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Showing posts with label pet peeve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pet peeve. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Pet Peeve

I do not care that this is a real word, originating in Middle English, that functionally is no different than the common American use of "while."

If you use "whilst" my inner voice starts screaming.  To my ears it sounds pretentious and irritating.  That's on me, not the speaker, but regardless: ick.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Surrender your keyboard


Loose for lose
There for their (twice!)
Sense for since

All in the space of a mere nineteen words. 

Good Lord. She's a college graduate (and a native speaker too). 

Tell the sun that whenever it wants to supernova, it can go right ahead with my blessing.

Friday, February 4, 2022

Pet Peeve

FFS, it's "losing" not "loosing." Try to pay attention at least once during school,  m'kay

Saturday, September 28, 2019

A Pet Peeve

I always wonder why people start a post with "delete if not allowed." Uh, thanks for your permission to maintain the site rules?? Lol

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Pet Peeve

Is "over-exaggerated" an actual word/phrase? Isn't exaggeration, uh, exaggerated to begin with? At that point isn't it easier to just say "I lied?". It takes fewer syllables.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Words Have Meanings

A "couple" is two. Don't tell me there's only a couple and then dredge up five. Or three. Or seven. #PetPeeve #WordsHaveMeaningsKindlyLearnThem