silly pet peeves...

[LittleRedDevil]

I know, this is going to sound really silly, and it probably is, but hey, that's what pet peeves are for.

Mine is when people call them quotes instead of quotations. Quote is a verb, quotation is a noun.

So, who can top my silly pet peeve?

 

[KillerMuffin]

My pet peeve is spelling and grammar errors. I itch to say something and have managed to refrain. You should hear me screaming when I make one myself. It's intolerable.

 

[Flagg]

Umm KM, shouldn't that be "my pet peeves are spelling and grammar errors"?

Sorry, couldn't help it.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

*dives into a bunker to avoid flying objects*

 

[Purple Haze]

Flagg, you are a perfect ass.

 

[KillerMuffin]

*kicking Flagg* You're supposed to be so blinded by lust that you're fawning over my perfection. Jeez. When did I become human again?

Now I'm going to obsesss about this all day.

That's my other pet peeve. Obsessing about stupid things that don't really matter.

That and opening the ice cream box up for a lovely breakfast and finding two spoonfuls left.

 

[mig]

Mine is being corrected for saying quote instead of quotation.

 

[Purple Haze]

Using the word quote as a noun is merely an abbreviation.

Why is abbreviate such a long word?

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

 

[LittleRedDevil]

Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

And why is there an interstate highway in Hawaii?

 

[circe!]

I can't stand it...

...when someone uses 'your' instead of 'you're.' Or when someone doesn't know when to use 'it's' or 'its.'

 

[LittleRedDevil]

Re: I can't stand it...

...when someone uses 'your' instead of 'you're.' Or when someone doesn't know when to use 'it's' or 'its.'

I KNOW! I can't stand that either!

 

[circe!]

And another really PET peeve...

...is keyboard walking cats!

What, are they, like, programmed to walk on on the keys? Right when I'm trying to compose some pithy post?
I've got 19 cats and they freaking ALL do it!

 

[Purple Haze]

The word is copyRIGHT.

Stories, works of art, and photographs are copyRIGHTED, not copywritten.

 

[circe!]

And it is...

...aficionada, with an 'a' on the end when one refers to a woman. No matter what my Spell Check might think! Same with brava!

 

[LittleRedDevil]

The word is copyRIGHT.

Stories, works of art, and photographs are copyRIGHTED, not copywritten.

Bravo

 

[circe!]

Oh, and another peeve!

If someone lives in the States, they should leave the damned 'u' out of words like color and favor. Anglophiliacs!

 

[Purple Haze]

Why do people drive to the running track?

 

[LittleRedDevil]

If you shoot a mime, do you have to use a silencer?

 

[circe!]

And

why do they try to get close parking spaces at the Gym?

 

[Mischka]

My skin crawls when I see the superfluous use of quotation marks. At the grocery store, the grocery cart bin in the parking lot has a sign that reads: Return grocery carts "here."

 

[cymbidia]

~laughing at circe!
Man! Got you on a crabby Monday, babes?

I dislike deliberately misspelled store names, such as "Olde Books", "The Luv Boutique", or anything cutesy enough to gag me. I do *not* patronize these places of business, nor do i go into stores that proudly boast a misspelling in their name.

 

[circe!]

LOL, Cymbidia!

Yep, grumpy Monday. And you reminded me of several other peeves:

The feministic theory that women can "prove" themselves as not inferior to men by changeing the spelling of woman to womyn or womin. I also dropped a Women's Lit course because the first assignment was to write our "Herstory." Hell, I have enough *history* to know woman are in no way inferior to men. Or myn. Or min. <Big Grumpy Grin!>

 

[SimplySouthern]

~laughing at circe!
Man! Got you on a crabby Monday, babes?

I dislike deliberately misspelled store names, such as "Olde Books", "The Luv Boutique", or anything cutesy enough to gag me. I do *not* patronize these places of business, nor do i go into stores that proudly boast a misspelling in their name.

On a related note, (or perhaps unrelated...either way listen to my damn story) we have tool store which sits next to a dam on a lake. The owners named this place "The Dam Toolstore". For some reason, this annoys me. I refuse to go in this place and I avert my eyes when I drive by. I somehow feel that the stupidity will leap over onto me.

 

[Gaucho]

People who use the word impact as a verb.

Oh, yeah. And people who say "irregardless".

As in, "Irregardless, the announcement today negatively impacted my stock options."

 

[circe!]

Okay, I got another one...

One of the worst jobs of my life was when, as a teenager, I worked in a dog boarding kennel in Walnut Creek. The name of the place was Wunderbar Dog Boarding. The owner persistently pronounced it "Wonder Bar." As a student of the Deutsch language, I once asked her why she didn't pronounce it correctly as "Vunderbar." Her reply astonishes and annoys me to this day. She said: "But that would sound so German!"