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[matty_k]

My pet peeves:
1. If you can't spell definitely, either check it or use a different word. Definately definitly both wrong. Even better when spell corrects it to defiantly and you read that someone is defiantly feeling good about the match

Definitely is the word I am constantly questioning if I have spelled it right. "Probably" is another, I don't know why but probably always looks wrong to me.

 

[Spewn]

What bothers me is people who don't use capitals!!!

No, it's the people who overuse them.

 

[Rob42]

I reserve a special level of annoyance for "irregardless"...

 

[Scarfman]

I'm an academic, and "marking season" is always a trying business. I don't have any single hang-up about punctuation and grammar. What really gets me are the sentences which never end. They usually change subject and tense a couple of times as well. You get to the end of them and wonder what the hell was going through the poor thing's tiny brain.

 

[cyclopath]

I defiantly...,no, definetly..., no, definately agree with you're concerns, matty.

Matty-k, I assuredly agree!!

 

[DPK]

I'm an academic, and "marking season" is always a trying business. I don't have any single hang-up about punctuation and grammar. What really gets me are the sentences which never end. They usually change subject and tense a couple of times as well. You get to the end of them and wonder what the hell was going through the poor thing's tiny brain.

I do this in essays. One of the main reasons you must get someone to proof read your work; the sentence may be perfect, but if it's 50 words long it's still incoherent.

Yikes, even that last sentence was rather long...

 

[Scarfman]

I actually teach an introductory grammar course and my main piece of advice is to write shorter sentences. Most undergraduates cannot hold a sentence together grammatically once it goes past two clauses.

This thread is nervewracking. I feel that, at any moment, I could make a complete arse of myself.

 

[yourmatesam]

This thread is nervewracking. I feel that, at any moment, I could make a complete arse of myself.

You're not on your own there scarfman!!

 

[cyclopath]

A novel concept - people actually worrying about making an arse of themselves on an internet forum.

 

[chasmac]

What about sending Text messages

Who here send "long hand" text messages? E.G they send "great" rather than send "gr8" ?

 

[DPK]

Yep, I send full text messages. I used to be pretty lax, the same with instant messaging, but if you use proper grammar all the time it because the norm, and you make less mistakes.

 

[chasmac]

Yep, I send full text messages. I used to be pretty lax, the same with instant messaging, but if you use proper grammar all the time it because the norm, and you make less mistakes.

I see what you did their !

 

[matty_k]

long hand.

 

[DPK]

Yes... that was on purpose...

 

[matty_k]

This thread is nervewracking. I feel that, at any moment, I could make a complete arse of myself.

I got that out of the way in the first post. You'll feel a lot better after the initial embarrassment.

 

[chasmac]

long hand.

Not short hand. Pretty shitty, I know.

 

[DPK]

Disorientated vs disoriented.

 

[light]

The word 'surprise' would have to be my pet hate. Stupid silent 'r' at the beginning combined with my constant shortening of 'whats up?' into 'sup' and even now as I pronounce it aloud (out-loud?) it sounds wrong.

 

[matty_k]

Or the pronunciation of Australia.

'Straya

 

[DPK]

(I'm just posting phrases or words that annoy me)

Misunderestimated.