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Tell me what grammar mistakes get under your skin. I'll go first. I'm driven crazy by folks who use the possessive "your" for the contraction for you are: "you're". Sometimes it's autocorrect, but often it's not.

Compassion8doubt 6 Sep 29
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All of the aforementioned, as well as 'feels' being used as a noun (which I know is deliberate and therefore pisses me off even more) and those '[person or group] be like [picture]' memes. Argh.

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My pet peeve is adding "at" to the end of a location question. "Where is it at?" vs just "Where is it?" I'm sure my peevishness about it is because my ex-husband used to say it, along with his entire family, and so any perspective dates after our divorce got nixed if they had that particular grammar habit.

Ending a sentence in a proposition, the dumbest kind of mistake there is.

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it's rampant, but i ignore it unless the person is a troll and i am about to block him/her anyway. then all bets are off. but one i recently did not ignore (and got called names for pointing out quite gently) was "since" for "sense." that's no typo. that's ignorance. "could of" for "could have" raises the hairs on the back of my neck because it didn't used to be so rampant -- it was sufficiently unusual that i actually was able to identify a real-life rather dangerous stalker because of it. it was idiosyncratic to her at the time, or was unusual enough to be considered so. on tv, i get crazy when the subject doesn't match an introductory clause. examples: "as a child, my father taught me to spell." oh really, your father had a child when he was a child? "finding the cat quivering in the shadows, it meowed." it found itself and then meowed? stuff like that. and i don't mean this shows up in interviews, in which people may speak off the cuff and not be strictly grammatical. no, i am talking about scripted stuff, that gets written down, typed up, presumably proofread (yeah, these days that means spellcheck, which isn't the same thing!) and then read by someone who has a nice voice but hasn't got a clue what he's saying. that really depresses me.

just between you and me, "just between you and i" is not a new phenomenon but it still rankles. it hurts i to see/hear it.

someone mentioned "i seen." does no one go to SCHOOL anymore?

every day, i see "everyday" used as an adverb instead of every day. it's an everyday thing, i guess; spelling it as one word makes it an adjective.

one more thing, also on tv. two times. no one will say "twice." it's always two times. and there are fewer comparatives and superlatives. it's always "more toasty" instead of toastier, "the most easy" instead of the easiest. is this deliberate? how did this happen?

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p.s. i don't make initial caps in casual writing, such as social media posts. some of it is the remainder of an old stylistic conceit from my teenhood but most of it is the arthritis that plagues my hands. it can't be as hard and annoying to read AS ALL CAPS, THOUGH. THAT HURTS MY EYES!

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Okay, and the word "and" ends with a "D!"

JimG Level 8 Sep 29, 2018
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It is a sad reflection on the quality of the English language being taught both here in the United Kingdom of the British Isles and Northern Ireland and that of the United States of America, that we then revert to Latin, for example Verbatim

In defense of the use of Latin, it's popular in science, medicine, and law because it's a dead language. The meanings of Latin words will not change.

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Its and it's.

But it's so refreshing to read something intelligent that I wouldn't mind if they used the number 8 to replace 'ate' and 2 instead of 'to'.

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I used to be a grammar nazi. Now I really don't care. Unless there are many errors in a sentence or two.

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There, They're, Their
The whole your group...
I couldn't never stand double negatives either.
Irregardless instead of Regardless (They screwed the pooch on that so many times they finally added irregardless to the dictionary!)

@Compassion8doubt Bless you!

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I still get who and whom confused.

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To Too
Their There
You're Your
This is simple laziness.
That's about all I let bother me. Grammar is more about the area where you live. Things like "y'all" don't bother me because it's in the vernacular. The same applies to things like "I seen that" in certain places. I understand how this bothers people but it doesn't get to me.

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Everything trump says. Whatta moron

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When someone didn't hear and asks, "What happened?" I reply, "Nothing happened."

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Official communication from a company, the press, a website, a government agency, and any other organization.

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I generally don’t care except for my boys using text slang. As long as I understand the thought that the person is trying to convey. I’m not perfect nor pretend to be.

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Misuse of "then" and "than" can definitely trigger me...

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Not a grammar bit completely:: I hate people speaking/writing in the second-person-universal about oneself. And just in general.

I think this comes from teaching children to write as if they are talking/writing a letter to a friend.

"When you are president parent you must ask yourself,..." Idiotic.

One instruction manual had 7% of the words as "you," its variants, and all the extra words needed to support the use of "you." The book could have had nearly 30 fewer pages.

Once you get started it is impossible to not used "you" again. often in the same sentence.

One of my responses:

"""And then, when you are finished working with your music program on your computer in your studio, you should use your index finger on your hand to click your mouse button to hi-lite your clip in your song displayed on your monitor.

And then use your ring finger (or your middle finger) on your hand to click your right button on your mouse to display your context menu so you can choose from your choices to change your clip in the way you want to,...

And then when you are happy that you did what you wanted to process your clip in your song, click FILE on your menu in your program to save your project to your folder on your hard-drive
"""

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