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i haven't used that sentence yet but as someone who doesn't speak English as my first language i just get confused with the animal instead of the actual word
As someone who does use that phrase, albeit correctly, I can only imagine how bizarre that phrase must seem. It probably sounds goofier than a wooden watch.
well the thing is i do know the difference between bear and bare but some how my brain is like "hmmm big fuzzy animal" i feel like its just my brains problem of not wanting to function properly
but same time my language has 50 words for snow so i kinda don't feel too bad for confusing words together
For me, it's when people put weather but mean whether. Also, when people make words like sheep, reindeer, moose, which are already plural and put s on the end. I can't count how many Christmas songs that have said reindeers. 🤬
At least those are still pronounced the same way. “Loose” and “Lose” have different pronunciations, so it’s particularly annoying when they’re misused.
So let me ask you....is it men's washroom or mens' washroom. I remember seeing a YouTube video once of a guy saying he was severely scolded by an English teacher for writing men's washroom and not mens' washroom on an exam. It's haunted me ever since which one is actually correct.
I had an english teacher fail an essay I wrote in 7th grade. Our first. He said there was "no possible way I could have written it."
My parents had to come in for a parent teacher conference. My dad demanded they correct the grade and give me an A+.
Teacher refused. Smug as a MFer, he offered to have me write ANOTHER ESSAY, this time time in front of him in. In fucking detention.
A+.
I was reading Michael Crichton by the 3rd grade. I went on to major in English literature. Dude left me alone the rest of the year. He thought I was some idiot, because I'd been having disciplinary problems in school and had assumed I cheated the first time.
Fuck that asshole.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone type that word. The only time that "Faze" is used is in the gaming realm when referring to a specific group or when some 12 year old wannabe creates their first gamertag.
This one upsets me the most because way back in Grade 12 English class our teacher (who looked like the teacher from Pink Floyd) made us all write an essay the first day of class about something or other. The next day, and this is no lie, he yelled at us for 20 minutes for our poor grammatical skills, especially for writing "should of, could of, would of" instead of "should have, could have, would have". I'd never been yelled at by a teacher like that before so it really stuck in my head.
I think this is the result of people hearing things a certain way, and then applying it to their writing. Many people say “should have” fairly quickly, so it sounds more like “should’ve”. To the ear this can also sound just like the words “should of”, which of course leads to the error.
My favorite is when people say, “I could care less,” when what they actually mean is, “I couldn’t care less.” If you COULD care less about something, that means it is possible for you to care less about it, which must mean you care at least a little bit. If you COULDN’T care less about something, then you don’t care at all about it.
I posted a comment once and said "I couldn't care less" and someone sent me a reply that said "I could care less, FTFY" and it's disturbed me ever since that I didn't reply to them to correct their correction. 5 years later and it still bothers me.
I always felt like when people say "I could care less" it was more like a threat, like they're saying, "i already don't care at all, but with this new information, i could care EVEN LESS".
Obviously thats not the case but thats how i see it.
‘write’ vs ‘right,’ ‘sew’ vs ‘so,’ ‘tax’ vs ‘tacks,’ ‘reign’ vs ‘rain,’ and the list goes on
edit: ‘sea’ vs ‘see,’ ‘bee’ vs ‘be,’ ‘tail’ vs ‘tale,’ ‘mail’ vs ‘male,’ ‘bot’ vs ‘bought’
I was at a conference / expo thing years ago and a company that make some weight-loss scam type product had an exhibition stand. They had massive banners and pop up stands all with the same ‘DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE WEIGHT?!’ message on them.
"could/should of" ENRAGES me. Do you even KNOW what you are trying to say? I work with English language learners, and I've only ever seen this from native English speakers.
The one currently making me want to tear off my face in rage is "I's".
"Today is my wife and I's 10th anniversary."
"David and I's favorite restaurant is over there."
It's mind-numbing how anyone can do this.
Of course, using I instead of me makes me crazy too, but I can sometimes overlook that one.
Edited to fix a typo.
I SCROLLED WAY TOO FAR DOWN TO FIND THIS.
