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DanielLB
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Nov 27 2013, 8:44am
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I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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For some reason, I'll type its' as well. Which makes no sense at all!
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Starling
Half-elven
Nov 27 2013, 8:51am
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I mentioned my hatred of exclamation mark excess during a meeting at work once. Now a guy I work with always puts extra exclamation marks in emails, just for me.
And don't even get me started on my hatred of teacher jargon. Or shall we *unpack* that and *talk to it* as well, while we *drill down* into the *texture* of it?
I start 'hypernating' at the very thought of it, and I will *proberly* end up having 'heart populations'.
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Werde Spinner
Rohan
Nov 27 2013, 4:41pm
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Oh, don't worry about the icons!
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 The smiley faces are very helpful in getting the tone of a sentence across. Without the facial expressions and posture that we interpret in face-to-face conversation, online communication can get misinterpreted rather easily. Jokes can be seen as insults, and so forth. That's why emoticons are so helpful.
I use 'em a lot, too... Putting ' ' is probably better than putting 'ahahahahaha', which might make me look like an evil overlord (evil overlady?) putting my latest nefarious scheme into action... 
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Ataahua
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Nov 27 2013, 5:48pm
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"Our reporter is across this story."
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TVNZ started this about six months ago and it drives me up the wall. What happened to, "Our reporter has more details"?
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Ataahua
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Nov 27 2013, 5:50pm
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It's either 'incidents' or 'instances', not an unholy merging of the two! It's become increasingly common over the last year, unfortunately.
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FaramirAndEowynMorningStar
Rohan
Nov 27 2013, 7:15pm
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You know, she's got a point there
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I mean, I use icons all the time - usually to express my feelings on a particular subject or having a sly expression when I'm talking about Faramir and Thorin...  the mere thought brings a grin to my face! 
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Nov 27 2013, 7:58pm
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First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.
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Kim
Valinor
Nov 27 2013, 8:50pm
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Part of my job is to audit other people's work, and I can spot spelling and grammar errors at ten paces. And when I post here, I'll hit Preview Post multiple times to make sure everything is correct. However, I did pick the "It's/Its" option in the poll as that always seems to trip me up.
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Kim
Valinor
Nov 27 2013, 8:56pm
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"Wallah" is meant to be French? I'm afraid I'm going to need you to spell this one out for me.
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Ataahua
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Nov 27 2013, 9:13pm
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My mother was big with 'wallah'. Mind you, she was terrible (or superb, maybe) with malapropisms - she once told me that a young man was "very illegible", and once described a person's handwriting as "eligible".
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elaen32
Gondor
Nov 27 2013, 9:59pm
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Another person who gets wound up by "could of" and random apostrophes. Great minds think alike!
I love your list too Starling. One spelling issue I see a lot at work is "persciption" instead of "prescription". If I had £10 for every time I see a request for a "repeat persciption" I would be very wealthy indeed!
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor
Nov 27 2013, 11:27pm
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I would be happier if our U.S. newscasters and morning show hosts
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would stop using some form of "We're back after these messages" or "We're back after this commercial break". No, you're NOT back! You WILL be back! *rageflail*
The big network people started it, and now they all seem to think it's okay. *sob*
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Nov 28 2013, 12:20am
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These things seem to be catching, like germs
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One that bugs me is when railway train announcers say "arriving into" London Paddington or wherever, instead of "arriving at" or "arriving in" (either of which would be normal English usage). They seemed to begin doing this a few years ago, goodness knows why.
And don't get me started on corporate/political clichés and jargon. Grrrrr!
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Nov 28 2013, 12:53am
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I totally heard an evil cackle when reading 'ahahahahahaha'.
I agree about the emoticons. Sometimes, without them, I fall into a strange mode of expression when I want to make a jest. I go to extreme lengths to make it painfully clear that it is a joke, not an insult. It doesn't always work, so I prefer emoticons.
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Nov 28 2013, 1:10am
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When I see a typo in print, I just want to scream, 'Where was your editor?!' I see them in my church's bulletins and I had entertained the idea of becoming a proof-reader, but then realised I do not have the time.
Whenever a scrap of writing is pushed in front of me, I naturally lapse into 'editor-mode'. Sometimes I just have to bite my tongue and say nothing.
Sometimes the mistakes are funny. People seem to fear commas in these days, and that leads to humorous mis-readings. Don't even ask the last time I saw a semicolon.
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Meneldor
Valinor
Nov 28 2013, 4:21am
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I was snerking over "dire rear" all day.
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Then I had a chimichanga for dinner.  
TMI?
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Nov 28 2013, 6:19am
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They're very helpful. I wish some people would use them more often. I just find that I get carried away sometimes. (resisting urge to add blush-face and screwy mouth) D'oh!
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Finding Frodo
Tol Eressea
Nov 29 2013, 6:26am
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I chose "too much punctuation"
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Spelling and punctuation come pretty easily for me. It's not that I never make mistakes, but I proofread as I go along and usually do fine. On the other hand, I could be accused of overusing exclamation points!!
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sador
Half-elven
Nov 29 2013, 8:04am
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Possibly coming from the French voila, though, as Ataahua suggested (there is no 'v' consonant in many Semitic languages).
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sherlock
Gondor
Nov 29 2013, 12:31pm
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all the time & they're usually in the subject line. It's stuff I know but I don't always pick the right word in my rush to get my ideas down.
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Arannir
Valinor
Nov 29 2013, 12:58pm
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... I tend to do way too many commas in English.
Especially in front of "that", "who" or "which".
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Kim
Valinor
Nov 30 2013, 3:39am
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makes sense, I can hear it now, I've just never seen it spelled out phonetically like that.
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sauget.diblosio
Tol Eressea
Nov 30 2013, 6:43am
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Most of my mistakes are just random--
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mispelling here, punctuation there, sometimes a grammatical flub. But i always have to stop and think how to spell words like surprise or realise-- i always want to spell them with a Z. Happens every time.
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Starling
Half-elven
Nov 30 2013, 7:54am
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I get very cross with spell check,
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when it wants to change my s's to z's in words like realise.
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*Laughs my head off*
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