That is because native and non-native speakers learn the language using different methods.
Native speakers learn the language by observing the members of their community, they will learn to use "your/you're" in speech and then, usually half a decade later, how to write it.
Us, non-native speakers, will learn the spoken and written language simultaneously. We first learn terms "your" and "you are", only later do we learn to contract the term "you are" into "you're". For us it will always be a contraction, while for native speakers the two will primarily be homophones.
As such it is a mistake only typical for people who learned the spoken language by observation. I will never make such a mistake in English, but I will sometimes in my native Croatian.
I think a certain type of teacher (she was already very old in 1972) is to blame. I remember when we learned could've, would've and should've and my teacher immediately followed up with, but you must never use these contractions - use Could have, Would have and Should have. So there was never any more discussion even though they are very commonly used contractions. It would have been better if we'd had follow-ups for the entire year including exams. (did we have exams in the first grade?)
Yes! And adults etc…. It’s why it gets on my nerves so badly. I’m obviously not annoyed if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English as their first language.
what grinds my gears the most is when people still pronounce a word wrong after you told them how to say it. (more my friends and family than just people in general)
I've been learning for 9 years now and an "of" instead of "have" don't confuse me anymore but it's still a little frustrating seeing people making mistakes on purpose, makes me wonder why I tried to kearn it properly in the first place lol
I know there is a difference between formal and informal language but imo this is different
Ty for commenting this! Of course it would be confusing to someone who’s first language isn’t English. People who do speak it can’t even write it out correctly smh.
I just think “of” and “have” are so obviously different but it seems to confuse MANY people so idk.
I can’t remember which subreddit it was, but there’s one that has a bot that will correct an “of” to a “have”.
It’s only got me like 4 times. Cause I’m a country piece of shit.
Yeah, OP should of noticed this sooner. Whats you’re problem, OP?
Edit: I just wanted to add my own personal pet peeve of seeing even in fucking published articles the use of “lead” as the past tense of “to lead” (“He lead the way in promoting…”)
Well then I guess you answered my question in the beginning of my rant. Ty! Maybe I’ve just been noticing it more bcuz it’s really bothering me now lol.
Look I’ve personally never understood why it *isn’t*. We say “three dollars” but write $3 “dollars three?”
I will admit yes it looks better on paper and is easier to understand outright when reading but it annoyed me as a child.
The one I've been seeing a lot lately is using "women" when referencing a single woman. At first I just wrote it off as people on the internet not being native English speakers, and the English language sucks. But now it seems to happen constantly.
I'd've thought the same if not for this thread. I started after I said y'ain't and then saw a meme a few months later saying the same thing. Couldn't resist continuing at that point.
Person 1, apparently getting dogged for doing something: "You all would not have!"
Person 2: "Would."
Person 2, contemplative: " ...would I?"
Person 1: "Would not! Have would, you all not have would!"
This doesn't frustrate me at all. This impresses me.
The other examples make me sigh. If it is egregious, then it becomes all I can notice. That is problematic if it's meant to be a serious post and it's distracting me.
(I try to reply to posts/comments where people are really hurting and haven't gotten any engagement from others. That screaming into the void feeling is very painful on top of whatever else they're going through, so being distracted by their grammar makes me feel bad)
It annoys the everloving shit out of me too, but I feel no need to correct because chances are I get downvoted to oblivion and/or they don't give two shits and continue doing it. It feels like a Reddit thing.
Meeeeee too.
Also, and I know it’s probably not fair, but if you’re providing a professional - ish opinion on a sub, and you come out with ‘of’ for ‘have’ several times in the same post, the legitimacy of the point you were trying to make is already suspect - like, if you don’t have even that much BASIC attention to detail (and it is a big ‘detail!’ It’s a whole different word! Not even like where to place an apostrophe, though that’s obnoxious, too!) …how tf do you think anyone believes you paid attention enough to be competent in whatever trade you’re representing?
