Your least favourite grammar mistakes

Caraville

Alot is not a word. And yet people write it that way all the time. It's A LOT. Two words. Not that bloody hard a concept to grasp.

See this:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Liam Byrne

Caraville wrote: »

Alot is not a word. And yet people write it that way all the time. It's A LOT. Two words. Not that bloody hard a concept to grasp.

See this:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Give the idiots a break.....

.....put it between the words "a" and "lot"

Pacifist Pigeon

Masterbation

eternal

I am pretty shocking when I am spouting online, yet 'loose' instead of 'lose' is frightening.

Eggonyerface

It's beautiful when a poster being a grammar
nazi makes a mistake while doing so. Proper egg on face stuff

Jesus Shaves

People who have a go at you for your spelling mistakes and it up spelling grammar "grammer"

priceless

eternal

Eggonyerface wrote: »

It's beautiful when a poster being a grammar
nazi makes a mistake while doing so. Proper egg on face stuff

This has happened to me in every one of my threads. My grammar is terrible, I get corrected, usually they make a mistake themselves.

AngryBollix

Isn't it grammatical errors as opposed to grammar mistakes?

mikemac1

Sure that does be the way I do be typing.
I type like I do be speaking
And why not? Nothing wrong with it


And for those of us in American football forum a lineman is a center and your team has a great offense and defense. D-FENSE is acceptable too
You can never ever say your team plays great defence, we'd ban ya :mad:
American sport so you do what they do

foxyboxer

Thank you for your patients.


Ok Doctor :rolleyes:

mikemac1

Are you going to do it?
I amn't

My teacher learned me my French

Pacifically, this example

Loomis

For all intensive purposes....

I could care less...

stevenmu

It's more of a syntax error than a grammar one, but I really hate when people say "I could care less" when what they really mean is "I couldn't care less".


edit: Mr Anderson got there just before me.

smash

later10 wrote: »

Your intelligence can be summed up with a child's pocket dictionary. It can be bought for €4.99.

Three fiddy if you shop around!

RandomName2

I were sat here.

"To be" and "to sit" are two of the first verbs you should learn. God-damn I would have been embarrassed saying something like that in French after learning the language for only two months, let alone 30-40 years!

PhlegmyMoses

I find it hard to take a sentence seriously if it is full of poor grammar. I don't think that these people are less intelligent, just that they could have put a bit more time into what they've written. It's really not hard to get it right.

Coeurdepirate

"I seen you today! "

TheIrishGrover

It's not so much a grammar mistake but the whole abuse of the word "fun". I just saw a poster for the new Nokia phone: Nokia Lumina: Brighter, faster, funner. Funner, FUNNER!!!!!! Funner and Funnest are not words folks!!!!!!!! And neither is "Quadrilogy". What was wrong with Quartet?

Peetrik

I find pedantic grammar Nazi's much much more annoying than grammatical errors. Sitting in their beige corduroy, with a pocket full of pens wilfully missing the point of intelligent debate because someone missed an apostrophe.

AeoNGriM

sensibleken wrote: »

Oh get a life!

bloody grammar nazis

Oh get an education!

Bloody retards!

Gophur

Peetrik wrote: »

I find pedantic grammar Nazi's much much more annoying than grammatical errors. Sitting in their beige corduroy, with a pocket full of pens wilfully missing the point of intelligent debate because someone missed an apostrophe.

Eh, there's no apostrophe in Nazis!

Irish Guitarist

Confusing weather and whether. "I'm going to look at the whether forecast to see weather it's going to rain or not".

JerryHandbag

Annoys me when people can never spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Al Capwned

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/memes-pimp-my-grammar-nazi.jpg

Though you're and your does piss me off!!!!!!

TwoShedsJackson

sensibleken wrote: »

Oh get a life!

bloody grammar nazis

Never mind grammar nazis, what about people whose username you misread for years. Like 'sensibleken', I thought that was Sensi Bleken until I finally noticed, during one particularly bored moment, that it was Sensible Ken.

