Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct

Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.

Examples:

  • “Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).

  • “Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)

  • “Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”

I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    So many people treat the letter S like it’s special, regardless of why it’s there.

    Instead of Gus’s, they’ll say Gus’ when they are talking about a possession of the singular Gus.

    If the S is part of a name, it doesn’t activate the plural-possessive rule for dropping the S after the apostrophe.

    Burns’s poems
    Samus’s starship
    Kass’s theme