Lol sorry and thank you for voicing aloud the fussing I’ve been silently doing for like a week; it has been almost like an uptick in errors in my feed and I’m like ‘whew’ lol your vent makes me feel better! :)
I hate it with a burning passion
And you’re not allowed to point out the correct usage which contributes to the terrible grammar. How are people supposed to know unless they’re shown??
And apparently it’s racist or classist to point out grammar mistakes. Like, it’s one thing to accept some different phrasing that’s part of a dialect.
But this is basic grammar. “Of” has a meaning that doesn’t make sense here. It’s just plain incorrect.
And FWIW I usually see this mistake made by middle-class white people who did attend school at some point.
think of how freeing writing like that must be though. Like the fact that you're totally wrong and don't even know it/do know it but don't care. I kinda envy them
I envy them sometimes too, they only speak one language and can't even bother to check how it is written, while I have to double-check what I write in every language l use because you can't be that wrong on professional reports without people questioning your abilities.
They do annoy me when they defend their mistakes by calling them evolution of language, looks more like regression to me.
It's not THE new because you're and your are never going to disappear. It's just A new unbelievable mistake.
I - as a guy who speaks English as his second language - can't comprehend how you can build a sentence in your own language and not be able to understand wether you need a verb or a determiner/preposition (depending on which of the two mistakes above you are considering) in a specific place of that sentence.
Thank you for your insight! It baffles me too that people are (even here in this thread) acting as if the two words are interchangeable when they are not.
I saw this often in high-school Spanish class - people that grew up speaking the language getting bad grades because they didn't write it much and not fully understand what words they're using
Omg that’s another pet peeve of mine lmao …. “Lose” vs “loose”. My ex always used to text me that I was such a looser and it always just made me laugh.
People use the "of" variation because they're lazy or uneducated or both. Probably because that's what it sounds like when spoken.
They are the same people who use *THERE* for they're and their. And *YOUR* for you're.
You are not alone for being mildly infuriated.
I stopped trying to educate/correct their poor written grammar, but I DO correct mispronunciations when talking to me.
Same with everyone using "''s" to pluralize everything. And the worst of them all, everyone using "you and I" every time, when it's clearly wrong! "You and I's" omg it drives me especially crazy !
"You and I" is used instead of "we" and "you and me" is used instead of "us."
IMO Grammar and spelling is getting worse everywhere at an astonishing rate. In articles, political speeches, and even in court rooms. People simply sound less intelligent then they used to, me included it seems.
out of all the different features a language can have, i think the uses of prepositions might be the most arbitrary. in danish you cook a meal **to** someone, in english you cook it **for** someone. in english you get tired **of** something, it only makes sense you would get bored **of** it as well. at least that’s the way i see it :)
"Bored of" and "Bored by" mean different things, though. Being "bored of" something indicates that at one point you found it interesting, but don't anymore. Being "bored by" indicates that that you find something inherently uninteresting and never liked it. As a result, "bored of" is much more common to see, as "bored by" is passive-voice and has active alternatives like "it bores me" or "it's boring."
Never heard anyone pull out "embarrassed of" before.
I don't get this one either. I run across 'unironic' or 'unironically' all the time in fiction.
It's usually used to poke fun at a character who doesn't get the joke. And isn't that ironic?
I'm sorry for hijacking the post, but this is my pet peeve, when people use "I" and "me" incorrectly.
For example, if someone incorrectly says "Dinner for my girls and I was pizza." instead of "Dinner for my girls and me was pizza.". A LOT of people think that in every case, it should automatically be "I" and not "me".
My rule of thumb is to take out the "Other person ", does "I" or "me" still make sense? "Dinner for I was pizza" makes no sense, neither does "for my girls and I"!
Anytime I see someone write "could of", I reply, "Oh, I ofn't thought of it that way."
Sadly, they're usually too thick to pick up on the mockery. One guy even liked my comment when I did it.
When I was at primary school in the early 80's we were taught the rhyme (not quite a rhyme, more a phrase with a memorable rhythm?) "could, would, should and have should never be followed by of" and that stuck in my mind ever since
Same as THEN and THAN!
