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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:22 - Jul 19 by wischip
Aks instead of Ask. What is so difficult about saying the word 'Ask' properly, it's 3 letters.
It's old English, and simply has re-entered the language. through different dialects and English returning from the various places we took it around the world through colonisation.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:26 - Jul 19 with 616 views
Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:57 - Jul 19 by USA
People writing loose when they mean lose.
The word ‘literally’ being misused.
I personally think English spelling is stupid and incorrect. Not the people spelling.
You complain about people spelling 'lose' incorrectly, when we spell another u: word like this 'choose'.
Come on you 'blose'? Nope, 'blues'. Hurt yourself and got a brose? Nope, 'bruise'. Grateful for lifesaving fire crose? Nope, crews. Mose? Muse Cose? Coups
Probably more. English is spelt wrong and that annoys me more than someone making a mistake.
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The recent phenomenon of saying/writing 'between X to Y'. No you fools, 'between X AND Y' (or 'FROM X to Y').
I've seen this on not just emails/casual correspondence, but also official stuff like roadsigns, literature/flyers from national brands etc.
Oh and that reminds me, using 'phenomena' when you mean 'phenomenon'. Actually, any misuse of plurals, which tend to not have a letter 's' at the end (which is perhaps understandable). For example, 'Media' is the plural of medium.
(Edited for typo... inevitable when writing something like this!)
Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:50 - Jul 19 by bluelagos
Grammar Nazis. Though probably not the thread for it tbf
But right though - I understand the need for correct grammar for legal documents etc but on the Internet? Who cares…well apart from the pedants on here.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 16:55 - Jul 19 with 423 views
"hence why" seems to be cropping up more and more often, along with other tautologies such as "return back," and "delete out."
People who think it is correct to always use "I" instead of "me," perhaps because they think it sounds posh?
To figure out whether to use "I" or "me" in a compound sentence (like "John and I" or "John and me"), temporarily remove the other person or persons from the sentence. Then, see if the remaining part of the sentence makes sense with either "I" or "me".
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:13 - Jul 19 with 395 views
Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:26 - Jul 19 by Kropotkin123
I personally think English spelling is stupid and incorrect. Not the people spelling.
You complain about people spelling 'lose' incorrectly, when we spell another u: word like this 'choose'.
Come on you 'blose'? Nope, 'blues'. Hurt yourself and got a brose? Nope, 'bruise'. Grateful for lifesaving fire crose? Nope, crews. Mose? Muse Cose? Coups
Probably more. English is spelt wrong and that annoys me more than someone making a mistake.
This is true but I do still find grammar important and interesting. Probs not as annoying as I once did.
This thread has lead to some interesting ones.
I recall a teacher asking us how to pronounce "ough" in English and then applying it to various words like though, bought, tough, plough, etc.
I also find the trend towards acronyms a bit much. Its fine with ones that are clear like IIRC, but they're were a couple of random ones in a thread the other day that I had to Google in order to find what they meant.
Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:10 - Jul 19 by Meadowlark
"hence why" seems to be cropping up more and more often, along with other tautologies such as "return back," and "delete out."
People who think it is correct to always use "I" instead of "me," perhaps because they think it sounds posh?
To figure out whether to use "I" or "me" in a compound sentence (like "John and I" or "John and me"), temporarily remove the other person or persons from the sentence. Then, see if the remaining part of the sentence makes sense with either "I" or "me".
Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:10 - Jul 19 by Meadowlark
"hence why" seems to be cropping up more and more often, along with other tautologies such as "return back," and "delete out."
People who think it is correct to always use "I" instead of "me," perhaps because they think it sounds posh?
To figure out whether to use "I" or "me" in a compound sentence (like "John and I" or "John and me"), temporarily remove the other person or persons from the sentence. Then, see if the remaining part of the sentence makes sense with either "I" or "me".
Yes, it's overcorrection from using 'John and me' incorrectly, without realising that 'I' should be used for the subject and not the object ('me').
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 18:51 - Jul 19 with 297 views
'lived' adds absolutely nothing to 'experience'. it's just duplication. 'experience' already means personal and practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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