• LAVA Moderator: Shinji Ikari

Pet Peeves v. u mad?

I HATEHATEHATE when people call me jessica. My name is legally and always has been jessie.

I am the opposite. I HATE it when people spell my legal name. I prefer the normal spelling of Jennifer instead of the Gennipher on my birth certificate. I don't mind Nicknames either.. But for some reason every time someone text me with a Gennipher I get very irritated.
 
I am the opposite. I HATE it when people spell my legal name. I prefer the normal spelling of Jennifer instead of the Gennipher on my birth certificate. I don't mind Nicknames either.. But for some reason every time someone text me with a Gennipher I get very irritated.
What about when people spell it "Jeniffer"? I've seen it this way a few times.
 
I have never seen that! I would probably just take it as a typo if I did lol. I think the Gennipher thing bothers me because some people pronounce it with a hard G.
 
I have never seen that! I would probably just take it as a typo if I did lol. I think the Gennipher thing bothers me because some people pronounce it with a hard G.
Haha, I've seen it a few too many times to say it's unheard of. :P That sucks they pronounce your name wrong--You should tell them it's like the beer, only better. :P
 
Haha, I've seen it a few too many times to say it's unheard of. :P That sucks they pronounce your name wrong--You should tell them it's like the beer, only better. :P

I could say it's a namesake? Way better then the "my mom was high and a hippie" excuse...

Did I mention my middle name is Rainbow... yeah.. thanks mom!
 
any half-decent word-processor should be able to take care of that for you.

alasdair

Bluelight doesn't have a half-decent word-processor. :P

(Yes, it bothers me on here. Just with my posts. Perhaps it's my shitty tracking ability--I feel the last word will get

...

It saves on paper in books by having hanging widows and orphans. Just this of all the paper you save by just taking it to the next line. Why does it bother anyone, though? Is it ... hard on the eyes, or something? Why is it annoying? I don't feel like it's "floating" or anything. It's the ending of a (hopefully) very well-constructed, coherent and information sentence. So what if the last word is on the next line of text? There is no such thing as uniformity between word processors.
 
It saves on paper in books by having hanging widows and orphans. Just this of all the paper you save by just taking it to the next line. Why does it bother anyone, though? Is it ... hard on the eyes, or something? Why is it annoying? I don't feel like it's "floating" or anything. It's the ending of a (hopefully) very well-constructed, coherent and information sentence. So what if the last word is on the next line of text? There is no such thing as uniformity between word processors.
Like I said, I think it's due to my poor tracking ability (the ability to read one line and follow right to the next. Sometimes I skip lines or go back to the line I just read...). And like I also said, it's also only in my writing.

On the topic of it savings paper though, I don't understand that: If you're going to the next line, instead of shortening the sentence, then you're using more paper. ??
 
I am the opposite. I HATE it when people spell my legal name. I prefer the normal spelling of Jennifer instead of the Gennipher on my birth certificate. I don't mind Nicknames either.. But for some reason every time someone text me with a Gennipher I get very irritated.

my sister's name is geniffer. my parents wanted all our names to start with a g.

my current annoyance is my neighbors. they decided to go outside and start screaming about the rain at 7am. it woke me up and i can't fall back asleep :(
 
that's irrelevant as bluelight paragraphs are never split over a page break.

alasdair
That is true, but that's the difference between a hanging orphan and a hanging widow. Go here and look at the image: The yellow sentence is the widow and the word "lorem" is the orphan. Unless Wiki has it wrong (which would not surprise me :P).
 
interesting. i'd never heard the term orphan refer to their second description ("A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.") - only the first.

alasdair
 
interesting. i'd never heard the term orphan refer to their second description ("A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.") - only the first.

alasdair
I have. An art teacher of mine in HS told us to not use any hanging orphans in our one text project. We had to turn a paragraph basically into art, and some people ended up having "-ing" or "-secondsyllableofword" at the bottom on its own line, which he said were "hanging orphans."
 
^ Heh, I guess so.



"UPC code", "PIN number", and other redundancies.

Universal Product Code code? Personal Identification Number number? 8(
 
"UPC code", "PIN number", and other redundancies.

Universal Product Code code? Personal Identification Number number? 8(

Most people don't realize (especially those that are not completely literate in English) what UPC and PIN are as standalone letters (acronyms, etc.). Therefore, they clarify that they are looking for a number that they have sent you (or that is on a label) and you need to look for it or remember it. I guess it's just one of those things that not everyone knows what it means standalone.
 
I despise it when anyone uses my first name! I've been called by my second name since the day I was born, and though I don't like it all that much, it's comfy, like my old, ugly sweats. But when people use my first name, it's always someone who doesn't know me well, and often I'm in an unsavory situation, e.g. being addressed by a cop.
 
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