Things People Say or Write That Annoy You

DwnWthVwls · 03-22-2018, 04:00 PM

Dear Grindy,

Sushi != fish

Sushi is a preparation.

Signed,
FML

**Frownland** · 03-22-2018, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Sushi != fish

Idk what the factorial of sushi is, but I'm pretty sure that it's not fish.

grindy · 03-22-2018, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Dear Grindy,

Sushi != fish

Sushi is a preparation.

Signed,
FML

Dear ****face,

not being a retard I am aware of that.
The way WWWP phrased it, she seemed to refer to sushi with fish specifically.

Sincerely,

His Adolfness, Grindy the 1st

DwnWthVwls · 03-23-2018, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Dear ****face,

not being a retard I am aware of that.
The way WWWP phrased it, she seemed to refer to sushi with fish specifically.

Sincerely,

His Adolfness, Grindy the 1st

Fine but its still annoying af.

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

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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Um...

Yeah, yeah. So you got me.

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*the’ir

Whay're?

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**** 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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^ 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.

**Frownland** · 03-23-2018, 09:04 AM

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^ 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.

There's what you can do and there's what's right. Treating a single entity as plural is nonsensical to me.

"The Ramones are some of my favourite bands."

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Yeah, yeah. So you got me.

To be fair, I think that it's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction. That's just one of those archaic hierarchical grammar rules that can be skirted while still coherently conveying meaning.

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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.

Bad example. People is a plural noun, not a collective noun like public or band. You would say the American people are mad for voting for Trump. You could also say that the American public is mad for voting for Trump for an example that's closer to what I'm talking about.

DwnWthVwls · 03-23-2018, 10:07 AM

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To be fair, I think that it's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction. That's just one of those archaic hierarchical grammar rules that can be skirted while still coherently conveying meaning.

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There's what you can do and there's what's right.

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The Batlord · 03-23-2018, 10:25 AM

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"The American people is made for voting in Trump"

Dear god I hope not.

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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.

There's an implied pause after "So" that helps to prime the listener for the following sentence, whereas if you were just to jump into the sentence it might seem rather abrupt and awkward. I use "So" and similar words/phrases all the time because when I don't it just doesn't read as well.