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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 7:56 pm
(February 15, 2017 at 7:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (February 15, 2017 at 7:47 pm)ignoramus Wrote: You mean, using nukular weapons?
Please be more pacific!
No.
Nuka cola.
You guys just can't spell. Its nooqleeyer wehpanz. Drippy could have told you that.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 8:17 pm
I'm sorry, but any nation that can't even pronounce the name of their WMDs shouldn't be allowed them.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 8:58 pm
Let alone be in office!
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 10:28 pm
I have no language pet peeves. I embrace the message. I am a mother to all nations.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 10:29 pm
I can't stand it when people here say "I'll reach out to you" instead of "I'll call you" or "I'll email you". Stop making it so touchy-feely and get to the point. lol
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 15, 2017 at 10:35 pm
I get mildly annoyed when people use "less" when they mean "fewer".
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 12:39 am
"At the end of the day..."
The Birmingham accent in general is anathema and all kids in the city should get elocution lessons as part of their school curriculum. We sound fucking drunk all the time.
Also, another one I'm guilty of... *when about to tell a long complex story* "Baaaaasically..."
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 1:18 am
You should get a proper Black Country accent and stop giving the rest of us a bad name...
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 1:53 am
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 2:11 am
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^^^
all of the above
But the they're/their/there confusion is the worst, I immediately stop reading and my brain shuts down when I encounter it.
In German, my biggest pet peeve is the horrible horrible trend (probably caused by half-assed exposure to the English language) to spell compound nouns as two separate words (Regen Schirm, Bezirks Verwaltung" etc.) when they should be either one word or hyphenated. It makes you look like an idiot at best and makes your writing bizarrely unintelligible at worst. It also makes me want to punch you. If they should ever make that an official rule, I will simply stop using the language in protest. That'll show 'em.
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