Thanks!

Gack, I hate glurge :barf:

I've so far been blissfully spared it in my inbox (of course as soon as I open my big mouth :foot:), and Prof. x doesn't get a whole lot either (he gets mostly the African money-laundering letters), but one time he got the story about how li'l Alexander Fleming (the penicillin guy) saved li'l Winston Churchill from drowning, and out of gratitude Randolph Churchill put Fleming through college, and the rest is history, bla bla bla. Prof. x couldn't but notice it because he actually *met* Fleming when he was in med school somewhere in Europe in the 1940s, and I took a certain unholy pleasure in sending x the Snopes link debunking the story (http://www.snopes.com/glurge/fleming.asp); and I guess it was going around even when Fleming and Churchill were both still alive !

One other thing: Prof. x has a colleague (another professor) who's sent him the warnings about the venomous toilet spider, and how artificial sweeteners in diet pop cause MS or some other loathsome disease, and not too long ago another virus warning full of !s and ending "Forward this to all your friends!" :spin: On the one hand, Prof. x doesn't have the time or interest to give much of a hoot about spam and glurge, even the Fleming sob story, but since I drink a pretty fair amount of diet pop x kind of got on my case about it (he does have a tendency to treat me like a child)

Shouldn't that be "postings"? :lol: I'm just teasing you! ;)

Please know that I started this thread not because I think I am perfect, or that everyone else is flawed. I question or seek to improve many things about myself, and that in no way prevents me from being able to discern things I observe outside of myself that irritate me, seem out of balance or appear to be incorrect. I do so without judgment. These are just observations. :^:

I think you are just trying to cause trouble SOULBLISS!

:lol: What? Me? ;)

;)...nah!

I agree she wasn't melting (solid to liquid) but since humans are 60-70% water perhaps she was evaporating (liquid to gas) rather than sublimating (solid to gas). ;)

oH yEAH? pROF. X dOES tHIS, hE hAS tHE cAPSLOCK oN aND tHEN uSES tHE sHIFT aNYWAY :dizzy:

My pet peeves include: 1) The ticker on the morning news having misspelled words and incorrect grammar and 2) Misspelled words on work trucks, billboards and in any advertising in general.

<I hope I used proper spelling and grammer on my post. After reading all 6 pages of peeves...I'm petrified!>

oh oh! My pet just peeved on the floor!

No worries, Nicole, I'm sure I've done it to others, too. It's easy to overlook a reply to something you posted on a thread and then never returned to see if someone talked to you on it. :) I didn't take offense.

Battle Ax(e), I am aware that many of the instances I cited have become acceptable through common misuse; however, that doesn't make me any more comfortable with them. Just as 'alright' has become a word and 'judgement' has become an acceptable spelling (both of which drive me berserk), they are just mistakes that have been made so frequently that there's no fighting it anymore. By way of explanation, I was reared by two newspaper journalists, both of whom performed editing tasks during the course of their careers, and prohibition of these sloppy usages was driven into my psyche like a stake though a vampire's heart. That they have become acceptable because so many people didn't know better makes them no more agreeable to me. I liken it to someone chewing on a rubber band. No harm done, but it still makes my teeth itch.

The original question was, "What are your pet peeves?" and not, "What are your pet peeves that are now unreasonable because they have become acceptable?" I answered the question.

Gaaahhhh, yes, K8-EEEE!!! The ubiquitous apostrophe!!!! I've been known to strike through them on menus with a red felt tip pen, like a wizened old school marm with nothing else to do on a Saturday night. :o

Alinnell, oh my, yes, "irregardless" is a travesty... it makes me foam at the mouth... quietly, of course. ;) (And it's lovely to see you still here, btw!!)

My current favorite tongue-biter: Why is D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y the most misspelled word in the English language??

GeorgiePorgie, I wouldn't worry overmuch... language has gotten so sloppy and spelling, punctuation and grammar so poor that only we obsessive-compulsive types are bothered. In the total scheme of things, I equate it with a little tickle in my throat: Annoying, but not life-threatening. ;) This is a fun thread, but in the Real World, no one especially cares.

Rae

This is not an online error, but our local smalltown newspaper evidently doesn't use spellcheck. There are so many errors, spelling and otherwise, that it drives me crazy. There was actually a letter sent in by a local grade school student complaining to the editors about it. After the tsunami several years ago our local TV station ran a graphic displaying what the wave actually looked like and the title displayed under it said "Title wave". I could not believe that they didn't catch it before the broadcast.
I am in awe of people who are grammar experts. I know I probably overuse commas because I'm paranoid about it. Spelling is more my forte. I can spot a misspelled word a mile away. I have seen misspelled words on many websites including professional ones such as medical ones.
Sure hope I didn't misspell any words in this post!

hehehe - definitely .. there's a girl in my office who uses the spell checker and changes it to defiantly every time.

Also we once got into an argument because she insisted it was illegal to co-sign a car... and I kept asking, are you sure you're not trying to say sell the car on consignment? but she was adamant. And yet- there are so many car loans with co-signers... Hrmm ... she was so damn sure she was right I just gave up.

I guess I'm a masochist, because misspellings and blatant grammatical errors drive me a little crazy but I became a high school English teacher anyway, so I have to see tons of them every day!! But I guess I'm trying to do my part to correct them!

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so I don't know if this one has been mentioned, but the its/it's thing drives me a little batty. That, and using an apostrophe in a plural word. I'd rather hear nails on a chalkboard than see a sign that reads "Kitten's for Sale." I once called a business to tell them to change their sign because it read "Photography At It's Finest." They actually changed it, and there's a slight space left where the apostrophe used to be. I feel a little glimmer of pride when I see that space... :lol: