There’s 3 things (ARE)
It looks like he’s leaving (AS IF)
People that (WHO)
weaved (WOVEN)
he was bit by a dog (BITTEN)
bored of (WITH)
laying around (LYING)
korter (QUARTER
the guy was headed (... MAN WAS HEADING)
like I say AS I SAID)
There’s lots of people (THERE ARE
Nucilar (NUCLEAR)
you guys (...MEN, WOMEN, PEOPLE)
fed up of (.... WITH)
they collapsed it (it COLLAPSED)
the ship sunk (SANK)
I felt like no-one would (I felt THAT……)
it seems as if (it seems THAT)
not that big of a problem (not SUCH A BIG ….)
you better (you HAD better)
the pants match the jacket (the TROUSERS match ……)
she could of (….. HAVE)
your a friend (YOU’RE ...)
grand kids (GRAND CHILDREN)
based around (... ON)
he’s headed for (HEADING)
to lay around (LIE ….)
The exact same thing (EXACTLY THE SAME ……)
With regards to… (….REGARD ...)
for free (FREE)
Where he was sat (...SITTING
placed into (..IN)
He bought it along (BROUGHT)
There’s two guys to see you (THERE ARE ... PEOPLE .. … …)
It’s real nice (REALLY)
He brought it to the man next door (..TOOK ... )
I’m sorry for your problem ( … ABOUT ….)
To progress ….. (ADVANCE, MOVE ON, MAKE HEADWAY, etc)
Some guy… (A MAN)
Déjà vous (Déjà VU
In a meeting (AT . …….)
gonna (GOING TO)
accommodationS (ACCOMMODATION)
on such short notice (AT… ….. ……)
could care less (COULDN’T …. ….)
bring it to their house (TAKE .. .. ….. ……)
the man that (... … WHO)
vicious cycle (.......CIRCLE)
growing the business (EXPANDING, etc)
snuck into the room (SNEAKED …. … ….)
should of went (SHOULD HAVE GONE)
too big of a job (TOO BIG A …)
irregardless (REGARDLESS)
‘erbs (HERBS)
They disappeared them (....MADE them DISAPPEAR etc)
A Nother (ANOTHER)
The rout to (...ROUTE..)
went missing. (WERE missing/HAD VANISHED etc)
“I’m good thank you.” (...WELL ….. ...)
Last several years. (.... FEW …..)
You didn’t drink it yet. (... HAVEN’T DRUNK .. ...)
in the meanwhile (...... MEANTIME)
These kind of (.....KINDS ..)
were beat up (....BEATEN..)
less people (FEWER ……)
real happy (REALLY…..)
"you know" (!no comment!)
"sort-of" (!no comment!)
multiple eggs (MANY ….)
"like" (!no comment!)
innocent victim (VICTIM)
her and her husband (SHE……………)
“What is it?” (“CAN I HELP YOU?” [etc])
The reason why (THE REASON)
It seems like (It seems THAT)

Hahahaha...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnajIX6wFU


By the way..I AGREE with you....

Thank goodness. I thought I'd be banned for being disruptive.

Great list, had fun reading it :)
I have difficulty with a number of these things, for instance, lay vs. lie. I've looked it up a gazillion times, including examples, hoping it'd stick. Unfortunately it doesn't.
Another one is the 'like' and 'as'.
And prepositions can be tricky. I used to always get it right until I had to re-learn the rules and had to be able to teach them. That's when I got all confused and began to make mistakes with them.

Another one is "headed for" vs. "heading for". That's because it's something you pick up on tv and then it's difficult to make the distinction.
Same for "sneaking suspicion" vs. "sneaky suspicion".

But... few of your phrases I'm not sure are wrong?
- You didn’t drink it yet. (... HAVEN’T DRUNK .. ...) - The latter is BrE, the first AmE. I know there are some cases where you always use 'have' but I doubt this is one.

- With regards to… (….REGARD ...) Both correct, depends on what is meant

- Placed into.... --- Doesn't that depend on context?

Fun - as you say!

But you may be more exacting than me; because all I've done over a few months is, (from time to time), pick up what I [mis]heard and jotted it down.

I suppose it's my protest at the poverty-stricken language spoken in The Affluent Society: but for my part, I'm no scholar. (I left school in boyhood.)

As you say; just fun!

The decay of language can be annoying. You see it in my language as well, happening more and more. It's sad. Things like 'me car' as opposed to 'my car'. In my language this swapping of my for me happens so often!
I guess it happens in any language, due to internet chat.

You've got mail. (You have mail.)

emails (email)

In one little corner, I think I've kept 'Language' as clear and alive as possible. It's somewhat quixotic, but there are no grand designs.

