Usage & Grammar Pet Peeves

"The thing is is that..."

Also, there's a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song called "Phenomena" in which the phrase "something like a phenomena" is repeated about 20 times.

redundancies, for example, "well, me, personally."

or "i , myself"

i hate the overuse of words such as 'obviously' or 'basically' as a sentence starter.

i cringe at the use of the word 'females' when referring to women. (females covers the entire mammalian populace.. women is specifically human. 'female' essentially means presenting with the specific features: a cunt and a womb, and imesho demeans women.

"i is goin' out tonight to get wit' a female, innit."

seems rather unspecific (or unpacific if you prefer)... anything with a vay jay will do.

are you offended when someone calls you male? obviously i'm just wondering, as i, myself, don't share your distaste for females.

i mean that's just me, personally, talking, that is.

The female of the species is more deadlier than the male.

The phrase "in my humble opinion". You know, unlike all those arrogant opinions out there that other people hold. Mine's totally modest, just so you know. <---Hate that.

Sorry to anyone who has a humble opinion on the matter.

"and i turned round to him and said... ... and she turned round to me and said... ..."

and then he turned round to me like being stupid, and i was like turned round to him like seriously that's so ridiculous? and he all turned around like he didn't no. god, i'm like hungry.

**ducklips**

  On 4/12/2011 at 11:12 AM, plstik said:

After that I played through Portal again and started World of Goo, addicting.

GRAMMAR PET PEEVE

why ?

I do so many things that used to annoy me simply to annoy other people who got more annoyed at me doing them. Like using "p." instead of "pretty," or "yr" instead of "your/you're." I started doing that in conversations with one person just to annoy the hell out of them, and now I do it all the time with everyone and I don't even care. It's p. convenient! Also "def" instead of definitely, haha. Or deffo, even.

Oh and I almost never capitalize or punctuate properly in chat. Fuck you, that's why.

  On 3/25/2011 at 10:06 AM, Gary C said:

 

Obviously, '110%' is also an annoyance. Maths doesn't work that way.

 

What if you took a test in school and there were bonus questions. You did perfect on the test including the bonus questions, but your teacher still only gave you 100%. When you asked why the teacher said "well you answered 100% of the questions correctly and there can never be more than 100%, so great job."

just stroke your scarf, say you're livin' art, and imagine the fuming grammar police, hovering above the keyboard, counting to their favorite song, waiting for the perfect flame

  On 4/12/2011 at 2:34 PM, glasse said:

  On 3/25/2011 at 10:06 AM, Gary C said:

 

Obviously, '110%' is also an annoyance. Maths doesn't work that way.

 

 

What if you took a test in school and there were bonus questions. You did perfect on the test including the bonus questions, but your teacher still only gave you 100%. When you asked why the teacher said "well you answered 100% of the questions correctly and there can never be more than 100%, so great job."

let's say you're a salesman with sales target of £100,000... you manage to sell £110,000. what's that in percentage terms?

  On 4/12/2011 at 2:08 PM, Babar said:

why ?

"Considered non-standard outside of the United States."

It just sounds ugly.

wow, Déjà vu

  On 4/12/2011 at 2:02 PM, Gary C said:

  On 4/12/2011 at 11:12 AM, plstik said:

After that I played through Portal again and started World of Goo, addicting.

 

GRAMMAR PET PEEVE

And just to be pedantic, Gary, that's a usage pet peeve rather than a grammar pet peeve.

Yours with love,

"The Lavender Glove"

mmh okay, that's because the verb "to addict" doesn't exist.

"He'd beat the girls and addict them to heroin, before sending them on the streets".

SOunds good to me.

He addicted her to an emotional and physical craving for his sexual attention.

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here, here.

This one really gets me fired up.