20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes

[Anthony]

In Northern Ireland, people paint on walls more than they do elsewhere. Their creations, however, are often referred to as "wall murals", which is odd. It's a mistake made even by the academics who study such things.

[Stephen]

Youse is pretty popular in New Jersey as well!

Though I was born and raised in Michigan I lived for years in Florida and noticed that while I was never comfortable with "ya'll" I did start using "you all."

Language and Grammar are changeable things and deficiencies like the plural and singular you being unclear will cause some innovation.

As to the redundancy that you allude to in "wall mural" I'm guessing someone wanted to distinguish from the work of screevers which can be street or sidewalk murals (or mike's painting in the 16th chapel).

[Ruth]

Stephen wrote: "or mike's painting in the 16th chapel). ..."

Oh yeah, that guy Michael Angelo. Lots of my Art History students would write of him and the 16th chapel.

[Unindoctrinated]

Hayes wrote: "I love it:

Impactful It isn't a word... Seriously, stop saying this.

hahaha!"

Does that qualify as an example of Muphry's Law?
You'd think the author of an article about the correct use of the English language would fact-check their work before publishing it.
"Impactful" appears in every dictionary I have access to.

Proofreading and fact-checking your work is so easy these days that choosing to not do so is an unambiguous demonstration of laziness and disrespect for the language.

[Pat]

Murphy.

[Ken, Moderator]

"Impactful is barbarous jargon dating from the mid-1970s. Unlike other adjectives ending in -ful, it cannot be idiomatically rendered in the phrase full of [+ quality)], as in beautiful [= full of beauty], regretful [=full of regret], scornful [=full of scorn], and spiteful [=full of spite]. If impact truly denotes a quality, it does so only in its newfangled uses as a verb and as an adjective .

"Whatever its future may be, impactful is, for now, a word to be scorned. Among its established replacements are influential and powerful..."

--Bryan A. Garner
Garner's Modern American Usage

[Sally]

"Impacted" used to be applied exclusively to a dental problem. "Impactful" is new to me. I tend to be old school, and don't like it. I'd prefer the return of "impact" to its noun form. But then again, no one is asking for my qualified or unqualified opinion.

[Gabi]

If your dog or cat gets impacted, you'll know the real meaning!

[Doug]

I'm just worried about an impactful experience with my car.