I got enough of this stuff in school....ummm....maybe not.

What about the word irregardless... I mean doesnt that word just cancel itself out ... I dont care about all the other stuff but when I hear someone use a word like that :lol: I just have to laugh! sometimes I have to use the word when I am in a really dumb conversation just to show how stupid something is:lol:

Grammar **** here! I have to work very hard to restrain myself sometimes, but I've made a pact with myself that I won't correct people on message boards.

But..."I could care less" is one of my absolute, all-time most hated phrases! Do the people who type that have basic comprehension? If you could care less, that means you DO care about something! If you COULDN'T care less, then you care the least amount about that thing.

Sorry, stepping down off my soapbox now.

It doesn't bother me too bad when i see gramatical errors on a forum. It does bother me when i see them on road signs, billboards etc..
My husband is English and I love the fact he says 'me' instead of my for the most part.. it's endearing to me.

There is no such word as irregardless. It is regardless. If you have to have a word starting in ir- use irrespective.

I have the nerve to be a grammar snob. I also have the nerve to be a spelling snob.

I have the biggest nerve b/c I AM THE WORST OFFENDER of both!!

Can I share that I cannot use the spell check function on this forum. It told me I need to download something and I didn't. So.... I don't use it.

But seriously, I have these 3fc daydreams of going back into all my old posts and editing them to be correct.

Am I a total DORK?.... YUP!!

LOL, I think most of my posts are edited because I see a typo and cannot let it be :-) ESPECIALLY if it involves homonyms. I can't stand to think someone might think I don't know the difference between it's and its, or to and too. :o Sure, it's on my list of hang-ups to get over, but it's waaaaaaaaaaaay down at the end of the list ;).

"Irregardless" - brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department... can't remember where I heard that, but it made me laugh...

Same here. Probably 90% of my posts show an edit - not because I change the post or added more info, but because I noticed a typo or a grammatical error.

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ha! you got me there- i don't care about capitalization. at all. online. only online emails and posts are fine but that's it. :)

there are a few phrases that people in my every day life use that drive me crazy. one is "per se" the person who uses this does not use it correctly and says it multiple times a day and it makes me want to cry.

the other one is just a peeve- I loathe the term "and what not."

This word might just be my biggest pet peeve in the entire world. I had an English teacher in high school (let me repeat that -- ENGLISH) who would use that word daily. Eventually, a group of us got copies of every different dictionary we could find in the building and confronted her with them -- she just laughed and kept right on using it. She was just a long-term sub at the time, but by now she probably has a permanent position somewhere.. how sad. :p

Oh, and the other thing that REALLY bugs me grammar/spelling-wise, is when the person has easy access to a word, maybe it's even sitting right there on their computer screen, and they still spell it wrong. There's a video game I play where the word "Exalted" comes up now and then, and people throw all kinds of extra letters in it, even though it's right there for them to look at! "Exhaulted?" Seriously?!? Yeah, I grew up going to church, I knew that word when I was 8... but it's still RIGHT THERE for them to see!

lol I'm such a jerk... I keep thinking of more things to whine about... "should of," using "literally" when it's not at all literal (my SIL does that constantly!), and "rediculous" (mostly because someone once argued with me that it was the right way to spell it and I'm still offended that they thought I spelled something wrong). Does anyone remember the episode of Friends where they mention Chandler dumping a girl because she said "supposably"? I'd totally do that, too.

I'm playful with words, but I like to think that's more honorable than just being dumb with words. Some people disagree and think my occasional purposeful grammarlessness is even MORE annoying than honest mistakes. Oh, well. :)

I had a BF very long ago who used to say reinsurance instead of reassurance. Drove me nuts. So did the fact that had to talk about being reinsured so much ;).

Ooh I love this thread! I, too, get very annoyed with the lose/loose thing. I live in TX and something that drives me bonkers is when someone writes ya'll - it is a conjugation of "you all" not "ya all"!! I also take great pride in knowing that cannot is one word but I don't really care if people know that.

Do you all (or y'all) remember when the Limp Bizkit dude said (at the Grammy's or MTV awards or something) that he wasn't in agreeance with the Iraq world. I don't know why but I loved that one - still use it (jokingly) to this day.

OH my gosh thats just funny:lol: and using the word per se in the wrong context.... :lol: umm i can picture that conversation.. this is funny

My nails-on-a-chalkboard peeve is when people insist on capitalizing the subject-word they're writing about as if it were a proper noun or proprietary term when it isn't: i.e., "We must learn to eat properly to combat Obesity" (I don't want to steal somebody else's quote, I made that one up myself, but I assume you-all know what I'm referring to)