Pet Peeves

Arrogant, self absorbed know-it-alls.
"Help Desks" where it takes you thirty minutes to finally talk to a human who turns out to be very little help at all.
Disrespectful young people.
Screaming kids in public places....yes little kids get tired, hungry, upset..etc. and don't know how to behave...but the parents can at least remove the source of annoyance.
Folks who think everything is some else's fault. Take some responsibilty.....our mistakes are truly our own.
Mean spirited people.
People who don't stand respectfully when the National Anthem is played....if you aren't a patriot, that's you business but have some respect.

Guess I sound like a grouch....sorry.....I'm really a pretty nice guy.

rangerboy

[RG_]

Originally Posted by iggy

(just makes me want to light my hair on fire and start screaming)

Originally Posted by garyspk

That's a whole other fetish, Iggy.

Yeah, I've heard that Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson are both into that fetish. :grin:

[dotty]

Originally Posted by iggy

Well use of the word "loose" when it should be the word "lose" just drives me completely batty! I even saw it in a movie I watched the other day! Grrrrrr.....

Also misusing "dominate" when it should be "dominant" i.e. I am a dominate male. (I think if someone is going to call themselves a Dom, they should actually know what it is short for!)

(just makes me want to light my hair on fire and start screaming)

Oooohh...that drives me bonkers too!!

And one more thing: using "their" instead of "they're" as in "Their not supposed to be here". Geezus!!

Another thing I can't stand is when the letters e and i are switched in certain words, like "thier" (their) and wierd (weird).

LOL...I can go on and on about this. Now that I think about it, most of my pet peeves have to do with grammar/spelling. I mean, it only takes 10 seconds to go to Dictionary.com and check the spelling of a word when you're not so sure how it is spelled!

I'll shut up now.

[garyspk]

Originally Posted by dotty

Oooohh...that drives me bonkers too!!

And one more thing: using "their" instead of "they're" as in "Their not supposed to be here". Geezus!!

Another thing I can't stand is when the letters e and i are switched in certain words, like "thier" (their) and wierd (weird).

LOL...I can go on and on about this. Now that I think about it, most of my pet peeves have to do with grammar/spelling. I mean, it only takes 10 seconds to go to Dictionary.com and check the spelling of a word when you're not so sure how it is spelled!

I'll shut up now.

Dotty, we should probably start a subset forum called mygrammar.com. LOL.

First off, I'm not sure dictionary.com would help because first, one has to know the proper "usage" of a word before one can spell it...especially in the case of something like there/their/they're.

Also, my English teachers in school were WRONG. It ISN'T always "I before E except after C!"

[RG_]

Originally Posted by dotty

Oooohh...that drives me bonkers too!!

And one more thing: using "their" instead of "they're" as in "Their not supposed to be here". Geezus!!

Another thing I can't stand is when the letters e and i are switched in certain words, like "thier" (their) and wierd (weird).

LOL...I can go on and on about this. Now that I think about it, most of my pet peeves have to do with grammar/spelling. I mean, it only takes 10 seconds to go to Dictionary.com and check the spelling of a word when you're not so sure how it is spelled!

I'll shut up now.

You tell'em, girl!

And for the information of MSF members, these astute observations on the use of the English language come from someone who's native language is not English! Kind of tells us something about the respect that we have for our own language, huh?

(And as an added comment, while I very much agree with the claim that we should make English the official language of the U.S., I wonder what it says when many of the people supporting that desire don't have a clue themselves on how to actually use it.)