Let me threadjack and say that what bugs me the most is that every time I read an official announcement, it often confuses “less” and “fewer”, “number” and “amount”, etc.
Until the difference between less and fewer was pointed out to me, it didn’t bother me. Now it drives me bonkers.
That and people who use “infer” thinking it’s a posh way of saying “imply”. “So what you’re infering is I need to work harder to get more ISO?”
Where I live in England there’s a nasty habbit of using “borrow” and “lend” interchangably. “Can I lend a pen off you?” I just ask them who they’re going to lend it to and they look at me weirdly. Or if someone asks if someone has a pen and they’ll say “Sure, I’ll borrow you a pen.”
Not, I’m afraid, a uniquely British linguistic crime. I have family members here in the States, whose education ended with high school, who do the same thing.
Possibly the most widespread disease in the English language (UK) is to use ‘them’ instead of ‘those’. When I hear parents outside school asking their children ‘Have you got them pens in your bag ?’ …my heart sinks. What hope is there ?
Off point but wanted to share. I won’t even mention people who use the word ‘like’ multiple times in every sentence.
I think this was just coding to make sure that 5* banner’s transformation was also boosted. Seems like the game treats it like a separate character. If that’s the case, without this seemingly gibberish line, the transformed hulk would not be boosted when banner is.
In the US it’s “these ones.” As in “Do you want some of these apples?” “Nah I want these ones over here.” THE WORD ONES IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT.
The trend I’ve seen over the past 10 years, especially after I moved to Ohio (maybe it’s an Ohio thing), is the omission of “to be” as in “this needs (to be) checked”. “This needs checked” “That needs cleaned” “You need beaten”.
Are we really saving that much time by omitting “to be”?
At school, which would have been 17 years ago (God I’m old) I remember in an English class the teacher put “a lot” and “alot” on the board and asked people to vote in a show of hands which was correct.
I wondered what she was on about, because obviously it was “a lot”, I mean who thinks “alot” is correct?
Spoiler alert, 1/3 of the class voted for “alot”. I just looked around in disbelief. Have none of these dingbats ever read a book? I couldn’t believe this was apparently an issue.
Lo and behold, here we are in 2016 and I see it on the internet all the time. Drives me bonkers.
In high school, my senior English teacher told us that “a lot” was something a cow stands in and if we weren’t using it that context then don’t use it at all.
