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There is no default, there is no correct, as long as your meaning is clear then it literally doesn't matter. Linguistic pedantry is my pet peeve.
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Hence why there needs to be a clear distinction between barbecue and grill, two very different ways of cooking
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Dec 1, 2021 10:55
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Just gonna put my roast under the grill, like a maniac
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British cook using a small amphibian, I don't trust them
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Fake puns. Example: the video game Yooka-Laylee. So you've misspelled the word ukulele. It has the form of pun, but where's the clever double meaning? There is none. You're relying on the audience reacting to the expectation of a joke instead of actually writing a joke. How does this keep working on so many people? It's poo poo.
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The Perfect Element posted:There is no default, there is no correct, as long as your meaning is clear then it literally doesn't matter.
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Speaking of: I'm peeved when anglos think that french people give a gently caress what the AF says is "correct" french. You wash your hair with le shampooing, scotcher is to stick two things together with tape, and you send les e-mails to your boss. Nobody in the past two centuries has given a poo poo that the Académie Française thinks french people don't talk frenchly enough. ALSO, stop giving french poo poo for sixty-ten and four-twenty-nineteen when languages like danish are out there. This is one half treds. It is five-sixths of a treds. We danes are very good at math 
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Tiggum posted:Fake puns. Example: the video game Yooka-Laylee. So you've misspelled the word ukulele. It has the form of pun, but where's the clever double meaning? There is none. You're relying on the audience reacting to the expectation of a joke instead of actually writing a joke. How does this keep working on so many people? It's poo poo. It's called Yooka-Laylee because it's a spiritual sequel to classic platformer Banjo-Kazooie.
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the correct way to speak is "vaguely american" but with just enough british influences that it will annoy americans
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American accent with British slang is definitely the way to annoy the most possible people at once. Pet peeves about my Christmas tree: 1) the lights automatically default to flashing whenever they're turned back on and the only way to change them is to press a button to cycle through a bunch of options including ridiculously fast strobe lighting to get to them just staying on all the time. 2) it has bells on it and it's near the window so if the window is open it will ring. There was an earthquake this morning and it sounded like Santa was coming past.
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i never say bollocks or lift or bloody or whatever but i tend to pronounce "schedule" with a soft ch and it annoyed the hell out of my old boss
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Wtf are you on about, americans don't get annoyed by british (or irish, or kiwi, or australian) accents they get hard ons for them. You prolly could talk like the Lucky Charms mascot and convince 3/4 of the country your family has lived in County Kildare for nigh on thirty generations. What's fuckin annoying is self-hating americans going "oh, if only we were smart enough to talk right but we're just so goddam stupid we can't form our mouth parts to speak the Queen's, boy Sherlock, Doctor Who, and Harry Potter are so good though" Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 12:54 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:ALSO, stop giving french poo poo for sixty-ten and four-twenty-nineteen when languages like danish are out there. This is one half treds. It is five-sixths of a treds. We danes are very good at math It's even worse than that. Tres is short for tresindstyve, meaning three times twenty. So halvtreds is short for halvtredsindstyve, so half three times twenty, but it's only the last twenty that is halved, because reasons. Still not as bad as French. Four twenty ten nine 
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:American accent with British slang is definitely the way to annoy the most possible people at once. British slang is fun and I will keep using it. I don't care if it annoys people, ya wanker.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's even worse than that. Tres is short for tresindstyve, meaning three times twenty. It works the same as for clocks, where in Danish you don't say "half past five", you say "half six", which is not three, but halfway to six from the previous number. Halv tredsintyve is just "half of the way to tredsintyve (from the previous number with a name)". Makes perfect sense, unless of course your brain is functional.
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I've got a bad case of Dane-brain.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's even worse than that. Tres is short for tresindstyve, meaning three times twenty. The worst part isn't the numbers, it's that belgians just say octante. When you gotta hand it to belgians for something that isn't beer or fries, things have gone wrong somewhere. The swiss also use it, but some of them also say huitante and quatre-vingts, so it's not as shameful. Pick a side you alpine fuckers.
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My dad called me at work about 30 minutes ago. I'm answering my phone as I'm running to the stairwell for privacy, because something bad has to have happened for him to call me in the middle of a work day. My dad got a new phone and wanted to make sure it worked. What the hell is wrong with retired parents that think this is ok? Like my mom has a phone, which is in the same house, you could have called that, or I'd you absolutely need to try my number you could wait until after 5:00 when I'm not at work. It's like the time my mom called me at 7:30 in the morning on a work day in October, because she wanted to know my Christmas plans.
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Iron Crowned posted:My dad called me at work about 30 minutes ago. I'm answering my phone as I'm running to the stairwell for privacy, because something bad has to have happened for him to call me in the middle of a work day. My dad got a new phone and wanted to make sure it worked. My in-laws lulled us into a false sense of security by calling at odd times with nothing. I wasn't prepared for the 6pm "your childhood dog is dead". I only knew that dog 3 years but she was great. Otherwise they're lovely people.
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I love when olds text "CALL ME!!" with no warning as to whether it's deadly serious or mundane bullshit e: we are watching King of the Hill on Hulu and after every episode, it plays an episode of Law and Order SVU and we have to go back to the main screen and pick Koth again. Why does Hulu suck so much rear end? Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:46 on Dec 4, 2021 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I love when olds text "CALL ME!!" with no warning as to whether it's deadly serious or mundane bullshit I got one of those the other day; it was because my mother, lord love her, had accumulated more of the ultimate mom currency* and wanted to know if I had any use for it. *Kohl's Cash, of course.
