Amen to that. I am similarly annoyed by the fashionable trend of turning nouns into verbs, as in, "to dialogue." "We were dialoguing about the controversy the other day . . . "
Punctuation mistakes are my pet peeve, particularly the use of quotation marks for emphasis. Such as a sign at a local restaurant: Kids' meal includes "free" drink. So, it's not really free?
Aigh! YES! Me too, exactly. Or I say, "Quoting whom?" Evidently someone came by and remarked, "Hm. Free!" — and was later quoted without attribution.
I wish I'd kept a hilarious letter to the editor of the LA Times' Calendar section, from decades ago. It was responding to an article debating what to call the recording of movies now that film isn't exactly used. Instead of "filming," someone suggested "lensing."
This writer composed a really clever letter full of verbed nouns. Memory can't do it justice, but it was something to the effect that "I then promptly lamped my room, papered my typewriter, verbed some nouns, and commenced letter-to-the-editoring. Afterwards, I shall envelope the letter, postage-stamp the envelope, and mailbox it."
Dan