Your Literary Rage

[Seldon2639]

Just a thread to vent your rage about word use/grammar/sentence construction.

I'm hoping to avoid the "your, you're, ur" stuff, or the "its, it's" divide, but feel free to rage about effect versus affect, assume vs. presume, and that versus which. RAGE I say. RAGE!!!

For me, today, the worst offender is "whilst". It serves no purpose. It's entirely redundant to "while", is a more recently-created word, and is used exclusively by people who either want to sound smarter, or are unknowingly pretentious douchebags.

How about the rest of you guys?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

For some weird reason 'spelt' doesn't seem like a real word to me, VS 'spelled'.

 

[likalaruku]

My mom told me "boughten" & "gotten" weren't words, but they're in the damn dictionary.

 

[sunpop]

The English language in general tends to bother me as far as punctuation goes, that and capitol letters.

 

[madcap2112]

What's the deal with "herb"? There's a fucking 'h' in the front of it, why don't we pronounce that?

 

[TheScarecrow]

Awww man, when I saw literary I thought you ment literature. Damnit world, you've tricked me again.

Whoa man, "whilst" has plenty of use. It's a form that has to be used in certain contexts isn't it?

Don't insult people like that. I like using ye olde English words, helps remind one about the history of the language. Good 'ol English.

 

[Disaster Button]

An obvious one but when people mistake "your" for "you're" or the other way around. Same with "their" and "there."

 

[TheScarecrow]

What's the deal with "herb"? There's a fucking 'h' in the front of it, why don't we pronounce that?

We do. Also some "h"'s are silent.

 

[Yog Sothoth]

Poor grammar makes me [sic].

 

[Dr. wonderful]

What's the deal with "herb"? There's a fucking 'h' in the front of it, why don't we pronounce that?

I don't know, the H is silent?

My hatred?

Irony...learn it, damn it!

 

[TheScarecrow]

Few things annoy me as much as grammar nazis in general. If you can understand someone's message, there is no need to correct them. If someone says "There my favorites," it is perfectly clear that they mean "They're," and there is no need to correct them, unless they are using such obviously wrong grammar in a professional situation. In an online forum, though? Come on. Who cares? I used a sentence fragment in this paragraph. I don't care and you shouldn't either.

It's the principle of the thing. Small mistakes I don't mind. (I didn't even notice the sentence fragment). It's the gross mis-spellings, mis-use of words and grammer etc that gets to me.

I mean, would it really take longer to type it properly?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

What's the deal with "herb"? There's a fucking 'h' in the front of it, why don't we pronounce that?

A strange American custom. We pronounce the 'h'.

 

[DemonicVixen]

Erm, not sure what to put...

I get annoyed when you see

For some weird reason 'spelt' doesn't seem like a real word to me, VS 'spelled'.

used in sentances.

It doesnt sound correct to say "i spelled this word". Its better to say "i spelt this word".

 

[Premonition]

The English language in general tends to bother me as far as punctuation goes, that and capitol letters.

What? You prefer zero punctuation?

Eh! Eh! Funny, yes?

Aaaaaaaah!

The only time when the English language really ticks me off is when I type a word that Spellcheck tells me is spelled wrong. Whilst in reality, its spelled right. (Even the dictionary agreed with me on many occasions.)

 

[Boxes_Of_Boxes]

Grammar and spelling or can I vent about the fact that I saw a good book touching twilight at a book store. Twice.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

What's the deal with "herb"? There's a fucking 'h' in the front of it, why don't we pronounce that?

you can pernounce either way, both erb and herb. I pernounce it herb, just because i do.

But there are alot of random silent letters in a bunch of languages. For instance, Habites, the french word to inhabit (i think thats the translation, or closest translation) is pernounced without the "h". Infact if im correct everytime you see an H in French you dont pernouce it.

But thge way that would be used is, J'habite a New York, meaning i live in New York (which i acually dont btw).

What i've always wonderd is why you pernounce Corps as Core. Why not just spell it Core, or if you dont want to confuse it with the word Core, then spell it Kore.

Why?

 

[silver wolf009]

im okay with anything that you dont have to stop and try to dechipher what your looking at.

 

[sunpop]

The English language in general tends to bother me as far as punctuation goes, that and capitol letters.

What? You prefer zero punctuation?

Eh! Eh! Funny, yes?

Aaaaaaaah!

The only time when the English language really ticks me off is when I type a word that Spellcheck tells me is spelled wrong. Whilst in reality, its spelled right. (Even the dictionary agreed with me on many occasions.)

Oh it's funny because this is the escapist and zp is on it and he does reviews. Your crazy man your crazy.

err your crazy lady your crazy

 

[Leon's Hell]

When people use imply instead of infer, although this could just be the people I hang out with.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

The English language in general tends to bother me as far as punctuation goes, that and capitol letters.

This is so nitpicky, but it's capitAl letters. Capitol is something else entirely.

I'm such a word nerd. And one that bugs me all to hell is 'forte'. It's an ENGLISH word pronounced "fort" and it means 'strength or strong point'. The Italian word "forte" is pronounced "FOR-tay", and it's a musical notation telling the musician to play loudly or strongly. "She plays the skin flute, and her forte (fort) is playing forte (FOR-tay)."

And don't give me the "well, FOR-tay is listed as a second pronunciation choice." It's second because it's not first. And it's not first because it's not right.

Thank you George Carlin for backing me in this rage.