View Full Version : Communicational pet peeves
Goofball
10-27-2006, 00:10
Post yours here.
I'll start:
It bugs the hell out of me when people use "of" instead of "have."
Example:
"You must of seen her; she was hot!"
or
"I would of voted for the GOP candidate but I couldn't spell his name."
:wall:
Sasaki Kojiro
10-27-2006, 00:14
wel i hav sum pet peaves to, their more a long teh lines off misstakes dat make teh peoples' sentanses hard to read tho.
Big King Sanctaphrax
10-27-2006, 00:20
Adjectives instead of adverbs.
"He ran so slow!"
Sasaki Kojiro
10-27-2006, 00:22
Adjectives instead of adverbs.
"He ran so slow!"
Haha, I do that all the time. :tongue3:
Big King Sanctaphrax
10-27-2006, 00:28
Oh, and split infinitives of course.
'To boldly go...'
Kanamori
10-27-2006, 00:40
If comunication worked, then all's well.
:balloon2:
AntiochusIII
10-27-2006, 01:28
Expose thyself, thee grammarian!
(An abuse of the Shakespearean English).
Don Corleone
10-27-2006, 01:59
There's a few that bug me.
Obvious spelling mistakes, such as the sentence above: Theirs a few.
When people treat a phase like a sentence:
With out any way of knowing what they intended to say.
Pretty much anything Strike for the South types. (Just kidding, amigo).
Proletariat
10-27-2006, 02:01
'At this point in time, I'm a big idiot for not just saying 'right now' at the start of this sentence.'
AntiochusIII
10-27-2006, 02:10
Just for the fun of it, I notice the specifics to point to two individuals so far, of which both shows consistent almost perfect grammar otherwise (no offense to either, by the way! It's just harmless trivia).
Redleg seems to use "of" in place of "has" more than most others.
And Tribesman fits GC's bill exactly in his , how do I say this , unique use of , erm , punctuation .
i jus n0tic 1t lolz11!!!1!11
"It was so fun!"
:furious3:
It was "so much fun", or, "it was a lot of fun", but not "so fun".
Or when "baby" is used as a generic term in commecials. "Baby will love dogspit flavoured toothpaste!" Gah! it's the baby, or your baby, not just baby.
Strike For The South
10-27-2006, 03:28
A thread dedacatied to me! :smash:
Prince of the Poodles
10-27-2006, 04:27
I dont like pwnnzzorrzzz and leeetzzz type words common in First Person Shooters.
Thats one reason I liked MTW MP so much... a much more mature crowd. 8)
Banquo's Ghost
10-27-2006, 07:10
Apostrophe Abuse. Just say No.
The use of internet slang. It's a digital diary, not a blog.:furious3:
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"Hilary Clinton is the devil"
~Texas proverb
Communicational pet peeves?
Nah, I aint got none
Kanamori
10-27-2006, 09:11
Expose thyself, thee grammarian!
(An abuse of the Shakespearean English).
Thine crooked spear thou hast thrust into me!
Ow!
:viking:
Tribesman
10-27-2006, 09:31
And Tribesman fits GC's bill exactly in his , how do I say this , unique use of , erm , punctuation .
Hey it is alright for you buggers that went to school , I just type it out then go back and put spaces where each word is supposed to end and add a few dots in bigger spaces where there is a break in a chain of words :2thumbsup:
macsen rufus
10-27-2006, 12:09
Goofball named my pet peeve in the original post: "of / have" confusion drives me into a truly venomous, homicidal rage. There is NO EXCUSE! How the :furious3: does the word OF make any sense the way people use it??? "I could of..." aaagh!!! How can you not distinguish between a verb and a preposition?
I second BG's disdain for apostrophe abuse, as well, although it doesn't rile me quite as much as the "of" thing... (probably because I manage to make a few typos myself. :shame: )
Oh, and proper grammatical English just "pwns" teh "1337-speak" 130110X! When I see that I just want to pull the offender out of my screen, slap them around the face a few times, and yell "JUST GROW UP!"
Ok, rant over. I admit it, I'm a linguistic fascist... but words are ideas and language is consciousness made public. Poor language use betrays poor thinking, IMHO.
