Word lessons or what misuse of a word drives you crazy?

[RASQ]

ok, I don't want to sound racist, but I hate when uneducated African-Americans talk. I mean they wrongly pronounce and misuse every fuckin' word known to man.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Yeah, that is pretty racist.

 

[Supafly]

I am sharing some pet peeves in german, some work in english, too:

Ordering a baguette (What now mostly is called a "Sub", you americans call it a sandwich, here in europe, it is either called a "Baguette" or a "Flute". On the menue card then it is spelled "La Flute" ("The Flute").

Stupid people keep saying, "Ich nehm 'ne La Flute" (Literally: "I'll take a La Flute".) Motherfucker, that is a double pronoun!

And in German, the translation of: "That makes sense" is: Das ergiebt Sinn". People keep using the "Denglisch" (A bastardised mix of German and Endlish) variant, probably because they read it in some business-lifecoach book, or because they find that sounding modern or more professional. IT IS WRONG AND YOU ARE STUPID

 

[sean miguel]

It's funny when friends or family from the east coast comment on my supposed

stoned west coast surfer dialect

when it's literally surreal to hear they're speech and make any sense of it. It's totally ironic because I talk legit.

But alas, what do they know, right?

#YOLO

 

[Bluejaye]

A lot of good ones in here.

I used to work for a recruitment agency and the average level of spelling was bloody awful. Oddly the ones with English qualifications or claiming to be experienced using Microsoft Word were usually the worst.


Co-ordinate was guaranteed to piss off anyone who saw a CV with it. It's Coordinate.
Alot was another common mistake.
Along with anything using American spelling, that's always going to annoy and irritate me.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

"Fascism, fascist, dictator." People have been throwing those words about wrongly for quite a while now, and it seems to me if that was happening there would be little or no dissent allowed on any platform. But that's none of my business.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Morons who conflate "collusion" to mean "conspiracy." The first, while unethical, is not a crime.

 

[maildude]

-- Folks, I learned this in grammar school: The whole is COMPOSEd of the parts; the parts COMPRISE the whole. Got it?
--EPONYMOUS. Just say "Title character" or "Title." Don't use big words that make you sound intelligent...especially words everybody else in the media is using anyway.
--JUDGMENT. There is NO "E" in the middle. Judgment.
--Sports media people in general...especially ex-jocks. Look...you got a C in English back in school anyway...and that included cheating. So why are you using stupid words incorrectly to try and sound like you're educated?
--In closing, I suggest you all obtain a copy of the AP Stylebook and put it in your fucking libraries. You don't have a library you say? Then get off the Internet and get to one.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

This one is one of my biggest peeves: When some dumbass sportscaster says "True Freshman." It makes my blood boil, I tells ya. Just say freshman and if he's a redshirt freshman, say that. Or don't.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I hate it when idiot teenagers march for the removal of G*d given rights in the name of safety or freedom or fascism or something and don't understand they're the ones being used by fascists.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Never mind. I already posted this shitpost.

 

[DrakeM]

I once saw a resume where the candidate misspelled "IBM", no shit.

 

[Jack Davenport]

This one is one of my biggest peeves: When some dumbass sportscaster says "True Freshman." It makes my blood boil, I tells ya. Just say freshman and if he's a redshirt freshman, say that. Or don't.

First Year Student

 

[sean miguel]

"Tiangi Gap"

Tiangi literally means "gap." So you're saying "gap gap."

annoying AF.

 

[RASQ]

IT'S Caramel YOU DUMB FUCK!

NOT CARMEL

CARE-RAH-MEL!

OT: This a funny commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFntGDCCJY

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

"Tiangi Gap"

Tiangi literally means "gap." So you're saying "gap gap."

annoying AF.

People who say "ATM machine" or "PIN number."

 

[sean miguel]

People who say "ATM machine" or "PIN number."

yeah, the "pin number" thing gets to me.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I belong to a pro wrestling board. I just saw an actual pro wrestling fan, a male I believe, use a Taylor Swift gif image for a snappy comeback.

 

[tvstrip]

Proper use of a comma. Like the book title:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Or the Aussie variant:
Eats, Roots, Shoots & Leaves

 

[Steve-FreeOnes]

I belong to a pro wrestling board. I just saw an actual pro wrestling fan, a male I believe, use a Taylor Swift gif image for a snappy comeback.

I mean, it can't be any more embarrassing than what Monday Night Raw is like right now.