What are your pet peeves re English usage?

You have to be pulling our collective leg..

(Sticks out tongue)

Trips c.i.

O.K. Perhaps “I seen it” has gone from nails on a blackboard to repetitive finger drumming.

I can smell where yer comin' from . . .

That's because you miss nothing my furry friend.

It doesn't appear to be Standard English, Aidan, and anyone who wished to could peeve to their heart's content. But as is so often the case, a little thinking or a bit of research shows most peeves to be less than well thought out ideas.

It's not always the easiest thing to parse Spendi's language. He hasn't seemed to be able to explain it himself.

U think ?

I'm inclined to think that phrases such as "to be perfectly frank and honest, serve the purpose of allowing a speaker to gob off for longer than than what he/she has to say justifies. They are woffle.

I was offering "thote" as an alternative to your "thawt". Not for a moment, if I was to absolutely and scupulously stick to the facts with unambiguous and downright plain-speaking and a pious attitude of sincerity, did I suggest, nor even think, that you had used "thote". I was wondering why you preferred "thawt" and why you have a non-ironical or non-satirical objection to "thought", as I explained I have sometimes indulged in, which passes the eye during reading in the manner which the dainty flowers on a freshly starched print frock do whereas "thawt" is more akin to a grubby stain on the pattern of suspicious derivation from which one might reasonably conclude that the wearer was unfamiliar with Mrs Ellis's advice to the Daughters of England: a seminal work in the genre.

It was my favourite line…a lovely chuckle.

It defined the post.

You didn't smile even a little?

He spells it 'thawt' because he's a New Yawkah and that's how they say it. I've probably heard him say it- I can't remember specifically if he said the word 'thought' or not- but yeah, probably.

I smiled at that line: And I spendi, is validated....blah, blah,blah- because when you HEAR it - it sounds like, I Spendi-is - get it spendiis - spendius...
I knew he did it on purpose. He was testing our proofreading skills.

Today, pretty much the whole damned language pisses me off . . .

I have had no problem with "educated" ever since a chap in the pub who I had previously though a bit short in the head rewired, in short order, a building in which I had an interest and positioned and connected up all the machines. Some of which weighed half a ton.

I think your use of the term is not only uncharitable but also an indiscreet method whereby you attempt to claim some spurious ascendency for your own attainments but ends up revealing how botched and bungled your own education has so far been. Your a snob.

No. The sort of ladies acceptable to my tastes are those who prefer the undisguised aroma of maleness.

But I never shower anyway. I take a half hour soak in the bath every night because it helps get up a thirst and I like being immersed in hot water.

I think showers are for people who feel grubby and do not care for relaxation and the inevitable thinking that goes with it. Relaxation in showers seemed to me impossible when I tried it many years ago. The persistent thought is "I am being showered" but in a hot soak in the bath one's mind can wander over the doings of the world with freedom which some people don't care for as they have a vague notion that if they do there is a good chance they will discover what a silly asshole they are when the evidence is considered.

I think that is the reason for a great deal of the frenzied activity they engage in when their ablutions are over.

Discovering that one is a silly asshole is the first rung of the ladder in a proper education. Educational systems in which a larger and larger number of silly assholes are flattered into thinking they are well above average for the purpose of expanding business empires and keeping unemployment statistics respectable, manageable, are deeply flawed from an educational point of view. When the victims of such a system can win an election I'm inclined to think the rot has set in.

gb wrote--



What gb doesn't seem to have discovered yet, nor MA, is that the peevish exercise of meglomaniacal tendencies is the very reason we come on A2K, and other similar fairground attractions, because in our daily lives we get so few chances, if any, to indulge in such perfectly natural tendencies which evolution has ensured we are all born with.

You were correct. Had you admonished him you might well have caused him to have a life-long aversion to licking objects you deem to be dirty.

And there's Father Conmee's resisting a desire to admonish a young kid for lighting a cigarette in Ulysses which all educated persons would know and thus not be uncertain about.

I think Jagger's "I can't get no satisfaction" is a complaint concerning his problems with premature ejaculation in his early career.

Here's a puzzling example --"Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft."

I did, ... smile that is.

Tamely I assume.

Well I learned something today, both Spendius and JTT must only be able to engage via forums on those computer thingies. And one of you, can't remember which, used peeve as a verb.....Christ, it can't get better than this. The two of you are a complete waste of time and you have as much intellectual curiosity as Bush 43. It must be a wonderful state to be in when you never question yourself. And it is is tres amusing to read the stuff you type here. Thanks to both of you, if I ever had any doubt about my intellectual ability, all I have to do is revisit the nonsense you have posted here for an ego reinforcement.

I hope none of this is offensive, my Dad said it didn't say much about a person who wanted to match wits with children or defectives, so on one level if he was still among the living he would disapprove....however, if he had a chance to read the manure you are spreading, he would be a much harsher critic than I of these feeble attempts the two of you have made in an effort to appear smart. But Dad didn't suffer fools, on the other hand I like to take a few minutes to determine if the stupid questions are actually sincere. Sadly they are not, but really ....what difference does it make, there is no value added listening to bloviators, they only care about the sound of their own voice. Have fun children, I'll check in from time to time and post when I am bored to tears.

Clary packed it in because she couldn't stand Spendy's carping, and that was sad.

Shame.