/verbal hijack
Regents (REE jents) govern something. Reagents (ree AY jents) are the ingredients of a formula. They are pronounced differently. Are you listening to me, guildies?
Give us a brake!
See also: “melee vs. mealy” and “rogue vs. rouge.”
Our GM had one hell of a time the first time an Ablative Chitin Girdle dropped. We’ve now decided that for guild purposes it’s pronounced “Uh-BLATE-iv CHIT-in GRID-dul.”
Totally fucken rediculous.
Don’t get me started on “wreckless driving.” Unlike the your/you’re their/there thing, at least those are completely abstract terms with no visual correlates. So you realize that if you are driving “wrecklessly” that you by definition are likely (tho not 100% certainly) driving carefully so that you won’t get into wrecks? Of course the clincher is that these same people won’t say “Oh yeah, I had a bad reck in my old Jeep in '03.”
breaks to rubberneck this thread
I have seen “trooper” instead of “trouper” about five times in the past week. It must be the books I’m reading, but some copy editors need copy editors.
Not to mention the number of times I have to hear someone on Vent talking about buying healing ‘drots’(‘Draughts’)
Constantly misspelled words make me stabby, too.
But why doesn’t it bother the rest of the world? Why does it irritate us so much? I wish I could stop being annoyed by it, 'cuz it sure as hell isn’t going to stop.
How does your GM pronounce “griddle”? GUR-dul?
The internet gaffe I tend to hate is “noone”. That is not a word!
I could care less about such inconsequential things.
Are you sure you’re hearing them correctly? “Pots” is often used as a shorthand for potions, but I’ve never heard anyone say “Drots”.
It’s clearly drots. I play lotro, and healing has two kinds, Draught and Salve(self only or other, and the discussions are like, “How many salves do you have, and how may drots”.
He got the “girdle” part right the first time. But the next time the same belt dropped, I wanted to mispronounce every word really loudly on Vent to mock him, and “griddle” was the first thing that came to mind.
ETA: Nevermind about the pots/draughts thing. Although, to be fair, “draught” isn’t a very common word. When I was a kid, I always said it in my head as though it rhymed with “fraught,” which it looks like it should. I don’t think I learned it was “draft” until high school or so.
Some of my least favourite have been covered… can I add rouge bandits, who have picked a poor choice in camouflage, and those who grab others by their waste (which isn’t the type of thing you should be writing about).
Oh, another one… If you think you* know how to spell better than I do, then you are sadly mistaken. Not the other fucking way around!!!
- No, not you specifically
After hating the “your”/“you’re” transposition for my entire life, I’m almost at peace with it, although I am on blood pressure medication…
Common spelling errors irritate me because I expect most people (at least those capable of using a computer, and the people with whom I work who obviously must have been found competent enough to be hired to work here in the first place) to be at least reasonably educated and be familiar with words that they were taught in the first or second grade. These are not obscure “bonus” vocabulary words that would impress the teacher if used properly, but common, simple words that most of us use on a daily basis, more or less. When such errors become so ubiquitously prevalent that spotting them becomes commonplace and unavoidable, one begins to question the educational standards the schools are held to, whether such standards are being followed or if such standards are even established.
Sure it is. It should be capitalized, though, and accompanied by Herman’s Hermits.