Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct
Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.
Examples:
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“Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).
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“Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)
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“Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”
I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!
In English, lack of second-person plural, aside from a dozen regionalisms: y’all, yinz, youse, etc.
No distinction between inclusive & exclusive ‘we’: if I say “we’ve got to go now”, do I expect you to come?
Unnecessarily generated pronouns. I know ‘they/them’ has been used for individuals for ages, but I still find it awkward. I wish we just used one set of ungendered pronouns for every specific person.
Doesn’t “you all” qualify?
Englishes have words for the second-person plural pronoun, but Standard English doesn’t have one word for it.
If two speakers are from the same background, they probably share a word for it. If they’re from different places or different races, they might not.