Usage & Grammar Pet Peeves

Sorry wake,I'm a moron at times.

I tried,but failed,to find a very well written blog entry that I once read about the decline of the English language and how text-speak and acronyms were becoming very normal for people to use in text messages, emails,comments and such.The blogger was very heartfelt about it and the post rambled on for at least three paragraphs.After reading the beautifully thought out post,I read the comments.

First comment was a capitalised LOL.

When Americans say rough for roof.

When people pronounce "th" as "dh"

Also when people add "like" to every fucking sentence around 7 times.. man that drives me up the wall

A lot of these I have never encountered, and would be utterly stunned if I did.

  On 3/27/2011 at 6:37 PM, halisray said:

Also when people add "like" to every fucking sentence around 7 times.. man that drives me up the wall

Seven times per sentence is a bit excessive, but the "like" phenomenon is so common my brain usually just tunes it out. But yeah, there are some extreme cases where it becomes quite distracting. I wonder when that started anyway. It doesn't seem to affect people of my parent's generation, but I swear 90% of people 30 and under do it pretty regularly.

  On 3/27/2011 at 10:05 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

  On 3/27/2011 at 6:37 PM, halisray said:

Also when people add "like" to every fucking sentence around 7 times.. man that drives me up the wall

 

Seven times per sentence is a bit excessive, but the "like" phenomenon is so common my brain usually just tunes it out. But yeah, there are some extreme cases where it becomes quite distracting. I wonder when that started anyway. It doesn't seem to affect people of my parent's generation, but I swear 90% of people 30 and under do it pretty regularly.

I always thought it was A "Valley Girl" phenomenon. Mass export of American culture implanted it into youth lexicon of various western countries.

any time "internet slang" is used when conversing with humans and not machines...that is highly irritating. someone will fuck something up at work and nine out of ten times some cunt will say "epic fail". I detest that phrase in particular for some reason.

  On 3/27/2011 at 2:45 PM, rumbo said:

Sorry for multiple replies. Is there a time limit for editing posts?

 

  On 3/26/2011 at 12:38 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

i can't really help it, i do it on accident

 

This is one that also irks me. you do it "by" accident.

i can't even imagine how many things i say incorrectly.

who the fuck decided "on accident" was wrong?

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:40 AM, thepilot said:

any time "internet slang" is used when conversing with humans and not machines...that is highly irritating. someone will fuck something up at work and nine out of ten times some cunt will say "epic fail". I detest that phrase in particular for some reason.

i know what you mean. it was ok like 6 years ago, but now the younger generation of obnoxious 13 year olds abuse the fuck out of it. it should've just stayed with the internet. it's like everyone in the general public are behind on internet related fads/ phrases. i'm glad i'm not in school anymore, give it another year and i would've started hearing about mudkipz every damn day

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:40 AM, thepilot said:

any time "internet slang" is used when conversing with humans and not machines...that is highly irritating. someone will fuck something up at work and nine out of ten times some cunt will say "epic fail". I detest that phrase in particular for some reason.

The over-use of the word 'epic' drives me up a fucking wall. I physically cringe every time I hear it. Almost as much as when someone actually says 'omg' (As in oh-em-gee) or 'lol' or 'wtf.'

  On 3/28/2011 at 8:16 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:40 AM, thepilot said:

any time "internet slang" is used when conversing with humans and not machines...that is highly irritating. someone will fuck something up at work and nine out of ten times some cunt will say "epic fail". I detest that phrase in particular for some reason.

 

The over-use of the word 'epic' drives me up a fucking wall. I physically cringe every time I hear it. Almost as much as when someone actually says 'omg' (As in oh-em-gee) or 'lol' or 'wtf.'

http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/wtf-omg-fyi-lol-wag-added-oxford-english-dictionary-lmfao-25831

Pwnt.

  On 3/28/2011 at 7:52 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

 

 

who the fuck decided "on accident" was wrong?

Is that a serious question?

  On 3/28/2011 at 7:54 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

give it another year and i would've started hearing about mudkipz every damn day

My friend took this picture on the NYC subway.

