Words, Phrases, and Misspellings We Hate

[Weather Report]

Message boards have made me twitch with the following (not the words or phrases fault):

-Fallacious/fallacy

-Ergo

-Pray Tell

-Verisimilitude

-Disingenuous

-I don't think it means what you think it means (I love The Princess Bride, but stop it, now).

-Sans

-Gish

And some others I forget.

 

[Weather Report]

I think I going to lose my mind the next I see loose to mean lose. Or should I loosen up already.

"Loosen" and "unloosen" mean the same thing (yeah, the English language needs editing).

 

[billd91]

I can accept when someone types voilà without the accent. The method of putting a diacritical mark on a bit of text is usually not very user friendly. But I find it weird when people spell it viola or, even more strangely, walla.

With respect to viola, that may just be a transposition error when typing (like rouge for rogue and many other examples) but it happens enough that I think many of the people typing it may just not know better.

 

[MarkB]

"Loosen" and "unloosen" mean the same thing (yeah, the English language needs editing).

Likewise "flammable" and "inflammable".

 

[Weather Report]

Likewise "flammable" and "inflammable".

Bingo, and what is with the letter C (its only use is the "Chuh" sound)?

I say we go more Germanic:

Karp
Karpentry
Kreativity
Kaption
Krap

Etc, etc...

 

[TwoSix]

It's. As a possessive.

Bingo, and what is with the letter C (it's only use is the "Chuh" sound)?

Its.

 

[Herschel]

As far as game terms:
Gish is specific to Githyanki, not a general term.
RAW, considering how many rules debates there are and the nature of lawyers in general.


Real Life: Actually know the words you are using and what you're actually saying. If your business has changed names you may have to provide a "One AND the same" letter, not "one in the same". The song is also not "Secret Asian Man".

Get your subject/noun/verb straight:
A bartender is tending (the) bar.

Also, for plurals:
Brothers-in-Law
Powers-of-Attorney
Runs-Batted-In

Borrow vs. Lend: Borrow from, lend to, get it straight.

From the lazy and rude standpoint:

"Textspeak" in writing, especially in business correspondences. It's "you are" or "you're" not "ur".

Acronyms without same-page establishment. Whether you made it up or not, always establish what the acronym means before using it. There are enough communications issues in the world without thinking some pseudo-arcane jargon makes something sound more impressive.

 

[lutecius]

English isn't my first language so obviously I'm in no position to go Grammar nazi on anyone here but I do find some spelling mistakes horribly grating, like "diety", affect/effect or "definately". Maybe that's just because those vowels wouldn't sound the same at all in French.

 

[Weather Report]

Its.

We can do without posts like this: pedantic douchery, just keep to the topic...

But I will edit, so posters such as yourself don't chime in with this sort of post-wasting crapola...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

..."diety"...

The gods are vain, you know...