Ohh geez >=(

Your vs You're -- Did you FAIL grade school? Come the fuck on.
Lose vs Loose -- I've seen this typo'd so many times. SO. MANY. TIMES. It gets under my skin considerably. God dammit, people.
Genious -- This bugs me as well >=(
Various misspellings of "Definitely" -- Gwaaaagh >=( Definately, Defanitely, Definitly, etc. COME ON.

>=( x 4

Definatly, rediculous, and the "yea" thing were all mentioned in this thread, which makes me happy, because those are the things I hate most. When I saw the "yea" thing, I realized how much I hate it XD but the two spelling errors really make me mad.

But... but it doesn't :gonk:

Specific American accents (like a southern or a new england accent) I can't attest to, but definitely the generic midwest accent renders them the same.

It's not really a typo, but as seen even in this very thread, it's dumb as hell when people use "literally" as an exaggerator. Whoever it was, "literally blew his stack" doesn't mean he was really really angry it means he fucking exploded.

This isn't a typo either but it's just as bad, so deal: people saying "for all intensive purposes" as opposed to the correct "intents and purposes" gets to me a little.

I'm going to second/third/fourth the use of your/you're. It amazes me that people still get that mixed up.

I think it's actually gotten to the point where "I could care less" just means the same thing as "I couldn't care less." Kinda like the "flammable"/"inflammable" thing.

Attention morons:

"ORIENTATE" IS NOT A WORD!

You can "orient" yourself in a particular direction. You can possess a specific "orientation."

You cannot "orientate" yourself toward anything. It's not a word! It's not possible! Stop using it this way!

AAAAGH!

Family Guy and American Dad have ruined this for me. They take numerous stabs at it, if memory serves. Nowadays I like it when people use "irregardless", just to piss Seth McFarlane off.

Also "definately" or other heinous variations is definitely my main irk. A few times I've seen intelligent people who have otherwise perfect grammar misspell definitely. My response to that? A passionately forceful:

http://g.photos.cx/Faceplant-Dawn-f4.png

Also I'm ashamed to type in this thread 'cause I constantly stuff up the distinction between its and it's. :(

It actually is a word, in the same capacity as "irregardless" is a word, at least. Check your dictionary.

Not that I approve of its use or anything. :p

^^ Yes but it's silly and GFF does not approve of silly. :milk:

:)

Spelling definitely wrong, than/then, your/you're/etc, among many others. One that annoys me a lot though, is when people spell tomorrow wrong. I understand some of the others, but you learn to spell tomorrow in like 3rd grade. How the hell can people in college still spell it tommorow or tommorrow?

Cmon people, don't put your educational systems to shame.

I don't know what they're teaching you in the Philadelphia Public School System, but "cmon" is not a word. It's a contraction, colloquially, for "come on". It's spelled c'mon.

You could at least do your best to avoid misspellings in a thread revolving around the damn things.

I know how it is spelled, I'm just too lazy to use the apostrophe. Just like sometimes I don't feel like using them in other words.

Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. I do the same with the hyphen. Sometimes I do it properly, and sometimes I am just too lazy.

Then you're in no place to critique the grammar and spelling of others. Don't put your educational system to shame, now.

I sure as hell can criticize. I chose to withdraw punctuation. Other people don't know how to spell those words. There is a big difference. Just because I have typos that I find annoying, does not mean that I proclaim to be an all-world grammar champion. It is what it is.

No one here has ever spelled every single word correctly in their life anyway, so in a sense we are all hypocritical. But this is a thread to just have fun, so no need to get your panties in a bunch, Capo.

Hope you had a happy easter. :cool:

^^ I chose not to capitalize easter on purpose. ;)

Since when is being a retard or just acting like one any different from an outside perspective?

You realise that intellectual laziness is specifically the thing most intelligent people find maddening. No one gives a shit that you know how to spell the word, when you don't do it properly you look like a git. But when dealing with you, I just can't even pretend to be surprised. You're routinely one of the most blatantly idiotic members on this board, and the sheer audacity it took just for you to show your name here is stunning. But really, keep flailing about. You're definitely coming out on top here.

Ok, Denicalis.

You are certainly entitled to be annoyed by it, as this was the purpose of the topic. I didn't realize you cared about punctuation so much. You took a fun and facetious topic to a personal level. Great display of maturity there for someone who calls me the idiot. I love the use of the word "audacity" too in regard to posting a reply in a simple topic. Cute.

But thanks for trying to turn this topic into another one of your bitter and hostile rants. Hope to hear from you again soon.

I'm guilty of a lot of this stuff. Sorry. :(

I hadn't even noticed until forums started adding this spell check feature. Live and learn...

vBulletin doesn't have spell check built in. It's just your Firefox browser.

Wow... *face palm*

I think I'll just walk out of here and hide in my cave now...

It's been said before, but the your/you're barrier is definitely my biggest peeve, with the their/there/they're barrier a close second. I used to teach college composition; I gave the kids an actual, factual cheat sheet and they still screwed it up. Seeing someone misuse those automatically takes my first impression down a notch.

I'm not blameless, though. I frequently misspell words by getting the vowels wrong--spelling "sentence" as "sentance" or "believe" as "beleive." Whoever mentioned native speakers learning phonetically was, I think, right on the money--the words I screwspell would sound the same with the wrong vowels.

(I hope portmanteaus like "screwspell" aren't anyone's pet peeves :D)

"I know the key is literally at the tip of my finger but I'm just too fucking lazy to reach for it."

No, no. Thank you, DragoonKain, for once again turning a simple topic into something utterly devoid of any sort of substance with one quick stroke of your utter lack of intellect. Kudos.