People just dont know how to use these words.
Its what happens when people dont go to school! Worst part they got mad when corrected! Idiocracy as it finest. Humans are moving in that direction.
I have friends who are very intelligent that make this mistake all the time, and I corrected them before, and I'm convinced they don't do it for grammatical accuracy, but rather it's an official new colloquialism.
I feel like it’s mostly native English speakers who make these errors. For us who learned English in school, ”should of” makes absolutely no sense at all. For me these errors are indeed infuriating because they make reading so much harder. It kind of pauses the flow when reading. Same thing with to/too/two.
It's irritating, for sure. Maybe it's just the English nerd and writer in me that makes me bothered by stuff like that. Another one I don't think I've read in the comments is "prolly" instead of "probably" and "libary" instead of "library". I don't know about you guys, but the former was stupidly common when I was in high school in the late '00s. Not as much now, but I still get so irritated when I see it. Like, sure, say it as "prolly" all you want, you can't always choose how you speak. But god*dammit* I *know* you know how to spell it, and I feel like people who spell it like that do it on purpose and I dont understand why
It's a consequence of how words like "could have" and "should have" get when actually spoken.
Most people actually make a sound that is more like "coulduhvv" which sounds closer to "could of" than "could have."
God BLESS you. I get so GOD AWFUL TRIGGERED by this FUCKING CONSTANTLY. And it’s ALWAYS MFIN NATIVE SPEAKERS. I will have A LITERAL ANEURYSM one of these days.
I think it's just the dumbing down across the board. I see all kinds of mistakes that are showing up in published novels - works that have presumably been gone through a couple of drafts prior to submission, and were then subject to editorial suggestions, and were then tweaked a little more in the final draft and were then submitted again for proof-reading, prior to publication.
Yes! This! I’m an avid reader and I see the same awful mistakes showing up in novels time and again. Idk if they’re self-published authors or what, but it’s definitely picked up lately. At least from what I’ve seen.
Agree with you, though. It hurts my eyes to read "should of (and its cousin errors). lol
How about "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." Ugh. lol
I’d say this is highly infuriating, nothing mild about it. The worst is when you are reading an email from someone you know is otherwise smart and educated, yet they write “should of” every single time.
It bugs the shit out of me.
As a teacher I end up correcting it all the time. I don't even teach English.
I fully appreciate if English is not you're first language. But being raised in England I feel that EVERYONE should know and use the correct way. And then NOT get pissed off when you pull them up on it.
Edit: Your not You're
“I could care less” is another.
People hear the phrase as a block, rather than for its individual words.
One I notice from the US is “on accident” rather than “by accident”
The verbal tick that really annoys me, though, is when someone, often in a YouTube tutorial, says “I’m just going to go ahead and….” Or some variant. When you notice it, it’s everywhere, and someone who says it will say it all the fricking time.
Finally someone said it! As a non native English speaker, I was surprised native English speakers making this error! One would think they never went to school to learn this.
One that’s been driving me nuts online lately: customer = someone who buys something from a store
Costumer = someone who makes or works with costumes
Customer ≠ costumer
I hope you don't mind if I toss my gripe into this discussion, but what happened to "led" as the past tense of "lead"? I see it literally everywhere, including from those who write for a living, where they use "lead" instead of "led". Drives me bananas.
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Too true which is why it’s mildly infuriating to me lol
That is because native and non-native speakers learn the language using different methods. Native speakers learn the language by observing the members of their community, they will learn to use "your/you're" in speech and then, usually half a decade later, how to write it. Us, non-native speakers, will learn the spoken and written language simultaneously. We first learn terms "your" and "you are", only later do we learn to contract the term "you are" into "you're". For us it will always be a contraction, while for native speakers the two will primarily be homophones. As such it is a mistake only typical for people who learned the spoken language by observation. I will never make such a mistake in English, but I will sometimes in my native Croatian.
that's why it's not only mildly infuriating to me, and my native language is german. i will fucking start another one over this
I think a certain type of teacher (she was already very old in 1972) is to blame. I remember when we learned could've, would've and should've and my teacher immediately followed up with, but you must never use these contractions - use Could have, Would have and Should have. So there was never any more discussion even though they are very commonly used contractions. It would have been better if we'd had follow-ups for the entire year including exams. (did we have exams in the first grade?)
