Things that bother me

alstl said:

To be clear it doesn't bother me except if you are going to start a thread complaining about the improper use of the English language you probably need to use correct English in your post - like capitalizing a proper noun.

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I've known a few chicks that didn't deserve capitalization....
....they might've been nouns....
...but they weren't proper.

I’ve gotten past being annoyed at misspellings by “Real Eyes”-ing (dubious, thankfully gone CJ coinage) that it’s a losing battle, because of the onset of social media message compression and ensuing language-mangling.

Worthy of its own blog (or thread somewhere) is this now-unavoidable *aural* nuisance: the ghastly, ever-increasing “let me gather my thoughts under pressure” filler phrase "you know". It is continually -- unconsciously -- belched at us by seemingly educated talking heads on every cable news channel (and will be annoyingly heard during most footage of on-camera politicians from any part of the political spectrum).

I sometimes joke that if the odious “you know” phrase were magically edited out of all television footage, 24-hour cable news broadcasting would last for only about 18 minutes each day.

I once read that Caroline Kennedy reflexively injected “you know” 147 times during a 15-minute taped interview – a rate not atypical of many celebrity interviews, especially those featuring actors who are more at home with scripted words rather than extemporaneous ones.

End of rant.

Arnaldo

arnaldo said:

Worthy of its own blog (or thread somewhere) is this now-unavoidable *aural* nuisance: the ghastly, ever-increasing “let me gather my thoughts under pressure” filler phrase "you know". It is continually -- unconsciously -- belched at us by seemingly educated talking heads on every cable news channel (and will be annoyingly heard during most footage of on-camera politicians from any part of the political spectrum).

I sometimes joke that if the odious “you know” phrase were magically edited out of all television footage, 24-hour cable news broadcasting would last for only about 18 minutes each day.

I once read that Caroline Kennedy reflexively injected “you know” 147 times during a 15-minute taped interview – a rate not atypical of many celebrity interviews, especially those featuring actors who are more at home with scripted words rather than extemporaneous ones.

End of rant.

Arnaldo

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I know, right.

Please add 'I seen' to the list...it's like fingernails on a chalk board...



I see it, you see it, we see it, they see it..

I saw it, you saw it, we saw it, they saw it...

I will see it, you will see it, we will see it, they will see it..



..wait for it...



I have seen it, you have seen it, we have seen it, they have seen it..


I didn't seen it, you didn't seen it, we didn't seen it, they didn't seen it..



Nobody seen it




..jesusfknchrist:grin:




..are there still chalkboards in classrooms?

..has one been seen in recent years? (couldn't help it)




Oh yeah...how about the last friggin-possible-moment lane changers that hover in the adjacent lane, stalling traffic, and then, when an opportunity presents itself,(in part, I blame courteous drivers, that let them in) dart into the off ramp lane. Everybody else has been in line, in that lane for 1/2 mile..but they, usually in their fine luxury automobile, have not that waiting mindset, because they are special.:angry:

3RAILKICK said:

Oh yeah...how about the last friggin-possible-moment lane changers that hover in the adjacent lane, stalling traffic, and then, when an opportunity presents itself,(in part, I blame courteous drivers, that let them in) dart into the off ramp lane. Everybody else has been in line, in that lane for 1/2 mile..but they, usually in their fine luxury automobile, have not that waiting mindset, because they are special.:angry:

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In California they're called dive bombers. Really annoying. Two more English language annoyances: their/there/they're and lose/loose.