Pet peeves?
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We've all got em!
Mine? When someone is talking to me about a family member and refers to them as if *I* know them like they do. For example, a friend coudl tell me a story about their mother and start it off, "Mom went to the store this morning and bought some milk...". Don't start it with Mom! She's not MY mother so don't say it like she is! Argh that annoys the piss out of me. "My mother went to the store..." is muuuuuuch better.
Another peeve, which I mentioned in another thread, is people pronouncing the word niche as "nitch". Drives me up the wall.
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Mine? When someone is talking to me about a family member and refers to them as if *I* know them like they do. For example, a friend coudl tell me a story about their mother and start it off, "Mom went to the store this morning and bought some milk...". Don't start it with Mom! She's not MY mother so don't say it like she is! Argh that annoys the piss out of me. "My mother went to the store..." is muuuuuuch better.
Another peeve, which I mentioned in another thread, is people pronouncing the word niche as "nitch". Drives me up the wall.
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LAZY!!
when people say brought instead of bought
hotkeys for applications should have some kinda ISO
apart from that, not much else. I don't give a toss about misspelling or grammar on the net and couldn't give a flying fuck about who makes what new words etc. In fact I hope I lose all english ability within about 5 years time.
...oh, and the arrogance of humanity
Maybe that's not a pet peeve but me being really judgemental
"I could care less" idly used in place of "i couldn't care less". One being the total opposite of the other but used to mean the same thing. MNAAARGH.
Looking back I agree with hawkens meanings..
I take literally to mean "almost" and "did beyond belief", hasn't this always been the case?
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I tought it means "word by word" or exactly to make it little clearer.
- Politcal extremists
- Religous extremists
- American society, hell-bent on 'looking' perfect
- Paris Hilton
- Fast Food Restaurants (get in the god damn kitchen!)
- High pitched, whiny voices
- People with OCD
- America sticking it's nose in other's business
- America helping other countries before helping itself
- Illegal Immigrants
- People who take advantage of our Welfare system
- Refugees (many get 7+ years in U.S without being taxed, and they get finincial support from government)
Uhh, I'm sure there are more. I'll leave space for others
edit: I think the word that describes your meanings hawken is 'practically'
edit2: yeah kdrs probably comes closer
when people say axe instead of ask
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You don't like ebonics?
Cell Phones and the people who use them.
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People who don't like people who use cell phones that have the online alias Luxury.
Hahaha
Cell Phones and the people who use them.
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People who call mobile phones, "cell phones" including most americans. Never understood the logic - its mobile hence the name. Its a cell? wtf..
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Cell Phones and the people who use them.
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People who call mobile phones, "cell phones" including most americans. Never understood the logic - its mobile hence the name. Its a cell? wtf..
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It's Cellular hence the name, Cell. They use a cellular network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_network
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when people say axe instead of ask
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You don't like ebonics?
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Personally I hate ebonics when someone is seriously using it, but in a jokingly tone it's fun, and just because I hate ebonics doesn't mean I hate black people, I know plenty of black folk who do not speak in ebonics.
though I think one of my biggest pet peeves is if someone pats me on the head ,I also hate being patronized.
if you say someones head literally exploded, it means that actually their head really did explode. Theres a private eye book of quotes out where all sorts of sports presenters misuse the term to comedic effect.
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the dictionary gives both meanings. Apparently the word has been used to convey either or, depending on the context, for over a hundred years. As the changing English language, this is a good example. Even if is wrong, it's right.
I have one to add to my list: katakana.
Style: Men showing their asses when they wear their pants around their knees while trying to look tough. (sagging) When I was a youth, this meant that you were homosexual. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Speech: Ghetto-speak ebonics. You wonder why you can't get out of the ghetto? You aren't oppressed, you just can't speak your damn native language properly.
Life: People who whine about how bad they've got it, but live in a nice house, aren't starving and are at no risk of being killed in a genocide, and are unwilling to get off their ass and do something to earn their unfairly gifted status as part of the world's wealthiest top five percent of humankind.
Oh, and Paris Hilton.
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Add to that people who buy shit they don't need/never will use, so that they think they can look cool-- even if they can afford it.
We no longer have to trim our dialogue down so that it is sent faster through our 14.4 modems. Get with the f'ing program and just laugh to yourself, and don't bother telling us about it.
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And yea, people misusing English. It's not so bad in most cases, but when people start using net talk too much it drives me insane.
Oh, and as Ryno said, guys wearing their pants around their knees. Esspecially when they're wearing a belt while doing it.
And still Bush.
And yea, people misusing English.
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I consider a lot of "american" mis-use.
-drinking any translucent liquid out of an opague glass.
-drinking opague liquids out of a translucent glass (except milk, and orange juice)
-wet towels that are folded not drapped
-unshaved women
-make-up
-high-beams on the highway behind me and from oncomming traffic. Especially on an unlit road.
-unecessary use of complicated language
If I think of more I'll edit.
1) I know.
2) Doesn't everybody?
People informing me that I have 'an accent'.
1) I know.
2) Doesn't everybody?
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My pet peeve is lip service - and not the fun kind.
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Its worse when people from your own country start telling you that you've got an accent.
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Don't worry, I get that too when I'm there.
Here's one: people that call me up on the telephone and then don't really say anything. WTF.
katakana is nonsense. A phonetic language used to represent a non phonetic language. Often Japanese people have a hard time with the international community because they learned English in this manner. Also it makes reading Japanese a pain in the ass... reading and then re-reading words over and over to try and figure out what the hell they mean. All other Asian countries just write English words in the Roman alphabet. Japan has the lowest English ability in Asia.
Also Katakana is used when perfectly decent Japanese words exist, for movie titles, nearly every product on TV commercials, daft names for cars and new ideas / marketing techniques.
It took me about a week to realise "tekisuto" means text.
"arerugi" means Allergy.
"stadio" means Studio.
"ribarari" means Library. But then it got shortened to "ribara".
"irasuto" means illustration... shortening is the most difficult part, trying to figure out where the word came from. When shortened words are jammed together the process gets worse, and it's common. "su-fami-ota" means "Super Famicom Otaku"
Once a nonsense katakana word enters the Japanese language, it's hard to remove it, even when perfectly sensible words exist in Kanji - and then after time the katakana words get warped, changed, shortened. No-one remembers what they meant in the first place.
Kanji on the other hand makes a lot of sense, due to it's highly logical order, bordering on what I would imagine spock to write! Each Kanji has two ways of reading: "on" and "kun". These readings can often have more than one pronounciation, however often only one meaning is attributed to each kanji. It's when they are joined with other kanji, the meaning changes. As Japanese has no spaces, sometimes it's hard to know how to read it.
A good example of this joining process is the kanji for electricity: "Den".
"Den"+"shi" = electronics
"den"+"ki" = light/electric
"den"+"sha" = train
Kanji is so expandable that literally any kanji can be co-joined to make new words, for medicine and science, that it makes me puzzeled as to why the practice of cherry picking English words in thier place is taking place.
I like Paris Hilton. I didn't at first, but these days I think shes hot.
neo-God: So basically you only like white washed blacks.
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You bet! I only associate with Oreos and Uncle Toms! Seriously though...I'm not in the mood for a race discussion. I should really reword my peeve, Any one who doesn't take the time to annunciate their words.