I Hate.....

[vanessan]

12 minutes ago, Victoryv said:

Can I get a half of lager ? can I pay on a card ?

Heard in the Woods End. Changed his mind 3 times whilst we patiently queued behind him.

Wrong on so many levels.

And I thought the Woods End (??!!) was a posh place. 

[Regulo]

My pet hate is "secERtary" not "secREtary".

And apostrophe catastrophes.

And people who start sentences with "and".

Err . . . !

[Guest]

23 minutes ago, vanessan said:

And I thought the Woods End (??!!) was a posh place. 

The 'Woods End' a posh place?... No, not posh, overpriced perhaps, but not posh...

[vanessan]

2 hours ago, Regulo said:

And people who start sentences with "and".

Guilty as charged! Something I have started doing recently, just because it feels good to rebel sometimes. 

[loribear]

i hate when the youngsters always use the word SICK, it really gets on my nerves,  it sounds so horrible, you hear them say , i went to watch a film & it was really sick maaan , & you stand there thinking ,WHAT THE HELL , where on earth did that word come from ?. it makes you feel ill listening to them say it .  lori

[Mouldy]

Poor grammar and I know mine is far from perfect but 'should of' is not the correct abbreviation of should have (should've), your used instead of you're etc.

You get the general idea?

[jeffbroadslover]

All this makes me wonder why do English teachers get paid so much for NOT doing their job properly?

Jeff

[MauriceMynah]

Shouldn't that be "NOT doing their JOBS properly?

Sorry, couldn't resist that one. :)

[DaveTatts]

Shouldn't that be "NOT doing their JOBS properly?

Mr M . . . may I remind you to close your speech-marks ( " ) once they've been 'opened' . . . ;-)

[ExSurveyor]

The official spokesperson who peppers every sentence with,  "you know",

NO, 

I am listening to you because You are supposed to impart information in a clear and concise manner to me.  If I knew I would not be wasting my time listening to you mangle the English language.

[Cockatoo]

13 hours ago, Victoryv said:

Can I get a half of lager ? can I pay on a card ?

Heard in the Woods End. Changed his mind 3 times whilst we patiently queued behind him.

Wrong on so many levels.

Even worse when their card gets rejected.

[Cockatoo]

People who say pacific instead of specific.

[vanessan]

24 minutes ago, SteveDuk said:

People who say pacific instead of specific.

Probably still thinking about their last boating holiday. 

 

[quo vadis]

Jiffys wife knows where all her knives forks and plates are after every trip out as she has an infantry on arrival back at the marina 

[MauriceMynah]

A nice response I've heard to "Do you take plastic?" is "Yes, but we don't often give it back.."

The "Can I Get..." is one that always makes me cringe, along with "Off of"... though I suppose I'd rather hear someone saying they got off of the bus, than they got off on the bus! Too much information. :)

Text speech (sic) is another I dislike. It made perfect sense in the days of SMS (Short message system), things like "L8er" were quite clever in their own way, but have no place on any other form of communication.

  

[Polly]

As a former English teacher, of the not overpaid variety, I spent half my life correcting the errors we have mentioned. I did derive a lot of enjoyment from the 'he goes/she goes' (said) expression. I would be receiving a long complaint about some contretemps or other, and would ask 'Where?' when this was used, to the bewilderment of the complainant. 'Where did he/she go?'

'Nowhere, Miss.'

'Oh you mean said.'

It used to interrupt the flow beautifully, and I got a grammar point across into the bargain. Evil.

[Lulu]

I remember at school:

Can I go to the loo please?

I don't know, can you?

May I go to the loo please?

Yes, you may.

 

[Regulo]

More bugbears:

Aluminum (Am) not Aluminium.

Nucular (Am) not nuclear.

A chap at work was always unindated not inundated, and his son worked at Customs and Exercise.

[Meantime]

People who say things like "you couldn't pass me the salt" I normally respond "You're right I couldn't" and carry on what I'm doing.

[High6]

"Would you like a drink?"

"No, I'm all right thanks".

"I didn't ask if you were all right".

"Whatever".

[scaniaman]

3 hours ago, Lulu said:

I remember at school:

Can I go to the loo please?

I don't know, can you?

May I go to the loo please?

Yes, you may.

 

oops too late miss 

[MauriceMynah]

3 hours ago, High6 said:

"Would you like a drink?"

"No, I'm all right thanks".

"I didn't ask if you were all right".

"Whatever".

Oooh, you've reminded me of another one.

"Hello, how are you?"

"I'm good thanks"

"I was asking after your health, not your morals!"

[Poppy]

2 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:

Oooh, you've reminded me of another one.

"Hello, how are you?"

"I'm good thanks"

"I was asking after your health, not your morals!"

My usual repost to that is 'who told you that ?'

[stumpy]

7 hours ago, Regulo said:

 

A chap at work was always unindated not inundated, and his son worked at Customs and Exercise.

You wouldn't believe how widespread the 'Customs and Exercise' misnomer was, if I had a quid for each time I'd heard that in my 35 years of being a blue meanie.

[Paul]

So like yeah bud, what really gets' me goin is "my bad .....

Do you mean "my mistake", "my fault", "my error" even.