Internet Grammar Pet Peeves

[glass]

Regardless (not irregardless),

That one anoys me too, but I think the one I really hate (and it crops up quite a lot around here) is 'imbalancing'.


glass.

 

[kenobi65]

I'm just surprized that that run-away sentence ended with puncuation

Fixed it.

 

[Zander]

Back in the '70s and '80s, Miller Lite ads always said, "A third less calories than a regular beer." My father would yell at the TV: "FEWER CALORIES!! NOT 'LESS'!!!"

Hello, M

I sympathise with your father. It really bothers me when they say on telly or online "biggest", "tallest", "fastest" and so in comparisons of two of anything. It should be "bigger", "taller", "faster" etc. The BBC, both on television and on its site, makes that mistake routinely. The Beeb once ran a story about a pair of particularly elderly Japanese twins. They described one as the "oldest twin" and the other as the "youngest twin". Cringe!

 

[Mark CMG]

My fiance had a boss send out a mass email talking about "Heinz Sight" instead of "Hindsight"

Perhaps with Heinz Sight it is easier to play Catch-Up . . .

 

[diaglo]

cmg??? it doesn't even have a vowel. i wanna buy a vowel, Pat.

heck. i wanna buy a couple of them so i can make a word for Mark.

 

[Joshua Randall]

All Doritos give people horrible breath.

Doritos: bad breath in a bag. (tm)

 

[Aurora]

Doritos: bad breath in a bag. (tm)

They seem to be gamer staples though, which really sucks. I won't be surprised if half of the people who show up to the Nat'l Game Day on Nov 4th at my FLGS have them. :\

 

[Mark CMG]

cmg??? it doesn't even have a vowel. i wanna buy a vowel, Pat.

heck. i wanna buy a couple of them so i can make a word for Mark.

According to any number of former girlfriends, there's already a word for Mark . . .

 

[DaveyJones]

They seem to be gamer staples though, which really sucks. I won't be surprised if half of the people who show up to the Nat'l Game Day on Nov 4th at my FLGS have them. :\

staples. ouch. maybe they will forget their staplers.

 

[Aurora]

According to any number of former girlfriends, there's already a word for Mark . . .

Nice. I think I dated a Mark once. He wasn't too bad.