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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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SirTophamHat said:
I missed a bunch of the grammar peeves but I've got one that sometimes gets my goat...

could of, would of, should of

or

could HAVE WOULD HAVE etc.
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am also pissed off when someone writes that. am also annoyed by people putting the toilet paper the WRONG way round, i.e. with the flap next to the wall. it just doesn't make fucking sense.

am also confused by people using the word "am" instead of "I'm" or "I am".
 
That we cannot collect a missed appointment fee from those on gov't assisted health insurance (medicade).
These are the patients that do not show up to appointments the most. Propagating the stereotype.
 
The entire English language hacks me off. Why SHOULD there be three freakin' ways to spell "there"? And NONE of them follow any user-friendly phonetic rules! Why should "gh" or "ph" make the "f" sound? Why not just use a dang "f"? It ain't broken! It's not like a sensible, logical language is impossible; look at Spanish. And then the people who are actually interested in picking through this unneccessarily complicated cesspit have the nerve to look down their noses at the people who realized from the beginning that it's all a crock of shit.
 
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And while I'm on broad, sweeping peeves, why hasn't the U.S. gone metric? It's obviously better thought-out than the mishmash we have going now. Even the English are smart enough to have abandoned English weights and measures in favor of something that resembles a logical system.
 
I hate when I'm in a store and either a person is ringing me up, or they are holding something that they are about to give me and they have a coughing or sneezing fit- and do it on the product I am about to handle.
Not cool.
 
Europe consists of 50 about different countries. In the UK we're still hanging onto a lot of imperial weights and measures, for example our road signs are still in miles per hour.
 
voxmystic said:
The entire English language hacks me off. Why SHOULD there be three freakin' ways to spell "there"? And NONE of them follow any user-friendly phonetic rules! Why should "gh" or "ph" make the "f" sound? Why not just use a dang "f"? It ain't broken! It's not like a sensible, logical language is impossible; look at Spanish. And then the people who are actually interested in picking through this unneccessarily complicated cesspit have the nerve to look down their noses at the people who realized from the beginning that it's all a crock of shit.
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Well, technically there are only two words that sound like "there" - That one, and also "Their." That's not really so much to remember, is it?

The third one, "they're" isn't a word, it's a contraction that is frowned upon in formal writing. It's not the English Language's fault that people decided to become lazy in speech and combined two words to make them sound like an existing word.
 
Fjones said:
Well, technically there are only two words that sound like "there" - That one, and also "Their." That's not really so much to remember, is it?
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If "there/their" was the lone anomoly in an otherwise consistent and practical linguistic system, I would concede. But consider "duel/dual", "I/eye", "dear/deer", "brake/break", "male/mail", "rap/wrap", "or/ore/oar", "wood/would" (And wtf is the "l" doing in "would"?! Being extraneous and confusing, that's what!) There are dozens of the damn/dam things. Then there are the ones that go the other way, like "bass (fish)/bass (low tone)", and "wind (air current)/wind (to turn)". If a word is spelled the same way as another word, it should, logically, sound the same, every time, no exception. Words that are spelled differently should sound different, every time, no exceptions. All phonetic rules should be easy to follow and should apply to every word without exception. English is needlessly difficult. No defending it, really. It doesn't even sound melodic, like Italian. It's a laborious and cumbersome language with little redeeming value other than it's the one I know.
 
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