EDIT: disclaimer -- I give a lot of credit, allowance (and assistance) for people who're speaking/writing English as their second language. It's the native speakers who should know better...
master of the puppets
10-27-2006, 12:11
internet slang
InsaneApache
10-27-2006, 12:47
People (mainly stoodents and characters on aussie soaps) who raise their intonation at the end of a sentence, so that what they are saying sounds as though they are asking a question.
Cretins.
CountArach
10-27-2006, 12:53
I hate... hate... hate repetition!
Nah... I hate it when people repeat themselves into redundancy within the space of one sentence. Also using like as every second word...
Kralizec
10-27-2006, 12:57
Slang on internet and text messages.
King Henry V
10-27-2006, 13:13
Double negatives and confusing adjectives with adverbs really get my blood boiling.
Mikeus Caesar
10-27-2006, 13:35
I'm a Grammar Nazi.
Nuff' said.
macsen rufus
10-27-2006, 13:56
Just to be fair, the thing I do which I shouldn't, is to over-exploit the exclamation mark. It's just that there's so much to SHOUT ABOUT!!! :laugh4:
Don Corleone
10-27-2006, 14:04
If we're going to add a confessional aspect to this, I do three things:
First, I ramble.
Second, I forget to use " " for quotes and use ' ' (sorry BQ).
Think about the visible part of the post for a second on its own and the third will become abundantly clear. And it drives me nuts when other people do it. :help:
Don Corleone
10-27-2006, 14:14
The of/have stems from allowing verbal misuse to creep into your writing.
It comes from use of the contraction would have to would've or could have to could've. If you think for a second, unless the person has very clear articulation, could've and could of sound indistinguishable.
Oh, and i thought of another one, though this one tends to be more verbal, less written.
Sam: I went to the mall yesterday.
Pam: So didn't I.
Okay, did Pam go to the mall or didn't she? She confirmed negative agreement to a positive statement.
Slang on internet and text messages.
Just written communication generally.
For example, I somehow asked a girl out this weekend. How did that happen? All I wanted to do was go to a party? Looking a few emails back, there is a comment that probably lead on to it. Damn written communication!
Yawning Angel
10-27-2006, 14:52
The seemingly American trait of turning nouns into verbs:
So-and-so medalled in the 400m relay :wall:
Medal is a noun damn it, so he didn't medal, he won a medal
macsen rufus
10-27-2006, 15:20
It comes from use of the contraction would have to would've or could have to could've. If you think for a second, unless the person has very clear articulation, could've and could of sound indistinguishable.
I have often thought about it, and I agree that's where it comes from but it's still no excuse! (Oh darn it, stop with the !!!!!!!s, already!) Slovenly speech ossified into slovenly text justifies nothing.
Whatever happened to teaching the sprogs to "enunciate, articulate, and project. No-one can understand you if you just mumble into your chest"? :whip:
Reenk Roink
10-27-2006, 16:14
People who make it a point to criticize other people's spelling and grammar.
If I can understand the message (which I can do 100% of the time here, no matter who posts), why bother picking on bad spelling or grammar?
If I can't understand the message (never encountered it) I just won't reply at all...
Goofball
10-27-2006, 16:54
The seemingly American trait of turning nouns into verbs:
So-and-so medalled in the 400m relay :wall:
Medal is a noun damn it, so he didn't medal, he won a medal
Agreed, I hate it too. Working in the business world, this is the one I have to hear at least 30 times daily:
"We leveraged our strong US presence to expand our share of market."
The worst part is that this has become such common usage that it is now considered to be correct, at least as far as most dictionaries are concerned.
Sasaki Kojiro
10-27-2006, 17:02
What's the problem with that? It's so convenient.
"Google it"
"Go type it in in the text box on www.google.com and then click the button that says 'Google Search'"
See?
The worst part is that this has become such common usage that it is now considered to be correct, at least as far as most dictionaries are concerned.
Actually, that's how English works: usage makes meaning. As irritating as this can be, it's fundamental to the slatternly wench we know and love as the English language.
Yawning Angel
10-27-2006, 19:07
What's the problem with that? It's so convenient.
"Google it"
"Go type it in in the text box on www.google.com and then click the button that says 'Google Search'"
See?
Or "use Google"?
Also 2 words!
Or as our esteemed President says (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/10/23/googler-in-chief/), "I've used the Google."
Sasaki Kojiro
10-27-2006, 19:14
Or "use Google"?
Also 2 words!
