More word use issues than grammar:

The term “everyday” used instead of “each day”
Using “decimated” when you mean “destroyed”
Confusing ontology and epistemology

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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Anonymous wrote:less and fewer
And not putting punctuation inside quotation marks such as:

He called this flower a "buttercup." <--- correct
He called this flower a buttercup". <----- inccorrect *unless you're from England.

They only use a single, double quote in England? Who knew?

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Seen instead of saw. "I seen him at the grocery store." I'm about as anti grammar grump as possible but it just sounds so silly.

+10,000! I hate this too

Agreed! That is why I always say "I done seen him at the grocery store" instead.

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Anonymous wrote:less and fewer
And not putting punctuation inside quotation marks such as:

He called this flower a "buttercup." <--- correct
He called this flower a buttercup". <----- inccorrect *unless you're from England.

They only use a single, double quote in England? Who knew?

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 wrote:Split infinitives

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.

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Depends

Really? Seriously, do you have an example of when it's OK to say bring this with you?

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.

Sorry, should be take.

You’re wrong.

Google it.

Aks instead of ask

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Depends

Really? Seriously, do you have an example of when it's OK to say bring this with you?

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.

Sorry, should be take.

"I seen."

No, you "saw." This is truly aggravating.

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Depends

Really? Seriously, do you have an example of when it's OK to say bring this with you?

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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Anonymous wrote:"On accident" instead of "by accident."

+1. Add to that “good on you” instead of “good for you.”

Ugh DH says this, annoying.

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.

“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.

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Depends

Really? Seriously, do you have an example of when it's OK to say bring this with you?