We might as well be accurate-

mute point (wrong) vs. moot point (right)

Fake carrot and inserted clutch (wrong)
Fake clutch and inserted carrot (right)

parody vs parity

(12-01-2012 02:31 PM)TU72N76 Wrote:  "I could care less" should be "I couldn't care less"

YES!! By far my biggest grammatical pet peeve. Just think about what you're saying: You, in fact, are capable of caring less. The exact opposite of what you're attempting to convey.

Irregardless......it's not even a word although I think there has been discussions about making it an official word.

(12-01-2012 01:53 PM)Chappy Wrote:  "For all intensive purposes" always makes me groan. For all intents and purposes.

This..

....But also the use of "allot" when it really was intended to use "a lot"

Diff between is and are. Such as:

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"[

(12-01-2012 04:48 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  Irregardless......it's not even a word although I think there has been discussions about making it an official word.

Damn, beat me to it. :muttering: I always make that "mistake" as a joke when criticizing someone else's poor grammar or spelling and watch the replies come in claiming how stupid I am for using it in response.

There/their/they're

One I'd throw in is infamous. It's been misused for decades, if not centuries. Being famous just means being well known, not necessarily popular while being infamous, originally anyways, means the subject at hand is almost completely unknown.

Love him (and for most people) or not, Hitler is one of the most famous people to have ever lived but his legacy is just not very well liked and thus unpopular.

Language is a funny thing and it evolves over centuries (read the King James Version of the Bible and Shakespeare compared to modern English for example). So because words become misused, mistranslated and what have you their meanings gradually change and usually through the ignorance of the majority. Even languages like French that fight change have the same issue.

And finally, bragging about having a large vocabulary, especially in language like English that has so many variations spoken around the globe and has borrowed from dozens of languages, is like having a you-know-what measuring contest because as long as someone is well spoken for themselves and has a solid vocabulary, it's more important to try and effectively communicate with people on their level instead of trying to exalt yourself over them as if you're smarter.

Ensure (to make sure of) vs. Insure (to have an insurance policy on)

Fortuitous (by random chance) as a $10 substitute for "lucky." The moronic serial-hooker-slayer Craig James loved this word.

(12-01-2012 02:39 PM)RaiderATO Wrote:  "Tough road to hoe" Damn right it's tough. They paved that thing.

That would be "tough row to hoe". Just saying. (It's a farming expression not a chain gang expression.)

(12-01-2012 09:10 PM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  

(12-01-2012 02:39 PM)RaiderATO Wrote:  "Tough road to hoe" Damn right it's tough. They paved that thing.

That would be "tough row to hoe". Just saying. (It's a farming expression not a chain gang expression.)

I think that's what he was getting at, the misuse of road in place of row that is.

(12-01-2012 01:54 PM)Chappy Wrote:  And since this is a sports board, I get tired of people referring to teams in BCS AQ conferences as BCS teams. All of FBS is BCS.

LOLOLOLO you know better.

This isn't so much of a message board thing, but a sports thing that I've just started to hear recently. In fact, I just saw it in the Big 10 championship game

Since when do you call it "unanswered points" when the other team has scored since? A graphic on the screen said:

Wisconsin: First 14 points of game
Nebraska: 10 unanswered points
Wisconsin: 14 unanswered points

Uh, no! Nebraska's 10 points were not "unanswered." Wisconsin answered them with two TDs.

They've been mentioned already but the 2 phrases are:

their/there/they're
loose/lose

Nothing is more annoying and lame on a msg. board than grammar twerps. We ain't getting graded for this nonsense.

(12-01-2012 09:29 PM)SouthGAEagle Wrote:  This isn't so much of a message board thing, but a sports thing that I've just started to hear recently. In fact, I just saw it in the Big 10 championship game

Since when do you call it "unanswered points" when the other team has scored since? A graphic on the screen said:

Wisconsin: First 14 points of game
Nebraska: 10 unanswered points
Wisconsin: 14 unanswered points

Uh, no! Nebraska's 10 points were not "unanswered." Wisconsin answered them with two TDs.

Isn't it to signify the were scored in succession. So the momentum of the game could also be expressed. So UW has the momentum, then NE, then UW. I donno, but I see your point.

(12-01-2012 09:29 PM)SouthGAEagle Wrote:  This isn't so much of a message board thing, but a sports thing that I've just started to hear recently.

Related to that, I hate the new announcer saying, "Extracurricular activity." As in what's happening when there is pushing and shoving after a play.

For some reason it seems people like to spell ridiculous as rediculous on message boards.

Of course by biggest pet peeve is the misuse of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but of course that's on everyone's list and doesn't need mentioned.