Comments on: Pet Peeves

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:55:38 +0000

I have a new pet peeve! When people, especially in TV shows and movies, preface their Big Declaration with “You know what?…”

Listen for it and soon you’ll be bugged to death too.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 05 May 2005 03:03:26 +0000

How about this one.

I could care less. So are they saying they could care less?

As you know it is supposed to be “I couldn’t care less”.

What makes this even more amazing is in the forums I read people will even type it out wrong. Do they even read their own words?

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“it’s raining shrimp”.. the slightly less well-known version of the song, “it’s raining men.”

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Carl, you suck!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Haha, too funny, Mel. Now you know the definitive answer!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hmm, I was pronouncing it Jolla, so I’ll just say that I knew better and intentionally mispronounced it, like you. “What she said!”

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How oddly serendipitous, I’m sitting in my office right now awaiting a delivery from Chipotle here in Missouri!!!

Not to be racially insensitive, but “axe” is one of my big pet peeves, as in “Go axe for a piece of candy”, etc.

Incidentally, according to dictionary.com “irregardless” is a word coined in 20th century U.S. as a rather dubious combination of irrespective and regardless They highly frown on this word while admitting it probably won’t go away and they consider its coining “a blunder”.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i like going to san diego & pronouncing “La Jolla” wrong on purpose.. just to annoy people. hehe

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think I get that one wrong from time to time….thus I propose rather than saying/typing either ‘I couldn’t care less” or “I could care less” that you substitute “you suck” in their place.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m feelin’ you on this one, Rob! We have a little Mexican joint here in Minnesota called Chipotle, phonetically pronounced ch&-’pOt-lA; however, some of my fellow Minnesotans tend to pronounce it ch&-’pOl-tA or even worse ch&-’pOl-tAs. The “L” does not come before the “T” and it most certainly does not have an “S” at the end! Nails on a chalk board!