Irregardless, Grammar is our Friend

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Another thing? Signs and ads that put words in quotes that shouldn't be...e.g., "great" pizza. What does that mean? If you want to emphasize great, just underline it or something! Grr. Hate.

Oh my god, that is my number one grammar pet peeve. I see this a lot in advertisements or hand-written menus. The worst are the quotes around food items (Try our new "chicken" pizza!). Scary!

I also hate when companies try to be cute and misspell words on purpose: Lite! "Kar Wash" (an actual establishment) Krispy Kreme!

[monsterzero]

I always took the quotation marks around a word to mean that it wasn't real. So this "Chicken" Pizza might really be Deep Fried Pig Ass Pizza or something.

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One would assume that, since it's proper use. But I've seen signs at fruit markets saying "Apples" $2/lb, and they clearly are real apples. There's a pizza shop here that advertises things as "New". What?

[littleweasel]

I haaaaaaaate random quotation marks with a white hot fury.

Anyone in here read Eats, Shoots and Leaves? It's perfect for those of us who cringe when we see "apples" at the grocery store or I'm hot, your not on Paris Hilton's t-shirt or Their so cute together!!11!! over at the JJB board.

[dwanollah]

There used to be a sign near my work advertising

"Fresh" Fruit!

Lordy.

[pepper67]

There's a pizza shop here that advertises things as "New". What?

Recycled pizza, anyone?

One of my pet peeves is the whole were/we're/where issue. And the aforementioned there/their/they're. Please, please, work out which one you want and USE IT! The same with you're and your.

Along the same lines, spellcheckers do not pick everything up. Seriously.

[lyrasilver]

There's an auto shop that I pass on my train ride to school and the word collision is spelled "collission." I'm probably the only person who notices it every single day, because it irritates me so much. Who spends money to have an awning made and doesn't check the spelling on it first?

[Smilla]

but "I could not care less." That's the point of saying this; you care so little it's quite impossible to care less than you do. Yet the entire human population seems devoted to saying, "Oh, I could care less." NO! No. Doesn't anyone else see how wrong that is?

I see it, Svengali. This was the most-hated usage fuck-up of a favorite prof of mine when I was in school, who ranted in lecture one day that whenever a person told her she "could care less" about something, Prof. X would want to laugh, "Oh, you could? 'Kay, then go stand in the corner and care even less about it than you do right now."

[jennipoo]

Who spends money to have an awning made and doesn't check the spelling on it first?

That would be the ignoramous who commissioned "Sugar and Spice and Everthing Nice" for their large storefront window. And the Baby Jesus went into convulsions from weeping.

[Smilla]

"Sugar and Spice and Everthing Nice"

Aw, man. I'm not sure what's worse--the "Ever," or the fact that I had to read that three or four times before my brain would recognize what was wrong with it. Yikers.