Worst grammatical error in your opinion. - What's the one error that makes you want to throw a "English Grammar for Dummies" book at the person.


Options from poll explained
Lack of punctuation marks - Missing period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis, apostrophe, quotation marks, and/or slash.

Misspelling - Misspelled words.

Text lingo - Abbreviations or acronyms that's understandable to use when you have an old phone. Where you have to press the a key on the dial pad a few times to get the letter you want. Examples: ttyl, cya, tmi.

Nonstandard words - Examples: ain't, kinda, alright, irregardless

All capitalize words/ never capitalizing words - (Do I really need to explain this one?)

Using numbers as letters - Ex. f0r3v3r , 2night

Too many coordinating conjunctions - Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so

Using an incorrect homophone - Homophone: A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not. Ex. [there, their, they're] [pair, pare, pear]

Other - (Something I didn't mention.)




For me ... It's a tough choice, but I would have to say lack of punctuation marks. It's mainly contractions missing apostrophes that bother me.



[Sidenote - Maybe I shouldn't have made this thread ... I constantly make typos, and grammatical errors...]

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Well, I don't know what the worst is but it's super annoying when people keep saying "I don't feel good". It makes it hard to sympathize them when they're adults who speak English as a first language.

However looking at your poll again, it looks like you meant in text version. Well in that case, its using text lingo on a normal keyboard and they're saying something serious and I can't take them seriously.

Incorrect use of the phrase literally. examples:
"I literally died"
"It literally hit me like a ton of bricks"
Once you start noticing it it's really annoying.

I try not to judge too much since I'm getting the translations for free and, let's face it, English has more exceptions to rules than actual rules so... as long as it's understandable. The one that bugs me the most is the word "advice." For whatever reason, I feel like most of the translating community has misunderstood "advice" - it's not a verb (that would be advise) and it is already in its plural form. There is no such word as "advices." I can't count how many times I've seen "Can I have an advice?" or "I will advice you" or some variation of those. It's freaking everywhere!

Other than that, it's probably the same as you - the lack of punctuation (apostrophes and commas). Only because sometimes it takes me a while to read the sentence correctly and understand it.

What irks me the most is the incorrect usage of homophones. I can stand nonstandard words and in fact I have used them in conversations with my friends, but I think that when writing in English, differentiating homophones is basic in language learning. Even if they don't know the definition of homophone, they should unconsciously know when to apply each one of them.
I can only excuse recent language learners because of the language transfer they are experiencing.

Although my weakness is probably the incorrect usage of punctuation marks. I just tend to overuse them, unnecessarily. Hahaha. XD


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Using numbers as letters..
My 2nd would be the lack of punctuations...

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It was hard choosing but I went with "nonstandard words".
Honestly, as a person who enjoys writing, I can't stand it when people are trying to write a story and use nonstandard words. It's only okay if that is the way the character that is thinking thinks or speaking speaks. I'm fine with it if it is in a text, online, or being said in a casual conversation (not formal). It is irritating when I see it in papers someone is turning in for a grade or stories they may want to publish one day. I'm forgiving if it's a mistake but constantly doing it and not trying to make changes just gets to me. Luckily most of my friends, who like to write, save me that editing/proof reading trouble.

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I'm not great when it comes to grammar in English (second language),but
Homophones.
I learned English at school, that's why it's hard for me to understand how could anyone confuse there and they're..

and the close second
"anyways"

In Polish there are other ones, the worst being replacing "ą" with "an" (włanczać instead of włączać), you could count that as wrong pronunciation. Really wrong.

Pure caps. Not having caps aren't as annoying as pure caps, it is probably quite low in making me annoyed list. Second will probably be lack of punctuations I guess?

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I'm not too sure if I would consider this the worse, but what really annoys me is the use of the term 'worser'.
That word doesn't exist, mate!
Honestly, it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title. I'm not too sure if this falls under one of the categories so I voted 'other'. Please forgive me if I am wrong