For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.
If it were supposed to be pronounced “jif” it would have been spelled that way, I don’t give two fucks what Stephen Wilhite said about it either.
The Oxford comma.
its “I could not care less” and not “I could care less”. This one drives me nuts
Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using “on accident”.
Maybe people are just trying to annoy you by purpose.
Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.
Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!
using “he/she” to refer to an ambiguous party. just use they for fucks sake
agreed for humans, but I do like calling cars/boats/bikes/machines “she”. makes me feel like a pirate :)
oh im not talking about that.
i’m talking about quasi-legalese phrases like “he/she may […]” “if he/she agrees”, you know. the places where “they” would be both more grammatical and easier to understandhe/she refers to a single individual, they can refer to multiple
They can also refer to an individual though.
yeah, but its an ambiguity that can be picked at in legal settings. He/she makes it very clear that only singular person is being referred to
I guess I found my hill:
If you are worried about your sentence leaving ambiguity for your pronouns, then write a better sentence.
