Small things that get to you very easily

**Fragony** · 05-11-2005, 12:24

Originally Posted by Beirut

When my kids say "It was so fun!" No dear, it was fun, or is was so much fun. Or a lot of fun. But not so fun.

Also, people who use the word bath as a verb. "I'm going to bath my two-year old." NO! You are going to bathe your two-year old. The letter E was invented just for this reason.

But the worst, the most annoying, the most insidious disruptor of the intellectual process, is the term "baby" as it's used these days in commercials. As in, "Buy Cornflakes, baby loves them." or "This soap is soft on baby's skin".

ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

It's the baby, a baby, my baby, your baby. Not just baby.

And when I hear some heinous beyotch say "I'm going to bath baby." Well, death row is looking me in the eye because Im going to strangle the very life out of the mother just so her kid doesn't grow up and learn to speak like her.

But isn't baby's correct? I am going to wash the baby 'his' skin? That is how I remember it... Been a while *REQUEST!* is it though or tho? and when? And explain to me, what is the difference between through and thrue?

**Beirut** · 05-11-2005, 12:37

You can't use the word baby without putting, a, the, my, your, before it.

They're not saying babies love Cornflakes. They're saying baby loves Cornflakes. They're trying to personalize a collective and it sounds really, really stupid.

The difference in the words you cited is simply that one spelling right and one is wrong.

**Fragony** · 05-11-2005, 12:40

Originally Posted by Beirut

The difference in the words you cited is simply that one spelling right and one is wrong.

Still I see a lot of thru and tho, internet slang I guess

**English assassin** · 05-11-2005, 13:00

Grocers' apostrophes. (Eg using an apostrophe in a plural, "Apple's 50p a pound, banana's a pound a bunch")

Also people writing its for it's and vice versa.

I wouldn't say they get to me, I just assume any native English speaking person who does it is thick.

I'm not sure I agree that verbing nouns is annoying though. And I thought thru was an American spelling?

**Ser Clegane** · 05-11-2005, 13:08

Originally Posted by English assassin

Grocers' apostrophes. (Eg using an apostrophe in a plural, "Apple's 50p a pound, banana's a pound a bunch")

OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive

But see for yourself

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

**Don Corleone** · 05-11-2005, 13:16

I hate, hate, hate ~

it when people spell night as 'nite' and right as rite. It's almost always done in marketing, and it makes me think that advertisers or product marketing people think we must be dumb as dirt.

Go to the local breakfast diner, and what do they have on the menu? The WORST of them all.... prepare yourselves.... a tend-'A' loin biscuit. GAH! ~

**TheSilverKnight** · 05-11-2005, 13:27

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

But see for yourself

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Omg that's hilarious Ser!

even better 'cause I know German...lmfao *laughing at the pictures*...

What really bothers me is when people spell things wrong when it's just a few letters that need to be typed...like...'u' or 'c ya' instead of 'see you'...*shudders*

**KukriKhan** · 05-11-2005, 13:48

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive

But see for yourself

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Lexica's

On No! We have infected the Germans now

I admit my guilt for using thru and tho', for through and though (or although). There has been a trend to drop the 'ough' or convert it to it's sound, in US english, since there is so much varience.

I guess I've been on the internet too long now to let creative spelling bother me much. However, one that makes me cringe is "of" being used for "have".

"I should of driven slower.", for "I should have driven slower.". I understand where it comes from ('of' is how the contraction should've sounds), but 'of driven' makes no sense.

**Nelson** · 05-11-2005, 14:32

“Irregardless”
I even hear news anchors use this one on occasion.

“I could care less”.
They always mean “I couldn’t care less” but few people get it right.

The word “too” too often gets reduced to “to”.

**English assassin** · 05-11-2005, 17:38

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive

But see for yourself

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Apre's ski? Oh. My. God.

Whoever did that does need to be beaten, seriously.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 05-17-2005, 00:58

People misprounoucing my last name (Its PIAZZA not PIZZA or PYEAHZAH!) and people calling me a Nazi or a Communist. Or when people think I'm Jewish. Or Protestant. Or when Marine Recruiters try to recruit me (Im on my third one this year), Ditto for Army recruiters.

**Don Corleone** · 05-17-2005, 01:02

Capo, I know you can't serve, but they're not trying to piss you off. Give them a break, they must look and you and see 'a guy who can carry two bazookas!"

As far as the name thing goes, George Carlin said "To be an American and not a WASP is to have your name mispronounced your entire life by your teachers".

Not sure why the religion thing bothers you, but if it makes you feel any better, Jesus was a Jew.