I have a problem
I have a similar problem when folks use "contingency" to describe a group of people. The word is "contingent". I have ground a few teeth over this one.
awk!
ParticleMan said:
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
theres a pun here somewhere between averse and a verse.
ParticleMan said:
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
Woot said:
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
Prize winner
Woot,
You're care less use of care less rendered you're argument use less
Woot said:
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
mrincredible said:
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
I also avoid alliteration always
Meh. Those are careless typos.
hoops said:
awk!
ParticleMan said:theres a pun here somewhere between averse and a verse.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
Woot said:
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
I accept and own my problem. I acknowledge it is petty. That does not stop my tooth pain.
Sep 1, 2015 at 11:53am Edited
When it comes to talking our language good, its a doggy dog world out there.
ParticleMan said:I accept and own my problem. I acknowledge it is petty. That does not stop my tooth pain.
You're just trying to infer that you're smarter than everyone else.
This thread is painful. My pet peeve occurs when realtors refer to arched windows as ......
Palladium windows. AAAAAAAArgh.
The Palladium is a concert hall in London.
Palladian windows are named after the architect Palladio. And not every arched window is a Palladian window.
The next time you hear a realtor refer to a Palladium window please fire him or her.
Woot said:
mrincredible said:I also avoid alliteration always
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
and I avoid clichés like the plague
Sep 1, 2015 at 12:42pm Edited
I hate it when hotels claim they have an Olympic-size pool.
Olympic-size pools are 50 meters long and eight lanes wide.
sarahzm said:
This thread is painful. My pet peeve occurs when realtors refer to arched windows as ......
Palladium windows. AAAAAAAArgh.
The Palladium is a concert hall in London.
Palladian windows are named after the architect Palladio. And not every arched window is a Palladian window.
The next time you hear a realtor refer to a Palladium window please fire him or her.
I have an issue with quotation marks around words that probably shouldn't have them. If I see a sign board at a restaurant suggesting that I order the "fresh" fish or the "steak," I pass.
max_weisenfeld said:
This sort of thing literally drives me crazy.
The English language literally has no word that means literally.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living/literally-definition/
Sep 1, 2015 at 12:50pm Edited
ml1 said:
Woot said:and I avoid clichés like the plague
mrincredible said:I also avoid alliteration always
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
I hate exaggerations. There is nothing worse.
ETA I just saw Sarah's post :
Woot said:
ml1 said:I hate exaggerations. There is nothing worse.
Woot said:and I avoid clichés like the plague
mrincredible said:I also avoid alliteration always
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
it literally kills me.
I work in IT. The past 18 years of my life has been people being stupid and wrong in my direction. I'll take a few misused words and typos over some of the stuff I have to deal with.
ml1 said:
Woot said:it literally kills me.
ml1 said:I hate exaggerations. There is nothing worse.
Woot said:and I avoid clichés like the plague
mrincredible said:I also avoid alliteration always
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
Hey! I played that one already! Increadible!
max_weisenfeld said:
ml1 said:Hey! I played that one already! Increadible!
Woot said:it literally kills me.
ml1 said:I hate exaggerations. There is nothing worse.
Woot said:and I avoid clichés like the plague
mrincredible said:I also avoid alliteration always
Woot said:Ow. Owwwww. Oh man, that's just twisting the knife.
ParticleMan said:Irregardless, your not alone. Their are lots of people who are petty when there confronted with bad grammer. For all intensive purposes your an obsessive. Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us. Now we could care less.
I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).
who axed you?
The funny thing is, woot, you got "mywife and me" in this sentence right...
"Me and my wife were just talking about other grammer snobs. There issues would effect my wife and me until we agreed to stop letting it effect us."
What drives me crazy is the all-too-often misuse of the word "myself".
When myself and my friend went out......
They gave the award to Bob, Jill and myself.....
It's constant and knows no bounds. Man, woman, rich, poor, educated, not educated -- it's like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.
OK, myself feels better now.... 
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I know the problem is mine, and mine alone. Lots of people have grammarian tedencies, but there is one word mususe that makes my teeth hurt. It's uncommon mainly because the words are not exceptionally common. Not rare, but not I vs. me either.
Averse. The word is averse. I am averse to something. Not adverse. Adverse means something completely different.
It's clear what people mean, so I feel petty about my problem. But it's a good thing NJ has such strict gun laws. Otherwise I might be facing multiple sentences (pun intended).