Kevin's Watch

It seems with so many cooking shows it is now ok to speak with your mouth full. Not just full, but it supposed to make the viewer salivate to see the host slobbering and dripping food out of their mouths, groaning in culinary ecstasy.

Decidedly unpleasant. While I enjoy certain cooking shows, fortunately none of the hosts have this failing.

I concour.

Another one - I can's stand people that go slow in the fast lane. I just want to run my car up their butts. (I'm such a new yorker)

People that can't spell or use proper grammar.

(typos excluded)

With the advent of internal company e-mail through Outlook over the past 15 years or so, it has become so blatantly obvious just how pathetic some of your co-workers actually are at such a basic function of everyday life.

If I have to see one more 'there' rather 'their' or one more 'insure' rather than 'ensure'...

(OK, maybe I have issues)

If so, I have the same ones.

I'll go you one better: Few things irk me more than to see grammatical and/or punctuation errors in printed books, which have allegedly been vetted by at least one editor, if not a copy editor. Makes me want to sharpen my red pencil...

jelerak wrote:one more 'insure' rather than 'ensure'

YES! This is one few people seem to pick up on, but it drives me mad.

'In regards to' rather than 'in regard to'

lorin wrote:It seems with so many cooking shows it is now ok to speak with your mouth full. Not just full, but it supposed to make the viewer salivate to see the host slobbering and dripping food out of their mouths, groaning in culinary ecstasy.

I'd like to respond to this, but I don't want to be accused of typing with my mouth full.

Bad grammar, spelling etc.

I dislike when people say, "I'm nauseous" or "I feel nauseous." I usually pop people on that one. Also, I hate the ever present " 's " to indicate plural as in "closed on Sunday's."

My dictionary actually says that "I'm nauseous" is grammatically correct.

Edit: erroneous double post. Retaining following post.

"I'm nauseous" is considered acceptable by modern standards, but "I'm nauseated" is the preferred usage. The latter term describes a condition, while the former is more properly an adjective describing that which provokes the condition.

Picky? Heck, yes; one must strive to maintain a reputation for pedantism...

I think they're both valid. 'I'm nauseous' is a statement that the speaker is in a state of nausea. 'I'm nauseated' is a statement that they are moved to nausea. There's a difference in meaning between the two, and both can be used appropriately.

I dislike when people say, "I'm nauseous" or "I feel nauseous."

I put that up because I knew it would stir things up.

Traditionally, nauseous meant sickening to contemplate. I was taught not to say I felt nauseous unless I was sure I had that effect on others.

It seems that people have used it incorrectly so often and for so long that it has been accepted to mean "affected with sickness." But note that is the second definition. The first is "causing nausea or disgust."

That's one of the things I love about our language; it's constantly evolving.

Take inflammable for instance. It means combustible. But so many people were confused by the "in" that they changed it to flammable.

Fuck is the most useful word in our language; it has certainly evolved greatly over the years!

Harbinger wrote:I put that up because I knew it would stir things up.

My pet peeve is when people intentionally "stir things up".

Interesting stuff on etymologies.

Repeat threads.

I kid. I just bring it up because people chewing with their mouth open is also my pet peeve.

Syl wrote: Repeat threads.

I kid. I just bring it up because people chewing with their mouth open is also my pet peeve.

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yeah I caught that after I posted this. Not sure why my search didn't pick it up. my apologies, but in my opinion you can never ever have enough space to complain.

lorin wrote:in my opinion you can never ever have enough space to complain.

Too True!

By far my biggest pet peeve has to be people articulating every sentence as if it is a question.

If I hear it just one more time....

So, I went to the store?
And when I got back my boyfriend was like all over my roomate?
So I like kicked him in the junk?
And he like cried so I took him back?
So we're going to the party tonight with Erica?
I'm going to blow my brains out?