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today's grammar peeve
May. 13th, 2002 01:35 pmToday's Grammar Peeve: "all of the sudden," "should of," and their ilk.
I know that when speaking, these phrases don't necessarily sound like what they are. I mean, when most people say "should have" or "should've" it certainly sounds like "should of." But "should of" makes no SENSE, whereas "should have" is grammatically correct, for fuck's sake.
I don't even know WHERE people get "all of the sudden." I guess no one knows what the hell a sudden is so they can't know whether it's "a" sudden or "the" sudden. But still. Just freakin' look it up or something, I don't know. It annoys me.
And I might as well also take this opportunity to mention a pet peeve that is such a classic it can't even be the peeve of any one day; it's a continual peeve, a peeve of all days. And that, of course, is "taught thighs." Saw it again in a fanfic this morning. Geez. It just goes to show that people don't even know what the fuck they're saying. I bet these people don't even know what the word "taut" means. They just see it in lots of stories and figure it must be something desirable in a thigh, so they stick it into their stories. Kee-rist, why would you ever use a word in a story if you didn't even frelling know what it meant?
The other thing it goes to show, of course, is that you can't just put all your trust in spellcheck. This is why you need beta-readers, people. Pay attention. There WILL be a quiz later.
I know that when speaking, these phrases don't necessarily sound like what they are. I mean, when most people say "should have" or "should've" it certainly sounds like "should of." But "should of" makes no SENSE, whereas "should have" is grammatically correct, for fuck's sake.
I don't even know WHERE people get "all of the sudden." I guess no one knows what the hell a sudden is so they can't know whether it's "a" sudden or "the" sudden. But still. Just freakin' look it up or something, I don't know. It annoys me.
And I might as well also take this opportunity to mention a pet peeve that is such a classic it can't even be the peeve of any one day; it's a continual peeve, a peeve of all days. And that, of course, is "taught thighs." Saw it again in a fanfic this morning. Geez. It just goes to show that people don't even know what the fuck they're saying. I bet these people don't even know what the word "taut" means. They just see it in lots of stories and figure it must be something desirable in a thigh, so they stick it into their stories. Kee-rist, why would you ever use a word in a story if you didn't even frelling know what it meant?
The other thing it goes to show, of course, is that you can't just put all your trust in spellcheck. This is why you need beta-readers, people. Pay attention. There WILL be a quiz later.
