People typing "can" when they mean "can't"...

[nomorenomore08]

Definitely a linguistic pet peeve of mine!

[jakeXT]

1. What's better, a can or a cat ?

[In_The_Wind]

2. This cat can

[nomorenomore08]

3. Best. Disguise. Ever.

[bluesbassman]

4. This can possibly can't can the peevishness you can't seem to elude, but can't hurt either.

[RebelOne]

5. Maybe they do not know where the apostrope is on the keyboard.

[nomorenomore08]

7. Even still, they don't have to omit the 't'!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Can you give an example?

I'm not sure what you mean.

My pet peeve is the phrase "no problem" used by people in the present time in responding to the words "thank you". I was raised to respond to "thank you" with such phrases as "you're welcome", "don't mention it", or "it was my pleasure". I almost never hear the latter phrases anymore. Those phrases in my opinion carried more emotional warmth and personal feelings of humanity and willingness to offer personal service to another and were not dismissive of the gratitude that had been offered to them. "No problem" spoken in response to words of thanks to me suggests that "it's okay because I didn't have to really go out of my way for you, but if I had, you wouldn't be thanking me for anything". I'm sure many people don't intend it that way but I also rarely see a smile accompany the words "no problem", whereas "it was my pleasure" was frequently accompanied with one. I guess I'm old school but the words "no problem" seem cold to me and less sociable than what used to accompany words of thanks more frequently in times gone by.

[nomorenomore08]

8. Like typing "I can play the piano" when they mean "I *can't* play the piano."

Don't know why, but it just drives me up a freakin' wall.

[Bucky]

9. Or when they say "I will marry you" but they mean "I will run off with Steve the night before"

Such a careless typo leads to such horrible misunderstandings

[RebelOne]

10. It would take a book for me to post my pet peeves.

I am a former copy editor and my main gripe is no one seems to know the difference between its and it's (its is a possessive pronoun, and it's is the contraction for it is). And I want to scream when I see apostrophes used on plural nouns making them possessives.