littlebelgianwriter Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 One of my friends consistently writes dosen't instead of doesn't.She is a native speaker of English and has completed full secondary education, and some form of tertiary education, so I do not really understand how that came about.When I first noticed, I pointed it out to her but she remained adamant: in her view, it is the right way to spell doesn't ...She is a speaker of Caribbean English. Could that be the reason? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredkawig Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Yes most people fail to consider checking their grammar. For me normal people who are not highly educated are okay to make these kinds of mistakes but for professionals who think they're intelligent and who misuse words and have terrible grammar, that's when I get annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtucci21 Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 A common thing in the South Eastern USA is to add "s" to the end of department stores. So instead of "I'm going to Barnes and Noble" it's "Noble's". Same for any and every other store. AAAhhhhHHHH!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilat Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 One popular author who has sold an enormous number of books despite his frequent inability to use the English language correctly is Dan Brown (the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Inferno and other block-busters). If you search online you will find many critiques of his novels that point out his misuse of many common words and phrases, in addition to his overdone descriptions, apparent misinterpretation of accepted historical facts and theories, and frequent lack of fact-checking, period. To me, his books read as if they were published before being edited, but that doesn't seem to have hurt his sales, and he does (like J.K. Rowling, who does, in contrast, know how to write) deserve some credit for getting a lot of people to read books at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dlp92 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 A phrase which I always find irritating when it is said incorrectly is 'to all intents and purposes'. Many people think it is 'to all intensive purposes' which just lacks meaning. I'm from the UK, if this makes any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShannonRiveras Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 "Irregardless Used by people who ignorantly mean to say regardless. According to webster, it is a word, but since the prefix "ir" and the suffx "less" both mean "not or with" they cancel each other out, so what you end up with is regard. When you use this to try to say you don't care about something, you end up saying that you do. Of course everyone knows what you mean to say and only a pompous,rude asshole will correct you."This made me laugh. In all honesty, I've never heard someone use the word "Irregardless", but as soon as I read it on this page, I knew there was something wrong. It's like double negatives in one word, like "Never don't" and "Don't have none". I am a grammar fanatic and things like these just.. bother me.UGH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justusforus Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 In America, I hear irregardless all the time. It is so often misused I think it keeps getting passed around and it sounds familiar. It bothers me too each time I hear it. If you do bring it up, often you will end up in a debate so I usually grit my teeth and ignore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13vinylinfants Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 The phrase "begging the question." People almost never actually use it correctly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyducky Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 "For all intensive purposes" and "could care less" drive me crazy. The first one is a mispronunciation that somehow became a typo complete rubbish phrase, I can maybe understand the mispronunciation but not the spelling change, that just doesn't make sense! Unless you're talking about something that is meant to used rigorously. The second one just means that you could actually care less, in other words you actually care about whatever it is that you are trying to say you do not care about. Arrrgh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelsemium Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 I am arriving late to this discussion, but still answering to the first post I have to say that TV love to invent new words, they probably think they are entitled to it or simply they don't know better and they cause a lot of impact because they say it on TV.Fluffy, could care less meaning could not care less right? Yep, it's a total different meaning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sarz Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 I cannot stand it when words are purposely mispelt. Like "coolz" instead of cools. I find myself wanting to correct the error also I dont think its helpful to children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extrafancyganza Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 'Defiantly' instead of 'definitely' grinds my gears! And 'quiet' instead of 'quite'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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