Word or spelling errors which frequently crop up on social media posts (Trivia)

[contrex]

"The car was a right off"

 

[route101]

Boarder for Border, see that commonly.

Stanstead for Stansted.

I also see strange ways people post comments on social media posts.

Capitals on all words.

'She Was Running Down The Hill To The Grocery Shop' Must be a habit to do that.

Large spaces between words. Does not come through when I post this post.

' He was shining his shoe at the garage' Another habit or is it voice to text?

More often and not its older users who post the above.

 

[jfollows]

It’s sometimes useful to note when our blind contributors contribute that their spelling mistakes may be far from intentional because of voice-to-text.

 

[PeterC]

Stanstead for Stansted.

That rather embarrassingly caught me out at work many years ago when I had to send a staffing survey to branches at both S. Abbotts and S Mountfitchet.

Despite having lived on the area for over 25 years I still have to stop and think about the sted/stead difference between Berko and Hemel.

 

[jfollows]

Despite having lived on the area for over 25 years I still have to stop and think about the sted/stead difference between Berko and Hemel.

I agree; I had to look up the spelling for a recent post myself.

 

[GusB]

"Alot" has been mentioned before, but "abit" is another one that I've seen. It's a really bad 'abit!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

It’s sometimes useful to note when our blind contributors contribute that their spelling mistakes may be far from intentional because of voice-to-text.

Voice to text can often be responsible for jumbled nonsensical posts as well; my wife has used it on a train and managed to send half the announcement to someone when the PA started half way through her dictating the message; she's also sent messages from home with bits of the BBC News mixed in...

 

[AlterEgo]

It's how I feel about the frequent misuse of carnage to describe relatively minor events, - a stage beyond extreme dislike and irritation. Totally different from what @Gloster is describing.

But people use "carnage" to mean all sorts of disorder, it has lost its traditional meaning. A 24 car pile up is carnage even if nobody died. And "hate" has extremely strong connotations, yet you use it to describe your annoyance that people don't use the dictionary definition for everything.

Interestingly, the term "pet hate" means a relatively minor irritation which you find more bothersome than most, not something you actually would place "beyond extreme dislike and irritation".

 

[Sun Chariot]

Not social media but this sign at a local marina always made me smile; and this spelling of January, at Havant Tesco Extra.

 

[AM9]

But people use "carnage" to mean all sorts of disorder, it has lost its traditional meaning. A 24 car pile up is carnage even if nobody died. And "hate" has extremely strong connotations, yet you use it to describe your annoyance that people don't use the dictionary definition for everything.

Interestingly, the term "pet hate" means a relatively minor irritation which you find more bothersome than most, not something you actually would place "beyond extreme dislike and irritation".

In the OED, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, Dictionary.com the english word 'carnage' is defined as involving death on a large scale. The word also translates into the same or a similar derivative of the french word 'charnage' or the germanic words for bloodbath 'blutbad' for all western european languages except greek. So no references that come near to, say a bad day for a rail;way keeping to its timetables or even a really bad traffic jam, unless one goes through the slang dictionaries, which can make for pointless posts here.

 

[AlterEgo]

In the OED, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, Dictionary.com the english word 'carnage' is defined as involving death on a large scale.

Yes, and pet hate means a (trivial) annoyance, yet you claim at the same time to actually "hate" this, so choose if you'd like to die by what the internet says or not - it can't be both!

 

[AM9]

Yes, and pet hate means a (trivial) annoyance, yet you claim at the same time to actually "hate" this, so choose if you'd like to die by what the internet says or not - it can't be both!

That bothers me not, - unlike the issue of carnage used in as describing trivial problems that others share ire along with me.

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Voice to text can often be responsible for jumbled nonsensical posts as well; my wife has used it on a train and managed to send half the announcement to someone when the PA started half way through her dictating the message; she's also sent messages from home with bits of the BBC News mixed in...

Poor voice to text can be a nightmare. Best to utter garbage until it gives up and you get to speak to a real human.

 

[Discuss223]

Here are some examples of the sort of things I've seen.

"Just got sum new shoe's, they is sandal's."

"Your amazing"

"you're house is very nice".

 

[317 forever]

Has anyone mentioned using 'commuter' for all rail passengers, no matter how far or how often they are travelling?

I got irritated not just by rail strikes on Saturdays, but by the added announcement that it would affect "commuters".

Another one is formally and formerly. I have even seen another forum where South Western Railway is described as Formally South Western Trains instead of Formerly.

South Western Railway (Formally South West Trains) | The Bus Forum

Passed through Norbiton today and it appears the brick station building on the Kingston bound platform was being demolished. Roof had gone and some of the brick walls were partly knocked down.

tangytango.proboards.com

 

[jfollows]

“pensioner“ always annoys me, over-used by Reach media of course, it saves them saying “old person” I guess. I’ve been taking a pension since I was 56 so am I in their demographic? Extra points if they include “horror” and “thug” in their headline.

 

[GordonT]

Prostrate in the belief that it is the word for prostate is a fairly common misconception.

 

[swt_passenger]

More often and not its older users who post the above.

That ‘and’ should be ‘than’. I can’t recall seeing that before, is it a regional thing?

It’s is the correct usage, but that’s a very common error.

 

[JamesT]

“Here, here” when someone is agreeing. It’s actually “hear, hear”

 

[Calthrop]

“Here, here” when someone is agreeing. It’s actually “hear, hear”

An argument could be made in favour of the former rendering being as valid as the latter; or even being correct, whereas the latter is not. "Here, here" could be seen as signifying: "we people here, agree with what you people there are saying" ...

 

[swt_passenger]

An argument could be made in favour of the former rendering being as valid as the latter; or even being correct, whereas the latter is not. "Here, here" could be seen as signifying: "we people here, agree with what you people there are saying" ...

So all the explanations Google throws up are wrong? A quick summary as far as I can see is that in parliament the original cry was ‘hear him’ or ‘hear them’, because applause was forbidden. The phrase then eventually got shortened.

I suppose attempts to justify ‘here, here’ will continue, perhaps because people don’t want to accept they might be wrong.

 

[Calthrop]

I was trying to lighten the mood a bit, from "deadly serious" -- hence the "smiley".

 

[Jamesrob637]

The use of weary when people mean wary feels as though it’s coming more common.

I only knew the difference between weary and wary not long back, and I'm 40 this year.

 

[Calthrop]

One which I like, which occasionally shows up -- I suspect, more often a typo, than the "perpetrator" being genuinely misinformed: "centurion", when what is meant is "centenarian".

 

[Thirteen]

Boarder for Border, see that commonly.

Stanstead for Stansted.

I also see strange ways people post comments on social media posts.

Capitals on all words.

'She Was Running Down The Hill To The Grocery Shop' Must be a habit to do that.

Large spaces between words. Does not come through when I post this post.

' He was shining his shoe at the garage' Another habit or is it voice to text?

More often and not its older users who post the above.

I've seen that from a poster on another forum I frequent, surely it's not that difficult to use a computer or phone?

 

[GordonT]

Just been reading a post on a FB group where someone is enquiring whether it was true that the recent storm had "striped" the interior of a community use building. Someone else replied on the basis that the interior of the building had not been "effected".
Also when to drop or not to drop the letter 'e' can be troublesome giving rise to such nonsense words as "safty" for safety.

Another phrase which crops up occasionally on FB groups - "please delete if not aloud".