What is your biggest grammar pet peeve?

[Jayczar]

"you know" after every sentence

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Jayczar
"you know" after every sentence

Worse yet, "you know what I'm saying?"

 

[VTboy]

Some of you people don't know what you are talking about.

1. Height is pronounced hItth. You can say the th sound. Look in a dictionary.
2. For length and width you have to say the th sound. Saying the t sound is wrong.


Lounatik you shouldn't get made when someone pronouces it hItth because that is correct.

 

[Wintermute76]

silicon / silicone


one is for CPU's the other is for breast implants. So sick of reading about silicon implants.....makes me wanna ask what clock speed they are instead of what cup size

 

[kenshorin]

Samari / Samauri / Samarui / Samuri / however the hell else people spell it...

The commonly used romanization of that word is samurai.

 

[kenshorin]

Originally posted by: VTboy
Some of you people don't know what you are talking about.

1. Height is pronounced hItth. You can say the th sound. Look in a dictionary.
2. For length and width you have to say the th sound. Saying the t sound is wrong.

Lounatik you shouldn't get made when someone pronouces it hItth because that is correct.

I just looked in the dictionary, and it says height is h - (long) i - t, pronounced like hite.

The t comes after the h, there should be no 'th' sound. Length and width the t is before the h, making the 'th' sound. Wid-th, le-ng-th, hei-gh-t is how those words should be properly broken down.

 

[LongCoolMother]

your vs you're

its such a simple grammar mistake. too many people make it. even professionally sometimes (magazines, books, etc.)

 

[LongCoolMother]

me and I. although that is understandable. its still used incorrectly a lot.

 

[OulOat]

I can't stand people constantly adding "you know" inside their sentences. No, you dumb fvck, I don't know, that is why you are explaining it to me.

 

[Joker81]

PWNED, OWNED. TEH.

WTF is PWNED its just retarded.

The one thing in proper english is that the word Data is actually Plural. So in a book: How were Data Collected? <- that is correct usage. Always messes with me when I see it.

 

[VTboy]

Originally posted by: kenshorin

Originally posted by: VTboy
Some of you people don't know what you are talking about.

1. Height is pronounced hItth. You can say the th sound. Look in a dictionary.
2. For length and width you have to say the th sound. Saying the t sound is wrong.

Lounatik you shouldn't get made when someone pronouces it hItth because that is correct.

I just looked in the dictionary, and it says height is h - (long) i - t, pronounced like hite.

The t comes after the h, there should be no 'th' sound. Length and width the t is before the h, making the 'th' sound. Wid-th, le-ng-th, hei-gh-t is how those words should be properly broken down.

Look in websters dictionary. www.webster.com It says th is also correct.

 

[Blain]

"What is your biggest grammar pet peeve?"

That's easy... "Axed" instead of "Asked" and "Pacific" instead of "Specific"

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

People who can't figure out that "your" is not the same thing as "you're". There are plenty of abused contractions but that one seems most common.

 

[EpsiIon]

your stupid

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: Joker81
PWNED, OWNED. TEH.

WTF is PWNED its just retarded.

Well, if you'll look at your keyboard, you'll notice that the letter 'p' is adjacent to the letter 'o.' My guess is that somebody tried to type "OWNED" and accidentally typed "PWNED." Somebody thought it was funny and decided to intentionally propagate the error. It's related to l33t and other c0oL h4><0r i|\|t4rw3b things. Personally, I think it's hilarious.

By the way... "Ohhh, if you want it be possesive, it's just 'ITS.' But if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's 'I-T-apostrophe-S.' Scalawag."

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
The people that are picking on other people about their grammar.

It's "The people who are picking on other people about their grammar."

You don't refer to human beings as "that."

 

[ColdFusion718]

I hate it when I hear people use the expression "tongue in cheek." I mean seriously, wtf is that???

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Wintermute76
silicon / silicone


one is for CPU's the other is for breast implants. So sick of reading about silicon implants.....makes me wanna ask what clock speed they are instead of what cup size

That one is terrible, but lately Arctic \ Artic is spreading like wildfire around here.

 

[AutumnRayne]

skreet/street
skraight/straight
pa-sghetti/spaghetti

It is really irritating to hear adults talking like babies.
pwease/please :disgust:

 

[Ornery]

• Pronouncing etcetera, as ekcetra. :disgust:
  
  Pronouncing probably, as prolly.
  

 

[EXman]

little kids saying 75 cent instead of cents. It's plural darn it!

"Can I help you"

"I'm doing GOOD"

 

[jinduy]

as mentioned by EXman... people who don't know how to pluralize a word...

"Both of my parent are friendly."

 

[allisolm]

"I'm going to refer back to my notes."

The "re" part MEANS back so adding it is redundant. Same with return back.

Also I hear characters on TV and in the movies and even newscasters say Calvary when they mean cavalry. One is a mountain and the other is mounted soldiers.

 

[HwK2]

supposbly


you can call john or myself....what is myself's extension ?


i cant stand that

 

[tw1164]

"I done that."

I hate when people say that!