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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Re: Pet peeves #50223 12/19/01 02:40 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 Cape Cod, MA, US F Flatlander addict Flatlander addict F Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 Cape Cod, MA, US Speaking of Public Radio and pet peeves, I was just going to post about this, but it fits in here so well. The meteorologist on Vermont Public Radio has the fingernails-across-a-chalkboard habit of pronouncing "across" with a slight "t" at the end of it, as in "snow and freezing rain spreading acrosst northern Vermont tonight." It tends to be elided when followed by a "t" sound, though ("across the Green Mountains"). He also says "so to say" instead of "so to speak." These are not common liguistic quirks here in Vermont, and I was wondering if one could pinpoint them to a regional dialect. He doesn't have an indentifiable accent (to me anyway), but that "acrosst" just drives me batty. I also hate the it's/its thing and the rampant use of apostrophe's (but I still feel a little funny using CDs instead of CD's), but who doesnt. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cranky ol' stales #50224 12/19/01 03:40 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass and "regarding" the overuse of *odd* bits of emPHAsis, we never see "any" of that around *here! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cranky ol' joe #50225 12/19/01 05:13 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass pet peeves!? now you've got me started - in no particular order: 2. irregardless 3. wreck havoc [for wreak] 4. your/you're (its/it's, their/they're) 5. flustrated [conflating frustrated/flustered] 6. to/too/two 7. excessive anthimeria (i.e., verbing of nouns) 8. orientate 9. (see previous post) 10. "in no particular order" 11. unnecessary apostrophes (e.g., CD's :) 12. misuse of linguistic terms by supposed experts; e.g., Lederer listing "cleave" as a contronym 13. excessive and pedantic sesquipedalian verbiage 14. verbage/verbiage 15. confusing 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' . . 17. mute/moot [it's a mute point] . . . 37. excessive use of the ellipsis Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Another one #50226 12/19/01 05:22 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC OH! OH! OH! I remember another one. The people who hold up two fingers with each hand as they say quote unquote. Even when quote unquote is not necessary which is pretty much all the time. A former boss of mine used to do that. This guy could start bloviating at the drop of a paper clip. I searched and searched until I found an Energizer bunny that actually worked. It went around in circles banging on its pink drum. Whenever Bill would start in one of us would start the damned bunny running around. I came to work one morning to find the bunny stomped into plastic shards at the entrance to my cubicle. Did I mention that Bill was a tad passive-aggressive? Of course there was the time one of us got the batteries in backwards. That bunny kept coming and coming. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter #50227 12/19/01 06:16 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cranky ol' joe #50228 12/19/01 06:24 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass max, you did note that I chose to leave off a number one(1.) at this point in time? (oops, there's number 16.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cranky ol' joe #50229 12/19/01 06:41 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 13. excessive and pedantic sesquipedalian verbiage honorificabilitudinity -- as in Lederer Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: cranky ol' joe #50230 12/19/01 11:25 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Here's another one: *claiming... ...in no particular order: ...yet numbering the "list". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Another one #50231 12/20/01 07:59 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I loathe the lack of ability some people show in making verbs and nouns agree in terms of number, particularly in the third person. A typical sense would be "Let the customer make his selection and then get them to choose their prize." I also get driven insane by people who wilfully misuse "less" and "fewer". I'm driven even crazier by people who then spend considerable amounts of time trying to justify their misuse ... Note that I got two peeves for one post here, stales old son! The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pet peeves #50232 12/20/01 01:01 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel enthusiast Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Misquotation or things taken out of context tend to annoy me. As an example, the ubiquitous Money is the root of all evil for The love of money is the root of all evil. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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