It Erks my nerves when...

When somebody says "pacifically" Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Pacific is an ocean, what you mean to say was "specifically!!!"

arrrrghhhhh! and peopole who call Ketchup "red sauce".......is that just a british thing?

Tapping. When somebody keeps tapping I want to break their fingers

Noisy eaters, definitely feature on my list (a first date never went any further for this reason!)

Not using a napkin and wiping hands on clothing. That's just grim.......oh and I once had the misfortune to go to a restaurant with somebody who picked their teeth with their fork...never again!!!

and I know that isn't popular but people who mix up "to" "two" and "too" or "their" and "there"

Most currently is would be the following:

1) When you're helping someone by obtaining information on the internet in regards to upcoming events and they get irritable with you because they have the inability to listen
2) When you're helping someone make dinner and they get irritable with you when you pass them 'too many almonds'
3) When you're helping someone make a smoothie and ask if they want spinach in it and they say yes, you place spinach in the blender and they get irritable with you because 'you put too much spinach in' the blender
4) When you ask someone how are they feeling and they get irritable with you simply because you spoke to them
5) When you try to make small talk with someone during lunch and they get irritable when they respond and demonstrate negative body language

I think that is the 'Jist' of it lately...With that being said, maybe I need a 'time out'....

People with bad table manners and talking with their mouth full of food, people who say pacific instead of specific and curtains that have gaps in them when closed.

Haha!


People who are consistently late or anything that causes me to be late.
Whining. Barking dogs.

Your title says Erks my nerves... it really should just be. It really gets on my nerves, or it really irks me when... or even it really annoys me when...

irks my nerves just... no. Things like this irk me beyone belief.


And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Spelling errors also irk me beyone belief...

Your title says Erks my nerves... it really should just be. It really gets on my nerves, or it really irks me when... or even it really annoys me when...

irks my nerves just... no. Things like this irk me beyone belief.


And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Yeah me too... autocorret does that and I am not going back to edit because its a pain in the *kitten* on my phone lol I noticed ater I hit post.
Spelling errors also irk me beyone belief...

And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Typos here and there don't bother me (as an editor, I know you can't catch everything) but when a small press publishes a book, they really don't edit at all and it can be AWFUL. Really, really, really awful.

Even worse is that all seven Harry Potter books are FULL of grammatical errors. Full of them.

Well one or two I can live with the book had more red lines than anything else.

Harry Potter was hard for me to read, I love that series but my god did I want to stab myself in the eye sometimes lol.

I'm the same I walk into a restroom and someone comes out the stall and goes straight for the door. I want to grab their wrists, stand behind them and put their hands under the water with soap and sing, "This is the way we wash our hands, wash our hands, wash our hands. This is the way we wash our hands, after we go potty."

I'm totally doing that next time! Just calling them out never works.

And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Typos here and there don't bother me (as an editor, I know you can't catch everything) but when a small press publishes a book, they really don't edit at all and it can be AWFUL. Really, really, really awful.

Even worse is that all seven Harry Potter books are FULL of grammatical errors. Full of them.

Well one or two I can live with the book had more red lines than anything else.

Harry Potter was hard for me to read, I love that series but my god did I want to stab myself in the eye sometimes lol.

It was probably either self-published or a small press if it was that bad. They really don't edit and the author's usually have no clue.

Rowling did an excellent job with setting scenes, creating a world and character development, but it was clear she was not an English major! Her editors (I mean, for books like those, the publisher gives a lot of attention) should have fixed the grammar. It took me out of the story every.single.time.

And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Typos here and there don't bother me (as an editor, I know you can't catch everything) but when a small press publishes a book, they really don't edit at all and it can be AWFUL. Really, really, really awful.

Even worse is that all seven Harry Potter books are FULL of grammatical errors. Full of them.

What sort of grammatical errors? Or are you referring to traditional grammatical rules like not opening sentences with conjunctions? Which seems to have been abandoned, I do it all the time, it feels natural, I don't care if it's technically incorrect. As was that sentence. And this one.

And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Typos here and there don't bother me (as an editor, I know you can't catch everything) but when a small press publishes a book, they really don't edit at all and it can be AWFUL. Really, really, really awful.

Even worse is that all seven Harry Potter books are FULL of grammatical errors. Full of them.

Well one or two I can live with the book had more red lines than anything else.

Harry Potter was hard for me to read, I love that series but my god did I want to stab myself in the eye sometimes lol.

It was probably either self-published or a small press if it was that bad. They really don't edit and the author's usually have no clue.

Rowling did an excellent job with setting scenes, creating a world and character development, but it was clear she was not an English major! Her editors (I mean, for books like those, the publisher gives a lot of attention) should have fixed the grammar. It took me out of the story every.single.time.

The author's what?

I could care less.

Every time someone says it I want to drive them into the floor with a bat whilst screaming "NO YOU COULDN'T" loudly in their face. How have so many people failed to notice that what they're saying is the complete opposite of what they mean?

People that use the QUOTE feature in forums!

And spelling errors in novels. I sent a letter to an editor once because of the novel I was reading, I included a copy with every spelling error and incorrect punctuation in the novel.

Typos here and there don't bother me (as an editor, I know you can't catch everything) but when a small press publishes a book, they really don't edit at all and it can be AWFUL. Really, really, really awful.

Even worse is that all seven Harry Potter books are FULL of grammatical errors. Full of them.

What sort of grammatical errors? Or are you referring to traditional grammatical rules like not opening sentences with conjunctions? Which seems to have been abandoned, I do it all the time, it feels natural, I don't care if it's technically incorrect. As was that sentence. And this one.

No. Like modifying singular nouns with plural pronouns. She does it constantly and it's irksome.

There were others, but that was her most common offense. It's wrong and it's lazy.

I could care less.

Every time someone says it I want to drive them into the floor with a bat whilst screaming "NO YOU COULDN'T" loudly in their face. How have so many people failed to notice that what they're saying is the complete opposite of what they mean?

strong THIS!