Still an extra letter! ~:eek:
Anyway, "use Google" doesn't convey the meaning as clearly.
Kanamori
10-27-2006, 19:16
Oh well, I'm going to use 'google it'.~:)
I can put up with spelling mistakes since it isn't intentional but I find internet language annoying.
The_Mark
10-30-2006, 16:44
Text speech. Sometimes I approve some new contacts on MSN (how the hell do all of them get my address?!) just to see if a random MSN user can use language as supposed (no luck so far). If not, I'll educate them. It can be quite amusing, sometimes. Mostly irritating, though. Most of the time the conversations lead to them blocking me saving me the trouble.
"I could care less"
It has to be "I couldn't care less" or the phrase doesn't make any sense in the context in which it is used. You crazy Yanks.
There are so many things that annoy me nowadays. Being a teacher (History/Social Studies), I come across so many instances where I would very much like to rip up papers handed in by students simply because the English (German) is rubbish.
I frequently get things like 'text language' whereby 'are' ist spelt 'r' and 'you' is spelt 'u' (I generally give it back to the students and tell them to rewirte their 'masterpieces').
Furthermore, I strongly dislike it when people spell words according to pronunciation with blatant disregard to the way words are actually spelt (I must admit that that happens more in German than in English).
I dislkike it when Americans (and recently some English) use the word 'already' in the end of a sentence when it clearly makes no sense at all.
Eg. Can you stop that already?
Unacceptable.
Much of what else I feel strongly about has been mentioned previously by many of you.
Generally, I have found that language as a whole is going down the drain anyway. Students struggle more and more with being able to hand in a piece of work that is actually legible an comprehensive. More often than not I have to guess what a student actually means and is trying to convey because he/she is unable to put it into plain and simple language. Sad really.
Quid
Big King Sanctaphrax
10-30-2006, 20:12
"I could care less"
It has to be "I couldn't care less" or the phrase doesn't make any sense in the context in which it is used. You crazy Yanks.
Yes, where does this come from? It quite clearly doesn't make any sense-in fact, it has the opposite of the phrase's intended meaning.
Hehe.
1: "I could care less!"
2: "Ok then..."
1: "Hmm, what have I just said?"
Philippus Flavius Homovallumus
10-31-2006, 01:53
"I could care less"
It has to be "I couldn't care less" or the phrase doesn't make any sense in the context in which it is used. You crazy Yanks.
YES!
Exactly, "I could care less" is a positive confirmation that you care.
yesdachi
11-01-2006, 21:33
Bean counting MBA bosses I have had that try and replace my commonly accepted words with words more appropriate in contract law, turning three sentences into three paragraphs and destroying any momentum the reader might have picked up. McDonalds uses the words “Drive Thru” on their signage all across the world and the billions of billions server don’t seem to take issue with it but you give someone an ivy league degree and all of a sudden “Thru” isn’t a word!
Oh, and when someone argues one way or the other for or against the words “flyer” and “flier” GAH! I have learned to use the term “single page brochure” around some people. Dee Dee Dee!
Big King Sanctaphrax
11-01-2006, 21:43
“Thru” isn’t a word!
I would hope someone wouldn't need an Ivy League degree to see this ~;)
It's flier, by the way.
yesdachi
11-01-2006, 23:25
It's flier, by the way.
That’s exactly what 5 of the 10 partners said. ~D
Pannonian
11-02-2006, 00:50
Nettisms in general.
"Could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". Saying that one could not care less about something means one's concern about the matter is already at a minimum. Saying that you could care less removes this meaning from the phrase.
Saying "free reign" instead of "free rein". The metaphor is derived from horse riding, and giving the horse free rein allows it to dictate its own direction. If one wants to regain control, one "reins in" the horse.
Excessive use of apostrophes. I'd rather have too few than too many.
"Of" instead of "have". "Of" is not a verb.
"Loose" instead of "lose". Killkillkillkillkill.
"Towing the line" instead of "toeing the line". The line is drawn in the House of Commons, and is physically impossible to tow. It is possible to toe it, as over-excited members are often reminded to do.
Numerous others.
Pannonian
11-02-2006, 00:56
EDIT: disclaimer -- I give a lot of credit, allowance (and assistance) for people who're speaking/writing English as their second language. It's the native speakers who should know better...
Non-native speakers should be given as much leeway as they need to be understood. Anglophones who make these errors should be shot.
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