r/TikTokCringe • u/iffyClyro • 1d ago
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u/Pepperspray24 1d ago
Mine is “loose” and “lose”. I get so irritated when people type that they want to loose weight.
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u/Sea-Breath-007 1d ago
Mine's then and than, and for some reason here on Reddit the people I see messing those 2 up are usually Americans.
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u/Sk3tchyG1ant 1d ago
I "hate" when people "use" quotation marks thinking it's "emphasizing" a word and it turns it to the "opposite" meaning instead
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u/Mandyvlp 1d ago edited 1d ago
- All of the sudden
- Could of
- Taken back
- I resonate with that 🙄
- A whole nother
- Expresso
- Ying yang
ETA: Jfc people. I’m aware that some of these are actual words and/or modern phrasing - they’re just not grammatically correct and are pet peeves of mine.
It’s not that deep….is it?
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u/rycbar26 1d ago
A whole nother isn’t incorrect like the other examples. But I get it if it bothers you.
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u/Demonyx12 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/v8k9PaAQphzwI
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expresso (it's in the dic, can't a-quit)
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u/Mandyvlp 1d ago
Um, what?
“I resonate with that” is grammatically incorrect though people use it a lot.
“That resonates with me” is correct.Ying Yang is not correct.
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u/stinkstabber69420 1d ago
I used to let myself get irritated at shit like this, but its a losing battle. People are gonna people, getting this worked up about something like this is a little ridiculous
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u/turbotaco23 1d ago
That attitude doesn’t make for an interesting tik tok. I’m sure she’s not actually that upset.
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u/Adept-Watercress-378 1d ago
Agreed. At this point in my life, I just tell them the proper way, without caring if they actually take it into consideration or not.
Helped a lot of people understand should’ve would’ve could’ve.
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u/DryerCoinJay 1d ago
The point of communicating is to convey an idea. Whether they said it correctly or not it is usually understood correctly.
This is one thing I’m not picky on because I’m a shitty speller myself even for having a degree.
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u/Adept-Watercress-378 1d ago
Agreed. It’s more of a”this is grammatically correct. You can choose to use it or not”
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u/Life-Adhesiveness192 17h ago
I’m a writer/editor, and after a long-ass day of staring at a screen, I misspell, use the wrong form of words, and I use the wrong punctuation. If I’m not on the clock, I don’t care if you’re using the right form of there.
Also, some grammar rules we abide by were made up by dudes in the 1800s, and language evolves, and so should our tolerance for people speaking and writing differently from us.
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u/humanlvl1 1d ago
There is a reason we call it "pet" peeves. People enjoy having these little bits of pain in their lives,
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u/When1Falls 1d ago
The meta joke here is that this is what you start going off about when your life is nothing but caring for a baby
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u/Daft_Tyler 1d ago edited 1d ago
The English language is the problem, you can't blame people for being confused at (one of) the most confusing language on the planet.
Edit: clarified so people stop coming at me with semantics
Second edit: everyone replying to this post is just as prentious and annoying as this lady and that's my real point, so thank for proving it.
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u/risingtitanic 1d ago
And this is how I know you’re only familiar with one language.
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u/jujioux 1d ago
I hate that “comfortability” has become a thing. People sound so dumb saying that. It’s comfort.
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u/some_kinda_stupid 1d ago
I think part of the beauty of language is that people speak differently to achieve the same outcome! Its a lil bit of flair we each add to our speech patterns to make us each a bit different. If someone wants to say "comfortability" then who cares?? You know what they mean and they know what they mean! Enjoy the variety of speech around you :)
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u/SweetClinMusic 1d ago
Are you saying it's not a word?
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u/piddlepots2345 1d ago
It’s a completely unnecessary word that would have evolved because people didn’t realize that “comfort” already does the exact same job but better.
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u/ThesisTears 1d ago
The one that irks me is "could care less" NO you COULDN'T care less ughhhhh
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u/Admirable_Loss4886 1d ago
There’s a fair amount of irony in getting upset over that lol
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u/PJHFortyTwo 1d ago
Incidentally, I think irony is why "I could" is used. You're saying you care a little bit sarcastically to express that you could not actually care less. A bit like saying "any day now" to say "that's not gonna happen soon".
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u/GlumFaithlessness773 1d ago
Why do they keep saying “wanna”? It’s “want to.” Why do they say “mum” instead of “mother”? Why do they say “give a shit”? To whom?!
Some of you will try to tell me words change depending on time and place. That communication is about shared understanding and not rules. Pish posh!
