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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4913 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 57 of 73 21 June 2014 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Maybe it's been said already, but I don't like it when people say things like "a orange"
or "a apple" or "a honest man." We have the word "an" for a reason. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| biagio Newbie Italy Joined 5021 days ago 26 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English | Message 58 of 73 21 June 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK, let's rename the thread "Mistakes that irk you in English"...
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4423 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 59 of 73 21 June 2014 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The Northern Cities vowel shift (as described by Medulin) always throws me off when I
travel to that area. It sounds so different from the way we talk even though they are not far from the Canadian border. I have no idea what the California/Canadian vowel shift is, but I'm not very familiar with IPA. I'm hearing "based off of" instead of "based on" a lot lately and I find it irritating. I'm also hearing "supposably" instead of "supposedly" more and more. Maybe this is only common in my region but I sometimes hear people say "I'm not used of that" instead of "I'm not used to that." And, when did "addictive" become "addicting"? Youse for the 2nd person plural is fairly common here too but it doesn't really irk me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3669 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 60 of 73 21 June 2014 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Probably around the same time "irritatedly" became "irritatingly". I see this genre of mistake often and it really IRRITATES me. They are not the same. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4722 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 61 of 73 21 June 2014 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
Did you get that backwards, Elenia? I'm pretty sure "irritatedly" isn't a word. EDIT: Okay, I Googled it a bit, and it does come up. thefreedictionary.com redirects to irritate, and "irritatedly" doesn't actually show up under the definitions, although at the bottom of the page there are a couple examples. en.wictionary.org has an entry for it, but there it seems to mean the opposite of "irritatingly": "irritatingly" refers to an verb that irritates you, "irritatedly" refers to a verb done in an irritated manner. So I guess "irritatedly" is a real word, but it is far less common that "irritatingly", and it means something quite different. EDIT 2: I tried it out on the Word spell-checker. As I thought, "irritatedly" was not accepted when it was set to English US, but when I set it to English UK it was accepted. Edited by Jeffers on 21 June 2014 at 7:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 4999 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 62 of 73 21 June 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Jeffers- Oh thank goodness, I thought it was just me. Although the wiktionary definition
is what I would think when I hear "irritatedly," all the synonyms that are listed there sound better to me. Perhaps Elenia has heard people who have merged the meanings of "irritatedly" and irritatingly" into just the latter? I can't think that I have, but I could see it happening. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3669 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 63 of 73 22 June 2014 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Jeffers @hjordis
Yes, the problem is I see is that people use 'irritatingly' to mean something done in an irritated manner. This mistake makes much more sense now that I know 'irritatedly' is not common in the US. I've only ever seen it online. EDIT: Actually, I don't think irritatedly is too common in the UK, either. It's not a very nice word. Edited by Elenia on 22 June 2014 at 12:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4520 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 64 of 73 22 June 2014 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's a lot of controversy surrounding the 3rd person plural pronouns in Dutch, but
people who say "hun hebben" for "zij hebben" are still wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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