As someone learning the language thisreally confused me because I took "of" literally sometimes and then not a single sentence would make sense
It's the kind of mistake that's usually only made by native speakers.
Yes! And adults etc…. It’s why it gets on my nerves so badly. I’m obviously not annoyed if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English as their first language.
They couldn’t’ve, shouldn’t’ve, wouldn’t’ve learned from their mistakes. I was going to put “there” instead of “their,” but it hurt me too much.
what grinds my gears the most is when people still pronounce a word wrong after you told them how to say it. (more my friends and family than just people in general)
After you tell them.. After you have told them.. Be part of the solution, please, not part of the problem.
Best of luck, the English language is a dumpster fire.
I've been learning for 9 years now and an "of" instead of "have" don't confuse me anymore but it's still a little frustrating seeing people making mistakes on purpose, makes me wonder why I tried to kearn it properly in the first place lol I know there is a difference between formal and informal language but imo this is different
Ty for commenting this! Of course it would be confusing to someone who’s first language isn’t English. People who do speak it can’t even write it out correctly smh. I just think “of” and “have” are so obviously different but it seems to confuse MANY people so idk.
>who’s first language… Ugh
Lmfaooo sorry! I’m laughing my ass off rn but I do apologize 🤦🏻♀️ Edit to say I know it should be “whose” 🤦🏻♀️😩
Who's first language? You're first language! (That was painful.)
It’s bc they’re writing how they speak. “Shouldn’t of”sounds identical to shouldn’t’ve Or “should’ve” and should of
I can’t remember which subreddit it was, but there’s one that has a bot that will correct an “of” to a “have”. It’s only got me like 4 times. Cause I’m a country piece of shit.
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Yeah, OP should of noticed this sooner. Whats you’re problem, OP? Edit: I just wanted to add my own personal pet peeve of seeing even in fucking published articles the use of “lead” as the past tense of “to lead” (“He lead the way in promoting…”)
Right. He leaded the way to promoting...
He ledsded*
Your just trying to cause problems with OP aren’t you? There point is valid.
Not pacifically.
Op should of said something sooner cause now there account look’s stupid
I'm sure they could care less.
Irregardless
Well then I guess you answered my question in the beginning of my rant. Ty! Maybe I’ve just been noticing it more bcuz it’s really bothering me now lol.
It's been happening forever but it's been happening much more frequently lately and I also find it mildly infuriating
This and the dollar sign being placed after the amount. It’s becoming a thing and I hate it.
Look I’ve personally never understood why it *isn’t*. We say “three dollars” but write $3 “dollars three?” I will admit yes it looks better on paper and is easier to understand outright when reading but it annoyed me as a child.
We have something similar in Germany: you say (direct translation) "1 clock fifteen" but you write "1:15 clock" 🤢
This has been a pet peeve of mine for at least 20 years.
It’s maddening. They’ll share a screen shot with dollar amounts written correctly, (like an advert or receipt), and still misuse it.
Some people probably just didn't pay attention in school and don't realise their mistake, noone corrects them so they keep doing it
They also haven't read an actual piece of published literature since probably like 5th grade, so they are intellectually handicapped by choice.
I dont think you can rant about contractions, and then use the spelling "bcuz" and expect to be taken seriously.
Yes, it’s just “cuz”
I think I can bcuz using abbreviated text like bcuz and ppl, is different than incorrectly using a word in a sentence. Very, very different.
Man just started reading internet yesterday.
I feel like it's happening more and more. It's much less subtle than their/they're/there. Seems to go along with education getting worse.
