Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:44
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:"based off of"
X 1,000,000!!!!
It sounds so ignorant and is absolutely everywhere now. When did this become a thing?!
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:43
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Referring to a thing as “this guy” or “ her” or “she”
Isn’t she (my new handbag) a beauty? I bought her last week. I’m going to sell this guy ( my old handbag) on the Real Real.
Isn’t she (my new handbag) a beauty? I bought her last week. I’m going to sell this guy ( my old handbag) on the Real Real.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:41
Subject: Re:Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
My pet peeve is that pleaded is correct, rather than pled.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:41
Subject: Re:Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Oh god, I have so many.
The one that jumped out at me may not be grammar per se -- just a word misuse. I really hate "balling" used in place of "bawling."
The one that jumped out at me may not be grammar per se -- just a word misuse. I really hate "balling" used in place of "bawling."
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:39
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
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?
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:37
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:Irregardless
This is now correct. Language evolves; you should evolve with it.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:37
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Dinin’t instead of didn’t
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:36
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:Split infinitives
This is not a real grammar rule unless you are writing in latin.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:35
Subject: Re:Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
HENCE WHY
This has become a thing in the last few years and I feel like I'm going to die every time I see it.
This has become a thing in the last few years and I feel like I'm going to die every time I see it.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:35
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
These ones
Those ones
I like these ones. Those ones are ugly.
Those ones
I like these ones. Those ones are ugly.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:34
Subject: Re:Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:Is it "fewer" than five widgets, or "less than" five widgets?
Which is correct.
I know I is fewer widgets, it I the number that throws me.
Fewer if you can count them, less if you can’t (like grains of sand.)
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:34
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:There is a middle eastern guy at work who will say "you know?" after every single thing he reports on or says, a statement expressed as an unnecessary question.
Its like Simon Says its so regular and predictable.
Another guy with similar background says it also although not near as often.
"The report ran correctly you know?"
"We are off next Monday you know?"
"Their project is on schedule you know?"
Arrrrrghhh!!!!
Why does it matter they are middle eastern?
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:33
Subject: Re:Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:Is it "fewer" than five widgets, or "less than" five widgets?
Which is correct.
I know I is fewer widgets, it I the number that throws me.
It’s fewer. Less than is used when you are making a comparison.
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:33
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Anonymous wrote:"based off of"
X 1,000,000!!!!
Anonymous
06/27/2023 15:31
Subject: Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?
Putting apostrophes where they are not necessary, especially in "its" (possessive). "It's" means "it is." I see this every day.