Fazed vs phased

[LapinR0se]

I genuinely think that 90% of people on MN get this wrong and it drives me CRAZY and I want to SCREEEEEAAAAMMMMM when I read it, which seems to be several times a day. I have to sit on my hands so I don’t type “It’s unfazed UNFAZED UNFAZED!!!!”
Seeking refuge here as you all will understand and the others won’t.

A new one I started noticing is an incorrect/interchangeable use of 'bought' and 'brought'. To me this is the new could of / would of 🙄WHYYY???!!!?
Thank you like-minded people of Mumsnet for letting me vent!

(Re-reading my post three times because on this thread you just have to! 😂)

It should be bat rather than back, I think.

I guess you know that, sorry!

@Rainydaysandicecream 😂 Yes, that’s why it annoys me

Breaks on cars, heals on shoes and rest bite care... Arggg

Not knowing the difference between good and well eg" you did so good!"

I thought that the no split infinitives rule was now generally agreed to be archaic and unnecessary.
I think it was brought in by the Victorians because they believed that if you couldn’t do it in Latin you shouldn’t do it in English.

Yes, I don’t have a problem with them. Sometimes they work better.

Has anyone said the (apparent) confusion of ‘ground’ and ‘floor’, with ‘floor’ being used for outdoors, eg. ‘The child wailed by the swings when her ice cream fell on the floor’?

I find this deeply mysterious, as well as irritating.

This is an Americanism, and it’s also where “lay down” comes from.

Also imported - the death of adverbs.

I was talking to a Portuguese man recently who said they have the same problem, because so much of their children’s TV is Brazilian. He was constantly having to correct his daughters’ language, because the Brazilianisms sounded wrong to his ear.

Please @PedantScorner , did I make a mistake/some mistakes in my sentence, and, if so, would you point them out to me.

Something which is nothing to do with unfazed or unphased is this modern trend for using the singular 'is' when plurals are being mentioned.

@upinaballoon , in No, I refuse to accept your apologies. I love plenty of commas. I have a suspicion that some people write posts on Mumsnet without any knowledge of commas.
I'm starting a campaign - PUT COMMAS BACK INTO ADDRESSES ON ENVELOPES.?
No, but reading my reply, I can see why you ask. I didn't mean you, I meant the posters who write so badly that their posts are barely legible.

Perhaps they get fazed by all of the phases they're going through?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

🙈

A slither of cake! My god.

This blows my mind. I just don’t understand.

I don’t especially love it when people write loose when they mean lose but I can at least understand how it might happen….

@Kilorrery I am definitely guilty of this - I think it might be confusion from foreign languages. In my native language, you would use the same word for the two - so if your ice cream falls on the floor inside or on the ground outside, we just have one word for it. Same with desk/table - one word in some languages. So I guess it's just not innate to some people and you have to actively think about the difference.

I was sat. 😣

The one word on Mumsnet/Facebook that really makes me scream is "draw" instead of drawer.

It's a drawer, a chest of drawers

Assrrrggghhhh.

@Michellebops yes, this!! Definitely another at the very top of my spelling pet peeves list! When I am looking on Marketplace for a chest of drawers I often wonder if I have to misspell it so that it gives me more options! Sad.
@mich

Can I shoot in the probably-by-now-just-about-accepted "If I would have done it"
It's "If I had done it!"
And god how I internally scream at "ect" instead of etc.

Thank you. I think I'm fairly good at English but I am not perfect, of course.
( Once, in a treble lesson, our English teacher said, "Of course" 80 something times. We, about 16 at the time, took it in turns to count and keep a five-bar gate!)

I agree with you that the standard of English in some posts is really bad. We are not allowed to say anything or we are jumped on, but there are times when I long to explain something to a poster, without snobbishness or triumphalism, but just in the same way that I might explain to a seven-year-old. I SO wish the BBC and ITV were compelled to have a five-minute 'English and Maths Basics' programme at 6 p.m. every day.

There seems to be such a carelessness of attitude towards the standards of writing and speaking.

I type loose for lose and too for to sometimes by accident.
Off instead of of appears worryingly often.

On route 😨😩

Out the window
Out the door

Poor little ‘of’

Unfortunately, the average reading age for an adult in the UK is 9 years old. Admittedly, this includes less able, and where English is not the first language.

Regardless, Government recommendation is that all communications are written in language suitable for a 9 year old, so I think it follows that more complex sentence construction is dying.

Or should that be '...more complicated sentence construction....' 🤔