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Grammar Nazi thread -- What's your internet grammatical pet peeve?

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I could care less how people type. If there in a hurry and misspell a few words who are u to say something about it. Its going to be ok. I would rather get my point across then not. And if I have a few errors it dont bother me.

















But really, grammer doesnt bother me. Only when people speak with double negatives. That drives me crazy.
 
Finally remembered one of mine. When people write "dominate," but are intending to say "dominant." It happens disturbingly often.
 
Sixguns said:
I could care less how people type. If there in a hurry and misspell a few words who are u to say something about it. Its going to be ok. I would rather get my point across then not. And if I have a few errors it dont bother me.

















But really, grammer doesnt bother me. Only when people speak with double negatives. That drives me crazy.
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

haha :awe:
 
While it's not grammatically incorrect, "try and" rubs me the wrong way, since people usually mean "try to" do something.

Similarly, people who write "yea" usually mean "yeah" (though they essentially mean the same thing, they're pronounced differently).

Speaking of "yea," many people think it's "yay or nay" because they don't realize "yea" is pronounced like "yay."
 
"Come in and stay for awhile" - awhile literrally means "for a while."
"I need to setup my account" - setup is a noun, you mean "set up." Same deal with login/log in.
"I go there everyday" - everyday is an adjective, you mean "every day."
"I do that everytime" - everytime isn't even a word, it's a Britney Spears song.
"I want to payoff my loan" - payoff is a noun, you mean "pay off."
"I get to makeup the test I missed" - your making up the test has nothing to do with cosmetics.
"Do you have anymore chips?" - Do I have any more chips? Nope, don't have chips anymore.
"I need atleast five widgets" - wtf is atleast? Are we just combining any two words we want now? I actually see this one regularly.

There are many other examples in English where combining two words into one has a slightly different meaning or a different part of speech.
 
Exterous said:
My biggest is definitely the improper use of 'good'
"I am doing good" Unless you are actually referring to a good deed that you are currently doing its "I am doing well" 😡
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The funny part is when people improperly use "well" because they've always been told that "I am doing well" is correct. It is, but then it gets in their heads that "well" is always correct and "good" is wrong.

Lose and loose is probably my biggest one since they are different words, with different meanings, different spellings, and different pronunciations.

One that I notice a lot is the phrasing, "is comprised of." That is never correct. You can say "the United States comprises 50 states" or "the United States is composed of 50 states," but NEVER "the United States is comprised of 50 states."
 
Gigantopithecus said:
Data is a plural noun.
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On this topic, there are several business terms with abnormal plurals that people constantly don't understand, mispronounce, misspell, etc. Datum/data, analysis/analyses, axis/axes, focus/foci, basis/bases, matrix/matrices, criterion/criteria, etc.
 
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Gigantopithecus said:
Data is a plural noun.
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rcpratt said:
On this topic, there are several business terms with abnormal plurals that people constantly don't understand, mispronounce, misspell, etc. Datum/data, analysis/analyses, axis/axes, focus/foci, basis/bases, matrix/matrices, criterion/criteria, etc.
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i always used "data" as a collective noun - like "group"

the group is going to the mall.

the data is sparse.


apparently it can be used as both a singular and plural noun, though formally data is the plural of datum.

so says dictionary.com anyway
 
rcpratt said:
On this topic, there are several business terms with abnormal plurals that people constantly don't understand, mispronounce, misspell, etc. Datum/data, analysis/analyses, axis/axes, focus/foci, basis/bases, matrix/matrices, criterion/criteria, etc.
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You forgot alumnus/alumni. I almost never hear the word alumnus; people will say "I'm an alumni" all the time though.
 
AstroManLuca said:
You forgot alumnus/alumni. I almost never hear the word alumnus; people will say "I'm an alumni" all the time though.
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What's worse is when people singularize alumni as "alum" and then pluralize that as "alums." My college's alumni group on LinkedIn is called _____ University Alums. That's pretty embarrassing for a college.

I just googled that to make sure you wouldn't be able to figure out where I went to college, and there are plenty of other colleges that have similarly named groups.
 
mugs said:
I just googled that to make sure you wouldn't be able to figure out where I went to college, and there are plenty of other colleges that have similarly named groups.
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Because if we knew that, the world would explode.
 
The misuse of "momentarily" is widespread, especially by sportscasters. It means "for a short while" and not "in a short while." Therefore, when someone says, "We'll be back momentarily" they are not telling you when they'll be back at all! They might not be back until next week! Who knows? They are simply promising that whenever they do come back, it will only be for a very short time. 😉
 
zinfamous said:
Unless you are British, in which case it is: "Dater"
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Uh, you have that bass ackwards. Either that, or you're confusing it with the Kennedyesque Irish Bostonian habit of pronouncing words like 'Cuba' as 'Cuber.'

The Brits have the opposite tendency, most famously captured in the perhaps apocryphal and stage overemphasized "Peetah, give me the lettah." And, yes, I know Bette Davis wasn't British.

Here you can hear the true British pronunciation of letter. It may be subtle to some ears here, but it is definitely more "ah" than "er."

No Brit pronounces 'data' as "dater."
 
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