This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

Cattitude · Mar 30, 2007

I Also Hate When People Post Like This It Is So Hard To Read For Some Reason.

Hmm, but WHY do they do it? Just strange if you ask me. It is more work to type too.

Or how about a post that goes on and on and it has a lot of detail but the whole post goes on and on and the person just keeps talking on and on about what happened who it happened to on and on for how long on and on and oh my gosh would you be lieve this went on and on.
And it's one large paragraph of ONE heck of a run-on sentence.

Oh you hit the nail on the head with this one. I usually skip these LONG, drawn out posts and probably many others do too. Posters would probably get more replies with using a few paragraphs and breaking it up into sentences.

It's very hard to read when it's WORK,lol.

Zink for Sink! I can't stand that!
Or putting an S on the end of Walmart or washing powder. It's walmart not walmarts. It's washing powder not powders.
Speaking of wash, how about worsh for wash!

My boss is guilty of saying worsh and soder for soda. I hate it!

That's funny...I am from NJ and most of us say "Shut the light"...Very Funny...or...Too funny...or...So funny.... :lol2: :lol2:

I'm from NY and say both "close" and "shut" the light. Once in a while I will actually say "turn it off" .

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Mar 30, 2007

I don't skip the long posts, or long paragraphs, but i fully admit that i skip the 20 line post that is one long sentence. It's way too hard to understand.

liquidblue · Mar 30, 2007

I hear a lot of people say "cut the lights off" instead of "turn the lights off" or "cut the motor off" instead of "turn the motor off." "I'm fixin' to..." is also popular.

I can tolerate spelling errors, but get irritated at a lot of what the previous posters here have mentioned (your/you're, their/there, to/too, etc.)

If you have a Facebook account, here's a rather amusing group (about grammar.)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2209553478

EarthChild1130 · Mar 30, 2007

As a general rule I do not like grammatical mishaps generated by native English-speakers because we have all grown up speaking English and because we have all taken English classes. I also tend to be intolerant because I have a degree in English (and I forget that other people don't! LOL). I have mellowed out as I have gotten older and have realized that it's part of everyday life. The "your" vs. "you're" and "two" "too" "to" debate REALLY gets on my nerves! :lol2:

However, I have absolutely NO tolerance for mistakes in official documents such as those generated by management...it's extremely unprofessional!:angryfire

Oddly enough, I grew up in Alabama, and to hear me talk, one would think I had absolutely NO command of the English language! I am full of "ain't" and "chester drawers" and "don't do no good" and every other incorrect thing one could say! LOL:lol2:

kcalohagirl · Mar 30, 2007

Actually pronouncing fillet "fill-it" can be a regional thing as well. I used to date an Aussie, and I well remeber grilling beef fill-its on the barbie. *grin*

My mother, who is otherwise a very educated woman, always says "waRsh". (Which also demonstrates according to APA when it is permissible to use a period outside a set of quotation marks.)

Like other people have said, typos, spelling errors, and grammar mistakes don't bother me much on a forum, but when I see them on the news (Like the headline "Church AltEr Vandalized") it drives me absolutley bonkers.

One time after seeing no less than 6 typos during a 30 minute newscast, I couldn't stop myself from calling the station to complain. (And I'm in a major metro, it's not like this is the evening news in a town of 10,000!) I think the town I grew up in (which was a town of 10,000) had better proofreaders. *grin*

Thanks for starting and contributing to this thread! It's been a fun read so far!

NurseyPoo, RN · Mar 30, 2007

Speaking of Typos...Mistakes...Mislabeling...

I went to the grocery store last night and while my husband and I were checking out the steaks we noticed one label looked weird...We were correct! It had a chicken breast label on it! There were about 5 labeled incorrectly...I almost fell over. My husband and I were giggling like 2 little kids in the store. We had to share this with a few people...So, all of us were laughing! He tried to take a picture of it with his cell phone but it didn't work...DARN IT! I would have loved to send that one into Jay Leno's show...

We probably should have checked the Chicken out... :lol2:

medsurgnurse, RN · Mar 30, 2007

As a general rule I do not like grammatical mishaps generated by native English-speakers because we have all grown up speaking English and because we have all taken English classes. I also tend to be intolerant because I have a degree in English (and I forget that other people don't! LOL). I have mellowed out as I have gotten older and have realized that it's part of everyday life. The "your" vs. "you're" and "two" "too" "to" debate REALLY gets on my nerves!
However, I have absolutely NO tolerance for mistakes in official documents such as those generated by management...it's extremely unprofessional!:angryfire
Oddly enough, I grew up in Alabama, and to hear me talk, one would think I had absolutely NO command of the English language! I am full of "ain't" and "chester drawers" and "don't do no good" and every other incorrect thing one could say! LOL:lol2:

I'm from the South and I love it that I still sound Southern....while I sit here on "ma big ole stack a college degrees". Although when writing professionally, I can pull off sounding like the educated person that I am.

anonymurse · Mar 30, 2007

Ok, this isn't spelling or grammar related: What makes me crazy is people talking about getting their RN "degree" :smackingf HELLO - RN is what you get to use after you pass boards.

No, splinters are what you get after you pass boards.

Cattitude · Mar 30, 2007

I don't skip the long posts, or long paragraphs, but i fully admit that i skip the 20 line post that is one long sentence. It's way too hard to understand.

It's not that I want to skip the long posts and it's actually not the length that gets me either. The huge block of sentences with no breaks gives me a headache. I need a little break between that many lines :idea: . I guess that's what happens when your eyes get old and the brain starts going :lol2: .

WannaBeNrse · Mar 30, 2007

okay, here's the one that bugs me the most (don't know if it's been mentioned yet): SHOULD/COULD/WOULD/MIGHT OF when it's supposed to be HAVE or things like freinds, beleive.... or one i read in a chart the other day: nerves for "nervous"....

Ariesbsn · Mar 30, 2007

"I'm going to ______. Do you want to go with?"

WITH WHAT?!? With money? With clothes on? With a partridge in a pear tree?

"Fixin' to" doesn't bother me, and now, if I am really tired, it slips out. Granted, I laughed my butt off when I first heard my nephew say he was "fiddinta" get himself a coke.

Has anyone mentioned "expecially" or "heith" instead of height?

Cymy · Mar 30, 2007

You are a nurse after my own heart.
But, just so you know, periods and commas go inside quotes, ie. "she said she was neurotic about punctuation, and alas she truly is a tortured soul."

The above works when writing about things people say, but sometimes it is better to put the punctuation outside of the quotation marks. I found this out in a former life as a technical consultant. If we didn't write things exactly as we intended the user to type them in, they'd come back to us. For example, we'd have to write:

Type your password in as "abcd!s7d", without the quotes. If we didn't specify "without the quotes" then people would type them in. Or if we didn't put the quotes there, they would type the comma (or period, if it ended a sentence) almost every time!

Eventually I threw proper punctuation in the toilet and just typed the password at the end of the sentence and skipped both the period and the quotes.

Not exactly nursing related, but related to the grammar/spelling police thread!