He’s not his

[LuckyAmy1986]

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

@SucculentCandle - me too!

OP YABU for building our hopes up

I agree with everything mentioned in this thread, but haven’t come across “the smorning” before . Is it used in place of “this morning”? How can anyone think that’s correct?!

I'll just leave these here

Few more

Last ones!

Stop the planet, I want to get off.

Please could you be more pacific 🙄

Friend on Facebook posted on New Year's Day- this year I'm going to learn the words to, old anzine ffs

Halfofyou I have no idea. She's been doing it for years and I sort of hope that it's just an in joke that I've missed out on but she does use it every time she writes it.

I brought this at the shop. no you bought it. snaps a nerve in me every time.

Substitute. People seem to use this the wrong way more than the right way now. On a recipe the other day I saw a comment used cheap cider instead of wine (I always sub wine for cider when cooking). The part in brackets means the exact opposite of the first part.

I hate it.

I actually won’t open a thread that has a typo in the title.

‘I seen her’ is another annoying one ( instead of ‘I saw her’.

Next stop being 'I seed her'

For my part, I often struggle to spell quite common words like martyr, publicly etc

I regularly have to check certain words, often quite common ones. Do people ever proof read what they write, I'm always finding fat-finger typos.

I actually won’t open a thread that has a typo in the title.

Same!

And I always skip onto the next post in a thread if the current post has serious grammar problems. Life's too short - if you want people to read what you write then you have to do the work to make it comprehensible, not expect them to try to decipher your gobbledegook!

I don't like less for fewer, but I've had to stop letting it get to me so much because it's everywhere - not just from individuals, but companies, public info etc.

But the one I can never not rage about is 'infer' used indiscriminately instead of 'imply'. They have opposite meanings. Do people not know the word 'imply' anymore? It makes no SENSE to say, as people are always doing on here, 'what are you inferring about my actions there, PP? You seem to be trying to suggest that I am a neglectful mother?' or 'my manager said in my appraisal paperwork that I need to show more commitment. What does this mean?' 'She's inferring that you're a slacker. HTH.'

TotHappy

In the honeymoon period of meeting now-DH, I spent half an hour of a meet-up (firmly) explaining the difference between 'imply' and 'infer' to him. For months afterwards, he would double-check with me whether he'd got them the right way around.

But he got there. That's why he's an H! If he hadn't got the hang of it, he wouldn't have got to be an H.

Actually, it was probably five-to-ten minutes. But I think "half an hour" is more dramatic.

I encountered a woman on a training day who was exasperated by her friend's routine text sign-off which was, "Love myself and the kids." 😂

She was so happy to acquire the explanation and terminology to be able to talk about it. Whether she was ever brave enough to tackle the friend is another matter and not for me.

It was grammar training; I wasn't really digressing, though you might easily have inferred that. 😉

This gem is used all the time on FB by the same person and I find it odd-

She says things like “I’m gonna go to the shop why my hubby minds the kids” I had to keep reading it over and over until I realised after several more posts that she meant “while”

It bothers me a lot

I've noticed online that 'you're' has virtually been replaced by 'your'.

was also going to ask who the baby's father is!

Brought instead of bought. How do you even mix that up? It's not as though they SOUND the fucking same!

BR-ought!

B-ought!

Totally different!

I've never seen or heard of this until this thread. Is it a regional thing maybe?

I'm on a Facebook group where one woman uses carnt instead of can't.

I see her post something and my blood starts boiling before I've even read it because it's amazing how many things she carnt do and how often it appears in her posts. A carnt stand it.

All of these drive me round the bend. They make the person sound thick when they probably aren't.

There are posts on here sometimes that I hardly bother reading because they are so full of these ridiculous and basic errors. I hate reading absolutely butchery of the English language.