Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves

[Adam]

PIN number and ATM machine are other common ones

[Queen Victoria]

a self-addressed envelope.  it should be pre-addressed because an envelope can't address itself

[TheoK]

Why do you have that stupid 's or s' for genitive in English? 

[Bastet]

netspeak

[renaeden]

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.

[Queen Victoria]

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.

Yes, it should.  Perhaps people forget that the 've is have.

['andersom']

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

Should it be "I have to..."? That is what I say anyway.

Yes, it should.  Perhaps people forget that the 've is have.

I wonder if it is a regional thing, in origin, to say "I have got to ..... ".
In some regions of the Netherlands, people say things like "Ik doe even koffie zetten". To me it sounds wrong, for them it is how it should be. (Do they talk like that where you live, Lutra?)

Dutch pet peeve, when it comes to grammar: Je moet je wel beseffen dat....... Aaaaaarrrrccchhhhhhhh. Beseffen is geen wederkerig werkwoord.

[lutra]

^ Dunno.. if some say such. Here they say stuff like: jot, nut, hullie, zullie, ge-/worre, da wit oe wel eej, agge mahr leut et, hedde gij, etc.... 

Plus, folks here (the inbred Berregenaeren) tend to end their sentence with 'eej(?)' a LOT. It's frikkin' disgusting.

Denk wel nu (on the plus-side again).. dat ik efkes 'n bakkie ga 'doen'.

[midlifeaspie]

This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:
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The apostrophe thing is even more common with acromyms for some reason. As if people just can't accept that big letters have a small letter after them without an apostrophe in between

bad grammar doesn't bother me at all. Online I mean. In an essay it would be different, but on internet forums I type pretty much how I'd speak. So I would probably put "none of us are" because that's what I'd say in conversation with someone

It's when people add something that shouldn't be there (ie got it wrong out of ignorance rather than laziness) that it bothers me. I know that's kinda asshole-ish. Which is why I try not to comment on grammar/punctuation mistakes as it shouldn't matter. Plus we all make them. Even people who are great at spelling and usually very careful about it all - you're bound to slip up sometimes.

It's weird how almost all of us have at least one or two grammar/punctuation pet peeves though.

I just assumed that character on top of the shack was named Choc Banana, and this was his shack. 

[TheoK]

Let me compare my local dialect with English and with standard Swedish:

hose - slang - schlång
fish- fisk - fesk
nag - tjata - tjôta
much - mycket - möe(t)
worn out - sliten - schleten
glasses - glasögon - glasöger
key - nyckel - nöckel
head - huvud - hôvve

 

[renaeden]

People who write "could of" instead of "could have". I guess they think since it is said "could've" that it is "of", not a shortened version of "have".

My sister has done this in various forms in texts to me 3 times. Her kids are homeschooled and she teaches them so she should know better.

I found on The Oatmeal "10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling":
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[odeon]

You must kill the offenders!

[renaeden]

Also, people who say "irregardless". There is no such word!

[Adam]

People who write "could of" instead of "could have".

omg I forgot that. that's the one I hate the most lol

[midlifeaspie]

People who "went" instead of "said"