Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Higher tier...

 

Container ships crapping through our oceans - delivering plastic gizmos & tatt/dvds/ear piece/telephones for @OurJud to splash, flush, chuck into landfill sites. High crimes.

 

Oh the schadenfreude!

Yes, I suppose for every "I love LEGOs!" There would be several nut-shot videos, political pot-shots and copious amounts of sarcastic bile. Oh well. I do love LEGOs though.

 

No. All my tat arrives on my doorstep through the magic of harmless teleportation. Fact.

 

‘Lego’ in Europe/English parlance -

‘Legos’ is...nnnrgh...very hard to swallow, really genuinely...gross abuse.

 

"Mathematics" is singular. Do you talk about one mathematic?

Person A: Hi. What are you majoring in?
Person B: Mathematic.
A: Really? Which one?
B: Statistic.
A: I'm a physic major, and I'm having trouble with a mathematic. Do you think you can help me with my calculus?
B: I can teach you one of the calculus, namely differentiation. I can't help with integration. That's the other calculu. I'm not good at that one.
Etc.

It is therefore perfectly appropriate to abbreviate "mathematics" as "math." "Maths" is short for "mathematicses."

 

I'm not sure now after Hammer's post, but it sounded to me as though you were saying that "legos" is some sort of gross slang term in England. Okay. I've never heard of that. In America, "LEGOs" refers to the blocks and other building toys made by the LEGO company out of Denmark, just about the most popular children's toy in the world with an internationally successful string of TV shows, movies and video games. Children have loved them for decades. Brits pick the strangest things to make gross. Or did I misunderstand you?

Oh, now I know why y'all add an "s". You're abbreviating. "Math" isn't an abbreviation in America. It's a stand-alone.

ETA: Okay, according to the second dictionary I consulted, it can be an abbreviation, but I don't think most people think of it that way.

 

Plural of Lego is Lego...to our ancestors/and our ears. It’s just one of those quirks - export - ladadada - STICKLEBRIX!!

 

See, I always misunderstand you. I apologize again. I don't know why there's such a language barrier between the two of us. Still, you don't pour out a bucket of LEGO and play with LEGO. They (plural) are LEGOs in this context.

 

Who eats pasti? Isn't that something a stripper wears, often with a tassel hanging off the tip?

Fair enough, but seriously. I embarrass myself when I reply to Mat. It seems obvious once explained, but I always initially think he's going a completely different direction. Sorry, @matwoolf. I'm pretty sure it's me, not you.

 

You cultural apropriationists! Lego isn't British, or an English word. Lego is Danish!

Sandi Toskvig will be coming at you with a spiked baseball bat if you aren't careful!

 

People with kids and furniture. Cadbury makes some of the meltiest chocolate around. I bet that dairy milk is doubly so. Mmm... Cadbury... How long until Easter!?

 

The plural of beef is beeves, but everyone tries to pretend that isn't an actual word.

 

Surely we say 'maths' (in the UK) because the S is doing the job of the S on the end of mathematics.

 

Yeah, but their Buttons don't come individually wrapped, and they're even more prone to meltage.

 

Keeps em from sticking together. Helps em hold their shape. Helps em pour out of the bag. Makes it easier to pick one out of a bowl. Keeps your fingers from looking like you just...

 

The correct term is Americanese.

 

Amerikans

 

I refer you to my earlier post about their Buttons/Giant Buttons

 

Lurid internet articles about how "These 10 Actors Have Aged Horribly!" and they've simply aged, not turned into fucking Orcs.

Blayne, or Karen, or whatever other noxious 18-year-old is writing those articles, time catches up in a heartbeat. You go from 29 to 49 at near luminal speed. Can't wait for you to notice the first crunch of a knee or hip.

 

Maybe, but as Rajesh Koothrappali said when told by an American to "speak normal English," "There are more of us than there are of you. This is normal."

ETA: That's probably paraphrased.