What are your pet peeves re English usage?

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The overuse of acronyms to save having to write it out. They are fine so long as you know what they stand for, otherwise you have to look it up.

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@coluber2001,

Couldn't agree more, and they often don't save time or effort.

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@ailsagirl,

You seem like the person nobody wants to be around!

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@sumeya,

You seem like an attention seeker.

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@izzythepush,

When people use a small i as a personal pronoun to show their lack of ego thus attracting great attention to it. Maybe substitute "We" instead.

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the "no one has ever seen anything like it" (or even worse "the likes of which no one has ever seen") language being used in today's political discourse...

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Me and him/her went ... . What's so difficult about She/he and I went ... ?

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when people ask you where you're from, but what they really mean is 'where do you live?'

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@Region Philbis,

How about Gotcha! Around here, servers in restaurants are starting to say "gotcha' to indicate they have received your order. Simply makes no sense to me at all.

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@roger,

I'd say that "gotcha" is as relevant as Roger Wilco, which most people wouldn't understand, either.

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@Builder,

Yes will comply

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