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Language Pet Peeve
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 12, 2017 at 9:59 pm
This thread is fully sick!
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm (This post was last modified: February 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm by c172.)
Hey, y'allsies! I just crockpotted some stupid good meatloaf. But that's another thread. I actually have an annoying habit of verbing nouns. So, you can put me on ignore if you like. For realsies. No problemo. 

The only thing I really hate is not errors in punctuation, grammar, and syntax, but certain people's seeming resentment that rules on the aforementioned exist.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 12, 2017 at 10:48 pm
Oh. I didn't know you were from Germany. Smile
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 12, 2017 at 10:50 pm (This post was last modified: February 12, 2017 at 10:52 pm by ignoramus.)
Yoda, hate, we must.

Backwards, speaks, he does.

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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 11:20 am
Absolutely, Brian, absolutely.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Pet peeves-wise, this is it.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm
My ears hurt every time I hear "I've got..." or "We've got..." If you take out the contractions those read as "I have got..." and "We have got..." You either have something or you got it, not both.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 1:37 pm
For me it's when people use the like several times within a sentence, and always in a questioning tone.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 4:52 pm
(February 12, 2017 at 8:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Firstly, this isn't about slang or dialect, and only barely about grammar.  It's about using words stupidly.

This morning, a neighbour came to the door and asked me if I would help him load something into his car.  I'm nothing if not helpful, so we walked over to his place.  It turns out he had a cement birdbath he was giving to a friend.  He had the car backed up to it with the boot open, all ready to go. As we were getting ready to load the basin part, he said, 'Be careful, this thing has some serious weight to it.'  We got it up and in, and had to work it round so we could fit in the pedestal as well.  While jockeying it about, he said, 'Good thing this boot has some serious space.' After we got both bits in, he thanked me and said, 'You helped me out of a serious jam.'  Unable to keep me gob shut any longer, I said, 'Well, if you ever need help with a flippant jam, just call.'

Another peeve is people using nouns as verbs.  I recently overheard someone  say, 'We're going to weekend at Ripiro Beach.'

And while I'm at it, the correct response to 'Thank you' is 'You're welcome', not 'No problem'.

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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 13, 2017 at 5:17 pm
' Jesus died for your sins. ' = SPP ( Stupid People Problems)

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