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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 17:40:44 GMT
I hate it when people say they were conversating with someone. It's not a word!
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Post by peano on Aug 13, 2014 17:41:33 GMT
Yes, this! I hate, hate, hate it when I read Legos. It's just Lego, people! If you want to talk about individual pieces, they are Lego bricks. Thank you. (I know this is probably a regional difference, but it still drives me crazy!) "Son, please pick up your Lego bricks?" Umm, no. It's "son, pick up these damn Legos before I lacerate my foot!" Curious to me that EVERYONE misuses lie and lay but it's never mentioned in these threads. I say OMG ironically from time to time.
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Post by tiffanyannhulsey on Aug 13, 2014 19:04:34 GMT
Oh, and "fur babies". Yuck OH, THIS ONE!!! I just can't stand it! Those are dogs/cats/mice/other rodents, not children. Do not disrespect mothers by saying that.
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Post by sharlag on Aug 13, 2014 19:04:37 GMT
I cringe when I hear people tell a child to "Lay down."
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Post by lesley on Aug 13, 2014 19:07:37 GMT
"Son, please pick up your Lego bricks?" Umm, no. It's "son, pick up these damn Legos before I lacerate my foot!" You see, I would just say "pick up that damn Lego". I think of Lego as a collective noun.
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Post by meowgal on Aug 13, 2014 19:14:08 GMT
I'm a bit of a grammar nazi. I could make a long list of my verbal pet peeves, but will spare you the mental anguish.
The one I hear constantly is "off of"...as in "Turn left off of Main Street" ...or "She jumped out of the window"....they are just WRONG. "Turn left off Main Street" and "She jumped out the window"....these are correct, but I even hear network anchors using the OFF OF. argh.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 19:20:54 GMT
I share a lot of these pet peeves, and I'm embarrassed to say that I use a few of them...lol.
I hate hate hate "nom nom nom" !! Ugh. Makes me cringe.
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 13, 2014 19:23:34 GMT
"Son, please pick up your Lego bricks?" Umm, no. It's "son, pick up these damn Legos before I lacerate my foot!" You see, I would just say "pick up that damn Lego". I think of Lego as a collective noun. I don't think I've ever heard someone say "lego" rather than "legos" if they're referring to multiple pieces. I'm pretty sure that my smart ass kids would have picked ONE lego up and said "this one?"
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Post by meowgal on Aug 13, 2014 19:25:29 GMT
I must share that I replied before reading the thread. After reading it, my blood pressure has gone up in agreement with most of these verbal pet peeves!
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 13, 2014 19:28:33 GMT
Oh, and "fur babies". Yuck OH, THIS ONE!!! I just can't stand it! Those are dogs/cats/mice/other rodents, not children. Do not disrespect mothers by saying that. Why is it disrespectful of mothers to refer to your pets as your children? No snark meant at all, I'm honestly curious.
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Post by River on Aug 13, 2014 19:30:36 GMT
My mother always says she's going in for testes. Yes, sounding out the "es" and not just putting an "s" at the end. I cringe every time she says it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 19:32:56 GMT
My mother always says she's going in for testes. Yes, sounding out the "es" and not just putting an "s" at the end. I cringe every time she says it. Oh my, I think if I heard someone say this I might need to ask them how long they'd be working towards gender reassignment!
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Post by Tamhugh on Aug 13, 2014 19:37:54 GMT
Whoa. Not everyone in Pa says "you's." For some (Pittsburgh area), it is "yinz." And to be perfectly correct, it is "yinz wanna come over, n'at?" I hate "where you at?" or "where are you at?" In my area northeast Pa they do. From what I'm told by the locals it's just in this coal region area. I grew up in the coal region. I think there is a whole different version of the English language there. When DH and I started dating, he used to constantly ask me what my dad was saying.
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Post by tiffanyannhulsey on Aug 13, 2014 19:39:55 GMT
OH, THIS ONE!!! I just can't stand it! Those are dogs/cats/mice/other rodents, not children. Do not disrespect mothers by saying that. Why is it disrespectful of mothers to refer to your pets as your children? No snark meant at all, I'm honestly curious. I just think to pretend that a dog and the responsibility that goes with it compares to the responsibilities of being a mother is disrespectful to mothers and all that they do.
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 13, 2014 19:44:33 GMT
I haven't read the entire thread either. There are quite a few I agree with, and quite a few that I use or have used myself.
Some of the ones that I hate hearing/reading are:
Just sayin'/saying: It's almost always used after saying something rude, like that excuses it.
Cray or cray-cray: HATE it. Especially when used by an adult b/c it sounds like they're trying to sound like a teenager, and it just sounds stupid.
Yummy, when used by anyone other than a baby or toddler (or adult talking to a small child). I really, really hate when it's used by adults to describe things other than food. "That paper is yummy" or to describe a person. Gag.
"Blip or ping on my radar": I don't know why, but it drives me crazy. Irrational, I know!
In "honor" of my 15 year old daughter: "I'm a free spirit, I do what I want". I am SO sick of hearing this. She's still going to do whatever she was asked or told to do, but she says it about everything. Makes me want to "literally throttle her"!
This thread is really interesting!
Melanie
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 13, 2014 19:47:26 GMT
I cringe when I hear people tell a child to "Lay down." I prefer to say "you will go to sleep, or I will put you to sleep"
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Post by jennyap on Aug 13, 2014 19:47:52 GMT
I don't think I've ever heard someone say "lego" rather than "legos" if they're referring to multiple pieces. I'm pretty sure that my smart ass kids would have picked ONE lego up and said "this one?" I've never heard anyone refer to Legos except here on this board. Not a verbal peeve, but there's someone on another forum I'm on whose posts drive me nuts. She's really sweet but OMG - she doesn't capitalise anything, or use any punctuation so it's all run on sentences. Worst of all - she adds "ed" to the end of a bunch of words: said becomes saided, paid becomes paided, etc. It's all 'she saided this' 'I saided that'. I've no idea if she says it the same way IRL...
