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[AntoneM]

ARGGHHHHH!

I couldn't care less - note the bold word is the correct word
"refer back" - how fucking redundant is this phrase?

What common grammatical errors make your eyes go crosswise?

 

[Nos_G]

how about come on ?

 

[belgurdo]

gb2/something awful

 

[Outdoor Miner]

haha, this thread literally made me shit my pants!

 

[demi]

common it can't be that bad

 

[xsarien]

haha, this thread literally made me shit my pants!

So what'd you do with your shitty pants?

/David Cross

 

[brooklyngooner]

"begs the question" in a context other than a philosophical argument

 

[heavy liquid]

Hmm.. first ones that come to mind...


It's "a lot". Not "alot" or "allot"

there, their, they're

 

[Spectral Glider]

When people type no one as noone. What is that, 12 o clock on Mork's planet?

 

[lexi]

This one really shits me, and is so fucking frequent. It's fucking develop, NOT DEVELOPE YOU RETARDS.

 

[RobotChant]

I hate that to.

 

[Nerevar]

The absolute worst is "lose", not "loose". We're not talking about your fucking vagina you ignorant 12-year old bnet retard.

 

[Lucky Forward]

"Just what are you inferring with that remark?"

It's implying. The speaker implies, the listener infers.

 

[Zaptruder]

x much less y

becoming y much less x

 

[aoi tsuki]

First poster to make a spelling or grammatical mistake while correcting another wins!

 

[Zaptruder]

off topic, but that poor girl in your avatar has become more associated with "Ass Shaving Expert" than your name has!

 

[aoi tsuki]

off topic, but that poor girl in your avatar has become more associated with "Ass Shaving Expert" than your name has!

And with good reason too. She shaves my ass regularly, then massages it with a blend of aromatic essential oils. Then i wake up, and my PSP is in my hand with Lumines at the game over screen. Yeah, i don't know what it means either. :/

 

[Outdoor Miner]

So what'd you do with your shitty pants?

/David Cross

No no, dude. I literally shat my pants.

 

[Vlad]

While there plenty of common errors that bug me, one that I've really been noticing a lot of lately is the extra apostrophe. It's like people don't want to be bothered learning the correct usage of it so they just throw it in before the "s" in every plural noun.

 

[empanada]

"could of" instead of "could have"

 

[MIMIC]

Who says "common" in place of "c'mon"??

 

[Archaix]

"could of" instead of "could have"

Damn. Beaten to it.

"Could of", "should of", and "would of".

I don't know how anyone can type these phrases and not immediately have a stroke brought upon by their stupidity.

 

[silver]

"Nintendo launched it's GameCube in 2001..."

IT'S "ITS", "ITS"!!!!!!!11111

 

[SickBoy]

I agree with the original poster. It's a c'mon mistake. Sometimes I feel like I'm posting with a bunch of lowly c'moners.

 

[Shig]

Apostrophe s on plurals.

Anyone who writes "The Simpson's" should be fired into the sun.

 

[slayn]

"Nintendo launched it's GameCube in 2001..."

IT'S "ITS", "ITS"!!!!!!!11111

I always get those two confused, so I just use "it's" at all times =)

 

[123rl]

"I could care less" makes me laugh every time :lol

 

[borghe]

their and they're

though rarely there

 

[Vlad]

I always get those two confused, so I just use "it's" at all times =)

It's not that hard.

it's = "it is"
its = possessive

 

[slayn]

I'm aware of the two meanings, but I just reverse them in my mind constantly because I want them both to have an ' so I tend to just give up on even trying.

 

[Mandark]

Definite, not definate.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Climbing up the ladder, my head hit the ceiling.

 

[slayn]

haha, I had a highschool english teacher that would fail papers based slowly on comma splices

 

[Grifter]

Minus well?

 

[DJ_Tet]

haha, I had a highschool english teacher that would fail papers based slowly on comma splices

How long did it take her

 

[miyuru]

Here's one I bet near all people in this thread make: alright.

It's "all right", as "alright" is not a word.

 

[brooklyngooner]

Here's one I bet near all people in this thread make: alright.

It's "all right", as "alright" is not a word.

Buckwheat say: O-tay!

 

[ronito]

Irregardless.

People insist on using this word and I don't get it. Regardless is of course without regard, so what's irregardless mean?

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Irregardless.

People insist on using this word and I don't get it. Regardless is of course without regard, so what's irregardless mean?

Good one. When someone says that I want to slap the stupidity out their mouth.

 

[Vicious]

We were always taught in school that "alright" is an accepted (although sometimes frowned upon) form of "all right".

 

[heavy liquid]

We were always taught in school that "alright" is an accepted (although sometimes frowned upon) form of "all right".

Yup. I have to admit that I tend to use it a lot.

alright

adj : nonstandard usage adv 1: used to reinforces an assertion; "it's expensive all right" [syn: all right, without doubt] 2: sentence-initial expression of agreement [syn: very well, fine, all right, OK] 3: in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right') [syn: okay, O.K., all right]

 

[Space Age Playboy]

I'm annoyed whenever I read abbreviations/shortenings that don't include the key part of the original word. For example:

Morph -- short for metamorphosis. Meta = change, Morph = form.

Wi-fi -- short for wireless fidelity. Wi is the first two letters of wire, the opposite of the actual product.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Infamous doesn't meant very famous you wankers.

 

[AlphaSnake]

Is it right to leave?
C'mon, c'mon!

 

[Kon Tiki]

It's not that hard.

it's = "it is"
its = possessive

Heh, I still get hung up on that one. For some reason I think of it as the opposite. Maybe it is the dyslexia.

 

[AlphaSnake]

It has also = It's.

 

[radios shipping overview]

"release" is not an intransitive verb. Ubisoft released Splinter Cell. Splinter Cell did not release, because it would have to have released something (feces?).

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Possessive pronouns do not use any apostrophes, such as "his" "her or "theirs". That is why it's "its" instead of "it's".

Also, everyday people keep using "good" instead of "well". "Oh, I did good on that test." IT'S FUCKING WELL! NOT GOOD!

 

[levious]

Irregardless.

People insist on using this word and I don't get it. Regardless is of course without regard, so what's irregardless mean?

Means the same thing. It's informal but accepted in english.

Infamous doesn't meant very famous you wankers.

 

[Archaix]

Means the same thing. It's informal but accepted in english.

Widely used, but "accepted" is a bit of a stretch.