Pet Peeve

[destinie21]

Does anyone else have a problem with a person who blatantly writes the sentence
I would of. or is just me?

 

[Just_John1]

Hindsight being 20/20

is another of the sentences I can't stand... Woulda shoulda coulda... but you didn't cause you weren't there... (screamed at the top fo your lungs) is the response I'd like to give. Hindsight being 20/20... I've always interpretted to: "You screwed up but I don't have the testicular fortitude to say it directly."

Just an insight...

JJ1

 

[MathGirl]

Originally posted by destinie21 Does anyone else have a problem with a person who blatantly writes the sentence I would of. or is just me?

Dear De,
It's just you. Definitely.
MG

 

[ffreak]

The one that I hate hearing is "Yeah, baby!" - not a fan of the Austin Powers industry, nor the people who want to sound like him.

When MathGirl says it she gives it a completely different sound, more like DurtGirl's famous quotes.

-FF' (I. Wood, of where? )
I would of, I would in, I would out of the shit I'm in.
or
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled prepositions.
or
Into the Out Of only works as a title.
or
I think I'll quit while I'm a head.

 

[damppanties]

The one that I hate hearing is "Yeah, baby!" - not a fan of the Austin Powers industry, nor the people who want to sound like him.

Eff, I might have been you in a different life. I can't stand Austin Powers either.

 

[Seattle Zack]

I never "got" Austin Powers either, never seemed to be funny to me ... maybe I'm just too old ...

As to pet peeves, "would of" is is pretty close to the top of the list. Using apostrophe's for plural's just drives me nut's though, and I see it everywhere, even in advertisement's for nationally known product's.

--Zack

 

[Guest]

I never "got" Austin Powers either, never seemed to be funny to me ... maybe I'm just too old ...

As to pet peeves, "would of" is is pretty close to the top of the list. Using apostrophe's for plural's just drives me nut's though, and I see it everywhere, even in advertisement's for nationally known product's.

--Zack

Yep, I'm with you on that Zac. Billy Conolly (I think it was him) had a ten minute rant on the subject once, during one of his stand up shows. He mentioned it as being one of his pet peeves. He saw a sign stating "Orange's 25p" outside a fruit and veg shop, and decided to question them on the use of the apostrophe. He asked them "How can an orange own 25p?" Of course, it went straight over the head of the shopkeeper, but he felt better for it. It was also very funny, the way he told it, anyway.

Mrs. D, "would of" does get to me. I think a lot of people must have the inability to translate what they say or hear into the written word.

Anyway, I would of thought orange's would be 30p, 25p sound's very cheap to me.

Lou

 

[MercyMia]

'Would of' definitely makes me wince.
'Alot' positively makes me shudder and flinch.

 

[Alex De Kok]

'would of', 'yeah, baby' (and Austin Powers in toto), apostrophes for plurals, 'loosing' instead of 'losing' and another that seems to be increasingly common, i.e. used when they mean e.g.

Alex, getting increasingly pedantic as life races on

 

[Guest]

"these ones" - eeow!

Perdita

 

[RenzaJones]

I agree with all of the above. I also want to add the phrases

"I pacifically asked" or the use of the word pacific instead of specific.

 

[MathGirl]

"I pacifically asked" or the use of the word pacific instead of specific.

Dear Ren,
The person may have simply been asking in a peaceful manner.
Englishly,
MG

 

[Guest]

Maths, they may just have been from Southern Calif., they love their beaches.

northerly, Perdita

 

[raphy]

Oh yes....

.....And this thread is *exactly* why I love each and every one of you.

"Well, as long as people understand what I'm saying does it matter if I spell it right?"

has got to rate as one of the sentences most likely to drive me into homicidal rage. When I see people with this attitude, I want to grab them by the back of their head and repeatedly ram their face into the ground.

I guess that I was just very lucky that in high school I had an English teacher that intilled a deep love of the English language into me. A beautifully written sentence or paragraph is one of the finest things in the world.

I could go on, about poetry or song lyrics (A topic very close to my heart), or .. or .. or .. But I won't.

Raph, who gets exceptionally frustrated with those supposedly native-English speakers that butcher the English language.

