Earth's Mightiest Proofreaders

UNC_Samurai

I'm a huge fan of the CharSubName_Hulk series.

Cousin Simpson

Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses "less" and "fewer", "number" and "amount", etc.

But I am also pedantic as a tinykitty.

DaveR4470

And who can forget his famous catchphrase, "CharSubName_Hulk ./$mashsubc++"!!!

Dragon_Nexus

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses "less" and "fewer", "number" and "amount", etc.

But I am also pedantic as a tinykitty.

Until the difference between less and fewer was pointed out to me, it didn't bother me. Now it drives me bonkers.
That and people who use "infer" thinking it's a posh way of saying "imply". "So what you're infering is I need to work harder to get more ISO?"

Where I live in England there's a nasty habbit of using "borrow" and "lend" interchangably. "Can I lend a pen off you?" I just ask them who they're going to lend it to and they look at me weirdly. Or if someone asks if someone has a pen and they'll say "Sure, I'll borrow you a pen."

Quebbster

Now I have Word Crimes playing in my head.
Thank you. That song is awesome.

DFiPL

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses "less" and "fewer", "number" and "amount", etc.

But I am also pedantic as a tinykitty.

Until the difference between less and fewer was pointed out to me, it didn't bother me. Now it drives me bonkers.
That and people who use "infer" thinking it's a posh way of saying "imply". "So what you're infering is I need to work harder to get more ISO?"

Where I live in England there's a nasty habbit of using "borrow" and "lend" interchangably. "Can I lend a pen off you?" I just ask them who they're going to lend it to and they look at me weirdly. Or if someone asks if someone has a pen and they'll say "Sure, I'll borrow you a pen."

Not, I'm afraid, a uniquely British linguistic crime. I have family members here in the States, whose education ended with high school, who do the same thing.

Escape2victory

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses "less" and "fewer", "number" and "amount", etc.

But I am also pedantic as a tinykitty.

Until the difference between less and fewer was pointed out to me, it didn't bother me. Now it drives me bonkers.
That and people who use "infer" thinking it's a posh way of saying "imply". "So what you're infering is I need to work harder to get more ISO?"

Where I live in England there's a nasty habbit of using "borrow" and "lend" interchangably. "Can I lend a pen off you?" I just ask them who they're going to lend it to and they look at me weirdly. Or if someone asks if someone has a pen and they'll say "Sure, I'll borrow you a pen."

Possibly the most widespread disease in the English language (UK) is to use 'them' instead of 'those'. When I hear parents outside school asking their children 'Have you got them pens in your bag ?' ...my heart sinks. What hope is there ?

Off point but wanted to share. I won't even mention people who use the word 'like' multiple times in every sentence.

madsalad

6* Hulk confirmed!

simonsez

Escape2victory wrote:

When I hear parents outside school asking their children 'Have you got them pens in your bag ?' ...my heart sinks.

... and it's even worse when they axe them instead...

Meander

I think this was just coding to make sure that 5* banner's transformation was also boosted. Seems like the game treats it like a separate character. If that's the case, without this seemingly gibberish line, the transformed hulk would not be boosted when banner is.

Jarvind

Escape2victory wrote:

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses "less" and "fewer", "number" and "amount", etc.

But I am also pedantic as a tinykitty.

Until the difference between less and fewer was pointed out to me, it didn't bother me. Now it drives me bonkers.
That and people who use "infer" thinking it's a posh way of saying "imply". "So what you're infering is I need to work harder to get more ISO?"

Where I live in England there's a nasty habbit of using "borrow" and "lend" interchangably. "Can I lend a pen off you?" I just ask them who they're going to lend it to and they look at me weirdly. Or if someone asks if someone has a pen and they'll say "Sure, I'll borrow you a pen."

Possibly the most widespread disease in the English language (UK) is to use 'them' instead of 'those'. When I hear parents outside school asking their children 'Have you got them pens in your bag ?' ...my heart sinks. What hope is there ?

Off point but wanted to share. I won't even mention people who use the word 'like' multiple times in every sentence.

In the US it's "these ones." As in "Do you want some of these apples?" "Nah I want these ones over here." THE WORD ONES IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT.

an1979

Quebbster wrote:

Now I have Word Crimes playing in my head.
Thank you. That song is awesome.

Everyone's favourite "could care less..."
makes as much sense as
"Tom nodded in complete, 100% agreement. He could agree more."


Personaly I don't like "anyways" because it makes people use "a wayS", "a hallwayS", etc.

madsalad

an1979 wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Now I have Word Crimes playing in my head.
Thank you. That song is awesome.

Everyone's favourite "could care less..."
makes as much sense as
"Tom nodded in complete, 100% agreement. He could agree more."


Personaly I don't like "anyways" because it makes people use "a wayS", "a hallwayS", etc.

The trend I've seen over the past 10 years, especially after I moved to Ohio (maybe it's an Ohio thing), is the omission of "to be" as in "this needs (to be) checked". "This needs checked" "That needs cleaned" "You need beaten".

Are we really saving that much time by omitting "to be"?

Dragon_Nexus

At school, which would have been 17 years ago (God I'm old) I remember in an English class the teacher put "a lot" and "alot" on the board and asked people to vote in a show of hands which was correct.

I wondered what she was on about, because obviously it was "a lot", I mean who thinks "alot" is correct?
Spoiler alert, 1/3 of the class voted for "alot". I just looked around in disbelief. Have none of these dingbats ever read a book? I couldn't believe this was apparently an issue.

Lo and behold, here we are in 2016 and I see it on the internet all the time. Drives me bonkers.

simonsez

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Lo and behold, here we are in 2016 and I see it on the internet all the time.

"All the time"? I can't believe you didn't say "alot"...

Dragon_Nexus

simonsez wrote:

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Lo and behold, here we are in 2016 and I see it on the internet all the time.

"All the time"? I can't believe you didn't say "alot"...

I'd rather get through the day without vomitting blood -.-

JeffCascadian

madsalad wrote:

The trend I've seen over the past 10 years, especially after I moved to Ohio (maybe it's an Ohio thing), is the omission of "to be" as in "this needs (to be) checked". "This needs checked" "That needs cleaned" "You need beaten".

Are we really saving that much time by omitting "to be"?

"To be or not to be? That is the question."

blood6338

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

At school, which would have been 17 years ago (God I'm old) I remember in an English class the teacher put "a lot" and "alot" on the board and asked people to vote in a show of hands which was correct.

I wondered what she was on about, because obviously it was "a lot", I mean who thinks "alot" is correct?
Spoiler alert, 1/3 of the class voted for "alot". I just looked around in disbelief. Have none of these dingbats ever read a book? I couldn't believe this was apparently an issue.

Lo and behold, here we are in 2016 and I see it on the internet all the time. Drives me bonkers.

In high school, my senior English teacher told us that "a lot" was something a cow stands in and if we weren't using it that context then don't use it at all.

Tarheelmax

Anyone that enjoys this thread (especially the "alot" talk) needs to read this blog post:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2 ... thing.html

It is awesome (as are most of her stories).

Cousin Simpson

JeffCascadian wrote:

madsalad wrote:

The trend I've seen over the past 10 years, especially after I moved to Ohio (maybe it's an Ohio thing), is the omission of "to be" as in "this needs (to be) checked". "This needs checked" "That needs cleaned" "You need beaten".

Are we really saving that much time by omitting "to be"?

"To be or not to be? That is the question."

I think you mean, "Or not? That is the question."

Hendross

Reoccuring grammatical errors, unpossible.