Pet Peeve 1

[tsdragon]

What is your current pet peeve vis-a-vis language and usage?

Mine is the relatively new habit of people trying to sound more educated that they obviously are by using the word "myself" a lot. Unfortunately they rarely use it correctly. They usually use it when they mean "me" or "I". For example: "My wife and myself went to Europe this winter," or "The company gave my coworkers and myself a raise."

It just drives me nuts!

Tracy Dryden

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[jsteph]

When people pronounce the word 'realtor' "Ree-La-Ter"
It's "Reel-Ter"
...just a minor one, but it always makes me do a double-take.
J

 

[CajunCenturion]

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[RCorrigan]

TSD Expand that to every phrase / word that is used in a "gaining intelligence" but getting it wrong manner !!

jsteph isn't that meant to be pronounced "Estate Agent" !!!!!!!

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[hilfy]

Misuse of your/you're and there/their/they're - especially in e-mails an on-line, which is where I see it the most.

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[sleipnir214]

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I suppose for me it's the utterance "irregardless".

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[SQLSister]

Use of a singular noun and a plural pronoun.

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[BJCooperIT]

Referring to yourself in the third person!



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[Thadeus]

BJCooperIT, Thadeus hates that too!

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[tsdragon]

Hilfy: that's VERY common these days, especially, as you say, in email. It's also much more common among younger people. I'm not sure if they're not properly educated, or just don't care.

Side comment: what is the plural of email?

Tracy Dryden

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[CajunCenturion]

--> Side comment: what is the plural of email? SPAM

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[ToniL]

I hate "pacific" instead of specific... I also hate when people say, "At this point and time..." WHY can't you just say NOW!!! But really makes my head hurt is "conversate"... I HATE THAT NON-WORD!!! People use it everyday at my job and it makes my skin crawl to hear it!!!

Peace,
Toni L.

 

[tsdragon]

Side comment: what is the plural of email? SPAM

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Mr3Putt]

Mispronunciation of names, especially coworkers' names. After being corrected once or twice, it is one's duty to attempt to pronounce it correctly.

I have a coworker, his name is McDanold. Not McDaniel, not McDonald, not Mcmumblemumble... McDanold. Simple. Learn it, remember it, use it. One of my (former) coworkers refused to even attempt to learn it. Very very annoying.

Other than that, it's the misplaced apostrophe and mixed plural/single noun/pronoun.

Also, I'm reading a lot of resumes right now, and I find a ridiculous number of important sounding polysyllabic words easily replaced with simple words.

Liaisonned between general staff and management, facilitating enhancement of real-time inter-actionary assignment processing.

(Asked mgmt what to do. Assigned tasks to general staff.)

Crap like that gets round-filed.

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[flapeyre]

Use of the non-word irregardless.

People who do not grasp the simple (to me, anyway) concept that apostrophes are almost never used to pluralize.

And finally:

My first name is Francis, and my e-mail signatures spell it correctly, with the i. But the virtual steam comes our of my ears when some people assume my name is spelled "Frances", therby changing my sex. I'm quite happy with the one I have, thank you very much (and this in the same e-mail, no less!).

Just remember - Francis with an 'I' is a guy.

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[asrisk]

Liaisonned between general staff and management, facilitating enhancement of real-time inter-actionary assignment processing

The whole sentence is ridiculous, but "liaisonned" takes the biscuit!

My own peeve is people who write "of" instead of "have", e.g. "I should of got out of bed earlier"

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[AngelB]

Following on from Mr3Putt's post about name pronunciation, I have suffered with this my whole life. I can't introduce myself to someone without them going 'What?' My name is Geraint, it's a Welsh name and I'm very proud of it. I can understand people not getting it right the first few times as it's not a common name outside of Wales, but I've sat down with people, got them pronouncing the two syllables correctly and then they put them together and call me something that sounds nothing like my name. It's a hard 'G' the 'e' is pronounced as in 'egg' and the rest is pronounced to rhyme with pint as in 'pint of beer'. What in peoples brains makes it so hard to piece that together? Sorry to rant on but this has always been my pet peeve.

Gez



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[tsdragon]

Geraint: Thanks for setting me straight on the proper pronunciation. I always thought it was a soft G and the last part sounded like 'saint'. I'll remember that.

Francis: I know exactly how you feel! My name is Tracy and I am male. My mother told me that men spell it Tracy, while women spell it Tracey or Tracie. Yet I constantly get mail addressed to Ms. Dryden. When I was married and living in Washington, DC we got mail all the time from lesbian groups who assumed that Tracy and Judy Dryden just had to be a lesbian couple. You would think that they, at least, would be more sensitive about make gender assumptions!

I run into the spelling problem a lot too. My original high school diploma had Tracey on it. It isn't like they didn't know who I was, it was a small school. The principal even knew my name, and not because I was a bad student. The computer I am typing on right now at work has my user-name spelled Tracey. I tried to change it, but you can rename the application settings directory and I didn't feel like having to reconfigure everything again, so I decided to just live with it.

In case you're wondering, "Why Tracy?" it is because my parents had already picked out my middle name (after my great grandmother), and were looking for a first name that sounded good with it. What they came up with works: Tracy Stevenson Dryden.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Dimandja]

Hello, this Dimandja."

"You the manager?"

"No. My name is DEE-MAHN-GEEA."

"Aaah... You eyetalian?"


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[ToniL]

I get the name thing a lot, too, but not to the extent that you guys do... I am female, and my name is Toni, but I get a ton of "Dear Tony" e-mails, even though my signature is my full name, Antonia, which is a Latin name that ends in an "a", which has a feminine connotation...

Also, I really hate "regardless to" instead of "regardless of"... I suppose I give cool points to those who use the term because at least they don't say "irregardless"...

One more thing while I'm on a tangent... "A lot" is TWO WORDS, not one...

Peace,
Toni L.