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What is everyone else's English pet peeves?
I know we're not all English majors, but certain English uses irk the crap out of me. Not picking on anyone here, just wanted to see what other people's annoyances are.
Here's my biggest two.
The use of anyway. About twice a day I hear someone say, "Anyways." It's not plural. Let's stop saying it that ways.
This one might be really nitpicking, but I **** it when someone uses the word tragic to refer to something that is not actually tragic.
A tragedy is a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior ***** (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or ******.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.
Someone getting cancer is not a tragedy, however unfortunate it may be. I know that the word tragic has mutated into our language to mean something sorrowful, but it still bugs the heck out of me.
I know we're not all English majors, but certain English uses irk the crap out of me. Not picking on anyone here, just wanted to see what other people's annoyances are.
Here's my biggest two.
The use of anyway. About twice a day I hear someone say, "Anyways." It's not plural. Let's stop saying it that ways.
This one might be really nitpicking, but I **** it when someone uses the word tragic to refer to something that is not actually tragic.
A tragedy is a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior ***** (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or ******.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.
Someone getting cancer is not a tragedy, however unfortunate it may be. I know that the word tragic has mutated into our language to mean something sorrowful, but it still bugs the heck out of me.