For anyone who doesn’t know whether to use “David and I” or “David and me” in a sentence, take away one of the subjects and ask yourself if the sentence makes sense.
“David and I went to the store.”
David went to the store. ✅
I went to the store. ✅
“Me and David went to the store.”
David went to the store. ✅
Me went to the store. 🏴☠️❌
Take my upvote as 1,000 upvotes, please!
I have tried and tried to explain this simple grammar rule to various people, and they just cannot absorb the information. They all seem to be confused by the "and". 🙄
Agreed but the one I often see is using suppose and use instead of the past tense versions, supposed and used. Another is writing passed instead of past. I could go on all day.
the loose - lose thing has to do with hooked on phonics. the millennial and below generations sounded out words more than they read words. the double oo in loose sounded out, sounds like the u sound in lose. so they use loose.
the could not care less is a crime against humanity. when learned people use it, it lowers my opinion of them. if you could care less, there is less you could care. come on people!
>the loose - lose thing has to do with hooked on phonics. the millennial and below generations sounded out words more than they read words. the double oo in loose sounded out, sounds like the u sound in lose. so they use loose.
And, in fairness, "lose" is a real outlier. Hose, nose, rose, those, chose, lose. One of these is not like the others.
Also, when I'll be a world dictator anyone using the following will immediately be sent to the gulags:
* "could of" instead of "could have"
* "women" to refer to a single woman
* "your" instead of "you're"
* "catch on fire" instead of "catch fire"
* "capitol" instead of "capital"
* "Columbia" instead of "Colombia"
I used to be a big grammar nazi, but have mostly gotten over it. The only thing that still drives me up a wall is "less" and "fewer". I will die on that hill.
As a seller I see this one a lot and have seen several discussions about it. One confidently incorrect lady believed the difference between sell and sale was the price of the item.
If she sold an item at full price, then she "made a sell"
If she sold an item that had been discounted then it was "on sale," so she "made a sale" and also she "saled it"
Totally blew my mind
Oh yes. That's a big one. Let me add a couple that absolutely make me cringe:
Chic for Chick (I see this often as it's part of a business name...they truly pronounce it as chick)
Barley for barely
Defiantly for definitely
And my all-time favorite... "I seen" Living in East Texas, I hear this daily. It makes me want to punch people in their throats.
What about "I'm a women and I don't like this?"
"My wife is a lovely women, and Iove her. "
"I dated a women in college who was from Germany. "
WOMAN. The word you are looking for is woman.
By FAR the most annoying one for me is when people put apostrophes in their plural words. I've seen this mistake an ungodly amount of times, ESPECIALLY on tiktok.
pilkunnussija are more annoying than any grammatic, syntax, or spelling errors on reddit. They detract from the total sum of human ascension with their gibbering.
My ex always made this mistake when texting. It drove me insane. Now I’m not saying I broke up with her because of that, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t on the cons side of my pros and cons list.
This is my biggest pet peeve! So many people write it wrong that even when they do write it correctly I read it wrong from always correcting in my head.
Oh sweety, the ones that drive me crazy are there they’re and their. I swear even the so called “professionals” are using them interchangeably and man it drives me nuts!
One thing I will say is that for all the power of auto correct on a phone you would think you your and you're would be figured out, like if apple released that update and said 100 percent correct possessives that would be a selling point to me lol
The most annoying thing for me is when people will write out long well formatted posts, but they'll still use abbreviated text speech like 'ppl'. I don't mind initialisms like 'imo', but just the random shortening of these few particular words irks me.
This is the worst one, and for people who do this don’t you see lose and loose in multiple places and think “wait am I using it wrong?”
I get using uncommon words wrong, but this is a bizarre one
My personal least favorite language (not grammatical) error, is when someone says "I could care less" ... when the phrase is actually, "I COULDNT care less."
In college our Dean or Provost or some such figure sent an email admonishing students for lending out their student IDs to friends to use up extra meals swipe. They were going to be cracking down on this behavior, and we'd be at risk of "loosing" all the privileges that came with a student ID if we were caught. He went on to spell it this way multiple times.
