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By: Shrimp on the Barbie — Camels and Chocolate

Shrimp on the Barbie — Camels and Chocolate — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:12:57 +0000

[...] you’re new here (or just visiting via the Bloggies site), you probably don’t know how anal retentive I am when it comes to the English language. I rather love how Jane Austen novels flow so lyrically and absolutely detest how my generation [...]

By: Mrs. Who

Mrs. Who — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:43:53 +0000

I agree with EVERYTHING you said. My personal peeve is a local, Southern expression where people end their sentence with “at”. Where is it at? AUGH! Hate it. I also proofread my posts multiple posts, do a spellcheck and then have my sister proofread and send me corrections, which I go back and fix. Not that I’m anal or anything.

By: Pink Sun Drops

Pink Sun Drops — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:18:47 +0000

I never used to use text abbreviations because it’s soooo annoying. What’s even more annoying though is that my phone only lets me text 160 characters so I gave in to the evil shortening words. I’ll keep that in mind when I text you though .

I do think punctuation and wording is important in texting. “Yes! That’ll work perfect!” sounds much more enthusiastic than “Yeah that’s fine”. The latter bugs the crap out of me and leaves me feeling like they really had something else to say but didn’t say it.

I’ll have to research was/were a little more. Now I’m not sure if I’ve been using those correctly!

My pet peeves when I read other’s writing are spelling errors and no capitalization. It’s hard for me to follow what they are saying!

In my own writing, I can’t stand when I use the word just, when I mix up tenses like Exposed mentioned, or when I use too many words to say something that could be said in way fewer words (like I probably did now!). And, yes, I tried to use just two more times when writing this.

So, how the heck do you post AND write articles so much if you check EVERYthing you write 17 times? I had to stop super-editing my posts because it would take me three hours to post each one!! Now that I’ve spent way too long editing this comment 17 times and turning it into a post I must go.

By: Hollylynne

Hollylynne — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:54:04 +0000

When people say “intensive purposes” instead of “intents and purposes”. What the heck does “intensive purposes” even MEAN?! Have people not bothered to THINK about what they’re saying?!

Also: Weary vs. Wary. So. Flippin. Different. In no way interchangeable!

(It seems though that I have no problem with sentence fragments)

By: susan

susan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:59:53 +0000

eXpress kills me.

By: ExposedNYC

ExposedNYC — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:03:33 +0000

I actually hate the overuse of the word “actually” to start a sentence, as if everything else these people say to you is a lie, and therefore not actual at all! I also can’t stand the mixing up of tenses e.g. “I had brought this with me…” Being a stickler for grammar through public school education was an experience in itself.
- from a fellow Math Olympian

By: Ketaki

Ketaki — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:15:38 +0000

You’d be delighted to know, someone emailed your post to me. I can relate to several points you’ve made.
To add to everything else, have you noticed how people do not know how to use ‘apparently’? It’s used at the drop of a hat… even when it is not so apparent! Almost like a replacement to ‘basically’, which itself is a dubious word.
The world is showing all signs of grammatical deprivation! I spend hours editing essays & such for friends who’re applying to colleges.

As for my own blog – I hardly get time to edit these days before I post Quite depressing. To make things worse, I have a couple of readers who point out my errors – hey, you repeated a word. [At which point I pass out!]
Also, usage of ‘a couple’ in the place of ‘few’ is undeniably PAINFUL!

By: nwo

nwo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:04:34 +0000

I’m glad there’s people like you to keep people like me in line!

By: Rhi

Rhi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:09:44 +0000

There is a neon sign in the window of a pharmacy in my hometown that says “EXPRESSO”.

I really, really hope they did not pay full price for that damn neon sign.

By: jo

jo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:49:02 +0000

I was in journalism in high school, editor in the paper and yearbook, wrote, typed and edited a book 30 years ago and still I only get totally pissed by one word, “anyways”. The others you mention are all nasty, but for some reason “anyways” bothers me more, possibly because I even hear it from newscasters.