Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Murrican.

 

Hilarious language debate. Please continue.

I've actually started compiling a list of US to UK words for CT.

 

Any entertainment aimed at children. Staying at a house that's infested with the creatures and there's dawn to dusk Disney coming out of every electronic device in the building.

 

Mildly related...

Commercials wherein infants, toddlers, or pets are CGI'd into impromptu, softly inappropriate, little sassy dances concerning food items or nappies.

Skeeves me to no end.

 

That is true.

 

My poor German friend, we're editing each other's works...
I nearly pissed myself laughing the other day.

She was trying to use the word "Bogies" to describe incoming hostiles. I tried to tell her that was more an aeronautical airforce term than military ground force, but that wasn't the source of my amusement.
She had repeatedly heard the American movies say "Boogieman" and "Boogers"

So every time enemies would swarm into the action, it was that "Boogies" were on their way.
It got to the point in my editing notes where I asked if they wore shiny, silver-sequined suits and were part of the Bee Gees regiment.

We thought we had it licked, but when I got to the final part of the book I found another one, and simply posted this so she could understand the difference.
WARNING THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SCENES OF VIOLENT CONFLICT AND BRUTAL WARFARE. BOOGIES INCOMING!!


I also went on a rant about it being yet more evidence of damned lazy yanks taking an English word and bastardizing it to mean other things that only serve to confuse non-english speakers
Like we NEED the added help of ruining our own language!

 

The fact that lying to the police is a crime. They can lie to you with impunity.

 

I'm pretty sure that is a basic requirement for any government run agency.

 

Now you've got me thinking of the cheese strings advert with the cheese string wearing Speedos and clenching its buttocks. This is meant to be children's food, I might add.

 

The art world. Thirty million dollars for something any fourteen-year-old graphic novel artist could have doodled in an afternoon. I'm not one to tell other people how to spend their money, but there are people in need, guys.

 

I'll see your $30 million MSPaint "artwork" and raise you a $37 million piece done by little Timmy, age four, between playing on the swingset and having Nilla Wafers and a pint of chocolate milk.

 

Genious!

 

But Elephants can paint better.

 

The art is not creating the object, but selling it for that much...

 

When people pronounce luxury ‘lug-sury’. Apparently it can be pronounced either way but do these people say ‘cardboard bogs’? No, I think not.

 

Related: As a non-native English speaker, I find it rather irritating how many native speaker say "eXetera" for "et cetera". I mean, I shouldn't, as English pronunciation is rather fluid (compared to, say, German), but I simply cannot grasp how that "x" or "ks" sound gets in there. (For the record, in German it's pronounced "et cetera". If we're sloppy, we skip the "t" in "et".)

 

I wish you hadn't quoted me because heaven only knows where that apostrophe S came from in 'people'.

Anyway, I think the 'eXetera' is a simple case of people mishearing and making assumptions. If it's said lazily I think it can easily be heard as 'eXetera'.

 

People who put apostrophes in people’s make me gag.

And ‘isssew’ - but I’m finding myself doing it more and more- very Bercovian (new word).

 

So that would be people's's ? That doesn't makes sense @woofly. I've never seen anyone do that.

 

As a people’s people personally - I re-iterate my revulsions for the recidivist tendency - toxic or otherwise - in grammar circles - I cannot be clearer, going forward. Thank you.

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