Pet peeves about language/grammar....

my biggest peeves are mispronunciations , misspellings and grammatical errors... but my ex-husband used to combine cliches - OMG and really screw them up! he also would ask a yes/no question, and then say "or no" - i wanted to ask him if he'd like to answer the question for me, or at least tell me which question i should answer...

Yup, quite a number of people do that; but no one I know as irritating as this guy from our regional offices. When he talked to us, he'd always stared us and punctuated every sentence he said with 'you know'. So one day, I really got so annoyed that he was 'crowding' us so I just told him after his 'you know' - "I don't know". He was so stunned, he forgot what he was going to say!!

Well, I could like go all day like without hearing like another time. Like it's so lame! When my students are talking, they can't seem to talk without adding dawg or bro to the likes. English teachers aren't the only ones who hate these examples of stupidity!

The phrase that irritates me the most is "I Know". I know a few people that use that all the time and say it even when they don't know what the conversation is about. That really bothers me. If you don't know something, it is ok to admit that you don't .

hi dear very thought provoking...i use lots of "and" so i end up with long sentences..my hubby always tells me to use shorter sentences and less complex..i have not found anything very annoying or irritating what others say except that one lady keeps telling "We have done so much for others" again and again and that actually puts me off why go about like a loud mouth if you have helped someone..have a nice day

I don't have a word that I think is overused so much but I am a huge grammar Nazi. On grammar pet peeve I have is "text slang". I don't understand how it is so hard to type out an entire word. I have to admit that I used to type like that but now it just annoys me. And my overall pet peeve is people that don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". Goodness, that drives me crazy!

There are so many things going on in my life and in my mind that I don't get the luxury of a pet peeve or of getting irritated by grammar and language. There was a time when I would dissect everything but those days are gone, thank God.

Basically, I think your idea is correct. It is an over used word. I guess people use it to help themselves feel smarter. I think they want to make things simple for their audience also. I think people who write copy just get into a pattern of overusing the same words time and again and it continues in many ways. Basically that is, lol.

Perhaps as I get older more things irritate me, because everything everyone else has shared would be in my list. I get a bit fartoost at why people have to use the f word or other cuss words so much. To me, it shows laziness. Surely there are words that would better show the meaning of one's anger. In fact, when I was a kid, we used to make a game of making up "nice" cuss words. Grandma used to say, "sugar on two sticks!" I'm not sure if sugar on two sticks meant that she was more angry than if she said sugar on one stick. Using text talk bugs me. I'll ignore any bit of writing that uses it. Here in Cincinnati, what bothers me most is that people say, "Please?" when the mean, "Pardon me?" or "What did you say?" or "Huh?"

There is a fellow that my husband does networking with, and he is constantly saying, "you know what I'm saying" Of course you know what he is saying, he just said itexample, I am going to sponsor the next affair, "you know what I'm saying" That sounds so dumb. Every other sentence he says, there will always be a "you know what I'm saying"

hi friend well, i would like to go all day.

I am annoyed by people not only overusing a phrase, but misusing it. For example, I hear people say "I could care less" -- meaning they don't care about something or it makes no difference to them. However, that is a misuse of the phrase "I couldn't care less." If you could care less, then that means that you do care -- which is the exact opposite of what the speaker actually intends. This really bother me and I am hearing it with increasing frequency so I am afraid that it will become the norm.

For me it's the f word. It's really overused. I hate hearing it. Even children use it. It's overused but not misused. And it really irritates me when some children down the lane says "oh you stepped on my foot, f you". Really off-topic, I mean who does not use that word. But anyways, good info on the basically stuff. Even I admit that I misused the words many times. Salutes to you dragon.