Grammar Pet Peeves

[Ji Kim]

I found my haven of hard-core grammar nazis! ^.^
I've noticed in the comments that we all have certain...lingo that we can't stand.
My personal grammar peeve is when the word "like" is excessively placed into sentences..
Example: I like, totally like, love Nerdfighteria, its like so like wicked.

What are your grammar peeves?

[Betsy C.]

"Ya'll" sounds hideous. "Ain't" is ugly. On a positive note, I like "whilst."

[Becka P.]

Win.

[Lauren L. Avet]

I like "ya'll" in some cases. "Ya'll" is the key to a geniune, classic southern accent, which can be endearing when it's just right. I have a bit of a twang myself, and being from Louisiana I can't get around saying "ya'll"; there's just no way out of that.
BUT I cannot bear an abrubt, crude mispronunciation of any word. That's my peeve.

[Trick]

I also dislike 'like'! I was horrified to realise just how much I said it simply because of the way everyone else around me at school talks, so I gave it up for Lent (only the incorrect usage, of course) and I'm glad to say it seems to be gone.
Another of my pet peeves is also the use of 'like' when what is really meant is 'such as'. For example: "Queen wrote many famous songs like 'Bohemian Rhapsody'." No, Queen actually did write Bohemian Rhapsody, and they didn't really write many songs like it. Gah.
I'm currently despairing on the 'impact' front. Impact is not a verb.

[Joseph]

This isn't necessarily related to grammar, but it grinds my goat into a fine powder every time I see it. I can't stand when people type "alright". Most people don't know, but that's actually the incorrect spelling. It should be spelled "all right". However, if one were to google it nowadays he would find that "alright" is an acceptable spelling through overmisuse (yes, I just made that word up). I also can't stand the word judgment or acknowledgment for they both lack an E, and acknowledgment in general is just a very awkward word.

[Ji Kim]

haha, it's interesting because technically incorrect things in grammar seem to worm themselves into mainstream. The English language is fluid--most people unknowingly misuse the word "hopefully" when it should be used as "full of hope"
"Hopefully the rain will stop." -->Full of hope, the rain will stop. @.@

[Alexandra Ruiz]

That is a really interesting way to explain the word hopefully. I wasn't aware that I had been using it incorrectly all this time!

[Taylor]

Actually, "alright" is correct in some instances, just as "all right" is. However, I don't know whether or not you're simply coming from a more original version of "correct english", I don't claim to know very much about how english once was or how it has progressed.

[Emily Grace]

This has always bothered me! Silly English language.

[ShadowCutter]

Yeah, when I was in high school "alright" was simply incorrect, in spelling and in grammar. Now it's not 'cause people use it so much, but I still remember it as wrong.

[Amanda]

I hate it on instant messenger people say "thnks" I mean really can they take an extra second to put an a in there?!?

[Ji Kim]

thnx, ty, tks, oh text speak~ :P Things like this make me think of Orwell's concept of "newspeak" in his novel 1984