grammar mistakes smh

 

[HorseHung40's]

Thank you friends for having covered most of my peeves in this area.

Another one for me occurs when people don't know that "There" functions as an expletive in a sentence... "There IS a house on the hill." "There ARE three houses near the old church."

 

[ConanTheBarber]

Another one for me occurs when people don't know that "There" functions as an expletive in a sentence... "There IS a house on the hill." "There ARE three houses near the old church."

Is "expletive" the word you're looking for?

 

[Novaboy]

"Alls I know"......

"Anyways"

 

[FRE]

Meta analyses that include "studies believe that.."

Papers that include "this paper will attempt to..."

Using "anxious to" instead of "eager to."

Using "infamous" as a compliment.

How about "keen" instead of "anxious"?

 

[Novaboy]

How about "keen" instead of "anxious"?

"keen" and "anxious" have completely different meanings. Was that your point...that they use them incorrectly?

 

[FRE]

I have seen "keen" used when "anxious" would have been more appropriate.

 

[teddybaerli1]

We should also consider that we do have many many members among us who are no native English speakers
and that is a bit more complicated to them to write everything correctly regarding grammar. And we shouldn't underrate real typing errors either. In my own case I have read many many times silly mistakes I had written before
as well but I just laugh about them. We shouldn't take everything too serious. But I also have to confess that it can be funny sometimes to read those mistakes. Not because we want to blame the writers, no, just to have a few seconds of fun. See you! Your German member Ted

 

[Khegan]

We should also consider that we do have many many members among us who are no native English speakers
and that is a bit more complicated to them to write everything correctly regarding grammar. And we shouldn't underrate real typing errors either. In my own case I have read many many times silly mistakes I had written before
as well but I just laugh about them. We shouldn't take everything too serious. But I also have to confess that it can be funny sometimes to read those mistakes. Not because we want to blame the writers, no, just to have a few seconds of fun. See you! Your German member Ted

I agree with you completely, and I do take into account native language as being a potential issue, however, many of the issues that are brought up regarding grammar are prevalently seen from people whose native language is English. To be honest, there are some ESL people I have worked with that have far superior grammar skills to some native speakers.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Using "anxious to" instead of "eager to."