2007-12-08 11:11:03 · 19 answers · asked by Curious G 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
My first language is Welsh and my pet hate is people (mainly from South Wales) who can't mutate properly.
They say things like 'Yn fam i'...'yn dad i'....when it's on a Welsh Soap (Pobl y Cwm) it makes it worse.
In English it's people who put apostrophes in every word ending in 's'.
Potato's, orange's, flower's...etc.
2007-12-08 12:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I shouldn't use the word 'irritates', but I am 57, I have taught English and French for years, and nowadays I have to be more lax with students who cannot spell, or use grammar or punctuation correctly. I give private tuition because lots of parents despair about the level of their child's English skills. I was educated in the 1960s at a grammar school, and we learnt all the parts of speech, parsing, essay writing, and our reading list was much more advanced that those given today. Also, we were not allowed to take any textbooks with us into exams, we had to memorise long passages from plays and novels and poems and quote from them. People argue and argue these days about education, but i KNOW that young people are leaving school without the basic abilities to read, write, add up, etc let alone the capacity to be POLITE to people or to appreciate that they can get a job at all.
And yes, like some of your other respondents, I hate texting. Did you see Muriel Gray a few weeks ago on Grumpy Old Women talking about some of the CVs she receives where people actually list 'texting' under hobbies?
2007-12-08 11:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When people purposely use slang to make themselves out to be so "ghetto" and "unique" e.g in class when a teachers asks a question, they'd purposely reply in slang so the teacher wouldnt understand. That grinds my gears.
2007-12-08 11:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by devilinheaven555 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who use their own language poorly--poor grammar and bad spelling. Text lingo should be used for texting--period.
2007-12-08 11:27:49 · answer #4 · answered by chatsplas 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who stick an apostrophe in every time they see an "s". Americans who say "nuke-u-lar" instead of "newclear". Writers who write "disoriented" instead of "disorientated", especially if they're British, because Americans don't know any better, but British writers should know!
2007-12-08 11:29:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree I hate text speak. I don't like bad grammar either, but I'm sure mine isn't the best all the time so I wouldn't say I hate it
2007-12-08 11:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by *golden*delicious* 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Koreanki nosza spodniczki
2007-12-08 21:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by ケチャッパー 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people say things like chimley instead of chimney etc
2007-12-08 11:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by Slinky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The text lingo that people use is quite annoying.
2007-12-08 11:17:11 · answer #9 · answered by D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who say / write "if you have any queries you can contact myself" no, use the word "me". It doesn't make you look bussiness like it just makes you look thick.
2007-12-08 16:38:17 · answer #10 · answered by sashs.geo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