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[Kodiak]

Honestly, it drives me insane when I see somepony say "your welcome" instead of "you're welcome." I'm just a grammar nazi like that. So, anything you guys have come across?

[Arylett Dawnsborough]

There, their, and they're. These aren't as annoying as the your, you're thing that happens often on the internet, but are still pretty annoying. I always have to wonder what about the internet suddenly makes people lose all of their prowess and years of schooling in the English language.

[NeverNeverland]

What if they were unintentional?

[Hayze]

Grammer probably kills it for me. Slang I hate too. Stuff like "Dat", "Dose", etc.

[Chainsaw Bouffant]

One that's not quite as common, but I still see fairly often, sometimes even in published books is...

Horde and Hoard.

Normally I'm willing to let a lot of issues slide, but that just really gets me. No, you do not have a horde of potions, you have a hoard of potions.

[Zero]

i hate it when people say "i" without capitalizing the letter i.

[Fghik]

wut i rly h8 s whn ppl shrtn thr wrds 2 da pnt of stpdty
ts wrse whn thr s no puncuation ethr
nd haf da wrds r splled rong.

Edited by Fghik, 12 January 2012 - 04:47 PM.

[Hayze]

i hate it when people say "i" without capitalizing the letter i.

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[Shankveld]

I don't really care if someone forget a comma here and there, or uses your instead of you're. As long as you can still read and understand what they are trying to communicate, then no harm no foul.

What I find very annoying is when self-proclaimed 'grammar nazis' disregard someone's argument or opinion because of a grammar mistake, or when they look down on someone, or belittle their intelligent for the aforementioned reason.

It's childish and immature to fight over such petty things. ~

Edited by Shankveld, 12 January 2012 - 04:49 PM.

[Hayze]

When somepony uses "write" to describe the direction instead of "right" that annoys me.

Same thing for ponies who use "right" to talk about what they are writing, or discussing about someone's writing.

[FLARE]

i hate it when people say "i" without capitalizing the letter i.

Yes I hate that so much, I used to NEVER do that, until recently I accidentally did it a few times and when its late from time to time I use i and it kills me inside.

[Evilshy]

everything in this picture. warning, language.

http://static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/9e/0e/9e0ef9_1059030.jpg

Edited by Evilshy, 12 January 2012 - 05:12 PM.

[rainbow_dashFTW]

wut i rly h8 s whn ppl shrtn thr wrds 2 da pnt of stpdty
ts wrse whn thr s no puncuation ethr
nd haf da wrds r splled rong.

This comes from the days of cell phones having a limited number of characters to send in a text message, so to cram as much information in 161 characters, people would shorten the words as much as possible and blatently remove punctuation. But yes, this is one thing that seriously gets on my nerves....

Also, when people say 'But' at the end of a sentence. This is pretty much only verbal, but still *shudders*

Another thing that gets to me is when somepony in a chat room types phonetically....

Edited by rainbow_dashFTW, 12 January 2012 - 05:24 PM.

[Princess Viscra]

i used to care too much about spelling errors, but then i noticed it isn't such a big deal, actually. i rarely capitalize letters, or "I", and often don't punctuate sentences.

but at least my grammar ist da superiorz.

[Mister Jack]

"should of"

[Lady Rarity Pony]

i uzed 2 talk like dis on da int3rnetz
Not anymore. I prefer using grammar now. Common grammar mistakes are usually on words I don't use often. Such as mispelling "throne" as "thrown".
Though most of my typing mistakes come from me hitting the wrong key on the keyboard. Writing "if" instead "of" because the I and O key are next to eachother is a common one.

[Pinkie Pie]

"should of"

This, this, one thousand times this.

[Skullbuster]

...im going leave this thread before i am murdered

[Hayze]

I once dated a girl who wrote me stuff like "Hart" for "Heart", ""Shood" for "Should" and basically how the words sounded if other letters were silent, or not articulated properly. Drove me crazy.

[Lady Rarity Pony]

"should of"

I don't usually type that mistake but IRL I'll make the mistake of "should of" instead of "should have" and also "why" instead of "while".