Experiences Spelling, grammar and punctuation pet peeves!

[Ayama]

Let's all share our frustration! ;P

A really big one for me (the one thing I got from my otherwise unbearable 7th-grade English teacher) is people using 'that' when they mean 'who' (which unfortunately has become so mainstream in the US that it's even used in TV and movies x.x ).

Example:
"Remember that girl that used to go to our school?" when it should be "Remember that girl who used to go to our school?"

(Actually, this one annoys me so much that I'm a brat about it irl. If asked the above question, I respond with 'who' xD )

What are you guys' pet peeves? ^^

ashwynne Simon_Hawk peritwinkle elusivethought Crayons zippy T Tove Thought you guys might enjoy this :3 ​

 

[Simon_Hawk]

"Your" and "You're" are classics, I am not great at grammar but those two words being misplaced always bug me. I have to admit that I am very guilty of misusing "to" and "too" though. lolol

 

[Crayons]

People using "whom" when they mean "who". (Whom is used for the object of a sentence, who for the subject.) Mainly because you could get away with never using the word "whom" and literally no one would care!

People using "I" when they mean "me". "Susan and I went to the cinema" is correct. "He gave the box to Susan and I" is incorrect! It should be "He gave the box to Susan and me". Smacks of false pretentions, as above.

Also I'm gonna reiterate "rouge" for "rogue" because it's so common and so wrong. XD

 

[Tove]

Bless you for this Ayama

Waste-unwanted useless things.
Waist-a part of the human body.

"He put the belt around his waste."
Honestly.

And very strongly......dialogue WITHOUT quotation marks.

 

[Jet]

English is so bad for writing that I no longer care about many English Language conventions. There are things broken by the writer for better reading, and that's fine. The unintentional stuff you should wrinkle out but none of it really annoys me, mistakes happen. That said, stuff like your/you're and to/too should be done reliably, with a couple mulligans every once and a while when you accidentally write the wrong one.

Edit

Okay one actual pet peeve, capitalizing words that shouldn't be capitalized.

No You Should not be Capitalizing half Your words For no Reason, lmao, writing that hurt. Why sway, why are half ya words capped?

 

[peritwinkle]

1. I’ve noticed a LOT of people can’t spell the world ‘definitely’. How do you get defiantly and definately. Why. Why is THIS particular word so hard. How can you rant about socially constructed stigma around the non-conforming individual and perniciously influential patriarchy on twitter but can’t spell ‘definitely’.

2. Different characters’ dialogue within the same paragraph.

3. People who genuinely have never heard of the concept of ‘plural’ and say things like ‘girl’s’ when talking about a group of females.

 

[Simon_Hawk]

Bless you for this Ayama

Waste-unwanted useless things.
Waist-a part of the human body.

"He put the belt around his waste."
Honestly.

And very strongly......dialogue WITHOUT quotation marks.

LMAO! Holy crap, you just reminded me of a guy near where I live who painted "Yard Waist" on his garbage cans supposedly designated for "Yard Waste" lmao I die every time I see it lolololol

 

[ashwynne]

AHAHA YES.

To reiterate:

Rouge instead of rogue.
It changes the meaning of this sentence considerably: "The mighty alpha wolf was uncommonly fond of the rouge."
Very progressive wolf, it seems.

And for anyone who is surprised by this (because I KNOW a lot of people grew up with 'rouge wolves' and it somehow stuck):
rouge: a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.
rogue: an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies

Cannon vs canon also annoys me in terms of fandom RP's but it doesn't make me want to bawl my eyes out like rogue does LOL.

Going to second peritwinkle on multiple different character's dialogue appearing in the same paragraph. And people forgetting that plural forms of words exist?

 

[Simon_Hawk]

The rouge rogue from Baton Rouge....

 

[Jannah]

English is an utter bitch. German grammar is far more consistent.

