Grammar Pet Peeves

Elipise

I can not understand even a small portion of that. 

Sanna

My native language is English and I can't understand this one:
C'n an'on' 'nk m'no'er Boa' 'a'too, 'leas'?"
Can anyone something please?

Kandra

Can anyone ink me another boar tattoo, please?

Skye

I tried to read that out loud. It sounded like I either ate a lot of marbles or was giving a serious blowjob. Quite possibly both at the same time. 

Trey

Skye said:

I tried to read that out loud. It sounded like I either ate a lot of marbles or was giving a serious blowjob. Quite possibly both at the same time. 

Hot.

Also, on topic

Sanna

Skye said:

I tried to read that out loud. It sounded like I either ate a lot of marbles or was giving a serious blowjob. Quite possibly both at the same time. 

Anything for the RP

Szanthax

Sanna said:

My native language is English and I can't understand this one:
C'n an'on' 'nk m'no'er Boa' 'a'too, 'leas'?"
Can anyone something please?

Looks like it's scriptable... 

Krypton

Nah, it's (somewhat) random.

Consistent in replacing ending E's and T's with an apostrophe, but not consistent in replacing opening T's.

She even fucks up her own accent when:

(Targossas): Raeallyn says, "We', y'just' ne' t'lis'n!"

... because the apostrophe after "just" doesn't replace any letters, though she probably meant to remove the T.

Goryllin

Still, its is very difficult to keep such a complex accent in place.

That said: Achaea is intentionally designed to allow you to customize the accent you use through the mechanics and thus not make it difficult to read. *shrug*

Anedhel

Man, I'm late to it, but I saw @Sarapis mentioned contractions. I used to piss off people on purpose by committing atrocious grammar-crimes on public channels (can't've, wouldn't've, etc.), and I'm kinda super glad you never caught me >_>

ETA: I do feel bad, if it helps.

Jukilian

I'll take "can't've" and "wouldn't've" over "can't of" and "wouldn't of" any day.

Sarapis

Anedhel said:

Man, I'm late to it, but I saw @Sarapis mentioned contractions. I used to piss off people on purpose by committing atrocious grammar-crimes on public channels (can't've, wouldn't've, etc.), and I'm kinda super glad you never caught me >_>

ETA: I do feel bad, if it helps.

As long as you feel sufficiently chastened now!

Klendathu

Sarapis said:

Anedhel said:

Man, I'm late to it, but I saw @Sarapis mentioned contractions. I used to piss off people on purpose by committing atrocious grammar-crimes on public channels (can't've, wouldn't've, etc.), and I'm kinda super glad you never caught me >_>

ETA: I do feel bad, if it helps.

As long as you feel sufficiently chastened now!

Y wooden T?

Goryllin

Klendathu said:

Sarapis said:

Anedhel said:

Man, I'm late to it, but I saw @Sarapis mentioned contractions. I used to piss off people on purpose by committing atrocious grammar-crimes on public channels (can't've, wouldn't've, etc.), and I'm kinda super glad you never caught me >_>

ETA: I do feel bad, if it helps.

As long as you feel sufficiently chastened now!

Y wooden T?

DIAF

Exelethril

Skye said:

I tried to read that out loud. It sounded like I either ate a lot of marbles or was giving a serious blowjob. Quite possibly both at the same time. 

Happy international women's day, everyone! 

Greys

Message 18562

Sent By: Achaea on 3/15/20:02

Your bug report (detail: in HELP 24.2 In one line it refers to "1 percent chance" and another a "2% percent chance". The style should be kept consistent and saying 2% percent is redundant.) - has been fixed.

Minifie

Nothing, I am not a grammar or spelling nazi, I really love sometimes phonetically pronouncing things incorrectly just for the fun of it (definitely, intensive purposes are good examples).

iunno, guess I just don't care enough

Kez

But per cent is two words.  

Aerek

Minifie said:

Nothing, I am not a grammar or spelling nazi, I really love sometimes phonetically pronouncing things incorrectly just for the fun of it (definitely, intensive purposes are good examples).

iunno, guess I just don't care enough

People want us to stop using homophones? I'm a frayed knot.

Xaden

Gonna
Wanna
Replacin' the gs at the end of words with apostrophes.

This is as far as I go.

Roullier has balanced his accent out really well. It's mostly phonetical and nearly always makes sense.

Klendathu

My wife said we'd have less arguments if I weren't such a pedant. I responded in the only appropriate manner...

"Fewer arguments, not less."

Xaden

Just sayin...

Elipise

Xaden said:

Just sayin...

That mug explained to me more about the English language than 5 years of University did.

Xaden

I particularly like it because I feel it conveys my tendency towards being a grammar nazi in a language that is close to my heart.

Minifie

just going to leave this here...

Szanthax

When someone asks me how I'm doing and I reply with "I'm amazing" or " I'm great" ... Knowing full well what I'm saying... Everyone always thinks I have a positive attitude. I'm really saying I am great. I am amazing. ...when I'm feeling ok and I reply with "I am well" and people act like I'm a snooty bitch for saying "well"

Paine

4.13.7 That's not Achaean!

A few words have crept into Achaean usage that really don't belong. Join us in
our crusade to cleanse the tongue of our beautiful lands!

  Not Achaean         Is Achaean!      |  Not Achaean         Is Achaean!
                                       |
  alot            ->  a lot            |  kahwe           ->  kawhe
  alright*        ->  all right        |  nevermind       ->  never mind
  anymore         ->  any more         |  noone           ->  no one
  appolog[y|ise]  ->  apolog[y|ise]    |  occurrance      ->  occurrence
  arguement       ->  argument         |  perminate       ->  permanent
  catagory        ->  category         |  priviledge      ->  privilege
  challange       ->  challenge        |  publically      ->  publicly
  congradulations ->  congratulations  |  reccommend      ->  recommend
  definate[ly]    ->  definite[ly]     |  rediculous      ->  ridiculous
  devine          ->  Divine           |  responce        ->  response
  dieing          ->  dying            |  rouge***        ->  rogue
  discernable**   ->  discernible      |  schedual        ->  schedule
  dosent          ->  doesn't          |  sence           ->  sense
  elixer          ->  elixir           |  seperate        ->  separate
  embarass        ->  embarrass        |  sirrocians      ->  siroccian[s]
  existance       ->  existence        |  skeptical++     ->  sceptical
  faught          ->  fought           |  speach          ->  speech
  firey           ->  fiery            |  thankyou        ->  thank you
  genious         ->  genius           |  tounge          ->  tongue
  grammer         ->  grammar          |  truely          ->  truly
  greatful        ->  grateful         |  vile+           ->  vial
  harrass         ->  harass           |  visable         ->  visible
  heighth         ->  height           |  wierd           ->  weird
  independant     ->  independent      |  withdrawl       ->  withdrawal


*   "Alright" is acceptable informally, though "all right" is preferred.

**  Some dictionaries now allow "discernable" as an _alternate_ spelling,
    doubtless to accommodate the legions of those unable to spell it
    properly. We reject this line of thinking!

*** Rouge is colouring applied to the face. Rogue is a kind of person,
    or way of life, or many other things we will not list here.

+   Vile is a proper word meaning morally reprehensible. Vial is a small 
    container for liquids.

++  We do not generally list regional variations in UK vs US spellings
    here. For skeptical (US) and sceptical (UK) we make an exception.

Cynlael

         

Nakari

Mine is less a grammar thing, but what frustrates me the most is when someone uses a metaphor or some other linguistic device that's based in modern/irl technology or society.

Krypton

Cynlael said:

         

Of course they misplace the period outside the quotation marks at 2:35.