I just heard an example. “I was bit by the shark.” You can say “It bit me” but it should be “I was bitten.”
“I done it yesterday” instead of “I did it.”
And the word pet replacing pat. You Pat a dog, how can you pet it? It sounds like you’re making it a pet.
I have so many.... When someone starts a sentence with "Am" (It's I'm)
Or when someone says "Could of" (COULD HAVE)
Acronyms, abbreviations, and slang can all go to hell... Even the way people pronounce some words. "Expecially"? "Cousint"
I'm tired of all the acronyms, too. Some are in the mainstream quite a bit, such as LOL (although I read about a person who thought it meant "lots of love" and used it in a death condolence message - yikes!). But I come across too many where I have no idea what they mean. I don't want to decode what the person means, so I just move on to something else.
The "could of" bugs me, too. "Am" instead of "I'm" strikes me as laziness.
Also "irregardless" (not an actual word) when they mean "regardless." And what the heck is wrong with saying "I'm calling about..." instead of "I'm calling in regards to..."
Yeah, "I'm calling about" must not mean "business".. So they try to add "spice" to food that didn't need it, like ice cream.
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"Could of" makes me want to sock someone in the neck!
ESCAPE :) (I always wanna ask people how they came up with that, since its a homophone)... But I can't allow "could of" to slide by, and so to be nice about it, I'll come up with a sentence needing those two words, but correctly :)
sharepet is a verb - stroke or pat gently according to the paper copy of webster's new world dictionary that i have kicking around my apartment for some reason. so you can let that word out of grammar jail.
i try not to get too hung up on such things, but 'youse' is absolute fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
it seems like people have started mixing up lose & loose a lot in the past 10 years or so. this is a misspelling i seem to see all the time, though it may often just be an easy to make typo.
i don't hear this as much anymore, but 15-20 years ago it seemed like a lot of people started to say 'priorize' instead of prioritize. in fact, a guy i knew worked in an office where the owner made his admin person add 'priorize' to their word program's dictionary so that it wouldn't come up as a spelling error. it's been 20 years since i was told that story, & i'm still chuckling over it.
I think because of the spelling of choose people write loose.
Even though pet is an accepted word, I think its a mistake that got out of hand. Why does patting a pet make the word pet?
i believe the verb usage actually derived from the act of treating something like a pet. at least that's what i was able to determine from about 5 minutes of googling, which is all the effort i'm really willing to put into the matter!
but it's not a recent affectation. using pet to describe the act of stroking something affectionately (endless filthy jokes can be inserted here) goes back to at least the 1800s, maybe 1600s depending on your source.
& i'm not invested enough in the topic to look into it any further.
This is peculiar to Minnesota, I've never hear it anywhere else.
Instead of saying, "Can you lend me a dollar?" They will say, "Can you borrow me a dollar?"
I've only heard Latinos do this as their word for borrow and lend are the same.
"Dinero prestado" - borrowed money.
"Préstame un dólar" - lend me a dollar.
"Un préstamo" - a loan.
I think Spanish grammar has influenced America a lot. Like instead of "do you want to come with me?" You'll hear "you wanna come with?"
Spanish doesn't have Do.
Interesting, and of course Spanish has its influences on English, but I'm skeptical about this particular case. Minnesota was settled first by New Englanders, then by Germans, Scandinavians, and Irish. To this day the Hispanic population is quite small. Besides, people who live around Hispanics like in NY, Texas, Florida, or California don't say it that way, as far as I know (I know New Yorkers don't). But maybe you weren't referring to this specific case, either.
shareI've heard "borrow" rather than "lend" just about everywhere. I don't think it's particular to Minnesota. Irks me, too. It makes one sound uneducated.
share"Had/could've/would've went"
What's that all about???
To versus too
There versus their
A lot of people mess that shit up
i'm one of them.
i mess up its & it's all the time too.
i know the difference, of course, but often when i'm typing i go on autopilot and reflexively type the wrong thing.
i always find annoying errors like that when i go back and look at my tweets/posts.
thank the internet for edit buttons.
I agree that "autopilot" is the reason for many grammar mistakes. I've made plenty myself, but hopefully I catch most of them because I believe in proofreading.
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Doesn't look like you know how to type capital letters. either.
sharethat's just an internet affectation, i suppose, something that i never did until i started rattling my chains around internet boards & twitter. i'm a lazy typist, & if i can avoid the shift key i will. if the correspondence isn't formal or related to business in any way, i'm going strictly lower case.
shareYeah. That shift button is exhausting! ;)
shareThere versus their
And they're
I find the regional grammar to be sort of cute to be honest
I strongly dislike a lot of other things about people but grammar and spelling mistakes I have no issue with
I find that I can maintain a level mood most of the time so I forgive most any oddball turns of phrase and silly typos...no big whoops in my opinion
Hell, I do commit those mistakes pretty frequently;)
People who don't use semi-colons properly; it aggravates me!
shareI would argue that it would be more proper to write
There are people who don't use semi-colons properly; it aggravates me!
In your example, I would write
People who don't use semi-colons properly—it aggravates me!
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Because "People who don't use semi-colons properly" doesn't make sense as an independent clause.
You are right; it sounds incomplete as a sentence on its own. :S
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