Grammar that makes you cringe

[Cudzoziemiec]

Similarly, failure to correctly apply negation, so she'll say the exact opposite of what she means.  In both cases, she won't 'hear' that she's done it and correct herself as you or I might.  Happens more frequently in speech, but sometimes creeps into her writing when tired.

Someone was saying (in writing) something the other day about "being prosecuted for driving with undue care and attention." 

[Mr Larrington]

Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) has just received an apparently-genuine e-mail from MBNA telling him that his replacement credit card “is on it's way”.

Kill them.  Kill them all.

[Cudzoziemiec]

By a thousand cuts with credit cards?

This one will annoy lots of people: anniversary as a verb. "When that anniversaries, will it fall out of next year or should we assume the same run rate?"

There might be other things in that sentence that make people cringe.

[Mr Larrington]

Mercifully I have yet to encounter a verbed anniversary in the wild, as the police tend to take a dim view of bludgeoning apparent innocents utterly to DETH.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I thought "fall out of next year" was quite... amusing. That it actually makes sense to BANKERS does not make it better.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Although solar geoengineering would theoretically be able to lower temperature rise,...

Ugh!

[L CC]

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

[citoyen]

Love it. Correctivations is now my word of the day.

[hatler]

I heard 'infuriations' on the radio the other day. As opposed to 'fury'.

[Peter]

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

There is so much wrong with that that "correctivations" has to struggle to get to the top/bottom of the pile.  I'm staggered that so many techies manage to reach puberty and breed.

[citoyen]

I heard 'infuriations' on the radio the other day. As opposed to 'fury'.

I think I love that even more than correctivations. Surely the meaning is slightly different to fury though? I would take it to mean 'instances of being infuriated', so a quantifiable noun rather than the unquantifiable 'fury'.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I would take infuriation to mean something that infuriates. In as far as you can ever judge a word without context.

Correctivations = corrective actions autocarrotted, no?

[hatler]

I heard 'infuriations' on the radio the other day. As opposed to 'fury'.

I think I love that even more than correctivations. Surely the meaning is slightly different to fury though? I would take it to mean 'instances of being infuriated', so a quantifiable noun rather than the unquantifiable 'fury'.

Good point. Annoyingly I can't remember the exact context.

[L CC]

Correctivations = corrective actions autocarrotted, no?

I think so.

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

There is so much wrong with that that "correctivations" has to struggle to get to the top/bottom of the pile.  I'm staggered that so many techies manage to reach puberty and breed.

This is nothing technical. Well. Big scale technical. There is a shipping container with torn sides sitting in South Shields now waiting for 24,000 litres of pinot noir to be pumped into a tank, as they can't move the damaged container off the dock without risk of the internal bag tearing.

[citoyen]

I would take infuriation to mean something that infuriates.

I considered that as another possible meaning. But as you say, it depends on context.

[nicknack]

Correctivations = corrective actions autocarrotted, no?

I think so.

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

There is so much wrong with that that "correctivations" has to struggle to get to the top/bottom of the pile.  I'm staggered that so many techies manage to reach puberty and breed.

This is nothing technical. Well. Big scale technical. There is a shipping container with torn sides sitting in South Shields now waiting for 24,000 litres of pinot noir to be pumped into a tank, as they can't move the damaged container off the dock without risk of the internal bag tearing.

Where can I get a wine box like that?

[hatler]

I would take infuriation to mean something that infuriates.

I considered that as another possible meaning. But as you say, it depends on context.

Given my replacement for this bastardisation was 'fury', I'm thinking that the context must have been something along the lines of "The infuriation of having to deal with ..."

[T42]

I heard 'infuriations' on the radio the other day. As opposed to 'fury'.

I think I love that even more than correctivations. Surely the meaning is slightly different to fury though? I would take it to mean 'instances of being infuriated', so a quantifiable noun rather than the unquantifiable 'fury'.

I rather like  the idea of suffering the infuriations of correcivitis.  Anti-inflammatory blandishments to be applied.

[Kim]

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

There is so much wrong with that that "correctivations" has to struggle to get to the top/bottom of the pile.  I'm staggered that so many techies manage to reach puberty and breed.

To be fair to the tech team, they're evidently not the ones writing that.

Also, in light of fboab's elaboration, have you noticed that everyone who does the actual work is a technician these days?  Apart from technicans, who are engineers.

[De Sisti]

No space after commas and full stops.

[Kim]

No space after commas and full stops.

I follow someone on twitter who does this.  And not in a deliberately committing crimes against typesetting in order to squeeze another word in http://t.co/eiGoo9Vo wouldn't bother me, but twitter parses it as a URL, so when I read their tweets in a text-mode client random sentences get munged together with a nonsense redirect link.  Comme ça.

I think I prefer Dr Biggles's habit of putting a space before the punctuation mark at the end of a sentence .

[L CC]

Also, in light of fboab's elaboration, have you noticed that everyone who does the actual work is a technician these days?  Apart from technicans, who are engineers.

Aye.
We have

• Operators - who operate machinery
• Tech Operators - who set up machinery
• Fitters - who set up machinery after the operators break it

and finally

• Engineers - who fix things

[bhoot]

Love it. Correctivations is now my word of the day.

That sounds distinctly like "French English". Working with many french people (whose English is generally excellent) there are some interesting words used quite regularly. Probably "plannification" is top of the list although I think my favourite is the verb "complexify". When I was spending more time the other side of the channel and listening to more of this I started to use some of them myself...

[T42]

This will not be delivered today as planned. Our tech team have made arrangements for correctivations today, we will ensure to keep you updated

There is so much wrong with that that "correctivations" has to struggle to get to the top/bottom of the pile.  I'm staggered that so many techies manage to reach puberty and breed.

To be fair to the tech team, they're evidently not the ones writing that.

Also, in light of fboab's elaboration, have you noticed that everyone who does the actual work is a technician these days?  Apart from technicans, who are engineers.

Bang on.  It always pisses me off to read stuff like "scientists launch probe to Mars". It's engineers all the way. Salt of the Earth, engineers.

[De Sisti]

No space after commas and full stops.

I follow someone on twitter who does this.  And not in a deliberately committing crimes against typesetting in order to squeeze another word in http://t.co/eiGoo9Vo wouldn't bother me,

When people do that on this forum (and others) I tend to not bother reading them.