It's like the FedEx arrow, what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Badly Drunk Boy

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

And neither is "Quadrilogy". What was wrong with Quartet?

'Quartet' is a musical term. 'Tetralogy' is a much better term, if you're talking about a series of four books.

du Maurier

I think it's time the verb "Willn't" was introduced, as in "I will not".

"Will you do that for me?"
"I willn't!"

It could be entered into the lexicon as seamlessly as its more well-known relations like shouldn't, wouldn't and couldn't :pac:

flanders1979

Who gived a rats whole

The King of Moo

Though I think that many apostrophe mistakes are minor, I'll still leave these here for all those who say that it doesn't matter if you misplace an apostrophe:
:pac:

My sister's friend's investments (the investments belonging to a friend of my sister)
My sister's friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of my sister)
My sisters' friend's investments (the investments belonging to a friend of several of my sisters)
My sisters' friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of several of my sisters)

Those things over there are my husband's. (Those things over there belong to my husband.)
Those things over there are my husbands'. (Those things over there belong to several husbands of mine.)
Those things over there are my husbands. (I'm married to those men over there.)

token101

marketty wrote: »

A girl I knew would often have Facebook statuses using 'know' where 'no' should be, eg 'there's know way I'm paying this household charge', 'feck know milk left', 'my baby got know daddy' and so on.

Ah surely there's know one that bad

People are applying for jobs using dire grammar as well. I know a girl in HR and she says the amount of times that people make the most basic of basic mistakes is cringworthy. She was saying one guy made seven simple grammatical errors in the cover letter for....an entry level PR job! She said the amount of times she has seen the phrase, 'I seen this post on ___', is heartbreaking (she trained as an English teacher originally ).

Text speak in work emails is another one I absolutely despise. You're talking about an office here, not and people sending around emails like this: 'Hi, woz wonderin if ders anyone hedin toward twn at 6ish? hav to make d salon b4 7. Lolz'. Talk like a normal person or walk.

I'll be honest and say I'm not a grammar expert either, but FFS knowing the simple things is surely essential.

du Maurier

token101 wrote: »

Ah surely there's know one that bad

People are applying for jobs using dire grammar as well. I know a girl in HR and she says the amount of times that people make the most basic of basic mistakes is cringworthy. She was saying one guy made seven simple grammatical errors in the cover letter for....an entry level PR job! She said the amount of times she has seen the phrase, 'I seen this post on ___', is heartbreaking (she trained as an English teacher originally ).

Text speak in work emails is another one I absolutely despise. You're talking about an office here, not and people sending around emails like this: 'Hi, woz wonderin if ders anyone hedin toward twn at 6ish? hav to make d salon b4 7. Lolz'. Talk like a normal person or walk.

I'll be honest and say I'm not a grammar expert either, but FFS knowing the simple things is surely essential.

There are probably erudite and capable but unemployed people grinding their teeth at the thought of this:)

Fluorescence

While I don't tend to point out bad grammar to people, I can't help but ignore posts that are full of spelling and grammar mistakes. It's just too painful to read. It also makes the person seem significantly less intelligent (even if that isn't the case). You wouldn't turn up to a job interview wearing a dirty tracksuit with ketchup stains on your face, so why would you think it's ok to send in a job application full of errors? It reflects badly on you.

I mean, we all make mistakes from time to time but consistently making appalling mistakes is inexcusable.

speedboatchase

Thread title misspellings really annoy me. There are at least five in the first page of After Hours at the moment. Anyway, here are a few mistakes which I can't stand:

And = an
Once = 1ce (yes, I've actually seen this)
Thought = taut, tot, thot
Lose = loose
To = t (seriously, how hard is it to spell 'to'?)
Ridiculous = rediculous
You're = your
Their = there

Basically, I can't stand this phonetical way of spelling (especially numbers becoming letters) and I've no idea whether people are lazy or just don't know any better. Regarding the you're/your or their/there/they're misuse, I'd wager that many people have no idea. In fact, I'd say plenty of parents out there have worse spelling than their kids.

speedboatchase

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Never mind grammar nazis, what about people whose username you misread for years. Like 'sensibleken', I thought that was Sensi Bleken until I finally noticed, during one particularly bored moment, that it was Sensible Ken.

