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Really?

i read WRT as with respect to.

Judging by the first reply in this thread, no.

If you really only noticed one error in the thread title, then you're one of the people we're making fun of.

Are you kidding me? I don't think I've seen anyone post about cannot and can not. How hard is it to remember it's one word?

Another pet peeve: superfluous words. For example, "In order to study" is the same as "To study".

Twice within the last couple weeks on 2P2, people said 'eluded to' when they meant 'alluded to', which goes beyond grammar and into the ignorant realm.
One guy was called out and he blew a gasket on the nit.



Personally, I don't think most people fully realize how utterly stupid they sound/look butchering the most simple words.




Worst infraction I've ever seen:
A new comptroller at my old office sent out her first big, office-wide email and in it she mentioned the 'principles' of the company at least a half dozen times, when she actually meant the 'principals' because she was referring to all the bigwigs she had just sent this email to.
I felt so bad I sent her a 'just to let you know...' email and she was pretty bummed.

If principle/principal is the worst offense you have seen, then you have not seen much. That is way more obscure than two/too/to, there/their/they're, your/you're, etc.

I'm a nit and certainly would have noticed it, but I have seen much worse.

I'm with daryn. That's how I read it, too.

This makes me a sad panda.

Sometimes people will say "I will revert to you later" when they mean that they will study something and then give me a response later. I think that is not a good usage.

The girl I am dating is in a Master's program and studying for finals this week. I sent her a text yesterday that ended with "Don't study too hard."

She wrote back: "Trying not too! Hope your having a good day"

Not correcting her is one of the most difficult parts of being a considerate boyfriend...

I've seen this posted before. I can't recall a single instance where that phrase would even make sense as sarcasm when it was used. And I'm a person who thinks everything is sarcastic.

fyp

Most simple, yet most unprofessional grammatical errors imo:

There/Their/They're and Your/You're


There - A place. There it is.

Their - Possesive. It's theirs. Not yours.

They're - They are. Period.


Your - Possesive. It's yours. Whatever it is.

You're - You are. Period.






How hard is this stuff? Really.

ZOMG yes. WTF do they even mean it's sarcastic? How? That's the worst excuse for misusing a phrase I've ever seen. People, it's "couldn't care less." 100% that's correct, and there's no situation where "could care less" is anything but ******ed.

I mean I can imagine a spot where you're, like, discussing politics with someone and trying to explain your disproportionate enthusiasm for a ballot measure. So you say "Well, I guess I could care less about Prop 8, and just be apathetic like everyone else, but the fact is I'm passionate about it so I care very deeply." That makes literal sense, but nobody uses it that way, and since everyone uses it when they mean they don't give a sh*t about something, then it always needs to be "I couldn't care less about who won the Kings game last night. Hockey is boring."

I was talking worst offense, scenario-wise. She basically told the entire office that she was just hired to run that she didn't know the difference between 'principle' and 'principal' and spell check wasn't going to save her.

She was in charge of writing the contracts for chrissake. Multi-million dollars contracts.

All rules should go out the window with texting. She definitely should have gotten "to" correct though, as it's less work, but trying to text "you're" is silly and "your" should suffice. Or just type out "you are".

Bah, f*** it, dump her anyway.

I know it's been covered, but my colleagues and I intentionally put question marks on certain statements in emails to take the edge off statements that would sound accusatory and confrontational otherwise.

You mean its myriad of errors, right?

Also, lightening.

I've enjoyed conversating about this.

NO IT ISN'T YOU GODDAMN ****ING MORON. This is the only grammar issue that legitimately makes me angry. I get a little annoyed when I hear it used, but when someone tries to explain the usage as sarcasm I want to rip their arm of and beat them to death with it Did u see what i did there??????????

Yes! Thank you.

Both "myriad errors" and "a myriad of errors" are acceptable. I prefer the former.

What about if it was irony? Like if you were good at grammar and you were posting in a grammar thread and you wrote "I could care less" knowing that it was incorrect. I wonder if that would be okay.?

This is more rhetoric than grammar, but it really bothers me when people preface a statement with "I guess" in order to distance themselves from responsibility for the content of the statement or the facts of the situation.

"I guess so-and-so is pretty upset about that email you sent."

You guessed that? On your own? If so-and-so is upset about the email just ****ing tell me they're upset.

Ha! You're WRONG! I actually get to bust somebody in this thread!

See, it says right here...













Oh. Goddamnit.

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