Things People Say or Write That Annoy You

grindy · 03-23-2018, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Fine but its still annoying af.

Do you like sushi?
-No, i dont like fish.
**** off (in my best Gordon Ramsey)

I get you and veggie sushi or the ones with tamagoyaki are delicious.
Still kind of an understandable mistake though.

Trollheart · 03-23-2018, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Um...

Yeah, yeah. So you got me.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

*the’ir

Whay're?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

**** that. Four people are; a company of hundreds is. I don't give a **** about the rule because sometimes the rule sounds awkward and bull**** and I'll break it as I see fit.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Actually, I'm pretty sure you can use either for words that refer to a single group with members that can be considered as individuals too:-
My family is/are crazy. The herd has/have moved on. The team is/are playing well.

More or less what I said, and yes, it does confuse me. Do you say "the American people are mad for voting in Trump" or "The American people is made for voting in Trump"? Either way, they're mad.

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"A cloud of particles" will always be single, because who cares about the personality of one particle ?

Don't be one of those particle haters now! Stephen H would not approve!

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^ Sorry to deflate your fury, Trollheart, but sometimes sentences can start with "so", especially in conversation. Your second sentence is fine in spoken English because the word "so" is an accepted "discourse marker". It is one of a group of words we use that don't mean much more than "I'm going to say something now".
Other common discourse markers are OK, Right, Well, and Now Then.

Yeah but it happens so (

) often. I see it on Dragons' Den: "Tell us about your third year predictions" - "So we expect to hit three million by year three." Or "How does this item work?" - "So you just plug it into any USB port..."

How does "so" work at all there? You could say the sentence without so and it would make as much, if not more, sense. It's too prevalent, I feel, and everyone is doing it now, almost without thinking about it, it seems.

DwnWthVwls · 03-22-2018, 04:24 PM

Idk what music is objectively, but I'm pretty sure Frown doesn't create it.

Trollheart · 03-22-2018, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Treating band names as plurals.

This is one I can never get. A band, a team, any collection of individuals I'll always use the plural. Marillion are crap or Marillion is crap? Man City are going to win the title or Man City is going to win the title? The USAF has a lot of aircraft or the USAF have a lot of aircraft?

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Originally Posted by grindy

No, they're literally ****.

Ah. So they're brown, sticky and smelly? Got it.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It’s probably best to keep your simple distinctions where they are but if you read the complete definitions it can get blurry. People avoid using effect as a verb because so many people will jump to the conclusion they’re confusing it with affect.

I think in fairness you're just using an affectation here to try to have an effect on something that doesn't affect me, but the effect is minimal.

Affectionately yours,
TH.

Oh, while we're at it: people (especially football players/managers when being interviewed) who BEGIN a discourse with "As I say..." No, you have said nothing yet, so you are in fact referring back to an event that has not happened yet. Toerag.

Also, does anyone notice (you Americans won't I guess) that commentators now declare, when a goalkeeper punches away a ball, "Oh he fisted it away!"? Fisting is something, ah, entirely different, pal.

And by the way, "statuesque defending" is not what you believe it is, idiot.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2018, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

This is one I can never get. A band, a team, any collection of individuals I'll always use the plural. Marillion are crap or Marillion is crap? Man City are going to win the title or Man City is going to win the title? The USAF has a lot of aircraft or the USAF have a lot of aircraft?

If you're referring to a single group or organization, then use the singular. For example, "Wolves in Sheepskin is one of the greatest bands ever."

**Goofle** · 03-22-2018, 06:53 PM

When people say "Alright guys, leaving the site" and don't.

Trollheart · 03-22-2018, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle

When people say "Alright guys, leaving the site" and don't.

Just for that I'm going to ....

Oh! Oh! I forgot my number one hate! People (and everyone does it) starting a sentence with "so". Jesus ****ing Christ! So is a conjunction, or else an adverb, depending on which way you use it. But it's dependent on an earlier sentence or part of the sentence. "The shops were shut, so I couldn't buy milk" NOT "So what we do in this company is make pens." SHUT THE **** UP NOW YOU ****S!!!!

**Frownland** · 03-22-2018, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

So is a conjunction, or else an adverb, depending on which way you use it. But it's dependent on an earlier sentence or part of the sentence.

Um...

Lisnaholic · 03-23-2018, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

**** those people. Whenever they say this I want to grab them by their lapels and scream into their dumb faces that no, it's not quasi this and that. It's exactly this and that. **** you, you dumb ****, thinking that using foreign words makes you sound smarter. It ****ing doesn't, you little piece of dumb ****.

^

Epic fail of psychological vetting in MB's Mod Selection process !

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Originally Posted by Frownland

If you're referring to a single group or organization, then use the singular. For example, "Wolves in Sheepskin is one of the greatest bands ever."

^ Actually, I'm pretty sure you can use either for words that refer to a single group with members that can be considered as individuals too:-
My family is/are crazy. The herd has/have moved on. The team is/are playing well.

"A cloud of particles" will always be single, because who cares about the personality of one particle ?

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

When people dont use theyre apostrophes.

^ ...and everything that elphenor has ever posted!

(= I'm joking, elph.)

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Every dead fish has to believe in something while it swims with the stream for a reason.

^

Sig worthy!

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh! Oh! I forgot my number one hate! People (and everyone does it) starting a sentence with "so". Jesus ****ing Christ! So is a conjunction, or else an adverb, depending on which way you use it. But it's dependent on an earlier sentence or part of the sentence. "The shops were shut, so I couldn't buy milk" NOT "So what we do in this company is make pens." SHUT THE **** UP NOW YOU ****S!!!!

^ Sorry to deflate your fury, Trollheart, but sometimes sentences can start with "so", especially in conversation. Your second sentence is fine in spoken English because the word "so" is an accepted "discourse marker". It is one of a group of words we use that don't mean much more than "I'm going to say something now".
Other common discourse markers are OK, Right, Well, and Now Then.

Plankton · 03-23-2018, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Just for that I'm going to ....

Oh! Oh! I forgot my number one hate! People (and everyone does it) starting a sentence with "so". Jesus ****ing Christ! So is a conjunction, or else an adverb, depending on which way you use it. But it's dependent on an earlier sentence or part of the sentence. "The shops were shut, so I couldn't buy milk" NOT "So what we do in this company is make pens." SHUT THE **** UP NOW YOU ****S!!!!

So much anger. Grrr.

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