It's like the FedEx arrow, what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Or the Toblerone bear...

deise go deo

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

"Your great".

Your great what?

Sir?

Peetrik

Gophur wrote: »

Eh, there's no apostrophe in Nazis!

Thanks Gophur, beautifully illustrated

seamus

The King of Moo wrote: »

Though I think that many apostrophe mistakes are minor, I'll still leave these here for all those who say that it doesn't matter if you misplace an apostrophe:

What about;

James's sisters' friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of several sisters of James)

:pac:

For the pedant, as best I can tell this is a matter of style and there's no set rule on whether it's James's or James'

I personally prefer the former.

wolfyboy555

I saw chaos spelt as kaoss today!

The King of Moo

seamus wrote: »

What about;

James's sisters' friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of several sisters of James)

:pac:

For the pedant, as best I can tell this is a matter of style and there's no set rule on whether it's James's or James'

I personally prefer the former.

I think in that case, with the possessive case of a word ending in "s," you're right: you can choose whether to add the "s" after the apostrophe.
I actually prefer "James'" though; it just looks neater to me than having an "s" either side of the apostrophe.

What about if you were talking about the friends of the sisters of multiple Jameses (sic?) though? :eek:

"Jameses's sisters?'" :eek:

pickarooney

Oranage2 wrote: »

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Did everyone else spellcheck each one of those BANs?

seanybiker

Loadsamoney wrote: »

Most of them seem to stem from laziness/leaving school at the age of 14.
My pet hate;

They + Are = "They're"

Not "there" Or "their"!

Loadsamoney = loads of money.
Annoys me

RichieC

The ones I make all the time are my least favourite. Its liberating being on my phone though because i no longer give a feck..

seamus

The King of Moo wrote: »

I actually prefer "James'" though; it just looks neater to me than having an "s" either side of the apostrophe.

My logic on this one is that it is impossible to tell whether James' refers to a single "James", or multiple "Jame"'seseses.

James's however makes it clear that you're referring to possession of James rather than possession of multiple people called "Jame".

Nolanger

She's a blond.

The King of Moo

seamus wrote: »

My logic on this one is that it is impossible to tell whether James' refers to a single "James", or multiple "Jame"'seseses.

James's however makes it clear that you're referring to possession of James rather than possession of multiple people called "Jame".

It's a good thing I've never met anyone called Jame so .

Overall though, I think "James's" is probably clearer, especially for people who aren't too sure about how to use apostrophes, and if it came to be the official only way to do it, it'd probably make things much clearer.

"James'" just looks a little more elegant to me, though unfortunately elegance is rarely considered in the creation of grammatical rules.

tp25

tomorrow week

ejmaztec

The only ones to blame are the English teachers. Better teachers and more violence in the class-room would solve the problem.

coolbeans

For those of you who say it doesn't matter, fair enough, that's your opinion but I think you're wrong. For instance, good grammar, spelling and punctuation certainly won't guarantee you a job but it will definitely curb your chances of getting one when you are pitted against more literate candidates for the same position. I know a HR guy who works for New Holland in the UK. He told me straight out that if you can't do the basics properly your application is bin bound no matter how relevant your experience. Fair? Maybe not but that's the atitude of many people and I don't think it's unreasonable. From his POV there are simply too many decent candidates out there and not bothering, caring or even realising that you're portraying yourself as semi-illiterate is a major stumbling block.
I think it also makes you look stupid and in the vast majority of cases people just don't care or see why they should care. That's the really silly bit.

The King of Moo

tp25 wrote: »

tomorrow week

That's not a mistake.
Informal, yes, but widely accepted as being correct.

What would you say instead? "Eight days from now?" (also fine)

coolbeans

flanders1979 wrote: »

Who gived a rats whole

Oh the massive, massive irony.