That said, main grammatical pet peeves of mine are the following:
-Mixing up "your" and "you're"
-Mixing up "there", "their", and "they're"
-Using double negatives(even in music and poetry it annoys me tbh)
-speech without quotation marks(this one I thankfully rarely see)
-the speech of multiple characters within the same paragraph

I know there's more, but this is what I can think of directly off the top of my head. I was going to also add "lay" vs. "lie, but then I remembered I struggle with that one. It kills me. I never know when to use which.

 

[Jet]

In defense of the double dialogue in the same text block, it can be useful when trying to write interruptions & fast exchanges. Nothing says "blistering argument" or "corner store shit talk" quite like paragraph breaks /s. I use it rarely and generally agree that it clutters the page, but I will plant my flag on the 5% outlier where it's a good way to communicate fast pace. It's also exclusively done (by me anyway) when the dialogue is very short back and forths. Seeing three sentences spoke by A to B and then five from B to A in the same block is bad, but seeing three words from A and then five words from an interrupting B is way less trash to look at.

Other than that everything on this thread I second.

 

[Ayama]

rogue: an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies

Bahaha, I'm dying xD
I think I speak for most gamers when I say the word 'rogue' evokes a thief class far more than it does the concept of 'going rogue' ;P
Having a particular fondness for light-fingered and light-footed thieves myself, it's quite excellent to see it defined in terms of elephants : D
I will say that the first time I saw someone describe their character as a 'rouge' though, because it was done in every post, I honestly thought that it was a new class I'd never heard of before, since I couldn't believe people would actually make that mistake, and I had to look it up x.x ​

 

[ashwynne]

Bahaha, I'm dying xD
I think I speak for most gamers when I say the word 'rogue' evokes a thief class far more than it does the concept of 'going rogue' ;P
Having a particular fondness for light-fingered and light-footed thieves myself, it's quite excellent to see it defined in terms of elephants : D
I will say that the first time I saw someone describe their character as a 'rouge' though, because it was done in every post, I honestly thought that it was a new class I'd never heard of before, because I couldn't believe people would actually make that mistake, and I had to look it up x.x ​

It has a few different uses/definitions but I didn't include it as I'm most used to seeing it misused in terms of wolf/animal roleplays LOL. You're definitely right though, rogue class is a whole different beast haha.

First time I saw it misused I assumed it was a one-time mistake... but we all know what assuming does. Turns out it's pretty much a common phenomenon LOL

 

[Simon_Hawk]

I want to make a character that's a red elephant who has a pension for stealing.

 

[Simon_Hawk]

Wait....is it "thats" or "that's?" Dammit!!!!

 

[Ayama]

It has a few different uses/definitions but I didn't include it as I'm most used to seeing it misused in terms of wolf/animal roleplays LOL. You're definitely right though, rogue class is a whole different beast haha.

First time I saw it misused I assumed it was a one-time mistake... but we all know what assuming does. Turns out it's pretty much a common phenomenon LOL

And now I know that. It's one of the things that has made me sad ^^" ​

 

[Jet]

Wait....is it "thats" or "that's?" Dammit!!!!

If not sarcastic it's the second. Sorry if I'm missing a joke.

 

[Ayama]

I want to make a character that's a red elephant who has a pension for stealing.

So... a rogue rouged rogue? xD ​

 

[Tove]

The apostrophe game. Use it whenever, however, it doesn't matter.

The demon's all congregated together.

 

[Jet]

The demon is all congregated together.

Damn that shit makes sense too, I guess you're right T Tove

 

[Ayama]

The apostrophe game. Use it whenever, however, it doesn't matter.

The demon's all congregated together.

-nod- It stems from 's indicating a possessive making people confused with just s indicating a pluralization. Then the two get mixed up x.x​

 

[Ayama]

Also, does anyone else ever have the problem where they use a word that's so obscure it's not in the autocorrect dictionary, and then it's marked as misspelled? xD ​

 

[Tove]

The demon is all congregated together.

Damn that shit makes sense too, I guess you're right T Tove

Are you trying to be funny?

 

[Simon_Hawk]

Where are these so-called demons congregating? Curious minds need to know!

 

[Jet]

Obvious joke was obvious T Tove