Things that irk you......

"Good to know you". You don't know me, you shithead, we just met.

"For Sell". God, you're ignorant.

"I did it on accident". No, no, no, you did it by accident, you dipstick.

 

Must of or should of. There are people now who think it is correct and acceptable.

 

People who use "it's a" instead of the correct "there's a"

 

Yeah, I guess we'll go over to Rick Monday's Thursday, meet up with Jeff Saturday Friday and go have a sundae.

 

Getting an order from the Taco Bell drive thru and, instead of them asking what sauce you want, they just fill the bag with mild.
Who the fuck gets mild sauce at Taco Bell?

 

"Dinning out."

 

Who the fuck plays the food snob with taco sauce?

 

Maybe we will run into Tuesday Weld and Billy Sunday!

 

When someone begins a business phone conversation with "Hi. How are you?" before they've identified themselves. I automatically assume they're sales people.

 

Local TV news has lost the ability to speak a sentence in their torturous and dumb pursuit of the active voice.
Crime coverage on local TV news has become a non-stop stream of present and past particpial phrases:

• Police continuing to look for the suspect
• Residents fearing for their safety
• Friends and family shocked by the events

Your participal is a verb form but it is not functioning as a verb. I have recently watched three crime segments that never included an actual verb.
It's a crime. The verb is the best part of the story. Use a VERB!

 

As someone who produces and writes a newscast every day... the bullshit "active" tense drives me insane. I have not and will not write that way, but I've had anchors who will change scripts to it. (Frequently just the first line of the script -- the rest is allowed to remain in English.)