Things People Say or Write That Annoy You

Plankton · 03-21-2018, 02:28 PM

...now I've lost my train of thought.

grindy · 03-21-2018, 02:33 PM

Since I have to deal with lots of German people trying to speak English, there are lots of annoying Germanisms.
For example 'aktualisieren', means 'to update' in German, so of course everyone keeps saying 'actualize/actualization' instead of 'update'.
It's understandable and somewhat forgivable but pretty annoying due to its ubiquitousness.

Plankton · 03-21-2018, 02:52 PM

I like to throw in some fahrt's in casual conversation about traveling every now and then.

grindy · 03-21-2018, 02:57 PM

Did you speak German back in the day or just picked up a few words and phrases?

Trollheart · 03-21-2018, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Its apostrophe S, not apostrophe yes.

Good one.

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Originally Posted by Akai

fify

簽名值得tbf

Two threads in two days? Man, I haven't even got started yet!

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Originally Posted by Exo

I have awful grammar and I don't care.

You should really be more respectful of your grammar. She's an old lady and you should care about her. She's your mother's mother after all.

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Originally Posted by Akai

The crux of the biscuit.

It's the tastiest part.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

That's slightly more forgivable since those are both real words. Would/should/could of comes from lazy speaking and propagates fake words.

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Originally Posted by Plankton

...now I've lost my train of thought.

I found it.

Keep track of it in future.

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Originally Posted by Plankton

I like to throw in some fahrt's in casual conversation about traveling every now and then.

That's just the beans though.

DwnWthVwls · 03-21-2018, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

That's slightly more forgivable since those are both real words. Would/should/could of comes from lazy speaking and propagates fake words.

Does it though? No one is saying woulda/shoulda/coulda... Would've/Should've/Could've are all legitimate contractions that could easily be mistaken for would of/should of/could of when speaking and then transcribed incorrectly.

This is similar to "play it by year" and "for all intensive purposes"..

**Frownland** · 03-21-2018, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Does it though?

Yes.

DwnWthVwls · 03-21-2018, 03:41 PM

No.. the phonetic similarities between the "'ve" sound in the contraction and "of" could easily be misinterpreted.

Thanks for that enlightening rebuttal, Elph.

grindy · 03-21-2018, 03:42 PM

Read 'this is a mute point' in an e-mail recently. From a native speaker.
It's not even pronounced the same way, dumbass.

**Frownland** · 03-21-2018, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

No.. the phonetic similarities between the "'ve" sound in the contraction and "of" could easily be misinterpreted.

Thanks for that enlightening rebuttal, Elph.

Similarities made less distinguishable from one another by lazy speech.

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Since I have to deal with lots of German people trying to speak English, there are lots of annoying Germanisms. For example 'aktualisieren', means 'to update' in German, so of course everyone keeps saying 'actualize/actualization' instead of 'update'. It's understandable and somewhat forgivable but pretty annoying due to its ubiquitousness. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Did you speak German back in the day or just picked up a few words and phrases? __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

03-21-2018, 03:42 PM	#29 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Read 'this is a mute point' in an e-mail recently. From a native speaker. It's not even pronounced the same way, dumbass. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*