What irritates you the most with your own language?
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!
Honestly English has a lot of little things that I don't like about English but I can only imagine how you make the distinction between "Prinsesse pult i vinkel" and "prinsessepult i vinkel" when speaking and does that phenomenon effect other speaking situations at least with my home state our accent involves giving up on pronunciation halfway through the word so you can just listen for when centince has definition and transitions to mumbling to hear when one word ends and the other starts
Another Norwegian here. The sidene between the two is that words have stress, and compound words thus (generally) only has one (primary) stress. So "prinsesse pult" has stress on both words while "prinsessepult" only had one stress. (Also, in my dialect "pult" meaning desk is pronounced /p
ult/ while "pult" meaning fuck is pronounced /pu:T/ (capital T standing in for retrofleks t in this case) so pronounced that way "prinsessepult" becomes "fucked like a princess")