Still I see a lot of thru and tho, internet slang I guessOriginally Posted by Beirut
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Still I see a lot of thru and tho, internet slang I guess
Re: Small things that get to you very easily
Grocers' apostrophes. (Eg using an apostrophe in a plural, "Apple's 50p a pound, banana's a pound a bunch")
Also people writing its for it's and vice versa.
I wouldn't say they get to me, I just assume any native English speaking person who does it is thick.
I'm not sure I agree that verbing nouns is annoying though. And I thought thru was an American spelling?
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OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive
But see for yourself
Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16
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I hate, hate, hate ~it when people spell night as 'nite' and right as rite. It's almost always done in marketing, and it makes me think that advertisers or product marketing people think we must be dumb as dirt.
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Omg that's hilarious Ser!even better 'cause I know German...lmfao *laughing at the pictures*...
What really bothers me is when people spell things wrong when it's just a few letters that need to be typed...like...'u' or 'c ya' instead of 'see you'...*shudders*
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Lexica's
On No! We have infected the Germans now
I admit my guilt for using thru and tho', for through and though (or although). There has been a trend to drop the 'ough' or convert it to it's sound, in US english, since there is so much varience.
I guess I've been on the internet too long now to let creative spelling bother me much. However, one that makes me cringe is "of" being used for "have".
"I should of driven slower.", for "I should have driven slower.". I understand where it comes from ('of' is how the contraction should've sounds), but 'of driven' makes no sense.
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“Irregardless”
I even hear news anchors use this one on occasion.
“I could care less”.
They always mean “I couldn’t care less” but few people get it right.
The word “too” too often gets reduced to “to”.
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I use this, but follow it with "But I'd be dead"“I could care less”.
They always mean “I couldn’t care less” but few people get it right.
What bugs me?
Mostly people, I am very comfortable with my own company and rarely get bored so I really have to be in the mood to put up with people, and I really hate people who talk too much (Like my wife does, mainly at bed time). Right now I am at work and there are poeple here who spend all day talking, it gets on my nerves, I wouldn't mind but they talk so much and say nothing.
And another one, round dodgers, need I say more.
edit: Oh, and, made up sayings like "Thinking out of the box" what the hell does that mean, I'm not in a box.
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Bad grammar, bad punctuation, bad spelling, holding one's cutlery incorrectly, socialism, a lack of meat in the main meal of the day, the denouncing of the sacred name of cheese, someone not liking potatoes,and (worst of all) tea with no sugar are the things that get to me...
There are a lot more, but the list would be too long.
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Apre's ski? Oh. My. God.
Whoever did that does need to be beaten, seriously.
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