Pet peeve of the day - grammar department

EastCoastMojo wrote: You know what grinds my gears? Prolly. The word is probably. Grrr.

Thankfully that one's dying. It was bad about 5 years ago, and if you change just one letter, and make it probly, I could live with that.

Not grammar per se, but I'm done with "just sayin'". Shelve it next to "don't go there" and "you go, girl".

As for grammar--I hate when people say "__ and myself"

God, I hope none of you actually use slang in your day to day speech patterns. But, the fact is, most of you do.

The intolerance of hypocrites always amuses me. Just sayin'

Back to the first post. depending on the fair, maybe he is anxious.

slang is one one thing and has nothing to do with any of the complaints so far.

And slang can be grammatically correct.

FTFY.

Zomby Woof wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: I would literally kill someone for that kind of grammar faux pas. Poor grammar is also one of my pet peeves.

I would have, too.

Chris_V wrote: God, I hope none of you actually use slang in your day to day speech patterns. But, the fact is, most of you do. The intolerance of hypocrites always amuses me. Just sayin'

I don't consider it slang when people don't know the correct usage of ... I vs me
as in ... just between you and I ... makes my skin crawl

and the phrase " I could care less " (I'm 99+% sure they really mean "I couldn't mean less"

For what it is worth. I could care less about most people's Grammer.

The one specific to this forum that makes me grind my teeth is "learn me...."

mad_machine wrote: For what it is worth. I could care less about most people's Grammer.

I realize you're being sarcastic ... but that does mean you care .....

Bumboclot wrote: FTFY.

Zomby Woof wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: I would literally kill someone for that kind of grammar faux pas. Poor grammar is also one of my pet peeves.

I would have, too.

I wonder if you got either of the jokes in that quote.

iceracer wrote: Back to the first post. depending on the fair, maybe he is anxious.

what if all the Funnel Cake vendors have is bags of dicks? I mean, it's not like the fair is at Hennessy Honda of Woodstock, where everyone loves a big bag of dicks.

Zomby Woof wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote: You know what grinds my gears? Prolly. The word is probably. Grrr.

Thankfully that one's dying. It was bad about 5 years ago, and if you change just one letter, and make it probly, I could live with that.

I grew up in the Archie Bunker era with my grammar intact. Kids and texting changed that forever. OMGs, IMHOs, LOLs and LMFAOs (yes, that's dinosaur era now) opens the door for me to take my swipe at degrading the English language. Y'all prolly ain't gonna like dat.

cud/wud/shud et al.....

This seems to come up every year or so.

Mine is brakes/breaks. Brakes are what are on cars to stop with. Break is the rest I take between projects. Break is also what I do to something when I get mad at it and throw it against the wall. Or drop a glass and it breaks.

I'm no grammar expert by any means and screw up grammar once in a while myself but obvious ones are annoying.

bludroptop wrote: I am sick and tired of people using the word 'anxious' when they mean 'eager'. Anxious has its root in the word anxiety. It has nothing to do with anticipation of a positive experience. "I am anxious to go to the Fair." Then stay home, skip the funnel cake, or whatever. Forgive me. Now back to your regularly scheduled first day of July, joined already in-progress....

I thought the anxiousness arose from the conflict of not being where you want...

wbjones wrote:

mad_machine wrote: For what it is worth. I could care less about most people's Grammer.

I realize you're being sarcastic ... but that does mean you care .....

only about some things though.

I think the one that kills me the most around here. "alphas" when we all know them mean Milanos, 164s, and Spiders

fasted58 wrote: I grew up in the Archie Bunker era with my grammar intact. Kids and texting changed that forever.

There was an article in the local newspaper today about postcards, and how when they were first invented back in 1865 some people thought they would be the downfall of literacy and grammar. http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/213906191.html So, I guess we've been on a downward slide for an awful long time now.

For me it's "loosing" instead of losing.

Irregardless - ARRRGGGGHHH! What's the famous quote? "An error up with which I will not put?"

EastCoastMojo wrote: You know what grinds my gears? Prolly. The word is probably. Grrr.

Next time I'll just ax someone else. Someone asked how my wife was doing and I said she was doing good. A member of the grammar police overheard me and said "No, she is doing WELL". I said they were wrong. She wasn't doing very well, but she was teaching helper monkeys to change catheters, which was good.

Wally wrote: Next time I'll just ax someone else. Someone asked how my wife was doing and I said she was doing good. A member of the grammar police overheard me and said "No, she is doing WELL". I said they were wrong. She wasn't doing very well, but she was teaching helper monkeys to change catheters, which was good.

Wally made me smile. Hard to do lately, for reasons better kept to myself.

Please let me buy you a beer, amigo - next time I'm in NY or you are in Chesapeake.

Jim Pettengill wrote: Irregardless - ARRRGGGGHHH! What's the famous quote? "An error up with which I will not put?"

My wife and I say that--along with "for all intensive purposes"--intentionally. I try to only do it between us (and maybe people who know we mean to do it), though. She once said it around people we didn't know at a get-together and got the "OMG you're a moron" look. That's when I told her not everyone was in on the joke.

I am a deliberate fan of Minus Whale and Ed Zackery. So much so my wife says it as well.

bastomatic wrote: If you want to nitpick, the word "grammar" refers to a language's construction of sentences, and the function of words. You're really complaining about usage, which regards the accepted meaning of words among native speakers of a language. Anxious is grammatically correct in that situation, regardless of whether you agree with the usage. Maybe I should say "irregardless" and really tick people off.

Yeah! Usage, bitch!

(In case you needed a hype-man.)