Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
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Anonymous
Really? Seriously, do you have an example of when it's OK to say bring this with you? |
Anonymous
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“graduated college/university” instead of “graduated from college/university”
Used to be in the US that things that were “graduated” were used for measurement like graduated cylinders. |
Anonymous
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I have no idea why liberal, academic intellects say "Right" after every statement. Almost as an emphasis that there statement is correct and you must agree.
For example, "The hegemonic policy further traps this group in poverty, right." It is so strange. I started to notice this around 2004. It spans all races, ages, and identities. It is something I only hear left wing, liberal or progressive people say. I have no idea how it caught on. |
Anonymous
Ugh DH says this, annoying. |
Anonymous
I’m going to Joes tonight and I’m suppose to bring something. You could bring his favorite beer or a bottle of wine, he like red. |
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"I seen."
No, you "saw." This is truly aggravating. |
Anonymous
Sorry, should be take. |
Anonymous
| Aks instead of ask |
Anonymous
You’re wrong. Google it. |
Anonymous
So much anxiety from those two words and it has been many decades... My freshman year at college, I placed into an advanced English class with a Harvard educated kind of famous professor. It was a very small special class. He was amazing but intimidating as ALLHOLYHELL. After we had turned in and he had graded our first literary gifts, he lost his mind. At the beginning of the next class he angrily approached the chalk board and slammed the chalk into the board so hard bits flew everywhere. He wrote a few students names on the board and turned to us and spit out those two words. I have never forgotten. If you committed that vile crime, he wanted you to die. One classmate did it two weeks in a row and I don't know if he lived. |
Anonymous
Funny. I'm old and grew up in the south and was taught the incorrect version. We also were taught gray was grey and color was spelled colour. |
Anonymous
Agreed! That is why I always say "I done seen him at the grocery store" instead. |
Anonymous
Np, I have a habit of spelling words using British grammar, too (colour, cancelled, aesthetic, flavour, etc.), and I don't know where it stems from. I chalked it up as possibly being British in a past life. |
Anonymous
| The idiots who stick the word SUPER in every sentence. It started appearing here regularly a year or so ago. Are they allergic to the word very? |
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More word use issues than grammar:
The term “everyday” used instead of “each day” Using “decimated” when you mean “destroyed” Confusing ontology and epistemology |