http://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-iiComments on "Petty Peevishness II" - Faerye Net2005-04-20T08:59:31+00:00http://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1710Re: Oooh! Ooh!2005-04-20T08:59:31+00:002005-04-20T08:59:31+00:00<p>Ooh yeah…I especially like how that’s a mistake people make when they are trying to be more ‘proper’ or ‘formal’ than usual…there are some other ones like that, though I can’t think of another example just at present.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1709Oooh! Ooh!2005-04-20T07:56:11+00:002005-04-20T07:56:11+00:00<p>How about irregardles??? Hehehe. I just have to hide my chuckle when I hear that one. I suppose you could say, “I really like the squirrel’s ear, regardless of its mutant qualities…” HA!</p>lindseyhttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1704Re: My Own Petty Peevishness (well... ONE of them, anyway)2005-04-18T10:47:24+00:002005-04-18T10:47:24+00:00<p>Yes, it does rather spoil the effect. I seem to recall that perplexing me as a child.<br />
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Of course, some of us have a bad habit of taking grammar at face value even when the incorrect usage is colloquially accepted; for instance, my brain <em>always</em> parses ‘I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you for all my life’ (in ‘So Happy Together’) literally, which rawther puts a damper on the spirit.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1703My Own Petty Peevishness (well... ONE of them, anyway)2005-04-17T19:10:48+00:002005-04-17T19:10:48+00:00<p>I hate it when people say “I could care less” in a sneery superior way, in an attempt to say they DON’T care about something. Either they don’t understand the laws of subtraction, or they don’t understand simple English. Maybe both. Stupid sneeryness is totally unbecoming, and absolutely shatters the image of superiority they think they are projecting.</p>LadyLonghttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1702Re: I've missed this2005-04-15T15:53:02+00:002005-04-15T15:53:02+00:00<p>As I said, when first I encountered it I thought it was just one person. But it is fairly pervasive, at least within the Business World. Perhaps it’s a propagating error-meme within the capitalist organism.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1701I've missed this2005-04-15T14:47:54+00:002005-04-15T14:47:54+00:00<p>Maybe I have just run with the wrong crowd, but I can’t say I have ever heard this grammatical slip. It is also possible that I filtered it out, as I am inclined to do from years of practice living in a region where bad grammar was much more prevalent than proper grammar.</p>grizeldahttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1700Re: Top 10?2005-04-15T12:40:09+00:002005-04-15T12:40:09+00:00<p>I have seldom seen #4 or indeed #5…but some of those, such as #s 2 and 3, put my teeth on edge!<br />
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However, people’s inability to use apostrophes, and even the common nature of the confused words, make me understand the confusion a little better. For some reason, I really don’t UNDERSTAND ‘up & coming’ for ‘upcoming’. This thing is ‘coming up’! It’s not ‘up’ already! <strong>sniffle</strong></p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/petty-peevishness-ii#comment-1699Top 10?2005-04-15T11:21:40+00:002005-04-15T11:21:40+00:00<p>I believe you could compile one of those, actually, on wich words and phrases people are unable to discriminate between. For starters, I might suggest:</p>
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<li>there vs. they’re</li>
<li>its vs. it’s</li>
<li>your vs. you’re</li>
<li>cant vs. can’t</li>
<li>send vs. sent</li>
<li>to vs. too</li>
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<p>I’m sure you (perhaps with help from your readers) will be able to complete the list, and probably even expand it to a top 25 or top 100. Gruesome prospect, I know.</p>GreyStork