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What are some pet peeves you have in the way people talk?

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Originally posted by: LolaWiz
supposiBly....
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oh man, I'm in the process of trying to get my girlfriend to stop saying this. I may seriously have to break up with her if she doesnt stop.

she's KILLING me.
 
Whiny,large women, who sound like they are plugging their noses when they speak, as they nag on their husbands.
 
Originally posted by: JoeKing
when people call soda POP.

It's SODA damnit S O D A! :|
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Soda can be many different things. Soda water, baking soda, etc. Pop can only mean the soft drink.

You east-coast morons will never have the knowledge of us west-coast elites. Bring it fools.
 
When people call it "canadian bacon" instead of ham. How come ham is called ham on EVERYTHING until you put it on pizza? Why does putting ham on pizza suddenly make it called canadian bacon? Canadian bacon is different than ham...so quit calling it because pizza places use ham and not actual canadian bacon.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Pop can only mean the soft drink.
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Werd. Down at my local Mom and Soda store they were playing the absolute worst Soda music, and I asked them to change. So they put on nursery rhymes, and now I can't get "Soda Goes The Weasel" out of my head.

 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Axe/ask
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Actually, I think I saw somewhere that "axe" is a proper pronounciation. I think it was wikipedia. Let me see if I can find you the link.

Here you go. It was actually "axe" until 1600s. Maybe people are using old English?
 
My only pet peeves are people who spit when they talk, or who talk so fast and furious you can't get a word in edgewise! Other than that I could care less about grammer. I'm not that anal.
 
I can't stand it when people can't talk without invading your personal space.

A guy on my staff - who seems to be the source of most of my work frustrations - is guilty as hell of this. He also happens to have the worst breath imaginable. I think he has tonsil stones, because there's nothing else that could possibly produce the rovolting, rancid breath that this bastard has.

When I stop by his cube to talk to him, he'll immediately get out of his chair and move to within 6" of my face while he listens to what I'm saying. WTF is the purpose of that? Can you not hear me when you're sitting in your chair 2 feet away?

I really can't stand that guy...
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: JoeKing
when people call soda POP.

It's SODA damnit S O D A! :|
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Soda can be many different things. Soda water, baking soda, etc. Pop can only mean the soft drink.

You east-coast morons will never have the knowledge of us west-coast elites. Bring it fools.
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Wrong on both coasts. It is COKE, no matter what flavor you want. Southeast in the Houusssseeee. 🙂
 
I hate certain words just because they sound dumb. Even when used correctly. these words have no business existing:

chortle.

OK so that's all I can think of; I've been up almost 60 hours straight and I'm sufficiently toasted.

I also hate it when people say "orientated" instead of "oriented". And a whole host of others are best summed up by George Carlin in his "airline announcements" bit.

And I hate it when people pronounce "bag" like "bayg".
 
Another complaint similar to giantpinkbunnyhead's: I HATE "corporate speak". I hate it because the people that tend to use it are typically the ones that have no bloody clue what they're talking about, and they use them in an effort to mask their idiocy:

value-add
synergy (tied with "value-add" for most abused)
champion (to "champion an effort/project")
thought-leader (a new one that the asshats here have begun using, and it makes me want to PUKE - "we need to be thought-leaders in the marketplace". FSCK YOU!!!!)
proactive (seems to be finally dying out, thankfully)

- Will add more as they come to me.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: KaOTiK
When people say something along the lines of I could careless about that, when it should be I couldn't careless.
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It should be, "I couldn't care less."
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I hate it when people say, "I could care less". Oh really, then you're not at the lowest level of caring about something?! Therefore, you care at least a little bit. Now if you couldn't care less, then that is almost the absolute lowest level of caring about something. How about a compromise and just say you don't care at all for something. Zero is the absolute lowest level of caring; when you just don't care at all.
 
Originally posted by: jbourne77
Another complaint similar to giantpinkbunnyhead's: I HATE "corporate speak". I hate it because the people that tend to use it are typically the ones that have no bloody clue what they're talking about, and they use them in an effort to mask their idiocy:

value-add
synergy (tied with "value-add" for most abused)
champion (to "champion an effort/project")
thought-leader (a new one that the asshats here have begun using, and it makes me want to PUKE - "we need to be thought-leaders in the marketplace". FSCK YOU!!!!)
proactive (seems to be finally dying out, thankfully)

- Will add more as they come to me.
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heh i agree 1000% i hate corporate speak. its so fricken annoying and useless. seemed the ones that used it the most was the ones doing the worst job or the ones trying to get promotions they should not get.
 
Originally posted by: malbojah
When taking order over the phone, ebonics drives me nuts.
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No kidding... if you're from the hood, I don't want to know about it... especially not when I'm reading you my credit card number.

*waits for classy*
 
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