(pedant alert)

[Olifin]

AIBU to wish people would say 'mischievous' rather than 'mischievious'?

And to wish that people would notice the difference between prostate and prostrate?

Too much time on my hands on a Sunday morning...

YANBU.

Saw on fb the other day someone had written they felt 'out of sink', aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

ARRRGGGHHH! That's baaaad. Ditto when people are not 'phased' by something.

So what do you think of the growing number of those who use text speak?
It drives me crazy, I don't even try to read it.

YABU you know what the person means, does it really matter.

Take up knitting.

Lol! I've tried knitting; can't do it. :( I do know what people mean, yes, but just get mildly irritated by these things. Such is the life of a pedant. I'm sure I am being unreasonable.

ladypink I feel the same about text speak; it's so lazy. I don't even use text speak in texts. Takes me ages to send someone a message.

Im usually more interested in what a person has to say, than picking holes in what they are saying.

I can spell/speak better than you is incredibly childish and a bit snobby.

I am team 'anti pedant', as i find pendants more irritating!

Splashes Holy water on the 'evil' thread

'Grievous' and 'grevious' are my bugbears.

It's not childish or snobby - I spend all of my working life trying to unpick meaning from badly written/expressed English. I edit a lot of academic work where you can often see the student has the glimmer of a good argument but it is buried beneath meaningless sentences. It's such a shame because they will be marked down purely because they have not been taught how to express themselves correctly.

I so agree with you OP. I want to scream when I hear people insert that extra I.

Please could you be a bit more pacific about what you mean?

I'm dyslexic and YUBSssssssssOooooooooooU its unbelievable. Some of us just DON'T have the abilty to get the word right.

Stand up straight, no slouching!

YANBU

Stan, we are not talking about marking academic work.

We are talking about a group of adults on a internet site, mocking other adults who cannot spell as well as they can.

That is childish and bit a snobby, in my opinion of course.

Pacific. Arrrrggghhh!

mumbar- dyslexia doesn't count! There are a very large number of adults around mispronouncing and misspelling words. Some of them are dyslexic, yes, but most of them are not.

Claw, I don't think anyone is mocking anyone. My OP was not in response to anything here on MN but in response to RL conversations I have had over the last couple of days.

I agree that it would be childish and snobby of me to point out those mistakes to the individuals involved. I didn't do that and wouldn't because I'm too polite. Hence coming to post here about it instead!

We all have little pet hates, don't we?

I'm with claw. This thread is about how people pronounce words, type them on internet and including FB.

AIBU to think its unsensitive as some of us can't spell/ pronounce the word due to language perception problems, eg dyslexia, and I can ensure you it is more frustrating for us than it it you.

Be grateful your so bloody literary perfect.

I am grateful, mumbar, that I'm good at spelling and punctuation. I'm not perfect; who is?

There are lots of things I'm rubbish at though, obviously. My understanding of science and politics, for example, is cack and embarrasses me no end. But I don't mind if others are mildly irritated by my lack of knowledge in those areas.

This thread was never intended to offend any individuals, my apologies if you are offended. It was merely a light-hearted Sunday rant.

Olfin, on here, real life, anywhere.

You cannot say/spell whatever and i can. Stinks of i am superior and is patronising (unless you are a teacher, correcting a students work of course)

Yes we do all have pet hates, mine is pendents!

YANBU

YANU.

it grinds my gears when people say Secetary instead of Secretary and vunerable instead of vulnerable

YANBU. And ditto all the other mentioned examples.

Plus I would like to add in my pet hate - loose instead of lose. It's really not that hard to work out the difference.

Can't really understand why a pedant-hater is hanging out on a pedant thread though.

Some adults might have a speech delay, language disorder, learning disability, dyslexia etc or just not be as well educated or articulate as others.

Perhaps pendents should be a little more tolerate of differences.

Why is a pedant-hater hanging out on a pedant thread, perhaps because its a AIBU. If a pedant-hater wasnt here, at a guess i would think the consensus would be YANBU!

Oh look i typed pendents, something to get your teeth into!

I used to think "Arkansas" was pronounced phonetically. I thought there was a separate place called "Arkansor" of which Bill Clinton was Governor. I just never made the link between the two.

Haven't lived that down yet...........

Arkansas is clearly written ar - Kansas