Internet Grammar Pet Peeves

[Atavar]

Hello Everyone,

I have noticed a few annoying (to me, anyway) bad uses of grammar that seem to happen more and more in cyberspace (e-mails, thread posts, etc.). Here is one of my Internet Grammar Pet Peeves:

1. Lose v. Loose: "Loose" is the opposite of "tight." "Lose" is the opposite of "win." So, one does not loose a job, but one can lose a job.

Something I do NOT find particularly annoying, for some reason, are innocent misspellings. Odd, that.

So, what are some of YOUR Internet Grammar Pet Peeves?

Later,

Atavar

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[Piratecat]

Damn it, this just turned our Ultimate Grammar Thread into a Penultimate one.

 

[RangerWickett]

I could care less about this thread.

 

[Piratecat]

No, its bound to have it's good points.

 

[kenobi65]

Im Sure You Guy's Are Picking On Me Because I Like To Type In All Cap's!!!! Lay Off Its Just My Style!!!!!!!

(edit: ROFL....I typed the original message in all caps, and the board software automatically "fixed" it for me!)

 

[kenobi65]

or how about the folks who have a question that they want answered but theyve never heard of paragraph breaks much less periods or commas or capital letters because they learned how to type on their cell phone and so they write their entire question as well as large chunks of their life story and their characters backstory and the weather forecast and their pov on global warming and their hatred for d02 and diaglos hat size and lawd knows what else into one long rambling sentence and by the end of it you have no idea what they were asking but they really need an answer for tonights game which starts in an hour and their buddy wants to know if vow of poverty will let him use the +5 vorpal spiked chain that you bought and just want to loan him its not really his possession so its ok right

Edit: fixed to remove only instance of punctuation.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

or how about the folks who have a question that they want answered but theyve never heard of paragraph breaks much less periods or commas or capital letters because they learned how to type on their cell phone and so they write their entire question as well as large chunks of their life story and their characters backstory and the weather forecast and their pov on global warming and their hatred for d02 and diaglos hat size and lawd knows what else into one long rambling sentence and by the end of it you have no idea what they were asking but they really need an answer for tonights game which starts in an hour and their buddy wants to know if vow of poverty will let him use the +5 vorpal spiked chain that you bought and just want to loan him its not really his possession so its ok right?

I would definitely agree with you here kenobi65. It's like a run on sentence gone really bad. Have you heard of a full stop before!

Olaf the Stout

 

[wingsandsword]

"Canon" vs. "Cannon". It really boils my blood when some people say that a certain novel or comic "isn't cannon".

"Rogue" vs. "Rouge". D&D thieves aren't red-colored, but you'd think that from the way some people write.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"Canon" vs. "Cannon". It really boils my blood when some people say that a certain novel or comic "isn't cannon".

"Rogue" vs. "Rouge". D&D thieves aren't red-colored, but you'd think that from the way some people write.

In that vein, 'calvary' drives me nuts.

It made listening to Brad Dourif on the Two Towers (from memory) commentary particularly trying... he went on and on about how the Rohirrim were a nation of calvary, and how Sauron didn't have any calvary, and how important calvary is in a battle...

Gah!

-Hyp.

 

[Aurora]

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