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Stupid Pet Peeves

Darkwing Duck said:
No. It's a passionate issue.

What I question is why you would ever consider it a peeve in the first place. It's very common in English (which is why I brought up Dayton), in fact, it would be rare to NOT use the glottal stop in this case. So I get confused to why this would ever be an issue and the only thing I can ever come up is "it's an annoyance when they don't speak the word I think they're supposed to, so they're inferior to me." Only other scenario I can think of is that it makes the noun harder to hear when it's pronounced, and I don't think that's the case here.
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Oh, it's a passionate issue. Well when you put it that way... My god, I've been blind. This peeve of mine really doesn't make sense, does it? Please indulge this feeble explanation:

You see, both my attorney and financial adviser were on vacation when I initially encountered this potential pet peeve lingering in the dark and low places of human thought, and I was simply swept up before having thought it through properly. I do hastily acquiesce to this being poor justification: All this time I've been laughing privately at this little quirk of mine, which I see was and is wrong of me. Having now made a public spectacle of my peeve and learned my folly, I will consider this a lesson learned and deliberate over future potential pet peeves by researching them thoroughly on wikipedia.org, gauging popular opinion, weighing risk factors, and then consulting with you to carefully select the ones you consider the best overall value. Thank you, Darkwing, my mentor, for gently exposing a dearth of character and judgement in having carried with me all this time what can only be described as a shameful and cowardly pet peeve. How embarrassing it is to know; I will now excuse myself from engaging with you and all others of superior intellect and moral fiber, and spend the rest of my days 1) examining and re-examining my superior attitude in relation to those around me, 2) apologizing to those I may have harmed when involuntarily noticing their "soft" glottal stop, and 3) of course endeavoring to much loftier pet peeves.

To any and all fellow jazzfanz on the wrong side of this passionate issue, I say to you it is my desire, nay my innermost longing-- birthed from the ashen womb of humility-- that you might soften, not as glottal stops in Payson, but as hardened stools in a toilet bowl, and allow yourselves to be flushed by the swirling omniscience of the Ego Orb. Soften... soften... soften.

(dramatic exit)

Is that abdication passionate enough for you?
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Let me respond with a question:

Why is it a pet peeve that people say Layton the way they do?
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I believe it is a similar phenomenon to fingernails on a chalkboard. This particular thing never bothered me, but if I ran my fingernails over a chalkboard with my wife in the room she would do all she could to eviscerate me with the first item she could lay her hands on. I must say that the aluminum top of a yogurt package is remarkably effective at evisceration, albeit somewhat less than fatal.
 
Is that a pet peeve of yours, when a thread you don't have to read or participate in if you don't want to goes to ****?
 
Hantlers said:
If it was once an amusing thread, then yes. Typically people don't like it when good things become bad things.
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Just like the peeves expressed in this thread, including yours, it is all relative.
 
VINYLONE said:
Do you remember the last time we saw each other? It was the Jazzfanz Nite Out? I don't remember if you made it back with us to the bar hotel though...Catzies was blasted at that point. Anyway, hope all is well and that your kid(s) are doing well too.
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Ya I remember. I did go back to the bar with y'all even though I was a wee bit underaged, I believed kicky professionally told me to not say anything if asked.

Pet peeve, I have a coworker who says brefast, instead of breakfast... what the french toast where does that even come from. Someone please tell me which region that hales from so I may punch them in the throat and scoop out their eyes with a rusty spoon.

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kiri.de.carlos said:
Ya I remember. I did go back to the bar with y'all even though I was a wee bit underaged, I believed kicky professionally told me to not say anything if asked.

Pet peeve, I have a coworker who says brefast, instead of breakfast... what the french toast where does that even come from. Someone please tell me which region that hales from so I may punch them in the throat and scoop out their eyes with a rusty spoon.

Sent from the JazzFanz app
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Research is underway. You are clear for a preemptive throat punch/eye scoop.
 
OK, so I've learned that one of my stupid pet peeves shouldn't be...

I've always objected to the use of the word "orientated" (rather than simply "oriented") and when I heard it used several different times on the radio yesterday it bugged the beejeezus out of me.

But I looked it up and apparently BOTH forms are correct. So I guess it can't be a pet peeve anymore.

This is a common source of disagreement. Both “orient” and “orientate” are verbs meaning to align or position yourself; to work out where you are within a particular situation or environment. The origin of both words is the same : the Latin word oriens meaning “rising” and “east”, because of the rising sun.

In the UK, it is more common for people to say “orientate” whereas in the US, “orient” is more common. Writers in both countries sometimes bemoan the usage of the alternative word. In fact, both words are acceptable according to the dictionaries.

The Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary list “orient” and “orientate” as verbs meaning the same thing. Which one you choose to use really just comes down to local preference.
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Maybe I've mentioned this before, maybe not but I hate when people misspell the word "alot". It's ****ing "a lot."
 
VINYLONE said:
Maybe I've mentioned this before, maybe not but I hate when people misspell the word "alot". It's ****ing "a lot."
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"Alright" is beginning to gain acceptance. Not too long ago it was a pretty common error. Now some are saying it's an okay word to use. Might happen to "alot" after while.
 
I can't stand it when people just barge onto the U/S-bahn and won't let people get out first. Pricks.
 
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