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

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

I despize buzzwords - proactive and that ilk. I heard a new one the other day: monetize. Apparently it means "to make something profitable," or something similar. I think that what I yelled at the paper was something along the lines of "You have got to be fucking kidding me!".

I also despise the Random use of Capital letters For emphasis. I had to pull about a thousand of them out of a 50 page document I was proofing - in hardcopy.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

"Monetise" (or "-ze") is a real word. It means to make something money. As in what the proverbial prisoners do to cigarettes.

I think it's also sometimes used for "put a dollar amount on something of value", generally something that it would be impractical to actually sell for that or any other amount.

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

These people were talking about telecommunications services. So, real word, bad usage. They were talking about using a certain technology to "monetize" their services.

I love the prison reference. I think we should all start more sentences with "In prison..."

Also, "to make something money" made me think of Vince Vaughn.