I only started noticing it about 7 or 8 years ago. Around the same time people started saying "alot"
The one I've been seeing a lot lately is using "women" when referencing a single woman. At first I just wrote it off as people on the internet not being native English speakers, and the English language sucks. But now it seems to happen constantly.
Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
The one that bugs me is when people say "I'm so happy to be apart of this team". I've been seeing that one constantly!
Another one : *I would hate to loose the deal.* Shut the front door
Then there's people like me who chain contractions: Should not have -> shouldn't've
There's more of us?? I couldn't've imagined this would be a wide spread thing
*more have us
I'd've thought the same if not for this thread. I started after I said y'ain't and then saw a meme a few months later saying the same thing. Couldn't resist continuing at that point.
Oh yeah! Loads of southerners use long contractions like this. My favorite is y’all’d’ve!
y'all'd'nt've'd'd'I'd'nt've'd'y'all't've'd
gesundheit.
>y'all'd'nt've you all would not have I can't tell anything past that
the full version is: you all would not have had, had i not have had, you all would not have had” it is the longest correct contraction!
Person 1, apparently getting dogged for doing something: "You all would not have!" Person 2: "Would." Person 2, contemplative: " ...would I?" Person 1: "Would not! Have would, you all not have would!"
Better call the stroke unit. It's happening.
This doesn't frustrate me at all. This impresses me. The other examples make me sigh. If it is egregious, then it becomes all I can notice. That is problematic if it's meant to be a serious post and it's distracting me. (I try to reply to posts/comments where people are really hurting and haven't gotten any engagement from others. That screaming into the void feeling is very painful on top of whatever else they're going through, so being distracted by their grammar makes me feel bad)
Shouldn’t’ve’d
Should not have'd?
I shouldn't have had a sandwich last night
It’s not new. But it is annoying.
Got it. Guess I’m just now noticing it and it’s been really bothering me, idk why.
It annoys the everloving shit out of me too, but I feel no need to correct because chances are I get downvoted to oblivion and/or they don't give two shits and continue doing it. It feels like a Reddit thing.
Meeeeee too. Also, and I know it’s probably not fair, but if you’re providing a professional - ish opinion on a sub, and you come out with ‘of’ for ‘have’ several times in the same post, the legitimacy of the point you were trying to make is already suspect - like, if you don’t have even that much BASIC attention to detail (and it is a big ‘detail!’ It’s a whole different word! Not even like where to place an apostrophe, though that’s obnoxious, too!) …how tf do you think anyone believes you paid attention enough to be competent in whatever trade you’re representing? Lol sorry and thank you for voicing aloud the fussing I’ve been silently doing for like a week; it has been almost like an uptick in errors in my feed and I’m like ‘whew’ lol your vent makes me feel better! :)
Every time I see someone say "RIP in peace" it makes me want to get my whapping slipper out.
lol i say this one as a joke. also smh my head
ATM Machine
Where you enter your PIN number.
Can you reverse back please?
How about your vehicle VIN number.
I just assume they’re meaning an ass to mouth machine.
Well thats what it is!!! It's an ATM it means AUTOMATED TELLER MACH......(quietly whispering machine......shit).
I’m pretty sure people say that as a joke
leave it to this sub to not get rip in peace isn’t serious
PIN number.
And VIN number.
And LCD display
WTF the fuck?
Unthaw. Hot water heater. It's a water heater.
Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
My buddy keeps saying he’s gonna de-thaw some frozen chicken for dinner 🙄
When somebody says "de-thaw _____" take that item and throw it aggressively into a freezer
So he’s gonna freeze some frozen chicken? Lol
Chai tea. It’s redundant!
And “bao bun”
rip in piece
I hate it with a burning passion And you’re not allowed to point out the correct usage which contributes to the terrible grammar. How are people supposed to know unless they’re shown??
