Beginning a sentence with the word ‘so’ when it’s not appropriate.
The phrase, ‘makes me feel a certain way’. What is the user attempting to convey with this?
Saying, ‘I feel’, when what is really meant is, ‘I think’. Its use is possibly due to the user not wanting to be argued with and by prefacing whatever they are putting forward with, ‘I feel’ instead of ‘I think’ they are offering up a vague opinion as opposed to a fact and therefore personal interpretation is valid. I’m not sure really, what I do know is the recent prevalence of its use is baffling to me.
Using the word ‘you’ in place of ‘one’.
Mixing up ‘less’ and ‘fewer’. They are not interchangeable. Their use is dependent upon context.
‘Me’ and/or ‘I’ seems to provide a problem for a lot of people. For instance, ‘Me and my brother went to town’. Not only is the choice of words incorrect but so too is the syntax. ‘My brother and I went to town’ would be correct.
The incorrect use of ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’. See also, ‘yourselfs’.
‘Me personally’.
The superfluous use of the word ‘literally’.
Incorrect syntax, especially in headlines for news articles where, if the meaning was taken by the reader to be as the headline was written, the intended meaning is either unclear or is shifted or even becomes the opposite of what it was supposed to mean.
Combine the syntax issue with the superfluous use of ‘literally’ and you get the Fabreeze ad that’s running on multiple platforms at the moment. ‘I literally use it everyday’ is the statement that drives me crazy. You literally use it? What the fuck does that mean? It should scan, ‘I use it literally everyday’, but even then the use of ‘literally’ serves no purpose.
‘It doesn’ matter. You know what I mean/ meant’. It does matter and I’m not just being pedantic when I question what you meant.