1000% yes! Can I give you 100 likes!

Was always the case, we just get exposed to it more because everyone has easy access to post all over the place. It's more the lazy ones like U and Ur that annoy me.

I like Grammar. She made great cookies!!

My pet peeve is loose/lose

I remember diagramming sentences in elementary school. I’m not sure that happens anymore, alas. 😔

The last few years I've seen more and more wrong uses of "then" and "than". Not sure how much could be voice to text, autocorrect, or whatever. It's so annoying! I wish people would learn and understand the difference between them.

If we can't use words correctly, we can't communicate with each other. If we can't communicate, we can't carry out any sort of social interaction, including commerce. Society breaks down and we're all b*gg*red.

Don't forget punctuation. Please, don't forget punctuation. Your sentences must come to an end at some point. Do the right thing and put that crippled thought vomit out of its misery with proper punctuation.

Yet no one seems to care about people using a plural verb with a collective noun which is singular. It started on Wikipedia and spread into mainstream media.

"Would of..."

There should not be a space after "(", before commas, or before ")".

English grammar isn't even that difficult, honestly. show anybody with no grasp of English grammar a bit of Estonian grammar and they'll bloody see

How about ignorance of proper typesetting?

The word 'fewer' is disappearing - blame it on that grocery store sign '9 items or less'

Is this the poster's example of correct grammar?

Lately, I've been seeing more mistakes with using lose/loose and to/too. I'm horrible when it comes to proper grammar, but I'm slightly above average when it comes to spelling.

The one that's bugging me lately is the difference between a number of something and an amount of something. I hear lots of people saying things like 'there was a large amount of people there.' Really? Last I checked people came in numbers.

lie lay, it's its It does get a bit annoying F80

And speaking of this...nouns like table, chair, bed,etc; being used VERBALLY in the first person. As in "I just moved table there, put chair in place, went to rug, and straightened. Room was tidy."

I figure they aren't teaching spelling, grammar or punctuation anymore. Filling in little bubbles on standardized tests seems to be the only writing skill required of students these days.

There's heaps of prizes instead of there are...

Freaking grammar police I don't mind if someone sentences are truly horribly structured I know mine sometimes are but people come on have some basic empathy

I constantly remind myself that language is always evolving, what we think is standard, was outrageous one or two centuries ago, and what we think is outrageous now will be ludicrously stodgy and outdated in a century. It doesn’t always help, but I do remind myself.

The langwidge iz a living langwitch n az sutch wee shud axcept tha it kan b uzed in a varietee ov wayz. This first sentence is clearly a joke! Correct punctuation and spelling is important obviously but equally some people haven’t grown up with supportive parents or with access to quality schooling, their opinions and viewpoints are no less valid. PS spellchecker made the first sentence a nucking fightmare!

Friend has 4 kids - 3 step kids in high school, and a 3rd grader. None of them can spell the name of the city they've lived in all their lives.

I think non native speakers do not confuse them, because it was beaten into our heads and I am kind of surprised when native speakers use them wrongly

You'll see.

I used to hate that but I now just accept that language is fluid. Look at Shakespeare and the middle ages. It is just at an accelerated rate now - like everything else.

your going to tell me that your the authority on what you're post is referring to? Their is no way there going to listen to you.

I understand it annoys you but not everyone has English as their first language!

Curmudgeon Power!

I see this far more with retirees than with younger folks. Phone on speaker, full volume, blabbing it up about nothing regardless of setting. I don’t need forty minutes of Sylvia’s infected toenails.

I'm not even explaining myself. If that's the response I turn and walk on.

People changing their naturally born pronouns and expecting the entire world to magically know something which took them years to find out for themselves and exploding on them is the biggest douche move. Congratulations! You know yourself more fully now, but it doesn't give you the right to be a rude a*****e about it when others don't know. They expect people to know in an instant what took them years, maybe even decades, to find out for themselves. You're an idiot who thinks you now have an excuse to be rude and the masses will back you up because you are "different". People aren't hating on you because your pronouns don't align with the "traditional" sense; they're hating on you because you are an obnoxious, entitled a*****e.

It's just lazy

This one should be much higher in the ranking. It's completely normalized and unbearable. Teachers have already told me about cases of very sick kids whom parents still bring to school... then they have the nerve to complain when we call them to pick them up because they've vomited or have a high fever. The other day, I saw a lady at the supermarket coughing heavily into her hands before picking up items and casually putting them back... She continued to cough heavily and handle all the items 😒 It's selfish, disgusting, and frankly, I hate it.

When my father was in his 70s & 80s, he would get annoyed by the "ageism" shown to him when out in public, at stores and even in the nursing home lived in for the last six months of his life. I'm not saying it's worse than the other "-isms" but it definitely is the one that seems ignored. This isn't about being treated differently because of dementia (how those people are treated is a whole other story), it was a much wider range of behaviours shown to him, including being talked to like he did have dementia, because people would presume he did. He would get frustrated and tell me "they treat me like I'm stupid" when an incident happened. He wasn't, his only crime was being an older person.

We can’t advertise alcohol, pharmaceuticals or nicotine in my country. However, we can advertise gambling. Guess which country has the highest amount of gambling losses? Edit to give more facts… we have HALF the entirety of the worlds slot machines, and the government gets 30% of every dollar put into them. And then add another 40% of tax from the owners of the slot machines for any gains on said slot machines.

Pretending we're all fine when we're not has, in my opinion, acerbated a lot of mental health issues. Better to talk them out then act them.

This is an everybody thinks this thing. It’s making for a hostile purchasing experience.

Yes, the total inability to appreciate nuanced arguments. "If you're not with us, your against us" mentality that just breeds polarisation.

Parents looking at their phones while their young children play around them is a sad sight to see.