Not Stoked.

This forum right here is terrible for this shit. I remember fuming about it here years ago, but some people wanted it so badly they stuck to it and it became the forum’s way of doing things. I had to log out for about four years. Also, starting a typed sentence with “I mean”… it’s not necessary, it adds nothing, just fuck off. I hate you all.

(I don’t actually hate you all)

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While we’re in a critical mood, folks don’t need to put ‘haha’ at the end of their posts.

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I do try to punch up with this sort of thing, at work it only makes me angry if it’s coming from someone senior. If it’s junior staff who perhaps can’t reasonably be expected to know better then I might just helpfully correct them, making sure to “reply all” just in case my advice can benefit anyone else. :+1:

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Well I’m fucked then. Ha fucking ha.

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Cant help it haha. Struggle with over exclamation usage too! haha

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Im a professional editor. This is literally my job all day every day correcting the typos of fuckwits

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I’m a professional editor

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Perfect

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ahahahahahahahhahah @BDF

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‘Haha’ is the best option I’ve found for online/texting that doesn’t involve having to use fucking ‘lol’ or an emoji all the time that conveys I’m joking which can be hard at times to understand online/texts. If there is a better way I’m willing to learn.

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People starting a sentence with Am instead of I’m is a frustrating one. It might have started as text shorthand (since it’s one less tap when you aren’t using the apostrophe) but it sounds quite self-important, like an announcement about oneself, which it probably isn’t usually intended as.

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Should that have a full stop?

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What about

So…

Especially on “This is huge” Twitter posts

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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.

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Starting a sentence with ‘.And …’

At this rate we’ll all be formally addressing and signing posts in full and using wax seals

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Love this one, it means someones about to get properly slagged off usually

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I definitely use the word ‘definitely’ too often.

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Okay here’s a niche one, in that it applies only to contestants on ‘Pointless’.

Alexander will say something like “… tell us about yourself, Dave”
Dave then proceeds to say “So, I’m Dave, and I…”
WE KNOW YOU’RE DAVE, HE’S JUST CALLED YOU DAVE, AND YOU’RE WEARING A FUCKING BADGE ON YOUR CHEST THAT SAYS DAVE, AND WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY “SO” FOR?!

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