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Grammer and spelling pet peeves
(that was on purpose people! I am so funny)
I'm stealing this from a Facebook....what are your grammar and/or spelling pet peeves?
1. If you are nauseous, that means that you make other people feel nauseated. If you feel sick to your stomach, you are nauseated.
2. There is a new construction neighborhood near our house with gigantically huge, and now completely unaffordable, homes. Well, mostly lots, but a few homes. The obnoxiously huge, faux French sign for the neighborhood said "A private enclave of stately chateaus". I wanted to SCREAM every time I drove by. They builder went under, and now the big, plain sign says "BANK OWNED". Heh.
What about you?
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Permalink Reply by DonnaKat on -
Lately I've been seeing people say "I poured over the book" instead of "pored."
I also can't stand misused apostrophe's. (I'm funny, too!)
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Permalink Reply by kommishoner on -
A client I worked with recently used quotation marks instead of parentheses. That was a new one.
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Permalink Reply by Floor Pie on -
A few that really get under my skin:
1. Its and It's
2. Punctuation with quotation marks and parentheses. (Periods and commas go inside quotation marks. But people get it so consistently wrong, it's probably just a matter of time before the wrong way becomes standard.)
3. Deliberate misspellings, text speak.
But more than any of this, I think my biggest grammar/usage/spelling pet peeve is when someone pounces on someone else's mistake and makes that the focus of the conversation. Especially in a Facebook / message board context, which I've always felt is more conversational anyway and therefore more prone to errors. (Everyone make usage errors in casual conversation, after all. That's the nature of spoken language.)
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on -
oops Floor Pie. i'm totally guilty. *blushing* it's just so ... so... irritating to me when people make things possessive instead of plural. especially on things that are copied and recopied into new status updates. it's like spreading a virus of bad grammar.
i can deal with misspellings ok. i understand that one. if it weren't for spell check i would misspell a lot more. mostly the apostrophe use irritates me most. oh, and the THERE, THEIR, and THEY'RE use (or misuse).
Floor Pie said:A few that really get under my skin:
But more than any of this, I think my biggest grammar/usage/spelling pet peeve is when someone pounces on someone else's mistake and makes that the focus of the conversation. Especially in a Facebook / message board context, which I've always felt is more conversational anyway and therefore more prone to errors. (Everyone make usage errors in casual conversation, after all. That's the nature of spoken language.)
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Permalink Reply by kanachick on -
It really depends on what kind of writing we're talking about. In a professional or published piece of writing I do expect perfection but on the internet I really don't. We all slip up in our haste to make a point. I love the edit function here.
Um....than/then....that's my biggie.
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
Do you know what drives me crazy? Nearly every published novel I've ever read has at least one obvious typo. Who edits this shit? I mean seriously if I can catch it while reading the book, why didn't anybody catch it before it went to print? Why didn't they correct it before it went to paperback? It almost makes me want to edit the error and send it back to the publisher just to say, "You suck at your job!"
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Permalink Reply by kommishoner on
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Floor Pie said:2. Punctuation with quotation marks and parentheses. (Periods and commas go inside quotation marks. But people get it so consistently wrong, it's probably just a matter of time before the wrong way becomes standard.)
Huh. I always thought that if you were quoting something that had a period in it it went inside but if you were just quoting a word or clause (or doing irony quotes) it went outside.
Like so:
a) In the weather report today, the meteorologist said "[t]oday will be cloudy with a chance of meatballs."
b) In the weather report today, the meteorologist said today would be cloudy with a "chance of meatballs".
Because I'm tired and irrational, I now fear that if I'm wrong every lawyer I've ever written for secretly hates me. As a profession we tend to get particular about punctuation. Guess I'll be dusting off my Blue Book Citation Manual when I get home.
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Permalink Reply by TeacherJ on -
StitchyWench, yes! I get so annoyed at published typos. Like, hey, maybe you could hire someone to be in charge of editing. You could call them...I don't know...an editor!
I always put my end punctuation outside my quotation marks. I know it's "wrong", but I like it so much better. I always feel like otherwise nobody will know when the sentence ends! In my book, complete sentences inside quotation marks get their own punctuation, and then the surrounding sentence gets its own punctuation, and if that means the sentence ends like this: !". , then so be it.
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Permalink Reply by Mommy Monster on -
Meredith has been counting the mistakes in the lastest series of books she's reading ("Warriors").
StitchyWench said:Do you know what drives me crazy? Nearly every published novel I've ever read has at least one obvious typo. Who edits this shit? I mean seriously if I can catch it while reading the book, why didn't anybody catch it before it went to print? Why didn't they correct it before it went to paperback? It almost makes me want to edit the error and send it back to the publisher just to say, "You suck at your job!"
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Permalink Reply by bethany on -
ditto to all who said adding an apostrophe to the plural.
But, I hate, hate, hate how "myself" has worked its way into the vernacular, and has become interchangeable with "I" or "me". Ex: Jim and myself went out to dinner. Grrrrrr.
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Permalink Reply by Mamawho on
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I hate that, too. I also hate when "I" is used instead of "me." Oddly, it doesn't bug me as much when "me" is used instead of "I."
bethany said:ditto to all who said adding an apostrophe to the plural.
But, I hate, hate, hate how "myself" has worked its way into the vernacular, and has become interchangeable with "I" or "me". Ex: Jim and myself went out to dinner. Grrrrrr.
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