If it weren’t for grammatical snobbery, how could I show that I was lucky enough to receive a good education at a critical developmental age? How else can I show that I was fortunate enough to attend college? How will those without this privilege know that I’m better and smarter than them?
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u/fancywipe 1d ago
Please feed YO baby she’s making all these cute sounds how are YO so angry with all that cuteness happening around you
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u/brittlebk 1d ago
This girls voice is nails on a chalkboard to me. Fuckin hell
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u/coolcoots 1d ago
All that negative energy and moving around while the poor child is trying to eat.
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u/Lifelong_Expat 1d ago edited 23h ago
Omg that’s a baby bottle. I thought they were headphones and was wondering where the baby noises were coming from lol
Edit - also funny she is ranting about improper English and then says, “amount of people.” LOL
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u/CatsEatGrass 1d ago
Hear me out. I COULD care less, but I don’t care enough to put in the effort to care less.
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u/Wizard_of_WUBRG 1d ago
I wholeheartedly agree and it bugs me when people say this incorrectly, but goddamn, surely there is a way to get the point across without furiously shoving your hand in my face for two minutes like you're trying to pluck my eyeballs out.
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u/QwackSparrow 1d ago
That's what happens when yanks try to copy UK slang
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u/Supercoolguy7 1d ago
Half of the video isn't even about slang, but also the slang has been common in the US for decades and eventually got corrupted not during any importation but as a result of portmanteuing
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u/entropymatters 1d ago
The thing is language changes. If everybody continues to make these mistakes then that's what becomes the correct way to use the word or words.
I bet she got an English degree and now has nothing better to do then correct peoples spelling and grammar online. LMAO (I did that on purpose, I bet she hates those.)
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u/2b_1 1d ago edited 4h ago
0:28 The NUMBER of people who…
This has become my personal hell over the past few years. I rarely hear anyone use amount vs number correctly, and any time someone says the word amount, I cannot help but check their usage of it in my mind. When what you are talking about is pluralized and quantifiable, barring rare exceptions, number is the correct word to use. The word people is plural, therefore number is the correct word to use here. This is a similar problem to less vs. fewer.
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u/demoliahedd 17h ago
Why does this make you so angry? Does it make it more difficult to understand what they are communicating?
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u/2b_1 4h ago
In all honesty, it doesn’t make me angry. It’s not something I ever bring up when someone makes the mistake (unless I know them really well). Hell, I even make that mistake sometimes.
The reason I brought it up is because I cannot unhear the difference and the fact that I notice every time someone uses it incorrectly is what drives me up the wall. Noticing every single linguistic issue someone makes, no matter how small, is what makes this my personal hell.
So basically, it’s my own perfectionist brain geting on my nerves, rather than something I’m actually annoyed by.
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u/GooniesInTheBoonies 1d ago
You're completely right, but until now I've never noticed or thought about number vs amount in this way. I assume this must be dialectal, or perhaps language has already evolved past this particularity as it has evolved past some of my personal bugbears (such as dice being used instead of die for a singular object).
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u/More-Initial3870 1d ago
I watched for about three seconds and gave up. I can’t believe people sit through nonsense like this.
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u/Adelvice_ 1d ago
Thank you. It drives me crazy so many people are fucking stupid.
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u/bobby_broccolini 1d ago
look up the etymology of any word you use regularly and realize that everyone's constantly shifting. there's not even 1 point or place to lock in on as the correct usage for almost any word.
I agree people are stupid but there is always a bigger boat. these nitpicks are narrow minded and smart people wouldn't judge based off any of these.
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u/Mysterious_Luck_1365 1d ago
That’s my bigger worry lol. I’m afraid that some of these things will be misused for so long that they will become the norm.
For example if your and you’re become accepted as interchangeable, I will have to go through the extra effort of digging further to decipher language. It already happens in text messages etc. At least for now we agree that it’s wrong. If that agreement goes away, I have to learn to speak English all over in my 40s or 50s. And I’m too tired to do that.
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u/bobby_broccolini 1d ago
I understand that feeling but my point was that the norm is already "wrong". Every few decades the standard for sentence structure and the meaning of common words changes dramatically or is at least shifting slowly. We just get taught the current standard. There are places where local accents change literally by neighborhood and within those accents they are themselves changing all the time.
Language is ALWAYS moving forward and an expression of something very organic
I understand that maybe it's happening faster nowadays but maybe we are just more aware of it.
Not trying to be a jerk i just maybe can't manage my tone I'm sorry lol
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u/Mysterious_Luck_1365 1d ago
I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just upset lol
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u/bobby_broccolini 1d ago
Yea I get it. Fwiw I'm 33 and pretty sad at how some people talk these days
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u/piddlepots2345 1d ago
Which words in what you just wrote would not have been understood by someone 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago?!
