Some people make my blood boil

Halloway

Pollycat wrote: »

but are you OK with split infinitives? :rotfl:

They don't bother me that much actually. A split infinitive doesn't make for an unclear sentence on the whole. And sometimes, for example with 'To boldly go', the sentence is more powerful because of the split infinitive.

Pont

The possessive apostrophe missing or placed incorrecty from road/street signs. For example, 'Queen Victorias Walk' and 'John Lennons' Way'. Why can't the local councils get it right? Hmmm, perhaps on reflection...

Pollycat

Another thing that annoys me is when people say 'I done it'. :mad:

No dear, you DID it.

So it's not just writing skills that seem to be on a decline, it's verbal too.

But, to get back to the OP, I still wouldn't make a point of correcting someone in a post.
I might have a mutter under my breath about 'education' but that's as far as I'd go.

Halloway

"I was sat..."

hollydays

People who say "pacifically" instead of specifically.People who really think a mural IS called a murial (we have Hilda Ogden to thank for that).

Samba_Pa_Ti

Halloway wrote: »

'Original Poster' or 'Original Post'. Refers to the first post or poster in a thread.

any idea what DS means (i assume its talking about daughter/son but that does not make sense to me), and obviously OH is other half....

Ivory_Tinkler

Samba_Pa_Ti wrote: »

any idea what DS means (i assume its talking about daughter/son but that does not make sense to me), and obviously OH is other half....

I thought it was one of those Nintendo thingies????

dizziblonde

Claire_Bear wrote: »

Apostrophes are the one thing that can wind me up, guaranteed. There is a letting agency on the way to town which has a giant banner on the wall saying 'LANDLORD'S WANTED!' What, just one? I have to go past it every day as well, drives me mad! :mad: Also punctuation errors on shop signs, you think for something like that you'd get it spellchecked?

Oh heck - while I occasionally make mistakes (I'm dyslexic and type on the world's laggiest computer), apostrophes drive me nuts. I've been known to stand by chalkboard (not allowed to call them blackboards) menus in pubs and slightly rub out all the misplaced apostrophes in every word that ends in an s (chip's, burger's etc etc) on more than one occasion. I also jump up and down and start gibbering if kids hand in work with the apostrophe machine gunning in!

I can read most things though - having to decipher the writing of very littlies is good training for internet forums and I don't tend to pick grammar and spelling to bits as mine is pretty lazy on the internet anyway (as long as people are able to use the English language correctly in situations where it's required).

Pollycat

Samba_Pa_Ti wrote: »

any idea what DS means (i assume its talking about daughter/son but that does not make sense to me), and obviously OH is other half....

DS = Dear/Darling Son
DD = Dear/Darling Daughter

Here's some more:

hieveryone wrote: »

I find it really hard to read when people post things like 'DH said to DD1, don't do that to your sister (DD2), so then DD3 jumped to her defence, and to make it even worse, now my MIL and FIL are involved...bla bla bla'

I have never in all my life heard anyone call their husband their 'darling/dear husband' or dear/darling daughter' - yet when I read these posts that's what I say in my head! lol

Dear/Darling Husband
MIL = Mother in Law
etc etc

Or ast the risk of upsetting Simbacat - do i mean 'ECT'? :rotfl:

Claire_Bear

dizziblonde wrote: »

I've been known to stand by chalkboard (not allowed to call them blackboards) menus in pubs and slightly rub out all the misplaced apostrophes in every word that ends in an s (chip's, burger's etc etc) on more than one occasion.

:T:T:T Good for you!

'I could of...'
'I should of...'
'I would of...'

:mad::mad::mad: