Pet peeves...................

[windshieldbug]

I have to say I disagree with MANY of your examples. While obtaining an english endorsement on my teaching certificate, this was discussed in one of the grammar usage sections to death. Much of what you've cited are colloquialisms and not accepted as proper usage in "scholarly" writing . I had one professor who was absolutely NUTS over this! A little too nuts, IMVHO... Peeve turned neurosis...

Wouldn't it be funny if he's also forgetting about contractions!?

[chipster55]

And here's another one: People, especially teenagers, who can't, like, speak, ya know, a complete, like, sentence without every other, like, word, being, ya know, like & ya know.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

[WakinAZ]

Here's a couple I've been meaning to post for a while now:

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance. Rinse, repeat.

Online businesses that do not answer email, or the phone when email is ignored...

[windshieldbug]

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance.

Perhaps you're just reading the music wrong!
(or playing in another universe... )

[UDELBR]

Community band section-mates who make the same mistakes every rehearsal, never practice, then, of course, make the same mistakes in the performance. Rinse, repeat.

Not all that different in the professional circuit either.

Hooray for tenure.

[windshieldbug]

when you people type in font this tiny, and then i have to copy and paste it into the address bar to see what it says...

Just try a quick "quote" and read it in the resulting reply box

[bububassboner]

1. When people write with a font size that is to small to read.

2. Brass players who assume they are far better than everyone else and treat their class mates like middle school players.

3. Drivers who don't stop for peds.

4. College kids who complain about how much college cost yet spend $200-$1,000 A MONTH on beer.

[TubaRay]

1. When people write with a font size that is to small to read.

Amen to this.

[TubaRay]

Panhandlers who stand on corners begging for handouts, claiming to be homeless, stranded, or jobless. Yet they have enough money to buy a magic marker to scribble their sign out and always seem to have money enough for cigarettes. The way I see it, if they've got money for cigarettes, they've got money enough to live at the same level of existence as I do.

Another "AMEN." I believe there is evidence to support what you are saying.

[tofu]

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[windshieldbug]

Like, people who, like, always interject the, like, word "like" into their, like, speech, and like, always talk, like, like a pot of popcorn, like, popping.

Man that, like, really makes me want to, like, rip their tongues out, ya know what I, like, mean?

[LoyalTubist]

College kids who complain about how much college cost yet spend $200-$1,000 A MONTH on beer.

Slightly related:
Panhandlers who stand on corners begging for handouts, claiming to be homeless, stranded, or jobless. Yet they have enough money to buy a magic marker to scribble their sign out and always seem to have money enough for cigarettes. The way I see it, if they've got money for cigarettes, they've got money enough to live at the same level of existence as I do.

Hey - In the Chicago Loop it is routine to get hit up by panhandlers talking on cell phones (including the bluetooth ear ones), drinking a Starbucks coffee in one hand & using an empty Starbucks cup in their other hand for their collection plate. I'm sure as a taxpayer I'm probably paying for some goofy government program that gives them free phones. When I get hassled crossing the bridge over the Chicago River on the way to the train station I'm always tempted to throw the more agressive ones over the railing.

When I lived in Indonesia, there were professional beggars (perfectly legal then, I don't know about now) who went all out to be dirty, smelly, and look poor. They would usually hang out around churches and mosques, especially when services were letting out. They generally parked their Mercedes a couple of blocks away. Of course, they would have to visit a friend's house on the way back to the car so they wouldn't mess it up. Such beggars could earn as much as an expatriate school teacher.

[LoyalTubist]

...people who refer to California as cali


We oldsters from the Golden State have no problem with our native land being called Cal. That's one less letter!

But (you might not know this), the cali abbreviation started because the Vietnamese cannot say Cal... They say "Cah-ooh."

Consequently, they also can't say mike (it comes out "my.") So they call a microphone a micro.

No wonder we have trouble understanding each other. They're trying to make up their own English language vocabulary.

[LoyalTubist]

He must really like Colombia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali

[The Jackson]

Like, people who, like, always interject the, like, word "like" into their, like, speech, and like, always talk, like, like a pot of popcorn, like, popping.

Man that, like, really makes me want to, like, rip their tongues out, ya know what I, like, mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0aDhqxiHg

You'll totally, like, love it!

[TubaRay]

Hey - In the Chicago Loop it is routine to get hit up by panhandlers talking on cell phones (including the bluetooth ear ones), drinking a Starbucks coffee in one hand & using an empty Starbucks cup in their other hand for their collection plate. I'm sure as a taxpayer I'm probably paying for some goofy government program that gives them free phones. When I get hassled crossing the bridge over the Chicago River on the way to the train station I'm always tempted to throw the more agressive ones over the railing.

I know I would be.

[TubaRay]

Like, people who, like, always interject the, like, word "like" into their, like, speech, and like, always talk, like, like a pot of popcorn, like, popping.

Man that, like, really makes me want to, like, rip their tongues out, ya know what I, like, mean?

I know what you mean!

[SplatterTone]

Like loosen up. Maynard G. Krebs was hip.

[LoyalTubist]

Couple of the year (1965)