Today's rant: People that add extra letters to words and names

[Fritzo]

This seems to afflict people in their later years. I've heard the following since Monday:

"I'll have a Miller's Lite."
"Do you have any aspirins?"
"I used to use American Online."
"It's not accepting my authentification."
"I'm going to Wal-Marts."
"I need to check my emails."

It's a minor annoyance, but it builds up.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It's less annoying than people who intentionally leave the same letter out of any word that starts with it...

 

[effowe]

Shut the fuck ups

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
This seems to afflict people in their later years. I've heard the following since Monday:

"I'll have a Miller's Lite."
"Do you have any aspirins?"
"I used to use American Online."
"It's not accepting my authentification."
"I'm going to Wal-Marts."
"I need to check my emails."

It's a minor annoyance, but it builds up.

Stop hanging out in the Oval Office then.

 

[OCGuy]

Would you say this could be narrowed down to a certain group of people?

 

[Eli]

That has always annoyed me.

Safeways.

ugh. lol

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: effowe
Shut the fuck ups

let's not drag UPS into this

 

[Anubis]

im posting on the internets

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Would you say this could be narrowed down to a certain group of people?

Maybe we could axe somebody?

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
It's less annoying than people who intentionally leave the same letter out of any word that starts with it...

this
that

 

[TruePaige]

I 'ometimes try to 'ounterbalance for those 'eople.

 

[Pheran]

You missed the granddaddy of them all:

Daylight Savings Time

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: JDub02

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
It's less annoying than people who intentionally leave the same letter out of any word that starts with it...

this
that

The Other

 

[darkxshade]

Would you feel better if they start dropping the H's to make up for it?

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Would you say this could be narrowed down to a certain group of people?

I talk with a huge number of people from all over the US every single day. It's an informal case study...anytime this issue comes up it's from someone in the 50+ age range.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Recordificate.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

"I need to check my emails."

Does your inbox only hold one email at a time...or are you just that unimportant?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Pheran
You missed the granddaddy of them all:

Daylight Savings Time

Hmm.. Damn. Even I'm guilty of that one.

Ironically, Google has 6.15 million results for "daylight savings time", and only 2.78 million results for "daylight saving time"..

I don't know that I've actually heard anybody say "Daylight saving time". That's weird.

Is it because "Daylight saving time" is an incomplete thought? It could mean the daylight is saving time.

But in the correct context, it does seem to make more sense than daylight savings time.

 

[daveshel]

Not as annoying as people who use can't form a simple plural without throwing in an apostrophe.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I find myself annoyed by people that insert definite articles were they do not belong.

ex: "the Google."

 

[KeithTalent]

Edumacation and saxamaphone, but I actually like those ones.

KT

 

[Howard]

comfortability

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
"I'm going to Wal-Marts

That's an old person thing, too. They'll add "the" unneccesarily, "I'm going to the Wal-Marts!"

 

[Sukhoi]

My dad does it all the time...it drives me crazy. How hard is it to remember a name??

 

[JS80]

This seems to be a reoccurring theme.