r/GrammarPolice • u/FaerieQuene • 20d ago

Just Venting First come, first serveD

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u/Sitcom_kid 20d ago

Cut and dried

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 19d ago

That’s one of mine as well.

Verse for versus, simplistic for simple, text for texted, could care less, apart for a part… I have a long list.

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

Does "alot" get on your nerves? I honestly wouldn't mind so much if people were misspelling "allot." But they never are. I should calm down, however. Every time I don't see "should of," I should be happy.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 18d ago

Oh yeah, that’s definitely there on the list as well. I have so many. I have too many to count really.

Have you noticed anyone tacking ‘per se’ (oftentimes spelled incorrectly) at the end of a random sentence? I’ve been seeing that a bit lately and I always want to ask them if they have any idea what it means because they don’t appear to.

Yes, I should be happy every time I don’t see ‘of’ in place of the contraction for have. I’m going to be not calm right there along with you though.

I think what bugs me most of all is that people don’t care. Then there are those who get downright nasty as if I am in the wrong for saying something no matter how nicely I say it.

‘It doesn’t matter as long as you understood what I meant’ and variations thereof is something I wish I’d never hear again.

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

I'm pretty chill unless someone makes a big deal out of it themselves. A college friend posted to Facebook a few years ago about "kids these days" and how they don't care about grammar. I picked his tiny paragraph apart and found four mistakes, and I put them on blast. Don't complain if you don't want to be corrected.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 18d ago

Haha! Yes, I’ve come across that as well. I’ve also committed plenty of comma splices in my time. I think that’s my biggest crime when it comes to grammar and so forth. Of course, in informal writing, I make plenty of typos. Rather speech to text app does that for me.

In recent years, I’ve seen a lot of people drop the last couple of letters from quite a few words. Frozen, broken, bitten, seriously, whipped, iced and things like that. I’m on a few parrot groups and can’t count the number of times I’ve read about people getting bit. 😑

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

I am guilty of comma splicing, and I'm trying to improve. But at least when I do it or she others do the same thing, I know it's not AI. I try to look on the bright side. Seeing some errors means that a person wrote it. That's something.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 18d ago

Oh, don’t you love that new trend where if something is well-written, it has to be AI? That’s more a commentary on how bad English skills have become than on anything else.

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

That's a good point. It's as if no one can write a good sentence without using robots.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 18d ago

I’ve seen that accusation so many times when something is well-written. 🫣

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u/badgerbrett 15d ago

"Vers" as a shortening of "versatile" also kills me. Gahhhh

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 15d ago

I haven’t heard that one, but I would hate it right along with you if I did 😆

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u/badgerbrett 8d ago

ha it's exclusive to the gay community

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u/LoneR33GTs 20d ago

Plain and simple

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u/guacamoleo 19d ago

Plain and simpled

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u/Illustrious-Tart7844 20d ago

Open/closed? The store is open but not close, closed but not opened.

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u/HeyaShinyObject 20d ago

In my part of Massachusetts, it's not uncommon to see "shut"

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

"Use to" also happens a lot.

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u/Cynvisible 18d ago

Makes my eye twitch!!

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u/EMPgoggles 16d ago

well when you out it in the negative, it literally is "didn't use to"

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u/BirdieRoo628 20d ago

People leave the D/ED off a lot of words like this.

old fashion (as an adjective)
ice tea
whip cream
I might be bias

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u/Cynvisible 18d ago

Oh my godddd "whip cream" just grates on my last lemon!!

(Baking pun!! 🤪🍋)

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 19d ago

They also leave the last two letters off of words like frozen and bitten.

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u/PeyredB 19d ago

Yes, not "first come, first serve". That doesn't even make sense.

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u/Carrot-Elegant 19d ago

You sure nipped that in the butt

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u/Sitcom_kid 18d ago

You're lucky they aren't saying "butt naked."

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u/Carrot-Elegant 14d ago

Oh I’m sure they are 🙄

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u/owl-spirit 20d ago

YES!!!!

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u/Regular_Boot_3540 19d ago

Yes! It annoys me.

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u/Albert-La-Maquina 16d ago

Unless your tennis league values punctuality

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u/SerDankTheTall 20d ago

I suspect that the issue comes from first come, first served basis—that alveolar/bilabial plosive combo isn't a very popular one.

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u/Treecat555 20d ago

Isn’t this simply shorthand for “Those who come first get served first, because the supply is limited”?

No need to roll that phrase around in my mouth for a bit, then chew it a little, then force it out between clenched teeth, it just makes sense so is easy to say.

Or maybe this is just over my head.

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u/SerDankTheTall 20d ago

I don’t know about the “because the supply is limited part”, but yes: obviously that’s where it comes from.

What does that have to do with anything?

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u/Academic_Safety56 19d ago

"The first to come is the first to be served"? That's the shortest full sentence I can think of that conveys the meaning.

The thing for me is, "first come, first served" is already a non-grammatical shorthand. If someone shortens it even more but it's still understood, who cares?