Pronouns.
People who think that a sentence that takes the form of "This is a photo of Smith and I on holiday", or "I'd appreciate it if you could email that to Jones and I" drive me up the wall.

Whether they're slightly more or less annoying than, or equally annoying to, people who would use "myself" in that sort of context is an issue upon which I change my mind fairly frequently.

Having said that, and contrarily to the letter of the question, I'm not sure whether that stuff annoys me more than it should, because it really is genuinely cretinous. I suspect my annoyance is entirely warranted.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 12:21, 13 replies)

Yeah, it drives me mad when plebs don't know the difference between subject and object pronouns
www.b3ta.com/questions/purefury/post2109479
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:00, closed)

Ha! Oooops.
Also - Christ, that's some obsessive searching you've done there.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:36, closed)

Yeah, typing two words into the search filter and looking at the first page of results
it's absolutely massively stalkerish
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:05, closed)

But typing "Me too" into the search on the offchance that a person might've used it at some point?
OK, so it's not exactly stalkerish; but its pretty impressive point-scoring.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:19, closed)

it's the grammar mistake every single grammar nazi is guilty of making
so it's pretty much guaranteed that every regular poster has said it at some point.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:24, closed)

I can't even fall back on the defence that grammar does and ought only to reflect use.
I'm too much of a prescriptivist for that.

Darn it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 15:10, closed)

you'll just have to accept that your knowledge of linguistics is cretinous at best
HTH
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 30 Mar 2016, 7:54, closed)

Go fuck yourself .

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 16:38, closed)

I'm going to hazard a guess here,
and say that you're probably annoyed by people who pick up the telephone and say "This is he."
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 19:28, closed)

he'

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 19:40, closed)

Do such people exist?

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Mar 2016, 14:58, closed)

Why do people say,"This is he"?
I get that he is correct because the nominative case always comes after the verb to be, but surely it should be "This is I," because the person is speaking about theirself.

I've just realised their is no singular, third person, neuter, reflexive pronoun in English, but I'm sticking with theirself.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 2 Apr 2016, 0:38, closed)

Hahaha

( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 20:51, closed)