He’s not his

[LuckyAmy1986]

Anyone else noticed a rise in this?
Eg “love Bradley Cooper his so beautiful”. I hate it. AIBU?

Can I throw in 'I text him and said...' NO. You textED him. In the past tense.

YES! It even says ‘texted’ in the dictionary, for Pete’s sake!

I did see an OP say ‘rest bite’ on a recent post, but that was curiously endearing!

(The above is so badly written 😂)

I no i cant bare it

The one that gets me is ‘defiantly’ when they mean ‘definitely’. It’s everywhere - social media, blogs, reviews on Amazon eg

“This book is great. You should defiantly buy it!”

Drives me insane!

Another one is ‘sunk in’, I’ve heard a few people say ‘it hasn’t sunken in yet’.

I wouldn’t even be able to begin to explain to them why it’s ‘sunk’ not ‘sunken’! 😂

Could “of”
Would “of”
Should “of”

“There” mother instead of “their mother”

“coz”

...just to name a few

Yes to bring/take!! It’s American, I believe. They never seem to say ‘take’, only ever ‘bring’ in all contexts: future, past, regardless of relative location. I tried to explain the difference to an American friend once and he looked at me as if I had two heads!!

Every single one of these is SO annoying. It's getting worse and worse. The trouble is, people who make these mistakes don't seem to read threads like this and try to correct themselves. It just goes on and on, and if you point it out, then you get an absolute pasting. If you are communicating in the written word, it really does matter.

The worst one for me is
A am so tired
Why am a like this

Etc

The ones that annoy me most are dropping the last letter off. ‘Used’ becomes ‘use’ (‘we use to’); ‘supposed’ becomes ‘suppose’ (‘you aren’t suppose to do that’)

See also "he is bias" when they mean "biased". Also "text" as the past tense instead of "texted".

All of the above!

They don't make me angry - they're just a useful way to judge people

Drives me mad too, as welL as all the other cringe-worthy, eye-rolling shit I read here. You can’t even point it out for fear of being jumped on

Some of my pet peeves:

The use of "rise" and not "increase". They aren't, of course, synonyms but many people think they are.

Leaving commas out. Punctuation costs nothing.

Invented collocational phrases.

People who list something they consider substandard, and follow it up with EXACTLY the same "substandard" English usage. Missing out the subject pronoun for instance. Someone would have the vapours over the phrase "am going to the shops" yet uses "can't say I'm perfect"

People whose own small-minded ignorance makes them oblivious to regional usage. The Northern Irish usage of "bring" springs to mind.

People who use a plural noun and then write the pronoun "this". (I'm sure they'd try and defend their mistake by saying it was a typo but it just reminds one of glass houses, doesn't it?)

People who drop random capital letters into words! I mean, jeez, we learn about where a capital letter goes when we're about 4, surely? I suppose we shouldn't comment, as illiteracy IS on the rise, but it is so difficult not to smirk.

Muphry's Law is a splendid thing however.

I absolutely hate 'could of/should of' etc instead of 'could have/should have'.

Think it's already been highlighted, but it's so annoying it deserves an extra mention!

Oh and 'brought' instead of 'bought' and vice versa.

All be it instead of albeit!! So annoying!

Those were the ones off the top of my head but I'm sure I will be back with more

So YANBU.

When you come back with more, hopefully, your comma button will be fixed.

Your and you're. HOW can so many people be so confused by something so simple?

People using "may" instead of "might". Particularly an issue in self-published fiction, I find.

I thought this was going to be a paternity thread.

Me too. Here I was expecting a tawdry tale complete with a side bit and DNA testing and all I got was a grammar rant.

That's a bit of a let down.

Oh, and also the streamlining of the verb to be in the simple past tense. I'm encountering a lot of "they was", "we was" and "you was".

Properly, it goes
I was
You were
He/she/it was
We were
They were

"I done it" is my personal pet peeve.

Along with the bought/brought misuse.

Same with woman and women and breath and breathe

No one ever types "a men", do they?

I know someone who writes the smorning EVERY time so not a typo!!

Woman and women is very annoying