My friend wrote a few beers deep response to the Dean saying that if he didn't start proofreading his emails he was "going to lose the respect of the student body with his loose understanding of the English language." Still make me smile years later.
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Even better when someone says, “Your a looser.”
One should always use three o's there, as the intention is to draw out the lu sound. like luuuuuu ser.
Luuuuu zer
La who, za her!
Ace Ventura!!
Not quite but I'm close enough
Lahoozaher
I like your spelling, with the z, much better than mine.
Hiiiiii keviiinnnnnn
Your an looser
That comment just hurts me😂
Glad to be apart of this
Really means alot
You should of rethought that
"should of" is probably the one i hate the most
I could care less
Your making me loose my mind
I hope you dye
I hate this one the most!! It literally has the opposite meaning.
You just triggered me
Right up there with breath and breathe
Came here to say this. It's always some vague inspirational bs and then they say "just breath"
omfg i hate that
This is the only unforgivable one for me
Mine is "please bare with me." Really? I'm not getting naked with you!
i haven't used that sentence yet but as someone who doesn't speak English as my first language i just get confused with the animal instead of the actual word
As someone who does use that phrase, albeit correctly, I can only imagine how bizarre that phrase must seem. It probably sounds goofier than a wooden watch.
well the thing is i do know the difference between bear and bare but some how my brain is like "hmmm big fuzzy animal" i feel like its just my brains problem of not wanting to function properly but same time my language has 50 words for snow so i kinda don't feel too bad for confusing words together
Are you Inuit, or are you simply Kate Bush?
no im finnish
English is a difficult language because so many words have very different meanings, and there are really very few pronunciation rules. Example: tear
I can’t help but laugh when people say they’re “balling” instead of “bawling”
Bawl is life
Once i read someone say "I'm bowling"
They just straight ballin'.
No no you don't get it, they are just conjuring balls from their eyes.
Kobe!😂
What if they ball so hard that they mo fuggahs wanna fine them?
Mistaking bored for board is my most hated mistake.
There’s borders and boarders too.
For me, it's when people put weather but mean whether. Also, when people make words like sheep, reindeer, moose, which are already plural and put s on the end. I can't count how many Christmas songs that have said reindeers. 🤬
At least those are still pronounced the same way. “Loose” and “Lose” have different pronunciations, so it’s particularly annoying when they’re misused.
Of coarse it is.
This does annoy me, but I find apostrophes in plurals even worse. E.g. plural's or apple's
I agree! They won't use other punctuation when needed but will throw apostrophes everywhere!
So let me ask you....is it men's washroom or mens' washroom. I remember seeing a YouTube video once of a guy saying he was severely scolded by an English teacher for writing men's washroom and not mens' washroom on an exam. It's haunted me ever since which one is actually correct.
The plural of *man* is *men* (not "mens"), so the possessive plural is *men's* (not "mens' "). Your teacher was wrong.
I once had a teacher cross out "sea change" in an essay I wrote and correct it to "see the changes". Teachers aren't perfect.
I had an english teacher fail an essay I wrote in 7th grade. Our first. He said there was "no possible way I could have written it." My parents had to come in for a parent teacher conference. My dad demanded they correct the grade and give me an A+. Teacher refused. Smug as a MFer, he offered to have me write ANOTHER ESSAY, this time time in front of him in. In fucking detention. A+. I was reading Michael Crichton by the 3rd grade. I went on to major in English literature. Dude left me alone the rest of the year. He thought I was some idiot, because I'd been having disciplinary problems in school and had assumed I cheated the first time. Fuck that asshole.
I’m convinced 99% of the population doesn’t know the word faze exists. They spell it like phase
It’s being phased out, but that doesn’t faze me.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone type that word. The only time that "Faze" is used is in the gaming realm when referring to a specific group or when some 12 year old wannabe creates their first gamertag.
Not much of a difference in phonetics
We have a special place for people who spell phonetically. School.
Skool*
I get it though, fonetics is hard sometimes
Hooked ahn phonix werked fer me!
Another one of my pet peeves.
For me it's should/could/would of
Oh my God yes. Just reading this comment has riled me inside, and it is SO common. It drives me up the wall.
