No Norris - you definitely shouldn't HAVE - aaaarggggghhhh.
Just me?
NO!!! It isn't just you!! He did it twice!! To Eva as well 'you might as well of!'
I cannot bear bad grammar. It's not hard to say have. It's not hard to differentiate 'your' and 'you're' .
Grrrrrr!
I feel your pain.
shareI don't think anyone can fully understand the inner rage I feel when literally EVERYBODY I know writes 'could of' 'should of' and 'your not funny'.
Seriously. Talk about clenching my fists on a daily basis. What happened to basic English in schools?
I am with you in every way, shape and form. I understand. And so do many more ! Yippee
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Oh, I can Senorita. I also add "Can I get..." and misuse of the possessive apostrophe
shareIt does make you wonder. They actually have people who are script editors and check it over, yet keep making the same mistakes.
share"Cut - sorry Sean, what did you just say"?
"Why, my line of course".
"And where, pray tell, does it say 'shouldn't of' in the script"?
".... erm, erm, hang on ......"
It's so annoying!
I have wondered if they do it on purpose for the "dim" characters.
I don't think they do. It's something you hear and read everywhere nowadays. If they ARE doing it for realistic purposes, then they really really really need to stop! Someone needs to pull the actors up and correct them every time it's used. Please, someone, anyone - put a stop to this before I am forced to remove my ears and eyes!
shareIt's different when it's spoken, as opposed to written, though. When it's spoken, it can be excused as colloquial phrasing, whereas when written it's just lazy - unless done very deliberately to make a point.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
This is one of my biggest pet peeves!
Also, when people type "cause" for "because". It's not an abbreviation, it's a different word!
Honorable mentions:
Boughten, documentated, irregardless.
I LOVE this thread! Thank you for using English correctly, peeps! I was sat in training today and watched the girl next to me write "company's". She was talking about multiple businesses. Then in the next line she put something about "clients policy". A policy belonging to the client, obviously. *Head desk*.
shareDrives me insane and I'm proud to say my daughters have inherited my insistence on proper spelling and grammar. It's just so lazy!
So roll me further, bitch
I don't even care that my friends call me a grammar Nazi. I cannot bear it. If someone messages me with 'your funny' I always answer 'my funny what? You haven't finished your sentence.'
It's the putting 'of' rather than 'have' that really grates my gears, though. I'm being serious when I say there is nothing that winds me up more.
It's an abbreviation when it has an apostrophe in front of it - 'cause I said so!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
I'm so glad other people feel this way.its something that upsets me every day and that's how often I see it. Unfortunately its becoming more and more normal.
There's a shop I walk past everyday on my way home from work called little legs. It's for babies clothes and shoes. As in little legs.
The huge sign on the shop says little leg's. So irritating that its on a shop in huge letters. I really want to go in and correct them. But that would be dumb of course. Id probably get a mouthful of abuse and then chased out with a knife something.
What's even more infuriating is the fact that a lot of abbreviations are now ending up in the dictionary as actual words.
**cArNiVaLs oF fAyGo**
No. I feel your pain...