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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Aug 2, 2009 19:40:10 GMT -5
Mee-yilk. Warters. What's REALLY annoying to me, though, stupid accents aside, is having a 14-year-old brother who can't (won't) use the correct pronouns- "Me an' her went to the store", "Her didn't want to go", etc.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Aug 2, 2009 19:46:15 GMT -5
My mother used to pronounce "ruin" as "rern." Took her DECADES to cut that one out, even though she knew it was wrong. Because of the stigma associated with her south Alabama accent, she went out of her way to make sure my brother and I were accent-free. To this day, "fixin' to" makes me wince. Oh, and here's one for you non-Southerners to wrap your head around: My grandmother said she was in school learning to read before she realized "I 'ownt sum'n' t'eat" was a sentence ("I want something to eat") and not just one word. As a southerner, my accent isn't really that bad (my cousin says I sound brittish?), but I have had to stop my self from saying "fixin" all the time. Also takin, instead of "taking".
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Aug 3, 2009 9:06:43 GMT -5
Mee-yilk. Warters. What's REALLY annoying to me, though, stupid accents aside, is having a 14-year-old brother who can't (won't) use the correct pronouns- "Me an' her went to the store", "Her didn't want to go", etc. He deliberately uses accusative pronouns where he should use nominative? Ugh, if I were ever to advocate capital punishment for anything....
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 3, 2009 12:48:31 GMT -5
Oh yeah. Apostrophes used in pluralization. "Just look at all these car's!"
*Shudder*
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Aug 3, 2009 12:51:55 GMT -5
I hate to admit to it, but I sometimes pluralise like that by accident. It comes from thinking aurally and multilingually, I naturally write how the words sound to me in my head, combine that with the fact that I can't type for fudge and you've got a recipe for disaster's.
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Post by The_L on Aug 3, 2009 13:46:52 GMT -5
Ugh, apostrophes drive me crazy too. Why are people writing signs that say "Jone's?" It's either "Jones'" or "Jones's," unless your last name is "Jone," which I highly doubt.
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 3, 2009 14:48:00 GMT -5
Terror Island had a character named Jame. It's like James, but only one.
And Sanda, I do the same thing. If I'm tired or otherwise not mentally up to snuff, I'll pluralize with apostrophes. It makes me sad.
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Post by SimSim on Aug 3, 2009 14:51:54 GMT -5
I'll just admit that I have next to no grasp of written grammar. I'm sure I use apostrophes wrong a lot of the time, and various other things that probably drive the grammar nazis nuts.
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Post by calee022 on Aug 3, 2009 14:59:41 GMT -5
I try not to be too picky, as I am hardly perfect when it comes to grammar, but I remember an incident that had me on the floor twitching.
I worked in the kitchen of a hospital. I said something to one of the people who slopped the...slop... onto plates. I think I used a word with more than two syllables. She looked me dead in the eye and said:
"Youse ain't gots no good englitch".
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Post by Jebediah on Aug 3, 2009 15:52:59 GMT -5
I had a roommate last year who would always say things like, "I seen you yesterday on your way to class." A little piece of me would die each time.
It bothers me when there isn't a comma before a quotation.
I find the lose/loose confusion to be annoying, as well. There is a sign at work that says something like, "dogs prone to loose weight." I'm so tempted to take a marker and cross out the extra O.
The one thing that gets under my skin more than anything else is using the word good instead of well. At work, I'm always told, "Make sure you do that real good." I just have to walk away.
I know I'm far from perfect when it comes to grammar, but I at least try. My younger brother is always saying, "I know that's wrong, but I just don't care." I seriously don't understand that attitude.
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Post by Marc on Aug 3, 2009 19:23:40 GMT -5
I'll just admit that I have next to no grasp of written grammar. I'm sure I use apostrophes wrong a lot of the time, and various other things that probably drive the grammar nazis nuts. In my personal experience, people who tend to say this actually do have good grammar. They use apostrophes when appropriate, capitalize correctly, and generally don't confuse your/you're/yore. If they do make errors, they're generally minor, and are the result of not proofreading, or not remembering certain rules (like, periods within quotation marks for example). Even people for whom English is a second language generally do quite well. If they make errors, they're understandable, and they'll usually ask for forgiveness ahead of time for their errors. The people who tend to fill their entire posts with grammar and spelling monstrosities truly don't seem to care. If you correct them on it, even politely, they'll complain, "it doesn't matter." These people, especially in the comments we see on the mainpage anger me the most because their tone suggests that they want you to take them seriously. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to take them seriously when they look completely illiterate. Marc
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Post by calee022 on Aug 4, 2009 14:17:20 GMT -5
Not a grammar issue, but I LOVE it when fundies spell it "Christains".
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Post by Cymraes on Aug 5, 2009 6:46:17 GMT -5
Working as a librarian, in an inner city primary school, I struggle with children who can't hear the difference between 'd' and 'j'. For instance, I was left a note by a child, which read: "Dear Miss, my book was jew back today, but I forgot it."
On the other hand, my husband always tells me off when I say things like: "I picked it up off of the floor," or "I put it on to the table". He argues that it should be: "I picked it off the floor," or "I put it on the table".
He is English and I am Welsh (and welsh speaking), so I don't know if he is strictly speaking correct.
Any ideas?
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Post by Tiger on Aug 5, 2009 13:12:31 GMT -5
I believe both are grammatically correct, but his version is closer to what most English speakers would say.
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Post by Deimos on Aug 5, 2009 21:51:49 GMT -5
I just found this in yahoo answers
----------------- Gay alert probably you have the right to be mad at me but their something you dont know about my life when I? was 10 years old a gay man tried to child molest me and he took me to his apartment and he made me touch his you kmow what so that the why i want to know these question from what i conceive wrong conduct with all respect -----------------------------
Thats a rape of the english language
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