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IntenseMagic

Some grannies cuss a lot. I'm some grannies.
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I totally love the "1 Second Everyday" app and keep up with it almost every day, but every single time I go to upload and share the video I get a little twitchy. I cannot use their title for the app. It's just one of those little grammar things that really bugs me!! Everyday is an adjective and if they had named it 1 Everyday Second, it would have been totally correct. But as it is, it should be 1 Second Every Day. That's a lot of everys in one paragraph :giggle.

I am not perfect with grammar all the time, especially with punctuation online...(I love ellipses and use them will nilly:giggle), but there are little things that just really get to me like: there/their/they're, sell/sale, your/you're, and then/than. I'm also not one to correct people often, and I'm totally tolerant if its a non-English speaker, but I do cringe a little when I hear or see them, and I do correct my students always.

Do you have any grammar pet peeves?
 
Your post made me giggle! I'm really a stickler for grammar - written and verbal - I guess because my mom often (that's often with a SILENT "t" :party3) corrected me and pretty soon it stuck! LOL. Too and to drive me crazy! My manager says "supposaBly" instead of supposedly … that one drives me bonkers, because he uses it too (that's too with TWO "o"s - hee hee) much!!
 
Yes -- "bring" and "take" and their past tense counterparts. I cringe every time someone says bring/brought instead of take/took. Seems no one remembers the rule based on the location of the speaker.

ex: the teacher would say "bring your book to class tomorrow" - but the mom at home would say "take your book to class tomorrow". So many people use bring for both. When the student arrives to class, they can say "I brought my book!" and when they get back home, they can say "I took my book, mom!". Poor take & took - so misunderstood.

Now the one that I have trouble with (it just won't stick my head) is affect and effect. I know one is only a verb and the other can be a noun or a verb, but I usually have to look it up. If you have a trick for remembering this one, please share...
 
JillW said:
I guess because my mom often (that's often with a SILENT "t" :party3) corrected me and pretty soon it stuck
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I get it from my mother as well. She was an English major in college and all such a stickler for grammar and correct pronunciations!! God forbid we ever use "at" at the end of a sentence. If we said "Where is *anything* at?" Her response was always, "Behind the at", and would repeat that until we asked correctly.
 
BevG said:
Now the one that I have trouble with (it just won't stick my head) is affect and effect. I know one is only a verb and the other can be a noun or a verb, but I usually have to look it up. If you have a trick for remembering this one, please share...
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I have trouble with those two, too :giggle. I've seen a couple of tricks for remembering. One is to think about affect being an action and they both start with a, and another is to remember that a comes before e in the alphabet and an action (affect) comes before the result (effect). I'm not sure either one is really all that helpful lol.
 
It's not entirely grammar, but 10yr old drives me nuts when he asks "What's that smell?" If you don't know what that smell is, then how would I? It's your nose, not mine! I've been correcting him with "I wonder what I'm smelling" or "I smell something strange". We've had a huge influx of skunks in our neighborhood in the past year. It often smells like skunk. But, we also live near a big chocolate factory. Sometimes it smells wonderfully of chocolate.
 
jesskab said:
It's not entirely grammar, but 10yr old drives me nuts when he asks "What's that smell?" If you don't know what that smell is, then how would I? It's your nose, not mine! I've been correcting him with "I wonder what I'm smelling" or "I smell something strange". We've had a huge influx of skunks in our neighborhood in the past year. It often smells like skunk. But, we also live near a big chocolate factory. Sometimes it smells wonderfully of chocolate.
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I'm imagining the two getting mixed up and smelling chocolate skunk :giggle
 
IntenseMagic said:
I'm imagining the two getting mixed up and smelling chocolate skunk :giggle
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I was going to mention that I haven't experienced both at the same time. I'd imagine chocolate skunk would smell better. The sad thing is, I'm getting used to the skunk smell. There seriously must have been a change in their ecosystem or something. But, I wish they'd just move along.
 
You will learn everything you need to know about me & grammar when I tell you the following anecdote:

I live very close to a nationally-known university that is the biggest employer in the county. I have applied for several jobs there over the years, and made it all the way to "runner-up" once, but never gotten a job there. I've also experienced a lot of unexplained delays, jobs being closed because they hired internally after advertising it, and/or been told by a recruiter to expect a response and never received one.

After one week when I received three rejections for three separate jobs, I had had enough and wrote their HR team about the glaring grammatical error in their rejection letter. I was very polite but also very insistent that it should be changed.

