They All Sound The Same!

Things That Annoy Me

~Inspired by vipelf13

Homophones.

A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning.

The English language is weird. It has a way of manipulating words and tricking countless of people to fall into its trap. And whether you fall into that trap depends on how careful you are.

There are many words that sound similar, like “lose” and “loose”, “knight” and “night”, etc. And sometimes people can get confused by the different spellings, which means that we have to be weary of which word to use.

As much as these mistakes are annoying, they are sometimes pretty funny to read. Below are some out of the many examples I’ve come across.

 

Examples (based on real cases):

Please “bare” with me!

Corrected version: Please bear with me!

If you know what “bare” means, and you substitute the meaning or a synonym in, it would probably look something like this: Please expose a part of your body or something else with me!

And you know what that sounds like? Plain creepiness.

I don’t want to “waist” time.

Corrected version: I don't want to waste time.

The waist is a part of your body, not a verb.

She doesn't speak much, such a “quite” girl.

Corrected version: She doesn't speak much, such a quiet girl.

I don't even know how to explain this.

I’m always at “piece” here, the nature around me lets me relax my body and soul.

Corrected version: I’m always at peace here, the nature around me lets me relax my body and soul.

This too.

 

Out of all the grammar peeves, this annoys me the most, because one word can change the meaning of the whole sentence and it would take me a little longer to decipher what the author actually meant. However, as always, I wouldn't have the heart to inform them that they’ve actually made this mistake (I don’t know how to explain it to them too), so I’m posting it here instead.

If you have any other issues you wanna bring up, lemme know in the comments or you can pm me in the messages if you wanna have a chapter/topic all to yourself (I’ll credit you!). Ciao!

-immajokervip

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I just realised aff censored my title in chap 19... :/ -Jihyun
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Exofan12345 #1
Male preg does not bother me as much but what makes me cringe in when the male who is pregnant calls the baby ' my bundle of joy'....I don't really know why it makes me cringe, but it does.
JaraGizem #2
Chapter 22: I agree with you ONE THOUSAND TIMES OVER!!!!! Those smart Alecks just makes me want to punch them in the throat! Just GTFO! And I despise fictions that use Xi as LuHan's last name it had me hating LuHan for a while because for the life of me it confused me when I started out. It's the same with those who us Li for HanKyung/HanGeng. It's Lu Han and Han Geng, dammit!
baobei_love_1997 #3
Chapter 22: A lot of fanfics here have this: except the main female character(s) who is supposedly "different": while the rest female population is "obsessed" with the main male character(s), she doesn't even care about them, the rest is filled with makeup, she doesn't put on much (sometimes even purposingly uglify herself), the rest is always in short, revealing clothing, she doesn't even like dresses... I know it's to make the main female character look good, but that doesn't mean the other regular females are all the same. And even if they do things like that, why authors have to make them become so easy, so... disgusting? It's only how they choose to dress, how to act... not because they're all bad like how they're discribed. Sometimes main male character(s) suffer this as well.
Sorry for the rant, but I hate it when people make other people look bad just to make someone look good.
mysoulisstarving #4
Chapter 22: omg., from all the exo fics I read i really thought luhan's last name was xi...
Chiyoko-Nagai #5
Chapter 8: You're not alone
I do this on my stories too :'DDD
I haven't even posted the first chap for my current story yet :'DDD
Graysome #6
Chapter 19: Somehow chapter 19 suddenly makes me want to rant all day long. Okay i have to admit, i do curse alot sometimes (okay, i do it all the time tbh) but let's all think again, there are freaking CHILDREN on asianfanfics (mainly my little brother, who now curses alot due to the fanfics that he was reading), wouldn't it be a bad influence on them? For instance, in my country (mostly my juniors) say alot. When i was in fourth grade, i didn't even know what that word meant. But now, the fourth graders at a school nearby says it like it's not a big deal. I don't know why, it irritates me alot when the ones that seems so innocent says a word they shouldn't even know. End of rant :3

P.s Anime? Should i list alot? I mean i can give you a whole page of animes you can watch. I don't know which genre you would like so, for starters if you haven't watched it yet, you can watch “Kaichou wa maid-sama”, which is very funny to be exact. I'm feeling the urge to give you a whole list to be honest.

P.p.s You made me check my comment for a long time before actually posting it. Ahaha, you changed my writing style, and to be honest, it helps me alot in my writing exams. So, Thank you :3
I still think there are alot of mistakes though.（＾ω＾）
literary_whimsy #7
Chapter 21: I have to agree on this, particularly the first point. It is just really unrealistic to conceive after you have just had a miscarriage. I know that some people are just misinformed when it comes to certain things, but things shouldn't always be put in a story just because they could happen in real life.
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