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Language Pet Peeve
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
It's already been mentioned but I HATE "I could care less."

I work with a lot of foriegners and one mistake I notice, which isn't a big deal but get on my nerves with prolonged exposure to it, is omitting the word "The" from sentences.

Like "Are you going to other side?"  Instead of "Are you going to the other side?"  And in a similar way omitting "Your" in sentences like "Are you going on (your) break?"

Starting sentences off with "So....."  Or "Ok so......"  
In some ways it's charming and american sounding, in other ways it makes me want to gouge my own eyeballs out with my thumbs in an extreme reaction of anger.  A lot of good looking women use the expression including the girl I've been seeing lately so it looks like I'll be indoctrinated into accepting it as normal.

Again an expression that a lot of attractive women/hipsters seem to use but is also annoying "I know right?"

Just typing this has made me realize I don't think I could handle being away from England for long since Americanisms and broken English really grind on me after a certain amount of time.  Unless it was to somewhere like Spain which is full of English people anyway.


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





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Language Pet Peeve - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 12, 2017 at 8:36 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Astreja - February 12, 2017 at 8:39 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by The Valkyrie - February 12, 2017 at 8:39 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 12, 2017 at 8:42 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by The Valkyrie - February 12, 2017 at 9:11 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Edwardo Piet - February 15, 2017 at 3:30 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Thumpalumpacus - February 12, 2017 at 9:04 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by vorlon13 - February 12, 2017 at 9:45 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 12, 2017 at 9:54 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by vorlon13 - February 12, 2017 at 9:55 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 12, 2017 at 9:56 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 12, 2017 at 9:59 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by c172 - February 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ErGingerbreadMandude - February 12, 2017 at 10:48 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 12, 2017 at 10:50 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Alex K - February 13, 2017 at 11:20 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Whateverist - February 13, 2017 at 12:54 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Neo-Scholastic - February 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by I_am_not_mafia - February 13, 2017 at 1:37 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Whateverist - February 13, 2017 at 8:30 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Thumpalumpacus - February 13, 2017 at 9:39 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Drich - February 13, 2017 at 4:52 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 13, 2017 at 5:17 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Assimilate - February 13, 2017 at 8:14 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by c172 - February 13, 2017 at 8:36 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 13, 2017 at 9:32 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by The Valkyrie - February 15, 2017 at 3:12 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by HairyCyclist - February 14, 2017 at 5:44 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by downbeatplumb - February 14, 2017 at 5:47 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 14, 2017 at 5:50 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Neo-Scholastic - February 15, 2017 at 2:08 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by SteelCurtain - February 15, 2017 at 2:29 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Chas - February 15, 2017 at 6:08 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 15, 2017 at 6:47 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Edwardo Piet - February 16, 2017 at 11:19 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by HairyCyclist - February 15, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 15, 2017 at 7:14 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by The Valkyrie - February 15, 2017 at 7:42 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 15, 2017 at 7:47 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by The Valkyrie - February 15, 2017 at 7:48 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Rhondazvous - February 15, 2017 at 7:56 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Rhondazvous - February 15, 2017 at 7:47 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 15, 2017 at 8:17 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 15, 2017 at 8:58 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Angrboda - February 15, 2017 at 10:28 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Seraphina - February 15, 2017 at 10:29 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 15, 2017 at 10:35 pm
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Regina - February 16, 2017 at 12:39 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 16, 2017 at 1:18 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by ignoramus - February 16, 2017 at 1:53 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Alex K - February 16, 2017 at 2:11 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by paulpablo - February 16, 2017 at 2:38 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Alex K - February 16, 2017 at 6:54 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by paulpablo - February 16, 2017 at 8:39 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by HairyCyclist - February 16, 2017 at 5:15 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 16, 2017 at 6:39 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Alex K - February 16, 2017 at 6:56 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 16, 2017 at 6:56 am
RE: Language Pet Peeve - by Cyberman - February 16, 2017 at 6:59 am

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