Things You Hate / Annoyances

[mayorofawesometown]

I've got a couple of linguistic pet peeves...

It's far too common for people to double up the word "is" and say things like, "The thing is is that..." or "The problem is is that..." The second "is" makes absolutely no sense, and so many people have no idea that this phenomenon even exists.

Secondly, just like someone above talked about the overuse of the term "ironic," the same is true for "literally." John was so distressed after his girlfriend dumped him, his heart was literally torn in half. If that were true, he'd literally be dead! You can't use the word "literally" simply to emphasize a point, yet sadly so many do.

Can you tell I was an English major?

Yep. I'm with you on that one. I'm an English major too so constantly repetative mistakes like that get on my nerves and they make me look like a total dick. I can't stand people who put an extra e in the word judgment. I know the extra e is accepted nowadays but traditionally it's not there.

If I sat here and thought about it I could come up with one million more little English language pet peeves.