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.
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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."
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
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
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