Typos taht drive you CRAZEY!
 

Man, there are some spelling errors that really grind my shit up a fucking wall. The big one for me is genious.

PEOPLE. There is no "o" in the word GENIUS. It seems to be an epidemic with all of my friends since I know very few of them who can spell it correctly, even amongst the smart ones.

Another one I don't particularly enjoy is definately. This is a tricky one since it LOOKS correct, but anyone with good spelling would see otherwise.

I admit, I used to think definitely was spelled with an a just until a few months ago, and I kind of feel ashamed for not knowing all these years, being somewhat obsessive with my spelling. But then again, I'm a swede, so I'll just blame it on not being my native language :tpg:

One of my pet peeves is when people mix up "your" and "you're". IT'S SO AGGRAVATING.

It really gets confusing because both 'genius' and 'genious' are real words. They can't be intermixed, since one is a noun and the other is an adjective, but people use them both for the same anyway. GRAAAH.

Its/it's, also used incorrectly without remorse. Sometimes even I stop to think about which one to use.

Also: THERE/THEIR/THEY'RE. The most horrible trio ever. Discerning the difference between them is very hard to native english speakers only, for some strange reason. And both hilarious and very sad at the same time.

I can relate to your story, I was spelling definitely with an "a" up until a week or two ago, the only difference being my native language is english. :eagletear:

The only typos that really infuriate me are ones made by my fellow Aussies. I hate when they spell words like, colour, honour, humour etc. without the "u". I hate the American-isms mostly. The particular one that really grinds my gears though and it's almost universal among Australian population, is spelling the word gaol as "jail".

I remember a spelling test I had in primary school, where we were asked to spell goal. I spelt the word correctly, the proper way, but it was marked wrong, the correct spelling was listed as "jail". As a child both my parents were teachers (at my school, we lived in the country) and they used to drill their proper grammar and spelling into my head everyday, so after school I went home an complained. My Dad who was the principal and he literally went fucking ape-shit at my teacher. We ended up having a couple of full classes of how to spell words the Australian way.

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Probably because people who learn English as a second language nowadays largely do it by reading (on the Internet), whereas native speakers naturally first learn by listening. Inevitable result: non-native speakers end up being better at spelling homophones.

My main thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is "yea" without the H at the end, and conversely, writing yea or nay as "yay or nay". I just can't see yea without thinking "sounds like yay", so anyone using yea to agree with someone instantly sounds really silly in my head.

I've sort of learned to let it go and not complain about it when other people do it, mostly because it really is a typo a lot of time, and not willful ignorance. But when I do it, I can't just let it go--I have to go and "edit" it (or do that yeah* thing or +h or whatever).

But when people write yea or nay as "yay" or nay, there really is no excuse. It's not yay, you're not at a birthday party, write it properly, or use another expression that you know how to spell. Like, "yes or no".

Definitely was one that I really struggled with for a long time, until a friend pointed out that it contains "finite".

These two are my big ones. When Chinese immigrants and Japanese business people coming abroad can make usage of these differences in a business email better than the Americans can, I start scratching my head.

Oh, discerning usage of "then" as opposed to "than" is a common one I find as well. I almost made the mistake myself. :p

I had a friend who would say "wholly shit" instead of "holy shit." Thankfully, when I finally sat him down and corrected his mistake, he owned up to it, citing that he thought it was meant to exclaim something was comprised entirely of shit. Pretty funny but still annoyed me :gonk:

These seem more like cases of people not knowing the English language...I only consider it a typo if the person knows the correct spelling but makes a mistake out of haste or neglect. Stuff like "teh" and "adn." "Teh" annoys me the most, especially if they do it *every time*.

"Rediculous" is a pretty ridiculous mistake to make.

what about "your" instead of "you're" and stuff like that?

Not a typo since it's not an accidental mistake, but when people type "would of, "could of," or "should of." None of those phrases make sense. It's "would have," "could have," or "should have." I understand why the mistake is made because the contractions for the phrases make it sound like the mistake, but it doesn't change the fact that it's incredibly annoying.

I hate the greengrocers' apostrophe. You all know what I mean, right?

Onion's Cabbage's Carrot's

I also hate using the possessive form of a word that ends in "s" because even though I know that you should put the apostrophe after the "s", it just looks so wrong. Sometimes I twist a sentance around in knots to avoid using the posessive apostrophe.

I don't like it when people incorrectly spell the word sentence.

What drives me nuts is that 'would've' sounds just like 'would of', so a lot of reporters who are crappy / subtly pointing out that the person they're transcribing are idiots will make this mistake. It's totally transparent bullshit.

Now, I know that trained professionals who learn a language specifically to steal our American dollars and our American jobs writing in a business context will have better grammar than assholes on the internet talking about Yugioh cards. Therefore, I'm calling bullshit on this one.

Oh, and Shorty, I heard you're japanese. Is this true?

Biggest typo pet peeve is when people write that their favourite game is Final Fantasy VIII, which is clearly impossible since they're capable of writing, and as such, some form of rational thought. One can only assume they have sticky "I" keys.

Irregardless is the one that gets to me, just makes me so frownyface when people say it. Or people who say things like "self-inserts himself." Oh, and rediculous.

Oh, not to mention the genius that is people who look at you and tell you "I could care less." Just... stop speaking my language. You suck at it.

Genious is a real word? Every dictionary I've checked says otherwise.


Pretty much everyone here has said what I was going to say. Though I just hate it when I can't spell restaurant properly. I sometimes spell it 'resturant'. Bah!

I hate people that spell tomorrow as "tomarrow". And I hate it when my cousin says "tlk to me". It's really not that hard to add an a. I thought it was just an error one time, but she does it constantly. =[

Ah, my bad. I had the idea that it was 'genious', not 'ingenious'. I don't know where that came from.

Actually the ones I hate are the deliberately misspelled words. Like some people will say "welp" or "whelp" instead of "well". Those aren't words. There are thousands of examples like that.

Oh. Or faggy fucking newage/emo kids who say shit like "Oh my goth." You know what's not clever? You if you say that. Just... pathetic.

You encountered someone who says that? Did you somehow manage to restrain yourself from curbstomping them? It's more than I probably could have done. I suppose if you encountered them over the internet the opportunity was never there. I'd be horrified if I met someone who thought that was clever. That's a perfect example of the kind of deliberate use of misspellings and mispronunciations that get on my nerves.

Oh... to preserve my grammar credentials I suppose I should acknowledge that "whelp" is actually a word. It just doesn't mean the same thing as "well", and may not be used in that context. I don't want to seem ignorant.

There's a couple kids I know that use it. I see it on the internet a lot. The kids I know who use it are first year kids who dress like a Nomura character. We were out for a pint once and they tagged along, one of them said, and I quote, "Oh my goth, this pecan pie is great." I slapped them upside the head and glared. They asked me if I was religious, and I had to explain it wasn't my faith that was offended, as I don't have any, it was my enjoyment of the English language that took affront.

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I don't realy care about typos other people make, but sometimes i have trouble with words that I learned when I was first learning english and for some reason or other, heard wrong.

The biggest one was "Fulfill." for some reason, I had heard it as "furfill" ages ago, and I spelled it as such until last year. I also use the wrong verbs alot, like asking my boyfriend to "grind some cheese" :gonk: