Does "your" instead of "you're" drive anyone else nuts?

Vito Andolini · Mar 31, 2009

breath instead of breathe

loose instead of lose

and spelling errors lots of "e"'s are being mistakenly replaced by "a's"

Pros should be literate, I think. It is really embarrassing.

Using the plural "their" when using a singular pronoun; should be using his, her, or one's

then instead of than (as in easier then that, instead of easier than that)

I am delighted that someone besides myself is beside himself about this topic.

allnurses Guide · Mar 31, 2009

No, of course not!!
What does drive me crazy/crazier are run-on sentences with a lack of punctuation. There are some posters here that make my head spin while trying to read what they've written.

What IS the deal with all the grammar threads the last few days?

Full moon?

(Watch out for those eyeballs). :eek:

steph

Annisme · Mar 31, 2009

Yes, your instead of you're, loose instead of lose, then instead of than, all get to me. The charter topper is "irregardless." I know a church pastor who uses it all the time and I can hardly sit through the sermon. My husband smiles and puts his hand over mine to keep me still, regardless of the fact the pastor is grammatically incorrect.

SecondGenRN · Mar 31, 2009

Agreed! I'm not sure which I hate more -- this, or the posts that seem to have replaced every bit of punctuation with an ellipsis. At first...you think it's just to manufacture tension...or to represent a thoughtful pause...but after a while...you begin to realize...that they just...don't know...any other way...to punctuate a sentence. ARGH.
Also, we have mostly computerized charting at my hospital, and some nurses insist on writing their notes all in capital letters. It's hard enough to read this when it's just normal English, but when you toss in all the acronyms and abbreviations that are used in charting, it becomes pretty much impossible.

I'm guilty of this one! I'm very picky with punctuation when writing by hand but I think I've picked up some bad habits with IM!

RNMariposa · Mar 31, 2009

Yes! You aren't alone. It drives me crazy too!

Atheos · Mar 31, 2009

No, of course not!!
What does drive me crazy/crazier are run-on sentences with a lack of punctuation. There are some posters here that make my head spin while trying to read what they've written.

I tend to write the same way I speak.

Sometimes the words are coming out of my head and onto the page as if I am stuffing 8 sentences into one breath. That's when I have a big run on sentence.

My level of excitement dictates my use of run-ons. Heh.

However, I won't even read a run-on paragraph. I know there is no such thing but when a single paragraph is like three times the height of my monitor (I have 25" monitors) I start to get annoyed...

penguin2 · Mar 31, 2009

"There/their/they're" bugs me, too. My daughter had a high school ENGLISH teacher misuse these, claiming that the usage rules changed in the '70's.
LOL, what drugs did that teacher do in the 70's??????!!

Plagueis · Mar 31, 2009

OMG! This is one of my pet peeves that drives me to insanity! :banghead:

There/their/they're is number one on my drives-me-absolutely-crazy list, followed by the your/you're mixup.

Where/wear is another one I hate.

penguin2 · Mar 31, 2009

Yes, your instead of you're, loose instead of lose, then instead of than, all get to me. The charter topper is "irregardless." I know a church pastor who uses it all the time and I can hardly sit through the sermon. My husband smiles and puts his hand over mine to keep me still, regardless of the fact the pastor is grammatically incorrect.

I was told a long time ago that 'irregardless' is not even a word- I want to SCREAM that at the person using it- & the person using it always seems to think they sound intelligent........ :twocents:

johnst10 · Mar 31, 2009

No, of course not!!
What does drive me crazy/crazier are run-on sentences with a lack of punctuation. There are some posters here that make my head spin while trying to read what they've written.

Oh! I just thought they were trying to imitate Wm. Faulkner. I've never seen anyone else write an entire page without a period ... and pull it off (ellipsis to tick anyone who might go crazy off...) :saint:

penguin2 · Mar 31, 2009

Me neither......got done with that whole mess several years ago........thank goodness!
However, I've been called the "Spelling Nazi" since I was a child, mainly because I am totally anal-retentive about correct spelling and punctuation. In the old days when we had typewriters, I was known to rip up an entire page of work and start over again if I found even a minor typo that I couldn't easily conceal with correction tape and a carefully measured typeover. And now that I do everything on a computer keyboard, I often don't notice a typo until I've completed the sentence, and then rather than go back and correct just the mistake, I delete everything I typed after it and start over again. I don't know why.
However, I try not to be judgmental toward people who aren't as uptight as I am. I used to work with a nurse who could barely spell 'cat'; her charting was atrocious, and I thought that if I had to spend my career following her and reading her descriptions of a patient's "seazur", I'd lose my mind. But once I got to know her, I learned that if I ever needed a nurse, I'd have wanted her taking care of me, because she knew her stuff and she was a wonderfully compassionate human being in the bargain. So what if she spelled everything phonetically and didn't know an apostrophe from a comma? She measured up where it really counted.........out there on the floor.

I work w/someone like that-- thanks for reminding me of what's really important.

penguin2 · Mar 31, 2009

I do that too! :chuckle I just can't help myself.
When texting, I can't bring myself to use "ur". I won't even go without using proper punctuation in contractions.
For me, the reason I abhor the misused/misspelled word is because it leads me to believe they are saying something else until I get to the end of the sentence and realized they meant to use the other spelling of the word. Time wasted = annoyed!
Spellings that really chap my butt that I am seeing more often are: lite (light), brite (bright), site (sight), etc.
I believe texting will eventually change the way english words are spelled in the dictionary. It's the evolution of language.

LOL, I have to agree, in fact when texting I use so few abbreviations that people joke "first time texting?" I'm still trying to figure out a text my sister sent me this a.m. I am easily annoyed by bad spelling/grammar- it makes one appear uneducated IMO. I have to keep reminding myself that I can't control other people.......