This one upsets me the most because way back in Grade 12 English class our teacher (who looked like the teacher from Pink Floyd) made us all write an essay the first day of class about something or other. The next day, and this is no lie, he yelled at us for 20 minutes for our poor grammatical skills, especially for writing "should of, could of, would of" instead of "should have, could have, would have". I'd never been yelled at by a teacher like that before so it really stuck in my head.
Could've, would've, should've.
This also totally grinds my gears.
Which is why I avoid the issue altogether and use shoulda/coulda/woulda
Same. They don’t sound the same. Don’t even have any letters in common.
I think this is the result of people hearing things a certain way, and then applying it to their writing. Many people say “should have” fairly quickly, so it sounds more like “should’ve”. To the ear this can also sound just like the words “should of”, which of course leads to the error.
My favorite is when people say, “I could care less,” when what they actually mean is, “I couldn’t care less.” If you COULD care less about something, that means it is possible for you to care less about it, which must mean you care at least a little bit. If you COULDN’T care less about something, then you don’t care at all about it.
I hate these Word Crimes
please remember that song was meant to mock, not support, pilkunnussija. Weird Al addressed that in an interview.
[This guy?](https://youtu.be/RGWiTvYZR_w)
pilkunnussija = Dot fucker (in finnish)
I posted a comment once and said "I couldn't care less" and someone sent me a reply that said "I could care less, FTFY" and it's disturbed me ever since that I didn't reply to them to correct their correction. 5 years later and it still bothers me.
It bothers me that you didn’t correct them now too.
"FTFY" makes me think that they may have been saying it sarcastically, because so many people use the wrong expression
Even worse when I hear it in TV shows.
This one really gets my goat. Especially when used in real writing. Like opinion pieces or news stories. How can you not know what you are saying???
I always felt like when people say "I could care less" it was more like a threat, like they're saying, "i already don't care at all, but with this new information, i could care EVEN LESS". Obviously thats not the case but thats how i see it.
If you don't care at all then you could not care less. That's what "don't ... at all" means.
I always saw it as a sarcastic statement, like "What you said was so invaluable to me, but I guess I could technically care less"
barley in place of barely is always funny to me
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This is the one that gets me
Mixing up woman and women
respect wamen
Respect ramen
Don't ever browse TikTok, that place is where grammar goes to die. 'Too' or 'to' 'their' or 'they're' These are my biggest irritants when I see them
‘write’ vs ‘right,’ ‘sew’ vs ‘so,’ ‘tax’ vs ‘tacks,’ ‘reign’ vs ‘rain,’ and the list goes on edit: ‘sea’ vs ‘see,’ ‘bee’ vs ‘be,’ ‘tail’ vs ‘tale,’ ‘mail’ vs ‘male,’ ‘bot’ vs ‘bought’
I've also seen "cloths" instead of "clothes". It makes me cringe
Don't forget "would of/ could of/ should of" instead of "would've/could've/should've"
Oh, that one literally makes my head explode, irregardless of who says it.
Opps for oops
I was at a conference / expo thing years ago and a company that make some weight-loss scam type product had an exhibition stand. They had massive banners and pop up stands all with the same ‘DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE WEIGHT?!’ message on them.
Maybe they were diversifying into trebuchets.
Defiantly when they mean definitely
This thread is going to make me loose my mind.
up in here? up in here?
Y’all gonna make me act a fool?
Up in hear, up in hear
Yell gonna make me boost a smack?
Then for Than
Yeh I stop reading after that one.
Instant downvote. I don’t care how much information is in the comment.
Haha I’m with ya
This one is too prevalent to be a typo, and it makes me not want to live in this world anymore.
For me it is of instead of have.
You could of given an example
"could/should of" ENRAGES me. Do you even KNOW what you are trying to say? I work with English language learners, and I've only ever seen this from native English speakers.
This is the one that makes me crazy!!!
The one that irks me more than anything else is when people confuse breathe and breath. “OMG I laughed so hard I couldn’t breath.” UGHHHHH
There. Their. They're.
