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I’m don’t think this is a grammatical error, but the phrase “going forward” or “moving forward” so beloved by today’s politicians grates on me.
What’s wrong with saying “in future”, like we used to say in the past?

eta: had to remove speechmarks to make sense of sentence

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“Whilst.” Unless you’re from or in the UK, it sounds pretentious, and so do you. “While” works just fine in the U.S.

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What happened? The American War on Prepositions happened. (Along with their wars on other abstract nouns, like drugs and terrorism.)

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I liked that alot! Enough to buy one:

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Come on, you`ve got to get the backticks in there they`re for the annoyance multiplier.

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Also, is this still a thing…?

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While we’re at this, I want to state my hate for “should of”, “would of” and similar.

Interestingly, it seems to be a native English-speaker thing for the most part.

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Maybe because they (we) learn it by audio first rather than written? Though that’s not going to explain the weirdos who say “heighth”.

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Because non-native speakers are taught properly. Does anyone actually teach grammar to native-speaking kids any more?

(Something, something lawns.)

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Begging the question is definitely one of mine, because the original meaning is just so useful to distinguish.

The subjunctive mood is my little pet, but I can’t get tooooooo mad when others don’t love it the way I do. (“If I were”)

“Revert back” I think this is just a non-US construction, no? Like using “doubt” to mean “question,” which seemed really quite off when I first read it but it’s a toss up now.

But also, people who care about which/that are hateful to me.

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Yeah, people do tend to hate that which they do not understand. :wink:

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What scares me is how easily that could change, after more people see the mistake and repeat it. I always watch TV shows and movies with closed captioning or subtitles. This is recommended for people who want to learn languages, too. Unfortunately, I have seen the lose/loose mistake in the text enough times to want an Alot like @allenk bought (assuming it would be soft enough to throw at the screen). Typing this reminds me of the mixed-up villain in the movie Megamind (Titan vs. Tighten). It always appeared as the latter in the subtitles, even when someone was reading a sign spelled out as the former. :grimacing:

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Which is why I give in to my inner pedant on these threads when I see words we may lose being replaced. Seeing queue for cue, for example. If nobody points it out, eventually we lose cue completely.

Subtitles are often an annoyance - often done by ill-educated humans and often done by ill-trained machines.

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You lose your shit if you have loose bowels. That one drives me nuts.

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My kids learned the “on”, as in, “I did it on accident” which sounds incredibly stupid to me - I keep correcting them but they just ignore me.

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That said, I’m a writer so I may be bias.

You mean “biased”?

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That’s the joke.

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I confess to a pedantic streak, but I must acknowledge that in the long run usage defeats correctness. Saying “me and him” instead of “he and I” drives me crazy, but the former is so common nowadays that fighting it is a losing battle. Likewise “who” and “whom.” Dictionary.com still offers a quiz to see if you know the difference, but I don’t know how many everyday speakers know or care.

Call it The Curse of the Living Language. If all those speakers who model routine grammar–journalists, politicians, media personalities, TikTok influencers–agree that “begs the question” means “raises the question,” then for all intents and purposes that’s what it means. I could write a lovely dialogue exchange playing on the difference between “shall” and “will*.” If only scholars would understand the distinction, what’s the point? (Sigh) So sad.

*(I know, the Bard did it first)

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My interpretation is that 've is slowly turning into a word of its own that isn’t perceived as short for anything.

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Periods in the wrong place when using “quotation marks.”

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I could of died

I could care less

“Being as how…”

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