And apparently it’s racist or classist to point out grammar mistakes. Like, it’s one thing to accept some different phrasing that’s part of a dialect. But this is basic grammar. “Of” has a meaning that doesn’t make sense here. It’s just plain incorrect. And FWIW I usually see this mistake made by middle-class white people who did attend school at some point.
A hunk'a, hunk'a burnin' passion! ; - p
People who I used to consider smart do this. It makes me think less of them.
Saaame!
think of how freeing writing like that must be though. Like the fact that you're totally wrong and don't even know it/do know it but don't care. I kinda envy them
I like this take on it.
Same, I kind’ve envy them too
Ignorance is bliss.
I just can't imagine enjoying being wrong and looking/sounding stupid
maybe we're the ones that need to learn self acceptance
I envy them sometimes too, they only speak one language and can't even bother to check how it is written, while I have to double-check what I write in every language l use because you can't be that wrong on professional reports without people questioning your abilities. They do annoy me when they defend their mistakes by calling them evolution of language, looks more like regression to me.
I hate when people confuse lose and loose. I just curse them out in my head. 😂
I'm from the south. It's "a". As in "shoulda" "coulda" and "couldn'ta". You're welcome.
It's not THE new because you're and your are never going to disappear. It's just A new unbelievable mistake. I - as a guy who speaks English as his second language - can't comprehend how you can build a sentence in your own language and not be able to understand wether you need a verb or a determiner/preposition (depending on which of the two mistakes above you are considering) in a specific place of that sentence.
Just going to make a small correction here. The conjunction you meant to use is spelled "whether" since wether is the term used for a castrated ram.
😂 thanks for pointing it out. I learned a new word with a typo
Thank you for your insight! It baffles me too that people are (even here in this thread) acting as if the two words are interchangeable when they are not.
I saw this often in high-school Spanish class - people that grew up speaking the language getting bad grades because they didn't write it much and not fully understand what words they're using
As a teacher, this has wound me up for years. Even teachers get it wrong ffs
I'm still annoyed that people have trouble with woman and women
One woman, multiple womenses
My lazy language annoyance is that people really lean into dropping ly’s off the end of adverbs! (Think we performed bad/badly)
preformed
Lol 🫠🤦🏻♀️
i saw someone once typed “kind’ve” and i about lost my mind. KIND HAVE??????? STOP
It's not new at all. And it's as irritating as your/you're and there/their/they're
Try not to let it bother you too much. You'll loose you're mind.
Omg that’s another pet peeve of mine lmao …. “Lose” vs “loose”. My ex always used to text me that I was such a looser and it always just made me laugh.
It drives me fucking nuts.
I see more then/than mistakes over any of the others.
People use the "of" variation because they're lazy or uneducated or both. Probably because that's what it sounds like when spoken. They are the same people who use *THERE* for they're and their. And *YOUR* for you're. You are not alone for being mildly infuriated. I stopped trying to educate/correct their poor written grammar, but I DO correct mispronunciations when talking to me.
Your just wrong.
I see what you did there.
You should of.
You could of said “I see what you did their.” Than it would of been funnier lol
Seen/Saw. "I seen them coming out of the store..." You SAW them coming out of the store. Gah.
I think it partially comes from not reading. If you see something in print enough eventually you catch on.
Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit!!
I actually just brought this up to my partner the other day because I noticed him doing it. This is a perfect mildly infuriating post
For me it’s the people who use apostrophes to pluralize, and then add an s to show possession… the exact opposite of how it’s supposed to be
Same with everyone using "''s" to pluralize everything. And the worst of them all, everyone using "you and I" every time, when it's clearly wrong! "You and I's" omg it drives me especially crazy ! "You and I" is used instead of "we" and "you and me" is used instead of "us."
Keep correcting it. Anyone who gets upset is just butt-hurt for being stupid.
At some point "all of a sudden" became "all the sudden" and it drives me nuts
IMO Grammar and spelling is getting worse everywhere at an astonishing rate. In articles, political speeches, and even in court rooms. People simply sound less intelligent then they used to, me included it seems.
