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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 2:38 am
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.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 5:15 am
Psilent letters really bug me.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 6:39 am
(February 16, 2017 at 5:15 am)HairyCyclist Wrote: Psilent letters really bug me.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 6:54 am
(February 16, 2017 at 2:38 am)paulpablo Wrote: 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?"
Your first example is clearly wrong, but isn't the latter correct in modern usage?
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 6:56 am
I've never come across that.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 6:56 am
Another thing that really annoys me: using the plural form in latin or greek words when it should be the singular, such as "This is the phenomena".
Another thing that annoys me: when people confuse principle and principal. Grawwrrr.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 6:59 am
One that gets me is people confusing "horde" and "hoard". I recently saw this in, of all places, an article on that schlock populist site IFL science. It made my brain want to reach through my nose and punch the screen.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 8:39 am
(February 16, 2017 at 6:54 am)Alex K Wrote: (February 16, 2017 at 2:38 am)paulpablo Wrote: 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?"
Your first example is clearly wrong, but isn't the latter correct in modern usage?
I have no idea. I just know that most native English speakers would say for example "Are you doing the room checks?" Where as someone learning the language might say "Are you doing room check?"
There are things in language that annoy me even if they're correct and things that don't annoy me even when they're incorrect.
Starting a sentence of with "So...." or "ok so....." is possibly correct but it just annoys me.
Since the 90s a high emphasis on "So" became popular, I partly blame the sitcom friends, even using it to emphasise negative things (That is Soooo not true) that annoyed me at the time and it took me about 5 years to get used to. Now they've shifted it to the front of sentences to make it even more emphasised than before.
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.
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RE: Language Pet Peeve
February 16, 2017 at 11:19 am
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(February 15, 2017 at 6:47 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 'Should of' makes me want to strangle you. I've actually heard people spelling it this way, for chrissake.
I hate 'to', too.
That is my biggest language pet peeve of all! The "should of" crap.
To me it's clear that some people say or hear the contraction of "'ve" as "of" and then they start saying it and spelling it that way.
But I don't care the explanation it drives me insane.
In the original Xmen movie when Wolverine gets his energy drained by Rogue after waking up from a nightmare and stabbing her through the chest so she heals herself and drains his energy...
Wolverine says "It felt like she almost killed me."
Patrick Stewart as professor X says "If she'd held on any longer she could have."
I remember thinking at the time, all those years ago "If he'd have said "If she'd held on any longer she could of" I'd have walked out the cinema.
But of course... it's Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart doesn't make mistakes.
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