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You know, we live in a society. Yet every hard pretzel box/bag is like 25% well-salted whole pretzels with the rest being totally unsalted fragments.
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Let's Play videos where the player feels obliged to read every single text box in a goofy voice; if I'm watching your video pretty much by definition I have to HAVE WORKING EYES and can read it myself with the pause button if I need to so long as you aren't crazy fast on the skipping. I guess maybe it's some sort of "I need to fill the dead air" thing, but these people are generally NOT voice actors so the actual result tends to be painful. In my case it doesn't help I read faster than most people speak, so the main effect for me is to get stuck waiting for them to finish slooowly reading it out in an annoying voice. Though I guess it's better than the occasional LP where it seems the host DOESN'T read the text at all, and you get to watch several minutes of them screwing around because they didn't pay attention to the game's instructions.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I love when olds text "CALL ME!!" with no warning as to whether it's deadly serious or mundane bullshit When I was 20 my dad texted me "please call a tragedy has happened" in the middle of class. The tragedy? He accidentally ran over a delicate and expensive but entirely replaceable gift we had gotten my sister for her impending graduation. Also Hulu is the only app on my fire stick that constantly skips and buffers during playback. Complete dogshit app.
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Dec 7, 2021 21:06
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People that can't read a loving goddam map. I write the interstates I want to head towards on scrap paper and use my phone map if I am utterly baffled after pulling over for gas or food or whatever. Put my partner behind the wheel, I have to navigate, and it's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1KbvBayqPH4 Love you, but learn basic spatial awareness PLEASE. Also learn directions instead of everything being right or left.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:People that can't read a loving goddam map. I write the interstates I want to head towards on scrap paper and use my phone map if I am utterly baffled after pulling over for gas or food or whatever. Right and left are directions
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I love when olds text "CALL ME!!" with no warning as to whether it's deadly serious or mundane bullshit Speaking of commercials, I went to Sling almost 2 years ago & suddenly they're putting these godawful 4-5+ minute commercials on their On Demand shows. Used to just be the usual 20-30 second ones but lately I was watching a show & some commercial came on for these "tiny house" people that lasted well over 5 minutes, I thought it'd somehow started auto-playing another channel or show. It's only on some of their newer recorded shows too, older ones on demand have the usual 2-3 commercials that last maybe 2 minutes tops.
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Iron Crowned posted:Right and left are directions Is Santa Fe, NM right or left from Amarillo, TX?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is Santa Fe, NM right or left from Amarillo, TX? Yes
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When you accurately portray what someone did/said that upset you and they're like "I didn't do/say that" Where the gently caress do you want me to go from here? We were meant to discuss our reactions to the exchange, but you deny the exchange
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Brawnfire posted:When you accurately portray what someone did/said that upset you and they're like "I didn't do/say that" This argument tactic is thankfully less effective in the internet age. Hell, when I was a hardcore alcoholic, one of the last straws to get me to seek help was endless arguments with my ex where I'd deny everything and he would send me screenshots of all the disgusting poo poo drunk me had said.
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Brawnfire posted:When you accurately portray what someone did/said that upset you and they're like "I didn't do/say that" You stop interacting with assholes like that until they take the hint. Either they cut the bullshit, or the trash takes itself to the curb & you don't have to deal with some shithead denying accountability.
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On the other hand, it's possible for two peoples perceptions of events to differ significantly, especially in an argument. Any tone or voice or turn of phrase can be construed or misconstrued into however the recipient is already predisposed to feel about it, so before long what actual truth or meaning there was to a situation can almost cease to be objective. That's only in the case of an emotional argument though, as opposed to an actual proper debate or conversation of facts. In which case, yeah, if someone backtracks on their original position or tries to make out they never made a particular point or stance, then gently caress em!
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MadDogMike posted:Let's Play videos where the player feels obliged to read every single text box in a goofy voice; if I'm watching your video pretty much by definition I have to HAVE WORKING EYES and can read it myself with the pause button if I need to so long as you aren't crazy fast on the skipping. I guess maybe it's some sort of "I need to fill the dead air" thing, but these people are generally NOT voice actors so the actual result tends to be painful. In my case it doesn't help I read faster than most people speak, so the main effect for me is to get stuck waiting for them to finish slooowly reading it out in an annoying voice. Though I guess it's better than the occasional LP where it seems the host DOESN'T read the text at all, and you get to watch several minutes of them screwing around because they didn't pay attention to the game's instructions. The right arrow on my keyboard has never seen so much use as it has while watching LPs like these. “AnD nOw ThErE iS a KiNg WhO-“ *skip*
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This is why you only watch LPs by professional voice actors.
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There was a train delay today for about 30 minutes and every two minutes there'd be an announcement to once again apologise for the delay. The apology was enough the first time, stop giving us hope with the announcement tone if there is literally no new information.
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Dec 13, 2021 06:01
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Not so much a pet peeve as a parental amusement but: Wife and daughter: ok, bye! We're headed to school! Me and son: ok, bye bye! Say bye bye! *minutes pass* Wife: ok, goodbye for real now! Me: wtf you're still here!?! Son: *starts crying for mommy*
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:There was a train delay today for about 30 minutes and every two minutes there'd be an announcement to once again apologise for the delay. The apology was enough the first time, stop giving us hope with the announcement tone if there is literally no new information. Those announcements are for people who just got on the train and don’t know about the delay.
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This guy. The fact that they're almost always in an enormous bro-truck or SUV practically goes without saying.
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Alternatively, they are properly in their lane but creeping forward at a rate of six inches per second so you can never quite see around them to tell if it's safe to turn onto the road.
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