It's so freakin' simple!

[Raistlin]

Names("proper nouns") follow different rules than words - it's bleeding simple. An example I've seen before: it's "the Kennedys were shot" not "the Kennedies were shot." You can't change someone's or something's name completely to make it fit grammatical rules - a name's a name. It actually takes less thought than a normal word, because you don't have to change anything, no matter what! All names follow the basic rules of grammar - to make plural, add an "s" or "es," and in order to make possesive, add an 's. One thing that bugs me about this is when people just add an apostrophe after someone's name that ends with an "s"(i.e., Bleys' Crotch), which is not correct(it's "Bleys's Crotch). You only add the apostrophe after a plural noun.

Anyway, just grammar things that bug me.

[XxSephirothxX]

I hate it too, especially online. I usually just assume anyone who can't spell at least decently is stupid, and often make fun of them. I've been on a lot of different forums, and there are always dozens, if not hundreds, of people who type like that, and it most definitely is annoying. More often than not they're kids...

[Miriel]

The your/you're and their/they're thing bothers me a lot, but it's not like I have excellent grammer either. I tend to end sentences with prepositions a lot. It's something I need to work on. >_>

[omnitarian]

People who use words wrong tick me off. Right now, my biggest peeve is people pretending that "data" is an ordinary plural noun, instead of treating it like a mass noun. Now, I realize there is some debate on this issue.

But this I ask of you; If all the following are wrong:

• The water are filthy.
• The wood are being chopped.
• The furniture are broken.
• The information are incorrect.
• The money are being mailed.
• The meat are cooked.
• Their knowledge are vast.
• The software are being developed.
• The laundry are dirty.

... Then how the heck can "The data are missing" be correct?! >:o

[Emily52]

Your got that write, Ouch. I hate it two.

That made me laugh so much.

[Yamaneko]

Who cares? As long as it's comprehendible it ends up being better than throwing the word "gay" around like some sort of prepubescent child with little or no knowledge of the world. That stuff pisses me off more than "your" and "you're".

[Caspian]

Team names. Are singular. One team.

So the Texas Rangers is terrible?

[Yamaneko]

http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...comprehendible

[Kirobaito]

comprehendable


So the Texas Rangers is terrible?

Nope. That would be are. The mascot name is included, a plural word. Texas is good. The Rangers are good. The Texas Rangers are good.

And the sentence was incorrect to begin with. The Rangers are awesome!

[Dr.K]

Who cares? As long as it's comprehendible it ends up being better than throwing the word "gay" around like some sort of prepubescent child with little or no knowledge of the world. That stuff pisses me off more than "your" and "you're".

I'd agree. As long as the general message gets across coherently, I don't think it does any harm throwing in a few grammatical errors. If we all started writing in formal prose, I think internet communication would get a bit robotic. Writing a research paper or something that's important on the other hand, does need to contain impeccable grammar.

[Ouch!]

I can stand a few errors, everyone makes mistakes. If I'm reading a paragraph and there is a constant disregard for rules of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and all that good stuff then I just give up and stop reading. I find it hard to believe that anyone that actually types like that would ever have anything intelligent to say.

And yes, Yams, people using "gay" to describe something they dislike bugs me a lot more than grammatical errors, but I don't see so many people doing that anymore.

[Raistlin]

People who use words wrong tick me off. Right now, my biggest peeve is people pretending that "data" is an ordinary plural noun, instead of treating it like a mass noun. Now, I realize there is some debate on this issue.

But this I ask of you; If all the following are wrong:

• The water are filthy.
• The wood are being chopped.
• The furniture are broken.
• The information are incorrect.
• The money are being mailed.
• The meat are cooked.
• Their knowledge are vast.
• The software are being developed.
• The laundry are dirty.

... Then how the heck can "The data are missing" be correct?! >:o

This bugs me, because it sounds wrong, but "data" is its own plural. "I have lots of data" is correct usage of the term, so is "Lots of data are missing," so therefore "the data are missing" is correct if you mean multiple pieces of data.

Who cares? As long as it's comprehendible it ends up being better than throwing the word "gay" around like some sort of prepubescent child with little or no knowledge of the world. That stuff pisses me off more than "your" and "you're".

I'll drink to that.

[Cuchulainn]

Hmm, as long as the post isn't too far gone on the English, like some phone texts I recieve, which do infuriate me, it doesn't matter. I mean, why the hell get mad over something so pathetically trivial? If the post is understood well enough it should matter a ish.
What I hate more is someone picking someone elses post apart with grammatical & spelling corrections like some anally obsessed, unemployed English teacher who won Spelling Bee in 1976 & makes sure everyone KNOWS it. This isn't work, college, school or scrabble, it's an escape from all of those things, An informal board. As long as people steer clear of the two grammatical extremes of Pond Scum, idiotic posts & sphincterally obsessed gonad-hunters who will jump on every missed apostrophy the board will be a better place.

Le Fin

PS: I'm also available for childrens parties PM for details.

[Nod]

PUNCTUATION. How hard is it to break a post up with a few full-stops or commas now and then?

[Xander]

Well I find it kinda hard to read your text in that colour, since I'm using the blue theme so that's a little annoying =P