163: stealing 40 cakes from the walmart bakery does not warrant life in prison

[ryanongosling]

Keep the rules in mind.

LATEST PAGE | LATEST FLATVIEW PAGE

Game Hate | Canon Hate | Namedropping | Mods' Pet Peeves | Game Pet Peeves | Plurk Pet Peeves | Meme Pet Peeves

Report stupid shit here.

Comments

ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

Reading 'bluenette', 'silverette', 'X-haircolorette' makes me literally cringe. Why is this a thing?

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to see this more on tumblr. It boggles the mind, really. Why do people refer to characters by the color of their hair when a simple pronoun would suffice?

da

[(Anonymous)]

I don't use hair colour for it (unless its really relevant for some reason) but I hate writing he/she/they over and over again, it makes the whole thing seem bland and repetitive. Not to mention it's a pain in the ass if it's two characters of the same gender and you have to do linguistic gymnastics to have the sentence make sense without referring to them by name repeatedly.

I usually pick whatever's the most pertinent trait when I get bored of pronouns and names. Like if it's a fight, what's wrong with saying 'the swordsman' or whatever?

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

it's been a thing since the early 2000s

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

'orbs' instead of eyes. Especially if they add the color. 'His blue orbs opened.'

That's a mentally disgusting picture.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"Don't bother." She said.

That's incorrect.

"Don't bother," she said.

That's correct.

It's 2016, this mistake should not be as prevalent as it is.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

Confusing homonyms. There is nothing that gets me madder.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

their/they're/there, it's/its, to/too, affect/effect, then/than. how are we still doing this wrong.

also misspellings: "pheonix," "firey," and "viscous" or "viscious" when you mean "vicious."

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

The quotation mark goes after the punctuation.

"Okay," the shitposter said. "Keep fucking that chicken." The words she said in that sentence were "okay," "keep," "fucking," "that," and "chicken."

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

It bugs me when people misuse "moreso" (presumably because it sounds fancier than "more") but I can't figure out how to explain the problem.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"for all intensive purposes" and other eggcorns

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"it was the worse thing that ever happened to him" and "it could have been worst"

i see this shit all the time it drives me fucking nuts

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

irregardless

I don't care if it's in the dictionary now, I hate it

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"looking for dominate men only"

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

rogue vs rouge

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"chocked" for "choked." i recently saw this in a news article as well, and it made me grind my fucking teeth.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

i will put this up every time, try and stop me.

nonetheless. it's one word.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

"i could care less"

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

lay vs lie and who vs whom

also "never mind" is two words, not one

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest issue is people using "lead" instead of "led"

it wouldn't bother me so much if it were a matter of mixing up tenses, but it never is.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

i hate words that are spelled the same, but that mean different things and can really fuck up the whole thing if your brain latches onto the wrong meaning.

tear as in to cry vs tear as in to rip.
live as in present tense (living) and live as in 'this is a live show'.
read as in present tense "to read a book" and read as in past tense "he read the book."
there's not a lot of them, but i especially hate them in ambiguous uses or phrases where they could mean either or.

[(Anonymous)]

would of/could of/should of instead of would HAVE/should HAVE/could HAVE

makes me grind my teeth every time

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

i get that chatspeak shows you're being casual. i know the people i'm playing with know how to spell. i do not really care about keeping tagprose serious.

but goddamn, it chafes my ass to see 'smol' and 'ppl' everywhere. just fucking shell out for the extra 2-4 letters.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

i see people fucking up "much less" and "let alone" all the time and it drives me nuts. "nonetheless," too.

also using "amount" where you should be using "number."

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

[(Anonymous)]

Yellowette