some examples from a very long list:
- spray or pump bottles with stems that do not even come close to reaching the bottom of the bottle, leaving a good half inch or so of unreachable valuable product at the bottom.
- baby ages and prison sentences that are listed in months way beyond when it should be normal to do so. “aww, he’s adorable! How old is he?” “32 months” “is that old?” OR “he was sentenced to 521 months in prison.” People, I have enough to do without having to DIVIDE BY 12 FOR YOU! I understand if it is necessary for medical or legal reasons, but you are not paying me, so please do the math yourself, mkay? After 12 months, “years + months” is required.
- people who write “your” when they should have used “you’re.” OH MY GOD, PEOPLE! IT’S NOT THAT DIFFICULT! Think! Can you use “you are” in the sentence? YES??? Then it should be “you’re.” Are you using it to describe something that someone possesses? Then it’s “your” As in…”You’re squishing my toe.” “can I try some of your pudding?” But what annoys me even MORE???
…when I do it. Dammit! Usually I notice right after I hit “send” on the email. WAIT!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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I am 323 months old.
Dude–I was going to be smartass like Scoot until I realized I’m not that good at math.
OMG your totally right!!!
Ugh, it hurt me to write that. I couldn’t agree more. English is not even my first language and I know the difference between you’re and your. Like someone said on twitter the other day, “every time I read comments on any popular website I loose a bit of faith in humanity”
Yeah… a 1,200 year old language cobbled together from the mishmash of Celtic dialects, Germanic dialects, Latin, Greek, Hindi, and any other language with a nice ass… How could such a thing EVER be difficult to learn…
I only bitched about one language issue, OK? So suck it, scoot.
Emotional Icons… I must learn to use emotional icons more frequently. I was being playful and agreed with both you and Nico.
For a guy with such an eloquent verbiage, I get misunderstood quite often…
LOL @ Scoot. … and any other language with a nice ass. What a way to put it. I get irritated too but I figure I make enough of my own mistakes to not bitch too much about other’s or is it, others’? See???? See, what you did?
But, how do YOU pronounce “pictures?”
English really must be a pain to learn – like Read and Read!! One of my pet peeves has got to be people who don’t use proper or correct grammer in business e-mails!! I quote a woman in my office (she would also be the one who calls everyone “Honey” or “Sweetie”) Her latest e-mail to me and my boss, who happens to be the Director of Operations! “I looked at this report and what I think we done is…” I could not believe it!!
OK – I can see it now, this is going to turn into a post all my own!!