Remember a few days back when, at the end of another post, I quickly mentioned that people who say “The hell with ____” instead of “To hell with ____” need to die a slow and painful death? I still feel that way. Today, however, I’m going to bitch about something else.
Namely, people who insist on calling a notebook computer a “Labtop”. When you google for ‘labtop’ it asks you if you mean ‘laptop’… and you do, but you probably don’t know it because you’re a freaking moron. I don’t even know anyone who says ‘laptop’ in such a way that it could be reasonably construed as ‘labtop’… so where the hell do these people get it?
No, really… I want to know. Where did this annoying bastardization of language start?
Also? This is an open call for you to post your biggest language pet peeves… so go nuts.
Your not serious are you? It drives me nuts.
It drives me insane when people say “iregardless”. It’s not a word people!
The prefix “ir” changes the meaning of the word to the opposite meaning. Irregardless doesn’t even make any sense!
Gosh, there are just so many…well, the girl who called Madden the other day and said “crunk my car”, for starters….then there’s the lady I work with who couldn’t say Volvo (*cough* vulva *cough*)….and my mom pronounces “mature” like “ma-tour” instead of (what I think is correct, and hopefully I am right) “ma-chure”. Drives me nuts. Hmm. Give me time. I’m sure I’ll think of more.
Yes, Teresa… that’s a bad one.
Kim: you and your mother are both correct, according to the AHD4e. Apparently ‘tyoor’, ‘toor’, and ‘choor’ are all acceptable pronunciations.
Labtop cracks me up. I had a buddy who consistently said “labtop” in IRC until we finally asked him if he meant “laptop.” To this daym I now type labtop instead of laptop as a homage to my friend Josh.
pisses me off when people mix up adverse and averse. I don’t know why… just does
TSC Girl, I was just going to post about the irregardless thing! That’s probably my biggest (of many) language pet peeve(s). However, I think (because people have mistaken it for a word for so long), irregardless is now officially a word … and means the same as regardless. Grr.
Let’s see … anecdote/antidote, “I could care less”/”I couldN’T care less,” and many others.
Morgan: ‘irregardless’ is ‘nonstandard’… which means the definition is there for reference, but it’s not correct usage. See here.
Even though pronouncing the ‘t’ in ‘often’ is technically correct, it bugs me.
But “birfday” is probably one of the worst.
Oh my goodness…I am SOOO with you on the “could care less” thing. It drives me crazy. Think about what you’re saying, people! It’s “couldn’t care less”! As in, I could NOT care less–as in, I don’t care at all!
Funnest. Gag me.
“for cheap” - ugh.
This is getting really picky, but further/farther also drives me nuts. Farther always refers to distance/measurement. Further is completely different.
Morgan… from the comments of the last post:
oh man. my roommate says “oncesoever”. i’m sure it’s just her not listening to me 800 times when i tell her it’s WHATsoever. but i really want to kick her in the throat all the time when she says that.
Would have to also be “irregardless”. I see others are also annoyed with this stupid word. Oh yeah, and “Kmark” (if you live in the South and I do)…
I hear the use of that word in big corporate meetings and I want to just stand up and tell them I have to leave b/c another moron used that stupid word.
Woo. Thanks for leeting me get that off my chest!
“Thanks for leeting me”…. Kharma is quick isn’t it?
Dang. Forgive my typo. Please!
It frustrates me worse when people missuse the apostrophe to pluralize words. In fact BTAF has it perfectly when he talks about the horrible grammatical missusages out there!
http://angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg