Peeves! Get'cher Peeves Here!

[gnomi]

As a follow-up to yesterday's discussion, I began to wonder what folks' grammar error pet peeves are. Here are some of mine:

-- Its/it's

-- Fewer/less

-- That/which

-- Their/they're/there

-- Your/you're

I'd love to hear other folks', if you all (or y'all) are in a mood to share.

Comments

[eafm.livejournal.com]

For me it depends on the context. In a published piece, most of what's been listed so far will make me flinch. Here on LJ, though, I can overlook almost anything, because I know how often I've rushed through a post only to reread it the next day and be horrified by the typos and bizarre substitutions (as if my brain sent the wrong macro down to my fingers: "brother" instead of "both, for example). Oh, or by those sentences I obviously cut and pasted together from multiple grammatically-incompatible sentences, forgetting to smooth out the inconsistencies when I was done.

Two that drive me insane no matter where I find them, though, are "different than" and the use of "and I" when "and me" would have been correct. I can overlook the misuse of "me" much more easily than the misuse of "I". It is possible for a misplaced "me" to sound intentionally casual, as if I'm reading a prose poem in which the priority is the flow and rhythm of the words instead of clarity or grammar. But an incorrect "I" always manages to come across as an attempt to sound hyperintellectual. Scan/skim also drives me up a wall, but that's really more vocabulary than grammar, isn't it?