Gotten

[Bob Chapman]

‘One of the only’ gets my goat.

 

[Mick p]

I'm still outraged by the use of 'yea' instead of 'yes'.

What annoys me most in a bar or shop is can I get instead of can I have. It was bad enough the youngsters using it i now hear the older generation using it

 

[MikeJhn]

What annoys me most in a bar or shop is can I get instead of can I have. It was bad enough the youngsters using it i now hear the older generation using it

French.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

One I heard on the BBC years ago - it's nearly almost exactly one o'clock.

 

[Yojevol]

Any adjective in front of 'unique' is superfluous

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My neighbour's ten year old told me that anything in a sentence that comes after "but" doesn't matter.

 

[Cabinetman]

French.

And American.

 

[Cabinetman]

Epicentre, it’s always the Epicentre on the BBC, and of course it actually means the place on the surface above where an Earthquake has occurred, so quite specific, and not as they always use it to just mean the centre or middle of anything. Grrrr.

 

[AJB Temple]

When I was working in professional life, rather than just doing what I want as I do now, it was imperative to use correct English, grammar, punctuation and be brief. As I got more senior and started running businesses it was apparent that new graduates had simply not been educated in the same way. They did not write well. The text generation pushed that envelope to extremes and now we communicate with these things

It used to irritate me, but now I am relaxed about it and just observe the change in how humans communicate, oblivious to the way AI is encroaching on their time and creativity.

Good writers and storytellers still prevail. The systemic decline simply makes identifying the skilled ones easier.

 

[John Brown]

I try, usually successfully, not to let any of it upset me. Why raise your blood pressure over anything so trivial?

 

[Thingybob]

Buy some IKEA furniture grammar and spelling are superfluous it's all drawings even down to an arrow to show which way the screws turn

 

[Chris152]

I try, usually successfully, not to let any of it upset me. Why raise your blood pressure over anything so trivial?

When I had a job, a colleague and I calculated that on average we each proof-read/ assessed approx. 1.5 million words per year. That's apart from our own reading and writing. I think it's fair to say that I still obsess over language, tho it's a combination of pleasure and pain. But I'm coming round to the idea that so long as it communicates well enough, best let it go. Chill. Etc.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Errors of spelling or syntax don't bother me too much unless they quite obviously alter the meaning of what is written.

I get irritated at the mixing up of compliment and complement - that often does alter the meaning.

 

[Suffolkboy]

You know it's bad when people pronounce "nice" biscuits as "nice" biscuits.

Everyone knows it should be "nice" not "nice." What is wrong with people?