Zero? People get to learn that language changes and then make the rather facile conclusion that therefore language is always moving “forward” and that all change is good and that in fact change is way more common than it is. Things can regress. Losing the distinction between you’re and your would be a regression. It would be language going backwards and becoming worse. Also far more important than the slow and rare changes is the shared social customs and activity that language is. This is achieved by there being lots and lots of rules which are not broken and change only slightly and very slowly if at all.
Spelling and grammar conventions are not handed down from on high but are a miracle of a vast social agreement and convention that is crucial to you understanding a single word or idea that I just expressed.
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u/piddlepots2345 1d ago
Exactly. Just cos Ianguage changes doesn’t mean every change is good and that overwhelmingly stability and shared rules are not far, far more useful 99.999% of the time.
There are very good reasons to be able to distinguish between you’re and your, to/too/two etc and it’s extremely silly to just shrug about all mistakes or potential losses to a language’s capabilities and say “Language changes!”.
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u/piddlepots2345 1d ago
SO many people get to stage 1 of understanding that language does indeed evolve but then take that to imply that therefore all rules should be broken and all changes are good and no changes should be complained about.
We know. We all know language changes. That doesn’t mean that all changes are good or should be encouraged or that actually there are no benefits to having shared conventions.
You managed to read those previous two paragraphs because I followed the conventions of how all those words were spelled and used. It’s useful to have rules we can all share and use, isn’t it?
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u/bobby_broccolini 1d ago
I agree with you. There's still something to say about which changes matter and why we think they matter.
Mostly I was criticizing someone for belittling people over these specific examples in the video.
No offense but yes obviously preserving conventions matters. I'm saying people are fixative and hypocritical over which norms are important and don't think about how their own conventions are themselves brand new in the scheme of things
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u/spacestonkz 1d ago
I'd rather save it for when it's not an unambiguous error.
Like horrified vs mortified have very different meanings and get mixed up to much confusion.
If you say "I could care less" no one thinks you are expressing an intermediate amount of care. We all know what the error is. We all understand the meaning anyway.
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u/OkYak7801 1d ago edited 1d ago
Blessed existence to have time worrying about something so inconsequential
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u/CatsEatGrass 1d ago
And what matters of great importance are you addressing while scrolling through Reddit?
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u/Much_Help_7836 1d ago
The "could care less" thing is something that, when someone says or writes it, makes me immediatly dismiss anything else that person says or writes. Before I had this rule, I've never seen a person use the "could care less" thing that at any point said or wrote anything I found useful to hear or read. It's like a litmus test for me at this point.
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u/BusyBit6542 1d ago
Mine is "itch"
"Can you itch my back?" "No. I can SCRATCH your back this itching."
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u/SDTimbox 1d ago
Finally, someone said it. Drives me fucking nuts. "Same difference" killed me for years too. Their, there, and they're mix ups also make me lose it.
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u/DaveWpgC 1d ago
"Is this your guys's car?" - infuriating... how about just saying is this your car?
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u/RupertHermano 1d ago
Arrived *to* New York City; based *out of* Chicago.
Drives me fucking nuts too.
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u/Fair-Efficiency-8342 1d ago
The day 'could of' enters the dictionary is when it's lights out for humanity. AI can take over at that point.
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u/Objective_Dark_4258 1d ago
Ect for etc has been creeping in more and more. The misuse of too is ridiculous.
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u/idiotcommend 1d ago
Language was made to communicate ideas. If you understand what they're trying to say it did its job even if what they said/typed isn't grammatically correct.
You can type out any version of "their", it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which one you really meant.
Sometimes I fuck up my grammar on purpose just to annoy people like this.
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u/Soonerpalmetto88 1d ago
How did I hear her English accent while the sound was off? Lol watching too much British TV I guess.
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u/Entropei 1d ago
It’s good to talk to your baby even when they can’t talk back yet. It helps with bonding and language development. Go mama!
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u/Kipsydaisy 1d ago
Completely disagree on “I couldn’t care less.” She’s technically right, but the point is by saying it I care so little I don’t even care if it’s perfectly correct. Also, “I could care less” will never be mistaken, ever, for “I care.”
