Language Pet Peeve

[paulpablo]

It's already been mentioned but I HATE "I could care less."

I work with a lot of foriegners and one mistake I notice, which isn't a big deal but get on my nerves with prolonged exposure to it, is omitting the word "The" from sentences.

Like "Are you going to other side?"  Instead of "Are you going to the other side?"  And in a similar way omitting "Your" in sentences like "Are you going on (your) break?"

Your first example is clearly wrong, but isn't the latter correct in modern usage?

I have no idea.  I just know that most native English speakers would say for example "Are you doing the room checks?"  Where as someone learning the language might say "Are you doing room check?"

There are things in language that annoy me even if they're correct and things that don't annoy me even when they're incorrect.

Starting a sentence of with "So...." or "ok so....."  is possibly correct but it just annoys me.

Since the 90s a high emphasis on "So" became popular, I partly blame the sitcom friends, even using it to emphasise negative things (That is Soooo not true) that annoyed me at the time and it took me about 5 years to get used to. Now they've shifted it to the front of sentences to make it even more emphasised than before.