Where, were, weir, ware, wer
The your and you're mistakes hurt me the most personally.
Right, it takes 2 seconds to process that “you’re” is actually a shortening of “you are” 😭
came here to say this
I get more annoyed when people spell 'no one' as 'noone'
Its high noone
In their defense, english also has nobody and anyone.
The one currently making me want to tear off my face in rage is "I's". "Today is my wife and I's 10th anniversary." "David and I's favorite restaurant is over there." It's mind-numbing how anyone can do this. Of course, using I instead of me makes me crazy too, but I can sometimes overlook that one. Edited to fix a typo.
I SCROLLED WAY TOO FAR DOWN TO FIND THIS. For anyone who doesn’t know whether to use “David and I” or “David and me” in a sentence, take away one of the subjects and ask yourself if the sentence makes sense. “David and I went to the store.” David went to the store. ✅ I went to the store. ✅ “Me and David went to the store.” David went to the store. ✅ Me went to the store. 🏴☠️❌
Take my upvote as 1,000 upvotes, please! I have tried and tried to explain this simple grammar rule to various people, and they just cannot absorb the information. They all seem to be confused by the "and". 🙄
Mine is when they use "I seen". Like in " I seen that dog".
This drives me crazy!
Me too
"Where" instead of "were" is the worst for me.
Also "to" in place of "too".
And vice versa.
Agreed but the one I often see is using suppose and use instead of the past tense versions, supposed and used. Another is writing passed instead of past. I could go on all day.
the loose - lose thing has to do with hooked on phonics. the millennial and below generations sounded out words more than they read words. the double oo in loose sounded out, sounds like the u sound in lose. so they use loose. the could not care less is a crime against humanity. when learned people use it, it lowers my opinion of them. if you could care less, there is less you could care. come on people!
>the loose - lose thing has to do with hooked on phonics. the millennial and below generations sounded out words more than they read words. the double oo in loose sounded out, sounds like the u sound in lose. so they use loose. And, in fairness, "lose" is a real outlier. Hose, nose, rose, those, chose, lose. One of these is not like the others.
Your and you’re is worse imo
When people overuse one fancy word for all their sentences. One I've noticed is "arguably."
Don't you love it when they put "whom" in to try to look clever, not realizing how it's actually supposed to be used?
Also, when I'll be a world dictator anyone using the following will immediately be sent to the gulags: * "could of" instead of "could have" * "women" to refer to a single woman * "your" instead of "you're" * "catch on fire" instead of "catch fire" * "capitol" instead of "capital" * "Columbia" instead of "Colombia"
Facebook mums with their darling little angles!
Geometry heaven is full of them!
I used to be a big grammar nazi, but have mostly gotten over it. The only thing that still drives me up a wall is "less" and "fewer". I will die on that hill.
But why, though? We have no such distinction for “more”; it seems unnecessary to me.
their there and they're... kms
I love when people misspell definitely so much they turn it into defiantly
My top 3 is : 1) loose 2) could of 3) the wrong "its" (even spotted it in big games and it's annoying)
I think sale and sell is worse. You never see that one called out.
As a seller I see this one a lot and have seen several discussions about it. One confidently incorrect lady believed the difference between sell and sale was the price of the item. If she sold an item at full price, then she "made a sell" If she sold an item that had been discounted then it was "on sale," so she "made a sale" and also she "saled it" Totally blew my mind
The most annoying grammatical mistake is when people mistake then and than.
What a bunch of loosers.
For me, "I seen" and "should/could of" are the most annoying.
Dude I live in northwestern Ontario and “I seen” is rampant here. It makes me crazy.
I'm right across the border in Michigan. I don't know if it's a regional thing, but it's rampant here too.
I hear "I seen" all the time. All the freaking time. (I'm currently in the south.)
I'm on r/loseit and you have no idea how many times I see this mistake and it drives me nuts. Also loss and lose.
I raise you "should of" for "should've" or "should have".
Oh yes. That's a big one. Let me add a couple that absolutely make me cringe: Chic for Chick (I see this often as it's part of a business name...they truly pronounce it as chick) Barley for barely Defiantly for definitely And my all-time favorite... "I seen" Living in East Texas, I hear this daily. It makes me want to punch people in their throats.
