Originally Posted by Denmark
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you did it wrong DENMARK.
YES!
When anyone uses ANYTHING wrong, because then I say it wrong! It doesn't work when people say things right for some reason >.<
All of these... and more!
Per se. Not: per say, persay, percy, pursy, posie, pussy, or however else people try to spell it.
I hate it when skaters and snowboarders say crap like "My sickis totally ill and phat!!!" It's like they're describing their experience with dysentery.
It bugs me like little else when someone adds an apostrophe to a word like "want". There is no such word as wan't. It makes me wish to break things.
Like you?
Anyway, I can't stand that either. I also can't stand it when people use numbers instead of words when writing, especially in things that everyone sees, like commercials on public TV. For example: The announcer is saying "We have thousands of colors of paint to choose from!" and the words on-screen say "We have 1000's of colors of paint to choose from!" I hate that, I hate that, I HATE that. Not only is the apostrophe totally unnecessary, since it indicates a quantity and not a possessive, it's just as easy to write 'thousands'. The only time I ever see such a thing being justified is when it's an unusual number. For example, if I were to say "I was about to buy the DVD box set, but it cost $129.99" it would be written as such, because "I was about to buy the DVD box set, but it cost one hundred and twenty nine dollars and ninety-nine cents" just looks awkward. I guess I'm just picky.
It annoys me when people use 'Addicting' instead of 'addictive'. Addicting may be in the dictionary, but it's the wrong smurfing use of the word.
You hold my heart in your manly hands I wanna feel the throb of your handsome gland. I wanna hold you tight like a newborn kitten, against my flesh like a cashmere mitten. Tickly tick, I'm makin' skin bump heaven and all the way down it's lookin' cleanly shaven. Prickety pricks, it's stubble on stubble I better slow down or I'm in real trouble. Want you, touch you, feel you, taste you! Knick knack whacky whack 'till I see the man stew. spin you around let me see that hole! I'm a tunnelin' in a like a short hair mole. Once I'm inside I'm gonna leave a trace, half in there and half on that face! One finger, two finger, there fingers gone! Mano a mano I love you John!
To everyone:
*facepalm*
I hope there's someone who realized that that was intentional.
Oh, and people saying things like "$400 dollars" is REDUNDANT.
I did :</>D!
Technically using the apostrophe S to pluralise numbers and letters is a preference thing, and it's not technically wrong. Personally, I prefer using it with letters because of letters like A and I since "As" and "Is" are actually words.
Than/then mix-ups make me very sad.
Also, I cannot stand it when people seem to think "thou" is somehow formal.
It still looks awful though, if you ask me.
Oh yeah, I was going to post that using an apostraphe after numbers isn't wrong. For example: When you talk about multiple years between 1990 and 2000, you say the 90's. Or like if I said in the mid 1960's.
PS. Lol at the tags. "psychotic is a mule"
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YES! Too many people abuse English in such a manner.
Also:
- Using "advise" as a noun; It's really a verb! "Advice" is the noun, even if you are from the UK.
- Using "Infinate" and "definate", instead of "infinite" and "definite", respectively.
- "Asterik" or "asteriks" instead of the correct spelling: "asterisk". It's quite simple to say: ASTER - RISK.
- "Me to!" instead of "Me too!"
- Sentence fragments. :rolleyes2 (Just kidding, haha! Guilty as charged.
When someone brings up an opinion and someone answers with "who cares?"
Off the top of my head I can think of at least one person who cares in that setting.
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