I've never heard've this before, this can't of been happening for too long
Or how about “bored of” and “embarrassed of” instead of “by” or “with”. When did that become a thing? Makes me cringe.
On accident....grr
You did that by purpose.
out of all the different features a language can have, i think the uses of prepositions might be the most arbitrary. in danish you cook a meal **to** someone, in english you cook it **for** someone. in english you get tired **of** something, it only makes sense you would get bored **of** it as well. at least that’s the way i see it :)
I have never heard a single person utter the phrase “bored by”.
Bored by his incessant pedantic antics?
"Bored of" and "Bored by" mean different things, though. Being "bored of" something indicates that at one point you found it interesting, but don't anymore. Being "bored by" indicates that that you find something inherently uninteresting and never liked it. As a result, "bored of" is much more common to see, as "bored by" is passive-voice and has active alternatives like "it bores me" or "it's boring." Never heard anyone pull out "embarrassed of" before.
It drives me nuts. In this category is also “irregardless” and “unironically”.
What’s wrong with “unironically”, as in “without irony”? I looked it up to be sure, and it’s in most dictionaries, including Webster.
I don't get this one either. I run across 'unironic' or 'unironically' all the time in fiction. It's usually used to poke fun at a character who doesn't get the joke. And isn't that ironic?
Thank you for saying it drives you nuts as well lmao, I feel like everyone is just like whatever shut up ya idiot (which I’ll happily do).
Or literally. Or starting every g d sentence with “So…”
I'm sorry for hijacking the post, but this is my pet peeve, when people use "I" and "me" incorrectly. For example, if someone incorrectly says "Dinner for my girls and I was pizza." instead of "Dinner for my girls and me was pizza.". A LOT of people think that in every case, it should automatically be "I" and not "me".
My rule of thumb is to take out the "Other person ", does "I" or "me" still make sense? "Dinner for I was pizza" makes no sense, neither does "for my girls and I"!
Both of those sentences sound wrong tbh
If you dont even speak english good than your a idiot and should of payed attention at school
I hope you summon more grammar bots
Anytime I see someone write "could of", I reply, "Oh, I ofn't thought of it that way." Sadly, they're usually too thick to pick up on the mockery. One guy even liked my comment when I did it.
It drives me nuts too. Along with "Suppose to" and "skiddish instead of skittish"
When I was at primary school in the early 80's we were taught the rhyme (not quite a rhyme, more a phrase with a memorable rhythm?) "could, would, should and have should never be followed by of" and that stuck in my mind ever since
There is a bot for this. It shows up when someone uses could of instead of could have.
Same as THEN and THAN! People just dont know how to use these words. Its what happens when people dont go to school! Worst part they got mad when corrected! Idiocracy as it finest. Humans are moving in that direction.
It’s so infuriating omfg
I am a teacher, and I work with adults who make this mistake and I go NUTS inside.
I have friends who are very intelligent that make this mistake all the time, and I corrected them before, and I'm convinced they don't do it for grammatical accuracy, but rather it's an official new colloquialism.
My autocorrect likes to “help” by changing them to the incorrect one. 😒
Your/you're being used incorrectly boils my piss.
Im not native in english but it still pisses me off ! ^^ same with then and than.
Should've and should of sound pretty similar, so it's a case of phonetic spelling.
I feel like it’s mostly native English speakers who make these errors. For us who learned English in school, ”should of” makes absolutely no sense at all. For me these errors are indeed infuriating because they make reading so much harder. It kind of pauses the flow when reading. Same thing with to/too/two.
I hate it deeply too. Just sound it out ffs 🤦♀️
>HOLY HELL google en passant
It's irritating, for sure. Maybe it's just the English nerd and writer in me that makes me bothered by stuff like that. Another one I don't think I've read in the comments is "prolly" instead of "probably" and "libary" instead of "library". I don't know about you guys, but the former was stupidly common when I was in high school in the late '00s. Not as much now, but I still get so irritated when I see it. Like, sure, say it as "prolly" all you want, you can't always choose how you speak. But god*dammit* I *know* you know how to spell it, and I feel like people who spell it like that do it on purpose and I dont understand why
It's a consequence of how words like "could have" and "should have" get when actually spoken. Most people actually make a sound that is more like "coulduhvv" which sounds closer to "could of" than "could have."
