• UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Abberant apostrophes (and missing ones).

    Sentences that miss out words for no reason: e.g. “A couple things” vs. “A couple of things”.

    Confusing envy and jealousy.

    The above is a personal list; I don’t get judgemental about others’ grammar but I do cringe internally.

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      The apostrophe thing really grinds my gears. Especially “it’s” vs “its”. It’s not very hard, “it’s” is a contraction meaning “it is”. Otherwise, it’s possessive. This homonym is its own worst enemy.

      I hate that “jealousy” has devoured “envy”. “Language is fluid”, they always say, but those two words have very different meanings!