Do grammatical errors bother you?

[crich70]

You're not alone Jakie. It gets on my nerves when people use the wrong form of words like you're and your as well. I mean, come on one is a contraction of two words and the other isn't and just reading over the sentence that such goofs appear in should make it clear which is which, but people still use the wrong one.

Originally Posted by Jakie

Some of my pet peeves are the following:
its, it's
two, too, to
used incorrectly.
My teeth grate when I hear "irregardless".
But, then, I am ancient.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by LDBoblo

dam strait: if are english its to bad than every people can not no it's means.

You must work as a chinese translator for product labels.

Originally Posted by Jakie

Some of my pet peeves are the following:
its, it's
two, too, to
used incorrectly.
My teeth grate when I hear "irregardless".
But, then, I am ancient.

My 70 year old dad is also annoyed by irregardless.

Someone I love very much (also dyslexic) always uses the term reinterate. I don't have the heart to correct her. Am I bad?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

You must work as a chinese translator for product labels. ...(

The same goes toward the instructions one often gets.

[susan_cassidy]

This morning's paper had a column that used the phrase "low and behold" (sic). Arghhhh! Did they think cows are involved, somehow? Or looking down?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

This morning's paper had a column that used the phrase "low and behold" (sic). Arghhhh! Did they think cows are involved, somehow? Or looking down?

Newspapers are amongst the worst for butchering English.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

This morning's paper had a column that used the phrase "low and behold" (sic). Arghhhh! Did they think cows are involved, somehow? Or looking down?

That made me think of "The fields of Athenry", and whether those fields were 'low lying', or they were crying 'lo' before talking about said fields.

Lo Lie

Low Lie

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

That made me think of "The fields of Athenry", and whether those fields were 'low lying', or they were crying 'lo' before talking about said fields.

Lo Lie

Low Lie

As many years I have heard and sung that song, I've never thought about that. Lo does fit better.

[SneakySnake]

Did you ever wonder about cows carving?

http://hubpages.com/hub/Wonderful-fa...out-an-iceberg

To be fare (hehe), I think icebergs do actually carve, but that may be related to seabed carving.

[GraceKrispy]

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.

[GeoffC]

The Pedant in The Times - is always good for a chuckle (even if, sometimes, his explanations are convoluted) ...

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[SpiderMatt]

Grammatical errors bother me, as do errors in usage. However, if I'm going to call an author out on it, I'm going to be sure I'm in the right. The fact is that "hone in" is proper usage and has been for decades. I looked it up to be sure and found that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has this to say:

The few commentators who have noticed hone in consider it to be a mistake for home in. It may have arisen from home in by the weakening of the \m\ sound to \n\ or may perhaps simply be due to the influence of hone. Though it seems to have established itself in American English (and mention in a British usage book suggests it is used in British English too), your use of it especially in writing is likely to be called a mistake. Home in or in figurative use zero in does nicely.

I then turned to the grand arbiter of proper English: the Oxford English Dictionary:

hone, v.4 orig. U.S.

Brit. /həʊn/, U.S. /hoʊn/

[Apparently an alteration of home v. (see sense 5 s.v.), originally by confusion with hone v.3]

intr.to hone in. To head directly for something; to turn one's attention intently towards something. Usu. with on. Cf. home v. 5.

***1965 G. Plimpton Paper Lion (1967) 51 Then he'd fly on past or off at an angle, his hands splayed out wide, looking back for the ball honing in to intercept his line of flight. ***1967 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. iii. 10/1 A few who know the wearer well recognize that something is different without honing in on the hairpiece. ***1983 E. Figes Light vii. 53 A wasp had begun to circle round the bowl‥, gradually honing in on the ripe glistening fruit. ***1995 For Him Mag. Sept. 78/3 He hasn't spotted me. I hone in, but he slips out of range just in time. We cat and mouse for what seems like an eternity. ***2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Dec. 35/3 Balanchine's classes were famous for honing in on the basics.

So it did evolve from "home in," but I think at the point that it's put into dictionaries, we can safely assume that it is not an error and is acceptable.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

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!

Although "My wife and I..." would be the more common usage, there's absolutely nothing grammatically wrong with "I and my wife...".

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