grammar earworm

[moominmolly]

For some reason, I've gotten a common grammar fault stuck in my head recently, and it's beginning to bug the piss out of me. I keep making it, too. I think I've done it five or six times in the past few weeks. I feel it fall out of my mouth just as it's too late to switch words in the hopes of making myself sound less dumb.

It's just funny. I really don't care when other people do this. I hear it, and it sounds marked, but it's common enough that I don't even bother internally bristling. Hooray for variation! But hearing it in my own speech... rrrrrh. And then I size up the people I'm talking to: did they notice how dumb I sound? rrrrrrh! It's like thinking you're fat, only stupider.

No, I won't tell you what it is. And yes, I'm sure I make all sorts of juicy mistakes all the time, anyway. (fishfoo...)

Comments

[srd.livejournal.com]

It's like thinking you're fat, only stupider.
Now that statement amuses me to no end.

Btw, what I hate even more than those grammar earworms is when you repeat a word so often, you start disassociating the sound with the meaning and then suddenly ask yourself: "Why does that sound mean just that?", and run around for the rest of the day mulling over that question.

Feeling badly, that's a very unique place for myself

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

The above is another way to get stuff like that out: a pure grammar slammer bammer failure.

By the way, I didn't cause this with my 'forte' post, did I?

When i was a kid, my parents and I came up with a way to hint we're in trouble to each other (in case I'd been kidnapped and the kidnappers sent a video to my folks, cue paranoia music). We'd toss into the ransom reading as many grammatical errors as we could.

-goofy thought before work, Dante

Re: Feeling badly, that's a very unique place for myself

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

By the way, I didn't cause this with my 'forte' post, did I?

No! I'm always obsessive.

We'd toss into the ransom reading as many grammatical errors as we could.

This is cool. I want to develop a secret code of grammar flaws. "If my tenses don't agree, I believe I'll be able to escape. If I misuse the objective case, it means my leg has been severed. If If I say "noo-kyoo-lar", it is already too late."

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

And yes, I'm sure I make all sorts of juicy mistakes all the time, anyway. (fishfoo...)

Yes? What, you expect me to leap into the discussion and mock you for past errors? Hardly... your grammar is better than mine, and you've more restraint in clouting people over the head about their errors. I bow to your mightiness. And restraint. Must work on restraint.

Interestingly, I just got involved in a minor spelling and grammar flamewar on the dc-cycles mailing list, and I'm afraid I came off as a bit of a prig. *sigh* I was trying so hard to explain that I realize it's stupid to take it so seriously, but I do anyway because I'm weird! Oh well.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

RESTRAINT IS FOR THE WEAK!!! ahem.

No, it wasn't that I expected you to mock me, just that I think of you as the quintessential grammar queen. In a good way. I'd have said that your grammar was better than mine, actually. :)

and we still need grammarnazidominatrix.com.