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Post by my3freaks on Aug 13, 2014 19:57:25 GMT
I'm not a fan of 'pretty please'. I think that sounds so stupid! Oh and people who call my country Holland bug me too. It's The Netherlands! Aargh! Is Holland not actually a place? I don't know why, but I thought "The Netherlands" referred to multiple countries in the same area, like Holland, Denmark, Finland, the way that we refer to the northeast "New England", which refers to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Island. I was born in CT and grew up in NH, and when asked will sometimes just say I'm from New England.
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 13, 2014 19:58:24 GMT
Oh, I just thought of another one, and I see it a lot on here. When people start their sentence with "Um". It's just so condescending. I can't stand it! Well, actually, I guess this is totally acceptable to hear it, but when written, it's so dang rude!
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Post by peano on Aug 13, 2014 21:14:49 GMT
You see, I would just say "pick up that damn Lego". I think of Lego as a collective noun. I don't think I've ever heard someone say "lego" rather than "legos" if they're referring to multiple pieces. I'm pretty sure that my smart ass kids would have picked ONE lego up and said "this one?" Exactly!
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Post by peano on Aug 13, 2014 21:16:23 GMT
Oh, I just thought of another one, and I see it a lot on here. When people start their sentence with "Um". It's just so condescending. I can't stand it! Well, actually, I guess this is totally acceptable to hear it, but when written, it's so dang rude! That would be me you are referring to. I utterly own it.
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 13, 2014 21:29:36 GMT
Oh, I just thought of another one, and I see it a lot on here. When people start their sentence with "Um". It's just so condescending. I can't stand it! Well, actually, I guess this is totally acceptable to hear it, but when written, it's so dang rude! That would be me you are referring to. I utterly own it. Um, no, but if the shoe fits
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Post by gar on Aug 13, 2014 21:37:07 GMT
"Son, please pick up your Lego bricks?" Umm, no. It's "son, pick up these damn Legos before I lacerate my foot!" You see, I would just say "pick up that damn Lego". I think of Lego as a collective noun. Me too.
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Post by Country Ham on Aug 13, 2014 22:34:29 GMT
An aside. I looked up the word 'party' in the online Webster dictionary and they list it as a verb.
My pet peeve is the made up word "homophobia/homophobe". Just the word conjures up very negative ideas. Using the word “homophobia” suggest a lack of rational thinking. George Weinberg coined the term and he says "It encapsulates a whole point of view and of feeling. It was a hard-won word". (I can give you a link if needed). He essentially admits the purpose of the word is to invoke certain feelings and that it was a word fought hard to make mainstream.
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Post by CarolineO'Sullivan on Aug 14, 2014 2:21:08 GMT
The mis-use of bring and take. I had her bring one to her school. I'll have her take one to me later. Bring is used when the action is moving toward the speaker. Take when the action is away from the speaker. I totally think this is something that varies in different countries, I say that because we moved to NZ and everyone brings everything, I used to be like, what!!!! now I am used to it. I had never heard that in the UK before.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Aug 14, 2014 3:56:21 GMT
When you say 'I've got' you are actually saying "I have got'. Why don't people say 'I have'? There, now I feel better. Thank you! You posting that^ has given me permission to post this: People continually say "I am going to..." (five syllables) or "I'm going to..." (four syllables).
I rarely hear "I will" or "I'll." When I watch YouTube video tutorials, my mind can only hear one long string of "And now I'm going to...", "And then I'm going to..." and "What I'm going to do now is I'm going to..."
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Post by juliet on Aug 14, 2014 18:29:30 GMT
I'm not a fan of 'pretty please'. I think that sounds so stupid! Oh and people who call my country Holland bug me too. It's The Netherlands! Aargh! Is Holland not actually a place? I don't know why, but I thought "The Netherlands" referred to multiple countries in the same area, like Holland, Denmark, Finland, the way that we refer to the northeast "New England", which refers to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Island. I was born in CT and grew up in NH, and when asked will sometimes just say I'm from New England. No, The Netherlands is a real, separate country The orange one...that's it. Denmark is right above Germany. Finland is the one on the right of the three countries above that. And here you can see our country divided into provinces. The green one is Noord (north) Holland, the pink is Zuid (south) Holland. Together they are 2/12th or 1/6th of the whole country. I live in Noord Brabant and no, that is *not* Holland
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Post by oblibby on Aug 14, 2014 18:37:13 GMT
'Myself' instead of 'me' or 'I'. I swear some time ago in the business world it must've been deemed egomaniacal or something to refer to 'me'.
Another pet hate of mine is 'and therefore'
Oh and another vote for 'could care less'
ETA: Juliet's post reminded me how mad it makes me when people (mostly Americans, it has to be said) refer to Scotland as part of England (and things which pertain to Britain as English).
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Post by gar on Aug 14, 2014 18:40:20 GMT
Thanks for that juliet - a nice little Geography brush up
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Post by alibama on Aug 14, 2014 18:49:29 GMT
Anything that sounds like baby talk, tummy, yummy, sammy, lappy ( I could go on but I'll refrain ). I also really dislike the trend of people referring to their children as "littles". I agree with the baby talk unless it is a baby of course. As for the littles? I have never heard that one thankfully.
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