[funsongfactory]

Sheer stupidity.

[funsongfactory]

And typos

[aWildPidgey]

Ignorance, laziness, and unwillingness to learn.

[Indian_Princess]

i hate it when people say 'could of'

[geetar]

[Above.The.Empyrean]

I could you could of said laik, anything?

[rainbow.panda]

I know exactly what you mean. So many people can't spell and simply don't understand grammar, how to use apostrophes correctly, or the difference between your/you're and there/their/they're. Also I hate when people write "should of" instead of "should have". That drives me up the wall!

[hannah60000]

(Original post by Really_Gonna_Rock_)
Their/there/they're, your/you're....!!!!!

Why oh why do people confuse these words and so often use the incorrect form????

I'm talking about NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ffs!!!!!!

Now if you're foreign and you learned English as a second language, I'll forgive you for getting the correct form!!!!

But if you're a NATIVE BLOODY ENGLISH SPEAKER, there is no excuse!

Don't they get taught the difference between them in school these days???

Rant over!

I believe people do know the differences between the words but in writing accidentally but the wrong one that is why I always check after tying in some causes it is a general error not lack of understanding as they all sound the same

[Deziah]

When it's people who complain about foreign people coming to our country and not speaking English, yet they can't even establish the difference between basic grammar which they were taught in their native language when they were about five! I'm so ashamed to be British when this happens. I know foreign people who speak English as their second/third language, yet they speak it so much better than those who it is native to. There's really no excuse, it's so shameful.

[21stcenturyphantom]

(Original post by silent ninja)
Add of/have:

"I should of gone to the match"

Seriously.

I see this far too often....

(Original post by TheBambiHeart)
I see "defiantly" used for "definitely" a lot

..and I see this all the time! How do people even get these two mixed up? If you say them out loud they sound nothing alike.

[navellecim]

Using "too" and "to" incorrectly

[Tilly87]

(Original post by Really_Gonna_Rock_)

Now if you're foreign and you learned English as a second language, I'll forgive you for getting the correct form!!!!

!

Do you mean 'forgetting'?

[besarlalluvia]

I don't even care. I only find it annoying if they give off a pompous, self-righteous attitude. Otherwise, spelling errors or typos don't bother me, since I can still understand what they mean. It doesn't really surprise me, anyway. English has a weird spelling system.

[Graceyyyyyyy]

I'm only 16 and I have so any friends who don't understand the difference however I only know because my mum corrected me if I had made an error. We were never actually taught any grammar at primary school and by the time we were in high school we were expected to know it all.

[Leahcar]

Non-native English speakers usually get it right more often than we do, simply because they've learned the grammatical rules as an actual subject (and fairly recently, I would assume) rather than learning them while learning to read, write and speak as a youngster. There is more emphasis on grammar when you're learning another language because obviously if you say 'your' when you mean 'you're' it can completely change the meaning of the sentence.

[Schmucks]

Laziness.

[Airfairy]

(Original post by MancStudent098)

Spoiler:

Show

Being a Mitchell and Webb fan, I've seen that before. Love it haha

[SnoochToTheBooch]

because so many english natives drink special brew from age 13

[aspirinpharmacist]

It really irritates me. If I discover I've done it myself I either correct myself of try to scribble it out/delete it. I don't mind if it's occasional, it's when people do it all the time. It annoys me more than spelling mistakes. Do you know what's worse? When people on the internet decide to effectively commit genocide against punctuation. No full stops, no question marks, no commas, nothing. I don't know what you're saying! If someone in real life just babbled on without any pauses or changes in inflection, nobody would have a clue what they were on about. Please, please use punctuation. I don't know, maybe it's because my mum always corrected me when I did it, I don't feel as though anyone else should get away with it.

[THEEIGTHWONDER]

I think your argument is flawed. I just done English at university and many in my lectures struggled with the difference. Your making a huge generalisation, not taking into account what the situation is etc...


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