 

[MathGirl]

Maths, they may just have been from Southern Calif., they love their beaches.

Dear Perdita,
Yes, and Venice is one of the favorites.
MG

 

[Jenny _S]

Dear Perdita,
Yes, and Venice is one of the favorites.
MG

Are you saying, MG, that Venice Beach has Gondola's now? How unique. Thought those were reserved for cruising the "floaters" (a term you seen to have missed in your vocabulary thread) on the canals in Italy.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm. Add Jenny to my list of Philistines; check.

Perdita

 

[ffreak]

Mispronounced phonics that lead to the wrong choice of word is one that stops me in my tracks - loose for lose, choose for chose, etc. To for too used to drive me berserk until I notice my grammar checker was not catching the misuse.

Now I find myself more patient and try to turn my frustration away from the difficulty of telling someone I like a lot that they threw me with their usage.

Don't worry about the canals of Venice Beach. Like all other waterways in Southern California, they're made out of concrete. Since it never rains in sunny Southern California, they use them to skate and rollerblade and stroll along in their bright strings.

-FF (ah the memories of childhood - tan and flaming pink, tan and chartreuse, tan and canary yellow, hey, where did you buy that tan? never seen one quite that shade before, ah yes, and my mother's brilliant lesson of economic theory one year when Manhattan Beach said it was ok for women to go topless - she took 20 of her slowest selling bikini's, removed the top, doubled the price and sold out within an hour - only in California)

 

[MathGirl]

Are you saying, MG, that Venice Beach has Gondola's now? How unique. Thought those were reserved for cruising the "floaters" (a term you seen to have missed in your vocabulary thread) on the canals in Italy.

Dear Jenny,
All I know about the aqueous aspects of Venice comes from Perdita. I have personally seen the bikini clad rollerbladers, hot dog stands, guys lifting weights on the beach, and tee shirt emporia.

My vocabulary thread does not include terms which are part of the lexicon of the average person. "Floaters" is such a word. My aim is to appeal to an educated audience which aspires to more lofty wordage.
MG

 

[gauchecritic]

Not so much the written word but actual mispronounciation in speech, more like idleness and poor teaching. Words that sound like Eastern European usage, quaint from my dad "Modder where are my western pants?" (Vest and pants)

My sister-in-law and lots of other people (deliberately just to annoy me I'm sure) have a similar usage with 'th'. Frough. Wiv. but irritatingly they will pronounce Thursday correctly. It's definitely not a dialect thing.

In my teens I heard a girl argueing with someone and threatened "I'll slit ve froit" (slit thy throat)

I was tempted to do likewise with her. That'd learn her. (there's one)

I love my dialect and hate hearing it done wrong.

Gauche

 

[Guest]

I love my dialect and hate hearing it done wrong.

I would just love to hear it, York.

Purr

 

[Alex De Kok]

I would just love to hear it, York.

Purr

Brave woman!

Alex (thinks: do I dare do my dialect piece as an audio version and lose even more voters!)

 

[Guest]

(thinks: do I dare do my dialect piece as an audio version and lose even more voters!)

Alex, at least do a couple minutes for me, you could send it via email, one of those voice files, you know.

pretty pleeeeeeze, Perdita

 

[Guest]

Brave woman!

Alex (thinks: do I dare do my dialect piece as an audio version and lose even more voters!)

Alex, if there are lots of women out there like me, who go week at the knees at the sound of a Geordie accent, your votes will go through the roof. Ye knaa what ah mean leik.

Lou

 

[Alex De Kok]

Alex, if there are lots of women out there like me, who go week at the knees at the sound of a Geordie accent, your votes will go through the roof. Ye knaa what ah mean leik.

Lou

Why, Lou, man, ah didn't knaa yer kud taak Geordie, like.

Purr, my dearly beloved is giving me a little digital voice recorder for my forthcoming birthday (date withheld!) so maybe, just maybe, but divvent haad yer breath, kiddar.

Alex

PS: NaNoWriMo aren't taking sign-ups 'til 3pm Pacific, so I guess it will be tomorrow for me.