I do admit to having a need for subtitles though, in films where a lot of young Americans are talking in the same area.

Just got hoisted! I'm pretty sure I'd have said - well, some of the time anyway - "You've got..."

By the way, how'd'you like this one?; (I take use ANY excuse for quoting it):

"The human - like a hamster pet
scurrying in its sphere -
hasn’t got the point quite yet
that all its prattle’s null and void
becos de wheel iz made o’ Woid !

Thus I am The Slave of WORD;
(I’d thought I was its master!).
Forgetting I invented it
‘s the cause of this disaster!"

I notice people that don't understand using to or too. I'm not judging. It took me a while figuring it out.

Why shouldn't you judge?

To SparklingCrystal
p.s. of sorts


I checked your site in return, but I'm either too 'old' or too 'young' to "message" the above material there; so here it is.

" ''''' my own country..... " (Denmark I assume: I know it well).

Is the 'dotty' look I see in your pictures, posed or natural?


k

I am the first son of a man who double majored at college in Math and English, and in addition to having correct grammar ground into me, I managed to acquire a tremendous love of accurate expression on my own.

One of my dad's favorite frustrating language wrenchings, was when he would respond to the children asking "Can I do xxxx?" by saying "I have no idea! Can you?"

But more than anything else, my life long frustration with people saying one thing, but meaning something else entirely, has caused me to be VERY careful and sensitive about how I and others write or speak.

I've had many experiences of doing exactly what someone asked me to do, only to enrage them, because I didn't do what they INTENDED ME TO UNDERSTAND.

My own repeat failings: misusing "its" versus "it's." Using apostrophes in general is always a struggle. I've yet to have found a clear and simple way to tell when and when not to add one. Especially the words that I'm supposed to imply the possessive by adding an apostrophe AFTER the end of the word.

I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but when I'm reading something someone wrote, and I come across one of the many common errors (such as using too in place of to, or vice versa), I actually feel as though I've physically stumbled over an out of place piece of furniture. It can completely disrupt my reading, bring me to a screeching halt, and make me reread the statement several times, just to try to make sure of what the person was trying to say. I don't so much get irritated or judgmental, as I am confused and doubtful about their intent.

I notice but don't stumble.
I find I usually read things twice. The first gives me the words and the second gives me the intent (mostly).

I am guilty of shortcut words.
I use "thru" instead of 'through' but that's mainly because I write and think at the same time and sometimes its faster to use a shortened version of a word so my thought process flows.
I never worry about possessive forms of its because frankly, I'm too lazy to add the apostrophe.
"Tho" is another example where I shorten 'though'.

For the most part, I do find that other people understand what I write.

When improper sentence construction concerns me is when the sentence makes little sense no matter how many times I reread it.
In those cases, I acknowledge there is a lack of communication.
Most times, I will ask for clarification, if the written work is important to me.

I got a similar thing, although I don't have a problem with understanding the intent -unless it is really badly written- But I automatically switch into teacher-mode and start reading like an editor/teacher. Meaning I read to find mistakes, and because of that miss what someone is saying.
Bad spelling annoys the crap out of me.
I do make mistakes myself as well, increasingly so the last couple of years. I'm also lost when to place commas as the rules for those are different in Dutch and English. I used to always get it right in both, now I make mistakes in both, hihi.

I am certainly not a member of P.O.E.M...and do occasionally make errors.

But, the way the written langauge seems to be deteriorating concerns me..
On the odd occasion I text (I learned how to send texts to people phones from my computer), I use proper spelling, punctuation, etc..

I ~understrand~ back when people texted from flip phones and it was a convoluted process of typing out words there was a need for "textese"..
But now that there are those "smart" phones with actual qwerty keyboards...it's just laziness..especially when most (as I have been told, anyway) no longer have a character limit for texts.

If you are an adult, especially in your 50's and over..it's not cool/ hip to use truncated words and "cre8tive" spellings...it's just lame.

But, to each their own....

Have phones ever had different keyboards? What's the alternative?
I've never had a phone that did not have a qwerty keyboard, not even the very first ones I had, way before smart phones.

I do tend to use abbreviations at times when typing on a phone. It takes to long with 2 fingers. I can type very fast on a normal keyboard, as in ridiculously fast, so downgrading to 2 fingers is tediously slow and annoying to me. Because of that I occasionally work with abbreviations.
But not BS like "W8!"
That's kid's stuff. And when we first had chat -which was on PC at the time, ICQ era- it was funny and trendy. But I never really used it myself. Doesn't make reading easier either.

PS you still made typos, and since you say you're on the PC, not phone... no excuse, hihi.

I like turtles.

Grammar Nazi from hell much?

His profile said he's 20

Maybe so.