As he puts it... "Looks like a couple of anal copy editors got into a bitchfight on this MTA poster."

  On 3/28/2011 at 7:52 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

who the fuck decided "on accident" was wrong?

The correct way of saying this is "by accident" but commonly it is said as "on accident" as a parallel to "on purpose." This is the most succinct explanation I found:

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The phrase "on purpose" communicates intent and connection through the use of the pronoun "on."

 

Things that happen accidently are not controlled, therefore the correct usage of the idiom is "by accident" and the use of the preposition "by" indicates an outside means of action or agent of action as opposed to the choice (indicated by "on") so using "by" shows that something happened unintentionally - "by accident."

That being said, the phrase "on accident" is being used more and more colloquially among young people and will most likely eventually become the norm. Hooray!

I got so high on accident the other day --I was totally trippin'! *drum fill*

  On 3/27/2011 at 5:06 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 3/26/2011 at 6:40 AM, Xyrofen said:

"Maths"

 

Why the fuck do you Brits and Aussies call mathematics that? It sounds fucking retarded.

Does it really need a more in-depth explanation?

 

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Every anthropologist I've come into contact with pronounces "evolution" as "ee-volution" and I have no idea why.

Because that's how it's pronounced?

How do you say "evil"?

 

Anyhow, some of you lot might be interested in this site: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

I mostly just hate how "maths" sounds. It's one of those things that I figured out, but still hate the truth.

I understand the evolution thing too, but I've only ever heard it said as such by people in that field and that intrigues me. Even though this thing says it how I would: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolution Could just be some regional thing.

Iraq: Eye-rack

Arab: Ay-rab

Vehicle: Vee-hickle

Buoy (Boy): Boo-ee

These tend to annoy me somewhat.

  On 3/28/2011 at 1:09 PM, rumbo said:

Iraq: Eye-rack

Arab: Ay-rab

Vehicle: Vee-hickle

Buoy (Boy): Boo-ee

 

These tend to annoy me somewhat.

agree on all of these but the last, maybe

The mutation and proliferation of the word 'random'. Especially people being described as 'randoms'. Fuck that stupid fucking shit.

  On 3/25/2011 at 2:30 PM, wake said:

  On 3/25/2011 at 2:23 PM, Gary C said:

Nope. It's an English language thing.

I've not once heard an American pronounce H as "hey-tch."

 

  On 3/25/2011 at 2:28 PM, chimera slot mom said:

(Also, incomplete paranthesis (like this)

Egad, yeah. Makes me feel like I found a bug in some code.

or not pronouncing "h", for instance: huge= uge.

  On 3/28/2011 at 1:32 PM, Caretstik said:

The mutation and proliferation of the word 'random'. Especially people being described as 'randoms'. Fuck that stupid fucking shit.

Yeah. My family had an extended debate about this word over Christmas.

I don't class it as a word yet though, just slang.

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Perhaps the real truth is this: the Singularity is not on its way—the Singularity happened long ago. We have been outsourcing our intelligence to machines for centuries. Now they are much quicker at calculation and infinitely more adept at memory than we have ever been. And so now we decide that memory and calculation are not really part of mind. We place the communicative element of language above the propositional and argumentative element, not because it matters more but because it’s all that’s left to us.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/04/04/110404crbo_books_gopnik

"an historic". it should be "a historic". you pronounce the "h", fools.

  On 3/28/2011 at 8:16 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:40 AM, thepilot said:

any time "internet slang" is used when conversing with humans and not machines...that is highly irritating. someone will fuck something up at work and nine out of ten times some cunt will say "epic fail". I detest that phrase in particular for some reason.

 

The over-use of the word 'epic' drives me up a fucking wall. I physically cringe every time I hear it. Almost as much as when someone actually says 'omg' (As in oh-em-gee) or 'lol' or 'wtf.'

Yeah some guy said "lol" IRL and I was so tempted to slap him right in the face... christ the guy is around 23-24... give me a break

Those who finish every sentence with "innit" or "zole".