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Originally Posted by RDaneel54
Misuse of loose and lose is one of my irritants.
I'm also not too crazy about hearing "me and my husband did this."
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My father-in-law must have (or was that must of or musta? haha) learned that "I" was the proper pronoun in a sentence like that. So now he consistently says "I and my wife did this..." That grates (in my opinion) much worse than just the "me and..." does. ouch!
I also can't stand the loose and lose, your and you're, it's and its, they're, their, and there, and so on. Spotting apostrophes in plural words is likely to throw me into a fit, especially when I see that in a book or on a sign or something that should certainly have been edited in some fashion. When I see mistakes like that going out in the school newsletter I want to scream. I ended up being the unofficial proofreader for all things school because I finally had to say something.
When I comment on a book review that there are many grammatical errors in a book, I feel a bit like a Scrooge. Yes, it's an indie book, but why shouldn't it be held to the same standard? How else will indie books get the credit they deserve? I can't, in good conscience, not mention it when there are excessive errors. From the other reviews I see, I wonder if I'm truly the only one seeing these mistakes and being bothered by them, or if the others were all written by "do-good" spammers, uh, I mean reviewers.