"Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up? What the hell were we thinking?"
This times a billion.
Pet Peeve rants.
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Saying expresso instead of espresso.
This might be a southern thing, but I have been hearing this lately: Lashtyear instead of Last <pause> year.
Saying expresso instead of espresso.
This might be a southern thing, but I have been hearing this lately: Lashtyear instead of Last <pause> year.
Guilty on both counts...
I had a WoW Guildmate ask if I drank during every raid. "No, I'm just Southern."
I had a WoW Guildmate ask if I drank during every raid. "No, I'm just Southern."
Can I start saying "in tents and porpoises?"
GasBandit
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I will see to it you and your entire family is taken by slavers, then I will buy your family, then trade you all for a dog and then I will shoot the dog.
My husband says it "breh-fass". I just tell myself he learned Spanglish from his mom.
I usually can get over that, but I hate when I say it properly and someone corrects me.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/expresso[DOUBLEPOST=1364997567][/DOUBLEPOST]http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expresso
Language is a living, growing thing.
People misuse or abuse words until their "wrong" meaning is more commonly known or their "wrong" pronounciation or spelling is more prevalent than the actual "correct" version. Thus the "new" version becomes normal and gets added to dictionaries and whatever. Of course. Perhaps, in 20 years' time, we'll all say "expresso" and the dictionary will say that "espresso" is an archaic form of "expresso". All true. However, this doesn't mean that, if and when such changes start to pass, it's "wrong" to be annoyed by them or to point them out. Not every evolution in language is progress and it's not silly, foolish or wrong to want to stop such changes. Futile, perhaps, but most of our pet peeves are about as useful as tilting at windmills.
People misuse or abuse words until their "wrong" meaning is more commonly known or their "wrong" pronounciation or spelling is more prevalent than the actual "correct" version. Thus the "new" version becomes normal and gets added to dictionaries and whatever. Of course. Perhaps, in 20 years' time, we'll all say "expresso" and the dictionary will say that "espresso" is an archaic form of "expresso". All true. However, this doesn't mean that, if and when such changes start to pass, it's "wrong" to be annoyed by them or to point them out. Not every evolution in language is progress and it's not silly, foolish or wrong to want to stop such changes. Futile, perhaps, but most of our pet peeves are about as useful as tilting at windmills.
I would get irritated by that as well. I have been corrected on gyro, but here nearly everyone says Jai-row. I chock it up to phonetics.
This is English not Italian. Both words would mean the same thing.
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You know how the cool factor works. "Irregardless" was evil until everyone thought it was evil. Now, there's the counter trend to defend it, because everyone is a unique and precious snowflake and can't have people catching on to their cool.
The serious defenses cite similar words that break the double negative rule, like unmerciless, yet are perfectly acceptable, largely due to age.
The serious defenses cite similar words that break the double negative rule, like unmerciless, yet are perfectly acceptable, largely due to age.
GasBandit
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Mallory: "You didn't learn anything, did you?"
Sterling: "I learned that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing."
It could work as a word. "He was unmerciless in his handing out food to starving children."
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Well exkyuuuuuse me.
I guess it sucks to be right around here.
How would you know?
With evidence.
Litter. I FREAKIN' hate litter! Find a receptacle dammit!
figmentPez
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People who don't ask "how are you?" in return in an extended conversation. If they give lots of indication that they're interested and involved in the conversation, but never bother to ask how I am, that drives me up the wall. I end up questioning if they really want to be talking with me, since they don't care to know how I'm doing.
People are self-centred, sometimes, without realising it. I feel like this actually answers both sides of this problem: it's why they don't ask, but it's also why you notice they don't ask. My advice, if you're not willing to bring it up, is to try and remind yourself that since you, ostensibly, also want to be talking to them, just enjoy the direction the conversation takes, and forget about what direction it might have taken if they'd said different (possibly read: more polite) things.
I respectfully disagree with you on this one. To me, the ability to reciprocate some manners and empathy is an excellent litmus test for another person's character. If you can't be bothered to ask how I'm doing and show even a shred of interest in me, then I can't be bothered to keep you in my life. And this is coming from someone who pretty much hates talking about himself. I don't need them to hang on my every word and quiz me, just show that they care a little. Otherwise, it makes me think people are just looking for sycophants and devotees, not friends.
The one-way-street-type friendships that result from this imbalance is not fun at all, and not worth my time.
Whoa whoa whoa there's a huge gulf between people who don't reciprocate 'how are you' and people who are wholly self-interested. Those relationships can be draining, unhealthy and worse, and I 100% support a jettison of such people until they mature a little. I didn't mean to imply that you should forgo any consideration of yourself. Just that, sometimes, people get a little self-interested and dominate the conversation with themselves/their lives.[DOUBLEPOST=1365991209][/DOUBLEPOST]
I've been like that too lately, so I've been trying to highlight the positives when most people ask, and relying on my very close friends to put up with all the anxious, negative crap I've been going through
figmentPez
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How am I supposed to do that if I'm not sure they really want to be talking to me?[DOUBLEPOST=1365991881][/DOUBLEPOST]
I'd rather have a friend who will accept "I don't want to talk about it" as an answer, than one who doesn't even ask the question.
I just lie or joke. I don't consider how are you a serious question. Unless it comes in an actual conversation.