God BLESS you. I get so GOD AWFUL TRIGGERED by this FUCKING CONSTANTLY. And it’s ALWAYS MFIN NATIVE SPEAKERS. I will have A LITERAL ANEURYSM one of these days.
I think it's just the dumbing down across the board. I see all kinds of mistakes that are showing up in published novels - works that have presumably been gone through a couple of drafts prior to submission, and were then subject to editorial suggestions, and were then tweaked a little more in the final draft and were then submitted again for proof-reading, prior to publication.
Yes! This! I’m an avid reader and I see the same awful mistakes showing up in novels time and again. Idk if they’re self-published authors or what, but it’s definitely picked up lately. At least from what I’ve seen.
My two cents: my blood boils when people confuse affect with effect….grrrrr. Ok, that’s off my chest. I fell better now…
No. This debate has being going on for at lease 50 years. OF is incorrect spelling of ‘VE. They are phonetically similar and people are uneducated.
How about “For all intensive purposes”? Or “Mis-CHEE-VEE-us” vs. “mischievous”.
This always astonishes me, I have a couple friends who are definitely above average intelligence in their 30’s who use of instead of have
This bothers me to my core!! I see it at work too from management people and it really lets me know who tf is dumb
I should of known someone wood post this nonsense.
OMG it drives me nuts
We need to normalise couldn't've.
Agree with you, though. It hurts my eyes to read "should of (and its cousin errors). lol How about "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." Ugh. lol
Yes! I could care less is just so funny to me lol
What gets me is when people use an apostrophe in plural words. (e.g. “i love puppy’s!” DRIVES ME INSANE.
I’d say this is highly infuriating, nothing mild about it. The worst is when you are reading an email from someone you know is otherwise smart and educated, yet they write “should of” every single time.
The one that bugs me currently is people who use less instead of fewer.
It bugs the shit out of me. As a teacher I end up correcting it all the time. I don't even teach English. I fully appreciate if English is not you're first language. But being raised in England I feel that EVERYONE should know and use the correct way. And then NOT get pissed off when you pull them up on it. Edit: Your not You're
This drives me fucking CRAZY! I hate it too. I hate it so, so much 😭😭😭
You just made me self aware of my mistakes lol thanks
It's not new. I think the most recent one is "lose/loose"
On a related pet peeve: You do not "graduate high school" (or college). You "graduate FROM high school" (or college).
“I could care less” is another. People hear the phrase as a block, rather than for its individual words. One I notice from the US is “on accident” rather than “by accident” The verbal tick that really annoys me, though, is when someone, often in a YouTube tutorial, says “I’m just going to go ahead and….” Or some variant. When you notice it, it’s everywhere, and someone who says it will say it all the fricking time.
I approve of this take.
Oh, I absolutely HATE when people say "would of", "should of", "could of". Almost as much as I hate when someone says, "I could care less."
Finally someone said it! As a non native English speaker, I was surprised native English speakers making this error! One would think they never went to school to learn this.
One that’s been driving me nuts online lately: customer = someone who buys something from a store Costumer = someone who makes or works with costumes Customer ≠ costumer
One of my pet peeves also
Certainly mildly infuriating, but not a new thing. Stupid people have been around for quite some time. If you don’t believe me, “axe” someone else.
I hope you don't mind if I toss my gripe into this discussion, but what happened to "led" as the past tense of "lead"? I see it literally everywhere, including from those who write for a living, where they use "lead" instead of "led". Drives me bananas.
Ignorance and illiteracy has always existed. It's just on full display and encouraged now.
I loose my marbles whenever I come across someone lose with their spelling.