That might be an idea for the newest fad diet!!! :o

People (and businesses) who purposely misspell words, i.e. Klassic Kuts / Kitchen Korner

Originally posted by 4myself: Very ironic: just today I passed a school bus that was from "Kid's Kollege." It's a local pre-school/daycare. All I could think was that we are teaching toddlers and young children how to misspell!

On the flip side: I have a know-it-all sister who no matter what the subject, if you send her an email, will shoot it right back at you with volumes on the history and origins of the subject matter, plus pictures and links to more info. If you don't respond back to her, she'll print out everything and hand it to you the next time she sees you. What an insufferable know-it-all! :rolleyes: I do know how to use Google ya know! :lol:

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I am laughing at the fact that you used "insufferable know it all" when you have Snape as your avatar. I can just hear him saying it to Hermione... :lol:

Sorry...back to your regular programming. :lol:

Oh yeah, along the lines of know-it-all ... people who are more concerned with being RIGHT than they are with being kind, welcoming, or helpful.

I'm with you on the know-it-alls...there are too many that think they do! LOL

I think a lot of you will enjoy this (I just read it on Mental Floss):

Repetitive Redundancies

• “False pretense”
If pretense is “the act of alleging falsely,” as Dictionary.com asserts, then wouldn’t a false pretense be … true?

• “Advance warning”
A warning delivered after the fact is known, I believe, as “Monday morning quarterbacking.”

• “Convicted felon”
If we’re guilty until proven innocent, there shouldn’t be too many convictionless felons running around.

• “Surviving widow”
Kallan defines it thusly: “The last woman standing in an all-widow game of Russian roulette.”

• “Fall down”
Gravity tends to make this modifier unnecessary.

• “All throughout”
More pervasive than occasionally throughout.

• “Close proximity”
As opposed to a distant proximity?

• “Sum total”
This really gets the point across … and then sum.

• “Shared dialogue”
When was the last time you heard a shared monologue?

• “Mass exodus”
When everyone leaves church at the same time? And speaking of church …

• “Holy Bible”
I’m so tired of these unholy Bibles.

People accidentally combining words annoys me, too. "Flusterated" (flustered + frustrated?)

Other redundant statements: "dead body" and "at this point in time"

Wow, what a list Allison! Funny!!!

Then what do you call a living body? "Dead" isn't a synonym for "body"

Agreed, but as I learned it, if one was referring to an alive body, one would say "person". One could effectively refer to a nonliving person as a body ("a body was found in the river" is just as effective as "a dead body was found in a river").

I love the repetitive redundancies!

But I want to tell each and every one you about my day at work. First and foremost, the building I work with is small in size, so there is not a lot of empty space, and we need to minimize unnecessary waste. It's not like I can just pick and choose where I want to put something. And I can't use mental telepathy to see if someone else had the safe haven I was considering, already planned in advance for another purpose. So, after postponing until later several verbal discussions about the subject, I decided to put the box of baby kittens which, by the way were black in color, in a place where one had to kneel down to see them. Then something came up at home, so I had to commute back and forth in the middle of the day. Well....
Oops...I have an unforeseen emergency. Bye-Bye!

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It slightly irritates me when, as people list things off, they count on thier fingers. Also, always using the --I believe it's called the article--before each word.

"When camping, you have your tent,your firewood,your shovel.." or
"It's all about the cars,the women,the fame, the fortune."

I guess I was always taught that in cases like this, it is easier and sounds better to say "It's all about the cars,women,fame and fortune"

Also, when people say things like " I got the dog at the local pound." Would it otherwise be assumed that a transatlantic flight was in order to get the dog?

.....I'm having a really bad day, maybe that is why this irritates me so.