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"I could care less" - I tried explaining to a co-worker that she means she couldn't care less, but she didn't care.

"Literally" - used for exaggeration, but rarely ever used to mean literally. I am watching past Super Bowl highlights now - and the narrator just said "he was literally facing a Catch 22" - really, like a copy of the famous novel was on the defensive line?

And this isn't grammatical, rather spelling, but definately...I would estimate 30-40% of Americans do not know how to correctly spell definitely.

What grammatical errors really piss you off?

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ALL OF EM BITCH

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Not errors at all, but the "u", "ure" and "pwn" squad kind of look silly.

I'm a bit annoyed with people who don't know the difference between "there", "their" and "they're"

Oh. Now it's kind of obvious...the number one pet peeve:

"should of"

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"Literally" - used for exaggeration, but rarely ever used to mean literally. I am watching past Super Bowl highlights now - and the narrator just said "he was literally facing a Catch 22" - really, like a copy of the famous novel was on the defensive line?


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Sign me up the firing squad for all offenders.

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I absolute hate it when someone says 'less' when they should be saying 'fewer'. At least 80% of the population does it. Example: "there are less calories in fatass food A than fatass food B"

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There is a lot of situations where you should use two words in English but combine it into one in Norwegian, i.e. ice cream = iskrem. Due to all the communication taking place in Norway in English and a lack of compability for this in Windows spelling control now something like 30% have started writing "is krem".

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DSØAFJAKDJFØADUIR AMEPOIRU EWPIARU EWO!

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I absolute hate it when someone says 'less' when they should be saying 'fewer'. At least 80% of the population does it. Example: "there are less calories in fatass food A than fatass food B"

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Heck yeah! I used to correct people on that one, but it became impossible because people did it too often, so now I just cringe every time I hear it.

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"Your an idiot"

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The other day at work, my co-worker wanted a "word of the day" for her white board. I told her the word "comely" - she begins writing "cum..." I am like no, it is "come" then "ly."

"What does it mean?" she asks
"The opposite of homely"
"What does homely mean?"
"Unattractive"
"So comely means attractive?"
"Yes"
"You're so smart"
"I know, I can even spell there 3 different ways"
"Really?!"

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Oh, "homely", learned me a new word. Ty ty [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Arnfinn, was there ever a movement such as this one http://www.skrivihop.nu/ in Norway? Because we have the exact same problem here.

That along with the missuse of the "apostrophical" genetive case.

ie in English - Domino's Pizza
in Swedish it SHOULD be - Dominos Pizza.
But sign maker does not seem to be a profession that demands uni education [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Hehe, I see they have given up [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Yeah, we have a similar one:

Astronomer mot orddeling

Here you have got it right, but not us [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]:

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Og så var det svensken, finnen og nordmannen som skulle se hvem som var flinkest til å skrive. Først skreiv svensken, og gjorde det feilfritt. Så var det finnens tur, og han var ikke dårligere. Så prøvde nordmannen seg, men han greide ikke engang å skrive «kandissukker»!




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I don't like "to who" either. It sounds so...ugly.

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Oh, also people who say "for all intensive purposes."

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Shouldn't title read "Which grammatical..."

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I don't like "to who" either. It sounds so...ugly.

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What do you mean?

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I don't like "to who" either. It sounds so...ugly.

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What do you mean?

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I mean it hurts my ears whenever I hear it. It is "to whom."

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I don't like "to who" either. It sounds so...ugly.

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What do you mean?

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I mean it hurts my ears whenever I hear it. It is "to whom."

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Oh ok. Yeah that pisses me off too.

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which/that and if/when mix ups. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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What it do?

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Loose and lose

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Loose and lose

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Guilty. I fixed that leak now though. (Anyway, I'm not a native speaker, so it's not as bad...)

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Excessive/incorrect use of punctuation, especially commas.

Perfect example taken from good2cu's website:

"DonButtons, is a balla for real and recently purchased a Lamborghini, at 20."


Also, people who use your instead of you're and mix up their with there.

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"Literally" - used for exaggeration, but rarely ever used to mean literally. I am watching past Super Bowl highlights now - and the narrator just said "he was literally facing a Catch 22" - really, like a copy of the famous novel was on the defensive line?


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Sign me up the firing squad for all offenders.

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This isn't a grammatical error. It's a word use "error", if you can call it that.

I dunno, are you the kind of people who when some teenager says something is "wicked", go "INCORRECT WORD USE SIR, WICKED MEANS, AND I QUOTE, 'morally bad in principle or practice'"? Words change. The way that commentator used the word is bizarre, but I sometimes say stuff to my friends like "That beat was literally insane". I'm well aware of what "literally" means, and I'm choosing to use it in another way. So what?

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not really grammatical but pronunciation, people who pronounce idea as eye-deer

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QFT

I find misuses of you're/your and their/they're/there irritating. It's jarring to read, sometimes i have to reread the sentence to make sense of it.

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Not a grammatical error but people (on THIS site) who say ftw, ergh.

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Oh, and people who think "alot" is a word.

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What's wrong with this one?

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Punctuation misuse really bothers me actually [mostly commas but it extends beyond that].

And that loose-lose thing mentioned earlier.

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nm, should have.

It's early.

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People who use semicolons incorrectly.

PS one of my two majors is English and I COULD REALLY CARE LESS ;-) about grammar mistakes online, but I always do try to use semicolons correctly. I don't know why.

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loose and lose really pisses me off.

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how are you meant to pronounce it?

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Punctuation misuse really bothers me actually [mostly commas but it extends beyond that].

And that loose-lose thing mentioned earlier.

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"Literally" - used for exaggeration, but rarely ever used to mean literally. I am watching past Super Bowl highlights now - and the narrator just said "he was literally facing a Catch 22" - really, like a copy of the famous novel was on the defensive line?


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This isn't a grammatical error. It's a word use "error", if you can call it that.

I dunno, are you the kind of people who when some teenager says something is "wicked", go "INCORRECT WORD USE SIR, WICKED MEANS, AND I QUOTE, 'morally bad in principle or practice'"? Words change. The way that commentator used the word is bizarre, but I sometimes say stuff to my friends like "That beat was literally insane". I'm well aware of what "literally" means, and I'm choosing to use it in another way. So what?

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gram·mar Pronunciation (grmr)
n.
1.
a. The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
b. The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

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loose and lose are definitely the most annoying.

I thought the funniest was "angle" and "angel"
Some guy was called "deathangle" and I kept asking if he was obtuse or acute

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loose and lose are definitely the most annoying.

I thought the funniest was "angle" and "angel"
Some guy was called "deathangle" and I kept asking if he was obtuse or acute

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Lol. There's a club in Honolulu called Angels, but it's really called Angles, I just thought it was call Angels. Oops.

Angles

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When someone gives possession to a word when they really mean to pluralize it.

i.e. "car's" instead of "cars"

There,their,and they're really piss me off too. I think most of the reason that this [censored] gets on my nerves is because I see this krap coming from college graduates that are supposed to be able to avoid these kinds of mistakes in their sleep. Or we're all really uptight.