I received a fourth rejection letter a few weeks later... with the error fixed. :giggle
 
I'm pretty good with grammar, punctuation, and spelling but don't usually get bothered by others' mistakes. More likely I will joke about it, as in, "Ugh! Apostrophe abuse!" If I had peeves about punctuation, putting an apostrophe in a plural would probably be one. As for grammar, no examples pop into my head. I'd think longer about it, but I'm trying to get around to scrapping and several things have distracted me from it this weekend. :D
 
I am a proofreader. I have many grammar/usage pet peeves. Jan, you must have heard of the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves?

When I'm writing/reading online, I try to understand that my, umm, formal language isn't the norm. Texting is hard, though, because people want to be fast: texters not only want to respond using as little time as possible, but they also want short responses (i.e., quickly read responses). I guess I'm saying that I try to think of my audience.

But no matter the medium, if I'm not getting paid, then I try not to go too nuts. ;) There are exceptions. The film title "Two Weeks Notice" still bugs me It should be "Two Weeks' Notice." How was that missed by the 1000s of people involved in making the film?! Not a single person working at the studio knew what "genitive" or "inanimate possessive" means?
 
My mom was a grammar nazi when we were kids (and still today!) so I've seen it all! ;) My BIGGEST grammar peeve is Seen/Saw. I don't' know if it's a country bumpkin thing (where I grew up) but people ALWAYS say it wrong & it drives me nuts.

Side note- When my hubby was writing his thesis for his MBA- I proof read that stupid thing a zillion times. I put a sticky note on his laptop that said "They're/Their/There" and "Too/Two/To" because it was wrong ALL over his paper. Drove me crazy to read that thing! ;)
 
JillW said:
My manager says "supposaBly" instead of supposedly … that one drives me bonkers, because he uses it too (that's too with TWO "o"s - hee hee) much!!
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YES! I was a paraprofessional years ago and the teacher that I worked closely with used supposably all the time. Grrrrr! And, she was their language teacher!

amien1 said:
M My BIGGEST grammar peeve is Seen/Saw. I don't' know if it's a country bumpkin thing (where I grew up) but people ALWAYS say it wrong & it drives me nuts.
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I can't with people that use seen the wrong way. I work with a few of them and I'm pretty sure I cringe.
 
carrie1977 said:
YES! I was a paraprofessional years ago and the teacher that I worked closely with used supposably all the time. Grrrrr! And, she was their language teacher!
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Okay, I do judge people even if I'm not getting paid: I pay close attention to my children's school correspondence. A mistake or two over the year isn't a big deal, but I'd be nervous if every single weekly email confused any of the issues mentioned so far in this thread!
 
Being a writer I totally cringe at grammar mistakes....but I've never corrected any one and usually am pretty tolerant....


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BUT MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE is this younger generation and their total lack of spelling...even sometimes misspelling words on purpose, or this shortened text talk. Like how hard is it to actually type OK instead of just K. It's ONE friggin' letter people. ROFL!
 
LoveItScrapIt said:
Being a writer I totally cringe at grammar mistakes....but I've never corrected any one and usually am pretty tolerant....


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BUT MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE is this younger generation and their total lack of spelling...even sometimes misspelling words on purpose, or this shortened text talk. Like how hard is it to actually type OK instead of just K. It's ONE friggin' letter people. ROFL!
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Text talk...I won't do it. My mom types n instead of and. That's it. Just an n. Drives me bonkers! In my head I read it as an n because that's what it is. Which makes reading her sentences a mess. :crazy3
 
SO much makes me cringe. Adults, who should know better, riddle grammar. They blame it on auto-correct but you can turn that stupid thing off. I'm sure it's been mentioned, but they're, their, there - :hairpol also "we was" instead of "we were" and using "I" and "me" incorrectly - ALL the time!! I'm silently correcting people's grammar all the time. :hairpol Many more - but I'll stop now. :happyclap
 
carrie1977 said:
Text talk...I won't do it. My mom types n instead of and. That's it. Just an n. Drives me bonkers! In my head I read it as an n because that's what it is. Which makes reading her sentences a mess. :crazy3
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Omgeeee don't get me started .... our oldest (24) and her text messages are like trying to decipher some hidden code or something. Not only that, but she uses NO PUNCTUATION....it's a big run on sentence of misspelled words and text talk
 
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