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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Phrases people use incorrectly
I was listening to the radio and they had a guest on the show who kept saying, "I could care less" to mean that he cared very little about something. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me! The phrase should be "I couldn't care less" smartypants.
I also can't stand it when people say that they feel nauseous. The definition of Nauseous is: Causing nausea; sickening. So by saying that you feel nauseous, you're saying that you feel like you're causing other people sickness or nausea. "I feel nauseated" is technically correct.
I vented a la facebook and other people chimed in with their pet peeves including:
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what are your "fingernail on the chalkboard" phrases that people get wrong?
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From my Starbucks days... it's Espresso, not Expresso.
I also was talking to the health and fitness board about how dealing with people who know I'm diabetic is sometimes worse that the disease. Phrases like, "____________ has diabetes really bad" really piss me off.
Can someone explain to me what "really bad" diabetes is? Diabetes is a constant state of your pancreas not producing enough insulin or any insulin at all. The only "really bad" about it is how well someone controls their blood sugars through diet and medication. It has nothing to do with the disease and everything to do with the person controlling it.
Oh, and if someone has to take shots for diabetes? Yeah, that's pretty common. It's not a signifier of "really bad" diabetes.
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I know something that I do that really bugs one of my coworkers (and something I REALLY need to stop doing because it sounds bad) is this:
"My students did really good on their homework"
instead of really "well" i say really good. I cant help it!! She corrects me on it EVERY single time I say it, which gets kind of annoying...but I am trying to work on it. My parents are seriously country and I grew up with this kind of language. I find myself saying "really well" sometimes so I know I am making some progress...
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I hate it when people say/write "prolly" rather than "probably". Last week, I was reading scholarship essays and felt the need to convulse over more than one of them, but the one that really (nearly) killed me was "anically". Anically? Huh? After reading the sentence a few times, I gathered the student meant "initially".
I hate it when someone is talking about having an itch and says "I need to itch it." No, you need to scratch it. You scratch an itch, you don't itch an itch.
The office I used to work in was in the back of of a doctor's office. I used to hate listening to the front desk girls because their grammar was SO horrible. One of their favorites was calling a patient and saying "we need to make you a sooner appointment." Uh, what? How about we need to make you an earlier appointment? I can't think of anymore of the top of my head, but listening to them used to drive me crazy.
I also hate how companies intentionally spell things incorrectly: nite, kwik, EZ, etc, etc. Drives me nuts. My "favorite" one is Toys 'R Us. My dad used to joke and call them "Toys Be We."
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Hahaa, my dad always calls Toys R Us "We Be Games 'n Sh**." Great minds, huh?
LoL, your dads cracks me up!
I hate it when people say liberry. It is the LIBRARY. One of the librarians in my new office does that. Seriously? You work in the House Liberry? Where is that? I've actually been correcting people on that since my elementary school days.
Another annoyance is when people say thing like Mrrland (Maryland), Norf (North)...I know, those are really dialect things, but they make you sound uneducated.
People who say "I" instead of "Me" when tagging pictures of themselves on FB annoy me, too. They think they are being smart by saying I but they don't realize it is wrong.
Misplaced modifiers always get me...I can't think of any examples right now, though.
And of course, the good old your vs you're, their vs there vs they're, etc.
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THIS! The girl I work with always does this!!!!! "You can use the computers in the liberry...."...cringe... Oh and I also can't stand when I ask students yes or no questions and they go "uh huh" or uh uh"....YES or NO...use your words!
And Angela- My mom attended a conference in Chicago last week and she said two ladies were there from the Library of Congress. She said they were a wild bunch....it made me laugh....
Ugh. Seriously makes my skin crawl. That whole sentence is awkward! The writer in me wants to post an edited version.
I forgot to add (and this is a written thing vs. verbal), I HATE that people do not use serial commas anymore. Just because journalists don't use them does not mean that you should not use them in your writing! Journalists need to save space! Peter, Paul and Mary means something completely different than Peter, Paul, and Mary. I can go into greater detail about why the serial comma is important (lets just say the lack of one caused some serious drama in an old court case), but I'll spare you all the lecture
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I was thinking the same thing! I am guilty of some of these for sure!
sheesh!! i feel the same way cipolla, i am sure u all hate me when i write lol
when i am on the knot or nest i am completely relaxed in my writing. i dont even care about capitalizing, etc. because it is "recreational." you should see me though in college, i can write a mean paper...
i got into a huge fight with a girl on my local board once because she got her panties in a wad over my relaxed typing...so i started posting on everything she would say just to annoy her. she acted like she couldnt understand a thing i said because of my capitalization. this isnt english class people, chillax!
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LoL, spoken like a true language guru.
No worries for the ladies feeling self conscious. I don't bust anyone other than DH and my sibs when they say things incorrectly and fully expect them to do the same if I use something incorrectly. You don't get to dish it if you can't take it!
The "I could care less" was just something that someone used repeatedly on the radio this a.m. and it was bugging me since it was used in such a public forum. The nauseous/nauseated thing sorta gives me the giggles depending on how the speaker phrases it.
I hate how people use "occupied" and "preoccupied" interchangeably. "Preoccupied" means that you are busy doing something else... "occupied" is what you change the sign to on the outside of an airplane bathroom or port-o-potty. I hate when people say, "Oh, sorry I wasn't listening, I was occupied." BAH
It drives me crazy when people split up the word "another" as in "a whole nother". It's ONE WORD people! You can't put a word in the middle of it! You can say "a whole OTHER" but not "a whole NOTHER". I even hear newscasters etc. do it. Drives me batty.
Also when people drop prepositions. Example: "Can you get the groceries out the car?" WTH is "out the car"? Out OF the car. I think this is a regional thing. Everyone I know from Pennsylvania does it - particularly Pittsburgh and to the northwestern part of the state. DH lived there for a few years as a kid and he does it sometimes. I had an ex from that area who did it ALL the time.
LOL at "Toys Be We"! Love it!
Don't feel nervous about posting on here! I honestly don't pay too much attention (unless it is someone that is already on my nerves...which does not include any of you ladies).
I mostly get irritated in the workplace where people should be paying close attention to things like that because, like I said, it often makes them sound uneducated.
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