Annoying spelling, galling grammar, irksome words, frustrating phrases

[Pyan]

Online and TV Breaking News headlines don't appear to get edited as they might in print, so that those that appear overnight can be odd. This morning (they've changed it now) the BBC was running with:

While I would have expected the most traumatic experience came before death.

Like the Evening News and Star in Cumbria, which was running a story on a museum's efforts to salvage the last Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft from the 50's under the headline: "Last surviving RAF aircraft begins its journey to Cumbria"

I knew there's been defence cuts, but really...?

 

[Phyrebrat]

It's Olympic year, so in a few months I will be annoyed by 'medal' being used as a verb, which is legitimate, apparently, but damaging to my ears.

Annoying Person: Joe Bloggs medalled in the 100m freestyle last night.
Me: Do you mean he cheated?
Annoying (now Annoyed) Person: No, he won a medal!
Me: Thank you.

Oh that is just horrible!

 

[farntfar]

While I would have expected the most traumatic experience came before death.

That must depend on whether you believe in Hell.

Believers believe, I believe, that it can be fairly traumatic.

 

[Astro Pen]

Middle class Land Rover Discovery owners who refer to their vehicles as Discos.
"We'll take the Disco to the gymkhana,darling."

ps

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[Swank]

This thread is becoming addicting.

(Yeah, "addicting", not addictive.)

 

[mosaix]

It's Olympic year, so in a few months I will be annoyed by 'medal' being used as a verb, which is legitimate, apparently, but damaging to my ears.

Annoying Person: Joe Bloggs medalled in the 100m freestyle last night.
Me: Do you mean he cheated?
Annoying (now Annoyed) Person: No, he won a medal!
Me: Thank you.

Ditto 'ask' being used as a noun. "It's a big ask." Apparently, that's legitimate as well but it still makes my blood boil.

 

[mosaix]

Middle class Land Rover Discovery owners who refer to their vehicles as Discos.
"We'll take the Disco to the gymkhana,darling."

ps

DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - What did you do in your Disco 4 today?

Community site dedicated to Discovery 3, 4 LR3 and LR4 Owners and Enthusiasts. Totally free to join - message boards, galleries, wiki, off road events, social meetings.

www.disco3.co.uk

There should be an investigation to find the person who first did it. No punishment is strong enough.

 

[Phyrebrat]

I remembered another two (from the real housewives again…sorry)

Using a percentage over 100. ‘Totally one hundred and fifty percent’

And possibly the most egregious:
‘Don’t passive aggress me!’

 

[Swank]

I remembered another two (from the real housewives again…sorry)

Using a percentage over 100. ‘Totally one hundred and fifty percent’

And possibly the most egregious:
‘Don’t passive aggress me!’

If we don't give at least 110%, how will we ever discover negative mass to go faster than 100% the speed of light?

 

[Phyrebrat]

If we don't give at least 110%, how will we ever discover negative mass to go faster than 100% the speed of light?

true true. I think the Bravo-lebrities have handwavium

 

[KGeo777]

The one that drives me crazy is the use of "loose" when you mean "lose."
I see this so much, I am loosing my mind.

 

[Ursa major]

It's the loose minds of those who spell lose that way who are the problem.

 

[THX1138]

The one that drives me crazy is the use of "loose" when you mean "lose."
I see this so much, I am loosing my mind.

Guilty.....
It's due to my lysdexia... Sorry, dyslexia.

 

[Astro Pen]

The one that drives me crazy is the use of "loose" when you mean "lose."
I see this so much, I am loosing my min

It doesn't bother me because it is ridiculous. Having a single O as a long sound a double OO as a short sound is plain silly.

 

[KGeo777]

It doesn't bother me because it is ridiculous. Having a single O as a long sound a double OO as a short sound is plain silly.

Every which way but lose!
I'm turning
every which way but lose!

 

[THX1138]

It doesn't bother me because it is ridiculous. Having a single O as a long sound a double OO as a short sound is plain silly.

What throws me off is the 'e' at the end of both. It's making the O short whereas in Low the O is long (by way of the W and not an E)
Very confusing.

 

[Steve Harrison]

Ditto 'ask' being used as a noun. "It's a big ask." Apparently, that's legitimate as well but it still makes my blood boil.

I also hate 'axe' and 'axed' being used instead of 'ask' and 'asked.' It's been happening in the US for years, but I've now heard it here in Australia a few times.

Yet another sign - as though we needed more - that the end of civilisation is nigh.

 

[mosaix]

I also hate 'axe' and 'axed' being used instead of 'ask' and 'asked.' It's been happening in the US for years, but I've now heard it here in Australia a few times.

Yet another sign - as though we needed more - that the end of civilisation is nigh.

I suppose we should be looking out for "It's a big axe."

 

[Steve Harrison]

I suppose we should be looking out for "It's a big axe."

Could be dangerous if you assume it's an error!

 

[HareBrain]

Having a single O as a long sound a double OO as a short sound is plain silly.

Aren't they both long? If you leave off the SE both words sound the same.