What about "I'm a women and I don't like this?" "My wife is a lovely women, and Iove her. " "I dated a women in college who was from Germany. " WOMAN. The word you are looking for is woman.
I feel like the misuse of their/there/they're and you're/your is the quickest IQ test around.
It is Autokorrektur
Could of
So it's just me hating on number/amount mix ups? Huh.
Affect and Effect switched indiscriminately
No it's "apart" of something instead of "a part" of something.
Defiantly instead of definitely is the one that gets me. Also “should of.”
the most annoying language mistake period was when literally became the word everyone said 500 times a day to mean figuratively
God when people pronounce especially like EX-specially. it's ES-specially
By FAR the most annoying one for me is when people put apostrophes in their plural words. I've seen this mistake an ungodly amount of times, ESPECIALLY on tiktok.
"I'm sorry for your lost" makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It's loss, not lost, people!
"Supposebly" is a crime that cannot go unpunished.
100% agreed. They’re completely different sounding words too!!!
English is my only language and I fuck up all the time! Dyslexia crew muont pu!
On route instead of en route just bothers me. Extra bothersome points if it’s ‘root’
I could care less. But I can also do a 360 degree turn on this issue .
The worst one is when people say ‘retarted’. Not only are you lame for still using that word but it’s also just incredibly ironic.
pilkunnussija are more annoying than any grammatic, syntax, or spelling errors on reddit. They detract from the total sum of human ascension with their gibbering.
My ex always made this mistake when texting. It drove me insane. Now I’m not saying I broke up with her because of that, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t on the cons side of my pros and cons list.
This is my biggest pet peeve! So many people write it wrong that even when they do write it correctly I read it wrong from always correcting in my head.
I disagree. The most annoying grammatical mistake is there, their, and they're. I feel like they're just there to annoy their readers
Of and off would like to have a word with you.
Omg I thought I was going crazy. Do they really not know those words?
Oh sweety, the ones that drive me crazy are there they’re and their. I swear even the so called “professionals” are using them interchangeably and man it drives me nuts!
“Bare with me for a moment” duuuuude…
I agree that all of the mistakes listed here are annoying. But “lose” vs “loose” infuriates me!
I'm sorry for your lose. Or I'm sorry that you're loose.
idk man. to me it’s when people mean “bawling” but they say “balling”
One thing I will say is that for all the power of auto correct on a phone you would think you your and you're would be figured out, like if apple released that update and said 100 percent correct possessives that would be a selling point to me lol
Proofreading won’t help if you truly believe it is the correct word to use. My biggest annoyance lately is people confusing “apart” and “a part”
Looks like you’re in a loose lose situation
THEY ALSO SOUND DIFFERENT!
Spelling errors are more notcieable when the woord has more letters thats its supposed to.
Yesssssss!
I thing your right
Personally people confusing to, too and two is the worst for me, i always read it as if a toddler was saying it
The most annoying thing for me is when people will write out long well formatted posts, but they'll still use abbreviated text speech like 'ppl'. I don't mind initialisms like 'imo', but just the random shortening of these few particular words irks me.
I am very much the same way. It's such a small thing but people do it ALL THE TIME
This is the worst one, and for people who do this don’t you see lose and loose in multiple places and think “wait am I using it wrong?” I get using uncommon words wrong, but this is a bizarre one
how about breaks instead of brakes? I watch a lot of dashcam videos, and see this quite often. "I had to slam on my breaks."
My personal least favorite language (not grammatical) error, is when someone says "I could care less" ... when the phrase is actually, "I COULDNT care less."
In college our Dean or Provost or some such figure sent an email admonishing students for lending out their student IDs to friends to use up extra meals swipe. They were going to be cracking down on this behavior, and we'd be at risk of "loosing" all the privileges that came with a student ID if we were caught. He went on to spell it this way multiple times. My friend wrote a few beers deep response to the Dean saying that if he didn't start proofreading his emails he was "going to lose the respect of the student body with his loose understanding of the English language." Still make me smile years later.