What are your pet peeves re English usage?

Rude emoticons inserted in text.

(Hey, with luck, I may be able to get him to make it ALL emoticons....they are dumb, but more enlightening and worthwhile than his words.....)

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Ah, so the other smilies are okay then... ?

Have you taken your Pet Peeve for its morning walk yet? I just bought mine a flea-collar with a small bell on it. Very Happy

And I've Mail Ordered some ribbed condoms for my collection of well-hung prepositions. Very Happy

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Nope and nope.

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Hear hear! I'm for back on track! I'll try to help.

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To help things get back on track - one of my pet peeves is being told by pre-programmed service people to "Have a nice day!"

At a place I worked the boss insisted we say that. We all hated it -- would rather have said something off-the-cuff that was appropriate to the time.

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Excellent contribution Wy! You're a breath of fresh air! From north-east USA - that sounds like Stephen King country to me...

The only thing that pisses me off more than a vacuous 'HAVE A NICE DAY!'[/i][/size] at the check-out counter is being asked for the zillionth time - WOULD YOU LIKE A FLYBY... ? [/i]

I wonder if in other countries where they have American food-outlets like Big Mac etc their customers are being told to Have-a-Nice-Day in their local language... ?

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dlowan...

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nope and nope

Typically irresponsible pet-peeve owner.

My pet-peeve's booked into the local vet for it's annual booster shot and to have it micro-chipped against theft, or in case it wanders off and becomes road-kill...

As I go about my day I often spot mangled bad grammar kicked off the roads and into gutters where stray dogs sniff at them with salivating interest ...

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Thanks herbert, sadly I don't have as much free time as you do. So naturally I was happy that you did all the work for me. I did indeed read your pet peeves in English and after a great deal of thought I reazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz what! did I fall asleep?

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Point of geographical lore: Wy identifies herself as being located on the top left corner of the US map. That certainly is neither the Northeast, not Stephen King country. More like either WA or OR. But, then, this is a language thread, not a geography class.

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herberts wrote:

dlowan...
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nope and nope

Typically irresponsible pet-peeve owner.

My pet-peeve's booked into the local vet for it's annual booster shot and to have it micro-chipped against theft, or in case it wanders off and becomes road-kill...

As I go about my day I often spot mangled bad grammar kicked off the roads and into gutters where stray dogs sniff at them with salivating interest ...

Incorrect use of apostrophe for possessive "its".

And.....dont ge't m'e s'tarted on incorrect use of apostrophe's generally.....

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My pet peeves, their very existence consequent to desires and dams not ending with a proposition, are neutered gender and subject to the calling of a spayed a spayed.

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glitterbag... glad you're back from your AA meeting. Hang in there, babs - it's only the first couple of weeks that are hell. I'll be praying for you.

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dlowan...

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Incorrect use of apostrophe for possessive "its".

I very deliberately engineered that glaring error just to see if I could snare any pedants lurking about here who would take that up with me as a cheap shot ... and yep! - you took the bait!

nya-nya.. nya-nya..

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AaTruly - you took the words right out of my mouth. It was going to be my very next comment.

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My pet peeves, their very existence consequent to desires and dams not ending with a proposition, are neutered gender and subject to the calling of a spayed a spayed.

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I didn't understand it either.

So I suppose we could add- unnecessarily complex style in which the author, sometimes unwittingly, trips himself up. Unless it's written by me of course, in a sometimes vain attempt at humour.

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Being a fellow-dyslexic I understood it perfectly.

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Whats a flyby?

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Steve (as 41oo) wrote:

Whats a flyby?

It's just one of 999,999 words

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1755210,00.html

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Flybys are coupons which you can collect at the supermarket check-out counter whenever your purchase amount reaches a certain minimal requirement.

These coupons can be collected and later exchanged for discounted tickets for air-travel. Unless you're a jet-setter I can't imagine why anyone would take up this option.

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Try to keep your wits about you McTag - you're walking around town with seagull **** all over you.

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I like very much these two words:

Belligerent Design ( prop n). Offshoot of creationism which holds that the universe was created by a higher being who was in a very bad mood at the time, and that evolution alone cannot account for there being so many nettles. (50-1 bar)

Mourinho (adj). Mournful in the face of certain victory; bearing the hallmarks of a sore winner.

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