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u/Crypto_subz 1d ago
I’m not saying she’s doing this also didn’t pay attention to the talk but is it normal to move ur face like that? I mean she’s flexing a jawline that’s not real unless trying like does anyone get what I’m saying? This all an act I feel like I mean cia or whatever was invested in Elvis Presley and what viewers like…is this not the end result? Like sheep speak their mind but they all focused on how they look while doing it? Like does that not takeaway from any message besides just this video lol and at the same time the ones that don’t care it’s hard to care because most don’t want to hear from someone not looking good it seems like the most moronic pattern yet
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u/EobardThawne2020 1d ago
YES!!!!!!!! Let's fucking ban people saying "some kinda way" too! Drives me bananas
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u/No_Eggplant_3189 1d ago
Here's a thought:
Maybe, just maybe the common mix up of "your" and "you're" isn't always due to people not knowing the difference between the two words. Perhaps, even, its typically not the reason for the mix up?
Far-fetched idea, I know. Idk what I was thinking. Just disregard anything I said.
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u/haloimplant 1d ago
People using "whenever" for once in a lifetime occurrences
Based on what I see it seems to be concentrated in Texas
• When: Refers to a specific, single point in time or a known moment. ("I will call you when I arrive.")
• Whenever: Refers to repeated/recurring instances, or an unspecified, flexible time.
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u/Small_Conflict_9625 1d ago
"Begs the question."
No, it "RAISES the question," but I think I'm fighting a losing battle here.
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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 1d ago
drives me crazy when people don't say "when i was young" and replace it with "whenever i was young".
it's NOT whenever.
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u/servantofmydomain 1d ago
Two of my biggest pronunciation peeves of pet:
Jewelry - Jewlery Realtor - Relator
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u/ShiftAlternative1083 1d ago
I cannot stand when people say "it's 3am in the morning" "it's 10am in the morning".... AM & PM tell us wtf part of the day you're talking about! Jesus fuckin christ!
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u/Maleficent-Owl3392 23h ago
"I could care less" is the sarcastic version of "I couldn't care less." When I say "I could care less," it isn't by accident.
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u/Only_Fudge5299 22h ago
my biggest pet peeve is "et cetera". like, why tf would you pronounce etc. as "eck-setter-uh"???
don't even get me started on "ex-seh-truh".....
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u/freddotu 22h ago
Let us add "times less" to this diatribe. Oops, I mean let's add... Times less is akin to a six hundred percent discount; it can't be done. I like this posting party.
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u/Neoxite23 20h ago
I feel exactly this way for those videos where people use POV.
Whose POV? It's more often wrong than used right.
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u/Drxgon11037 20h ago
I fully agree but her delivery and mannerisms are so irritating to watch, I’m inclined to disagree
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u/c4t4ly5t 12h ago
Honestly, I feel her frustration every time i song along to Devildriver's I Could Care Less.but it's such an awesome song! 😭
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u/No_World96 11h ago
She is not wrong. And she is saying things I have been saying for years. I finally just accepted that there is a certain type of person who speaks that way and cant accept or learn correction. Helps me avoid that type .
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u/Tokitin0 10h ago
Ekcedra or ekcetera instead of etcetera. "I/we/they seen" instead of saw. "I/we/they had/have went" instead of had/have gone.
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u/AlreadyAway 7h ago
This isn't the same thing but I've always hated polish vs Polish. Just a capitalization completely changes the meaning. What if it starts a sentence but you intended to use the lower case version.
i.e.
Me: "How did you get your car so shiny?"
You: "Polish"
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u/mrjuanofjuan 5h ago
I’ve always understood “I could care less” to be about perspective and that both are acceptable. If someone’s talking to you about something you can say “I could care less (than you do about this topic),” but if you’re talking about your own interest in it you can say “I couldn’t care less (than I currently do).”
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u/tonygutz 5h ago
Ha ha! “The amount of people that don’t know the difference . . . “. It’s “the NUMBER of people . . .” In one sentence she trashed her credibility.
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u/thissomeotherplace 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think "on accident" may actually be grammatically correct but it sounds fucking stupid compared to "by accident".
Edit: I stand corrected, it's completely wrong - https://www.grammar.com/on_accident_vs._by_accident
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u/LaserGadgets 1d ago
"I could not care less" is the only senseful way to say it.
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u/Michael1795 1d ago
in 100 years when society gets rid of all the words that sound the exact same like their and your. People will look back at us like we were so stupid. cause it is so stupid.
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u/ComprehensiveFun620 1d ago
These issues are common in morons. It’s nice the Gen Z is discovering that they too have morons in their generation. And while we’re at it, lose vs. loose. What is the issue there exactly?
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u/rhubear 1d ago
I used to try to teach English online.
I used to get irritated by the written English.
I've actually learned to ignore those who can't write English. They're not bothering me, except for still irritating me a little.
Chill out there little girl.... Our next generation will be all (latest gen) shorthand, ie acronyms, possibly even worse. Your English lessons are wasted.
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