Pet Peeves

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:20 am

it is almost that they want to destroy whatever happiness you have.

and i hate people who are bothered by me singing at work. i know i can't sing. but it aint for you that i sing. it is for me.

Post by **Nav** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:57 pm

Oh I've thought of another one: decimated.

Decimation was the act of lining up a settlement's population and killing every tenth man (I think it was just the men), so a decimated population is not one that has been nearly wiped out. This seems to have become its common use, I even saw an article on the BBC website that referred to a species of bird that had been "decimated by half".

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:10 pm

people who say "everything but"
then it isn't everything, is it?

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:00 pm

Foamy reminded me of another pet peeve: it's for its. It's is the contraction of "it is." Its the possessive.

Also, people are always mixing up "then" and "than."

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:46 am

people who say they will listen to any type of music. no you will not. just tell me some stuff you like and i will take it from there. you don't want to hear that noise stuff that i have. you do not want to the shut up kitty comp.

Post by **Nav** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:01 am

Ooh, what about people mixing up 'bought' and 'brought'?

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:04 pm

people bitching about how hard inmates have it in prison. they do not. settled.

Post by **emotional leper** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:26 pm

Nav wrote:Ooh, what about people mixing up 'bought' and 'brought'?

Sometimes they can be used interchangeably and the sentence is still true and still be sensical.

"Guys, I brought Beer." -- My fellows, I have arrived, and I have carried with me in my travels this, alcohol, to bring to you.

"Guys, I bought Beer." -- My fellows, I have arrived, and in my travels I had cause to stop at a dispensary and, with my hard won monetary funds, I have purchased this alcohol.

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:30 pm

Present tense first person statement of viewing something - 'I see'.

Past tense first person statement of having viewed something - 'I seen'??!!??!!??!!

It's 'I saw', people - 'I saw'!! Consult your directory!

dw

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:50 pm

"I could care less about..." (less common "I could give a damn about..."), when used to mean the opposite. If you care about it more than anyone else in the world then you "could care less". It's only when you don't care at all that you couldn't care less. Without the negative, it's a redundant, meaningless statement.
Related: "give a care"--makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.
In my experience these always come from American speakers.

Post by **drew** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:13 am

...Wow.

I can't beleive how bothered people are by improper pronounciation.

Doesn't bother me at all.

"Nucular"-doesn't bother me one bit.

Although, I'd like to mention where I live : Chezzetcook. For some reason, anyone who lives outside of the comunity, when saying it, replaces the 'T' with an 'N'.

Post by **Infelice** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:33 am

The spelling of the singular "woman".... a lot of people spell it as "women".

The bought/brought thing erks me too.

Bought being the past tense of buy and brought being the past tense of bring.... sheesh, isnt so difficult.

Post by **drew** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:43 am

--it bothers me, that people started saying "Cheer's " Instead of "thanks"

Post by **emotional leper** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:26 am

Murrin wrote:"I could care less about..." (less common "I could give a damn about..."), when used to mean the opposite. If you care about it more than anyone else in the world then you "could care less". It's only when you don't care at all that you couldn't care less. Without the negative, it's a redundant, meaningless statement.
Related: "give a care"--makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.
In my experience these always come from American speakers.

It's called IRONY.

Because YOU DON'T.

Post by **iQuestor** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:35 am

drew wrote:--it bothers me, that people started saying "Cheer's " Instead of "thanks"

cheers is better than 'F*ckin A'

Post by **drew** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:46 am

Doar wrote:
drew wrote:--it bothers me, that people started saying "Cheer's " Instead of "thanks"
cheers is better than 'F*ckin A'

I preffer "Word Up"

Post by **Sunbaneglasses** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:57 am

sgt.null wrote:people who say they will listen to any type of music. no you will not. just tell me some stuff you like and i will take it from there. you don't want to hear that noise stuff that i have. you do not want to the shut up kitty comp.

Sarge, just for clarification what does "

you do not want to the shut up kitty comp

" mean?

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:17 am

Infelice wrote:The spelling of the singular "woman".... a lot of people spell it as "women".

The bought/brought thing erks me too.

Or does it irk you?

I'm with Murrin on "I could care less". I really, really hate that, and the otherwise mediocre pseudo-comedy The Opposite of Sex earned a great many points from me by having one of the characters correct someone on that very phrase.

Drew: the reason I get worked up about spelling and pronunciation of things is because getting such simple things wrong comes across - to me, at least - as either irredeemably stupid or hideously lazy. Besides, words are my thing. I feel them. I don't feel music, or art; I can appreciate and enjoy them, and they can stir emotions in me, but I can't feel them forming. Words work on an instinctive level for me, so seeing them misused is like someone scraping a razor along my nerves. It's repulsive on a level nothing else is.

Post by **[Syl]** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:08 pm

drew wrote:...Wow.

I can't beleive how bothered people are by improper pronounciation.

Doesn't bother me at all.

Not even 'New-fend-lend' vs. 'New-fend-land'? I had at least a half-hour long conversation with one of the barkeeps in Halifax over that one.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:09 pm

Emotional Leper wrote:It's called IRONY.

Because YOU DON'T.

I could believe that, if I heard it used in an ironic tone. More often than not, that's not the case.

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