Totally random rant

[slinky]

Good ones, FurBaby

Seems like I just saw 'here here' written recently

[Morrolan]

"here, here" instead of "hear, hear" is a mistake made even by many Brits and Australians.

[Joseph27]

“Irregardless” - I hate hearing the word.

[slinky]

"here, here" instead of "hear, hear" is a mistake made even by many Brits and Australians.

True. Americans too.

I'm trying to remember one along the lines of 'here here' that I saw the other day. It was basically one of those 'spell it like you hear it' mistakes instead of thinking about what you actually mean to say. And on that note - here are a couple of those that make me nuts that I can think of:

Would of, could of and should of

That may be how it sounds, but you really mean the contraction of would + have = would've (or should've or could've)

[Lili Von Shtupp]

I read messed up idioms all the time, but they always make me laugh - some are just smothered in unintended irony. I have a running list of favorites around here somewhere, but can't put my finger on it now. Damn!

EDIT: syntax

[slinky]

Someone wrote 'good riddens' the other day, Lili. I had a little chuckle at it

[Spike]

One of my favourite notices on doors is, "Please keep the door close", i.e. an instruction to hug the door. Or, "We are close until Monday" implying the shop owners are hiding just around the corner for a couple of days.

Another local habit is the urge to insert a redundant 'actually' into a sentence. I actually heard a senior civil servant on the TV give an entire interview inserting 'actually' into every sentence...actually.

One I hear on the radio quite frequently when DJs are talking about a competition is, "If you are a PR or citizen you are illegible to enter this competition". This presumably means that if you are a citizen or PR and can't write properly you can enter the competition.

Of course there's the age old favourite of melding 'irrespective' with 'regardless' to form 'irregardless'. Drives me nuts.
http://www.babeled.com/2009/06/24/irreg ... ot-a-word/

And another one...."I would see you next Thursday", instead of, "I will see you next Thursday".

[Fat Bob]

One of my favourite notices on doors is, "Please keep the door close", i.e. an instruction to hug the door. Or, "We are close until Monday" implying the shop owners are hiding just around the corner for a couple of days..

Even worse, if you're supposed to keep the door closed, then how you supposed to get to the other side? A door is supposed to be opened, if you keep it closed all the time, wtf?!?!?

[Lili Von Shtupp]

I remember a particular favorite now. It was on the Angry Board. Someone said, in all seriousness, that they appreciated reading everyone's incites. I think I laughed for about a week over that.

[Tas]

Suspect with no sense of the irony on their part

[sluggo]

My mother used to say "flustrated" combining the words frustrated and flustered. She knew it was wrong but couldn't stop. It kind of grew on me after a while.

[Tas]

Quite like that one, it might make it's way into my vocab.

[Lili Von Shtupp]

flustrated is good wordplay!

I have to confess, I say "derodorant," an unfortunate mispronunciation imported from New Yawk. I know I'm saying it, but it just comes out.

It's my nucular.

[Pinklepurr]

I have to admit to using "actually" way too much, and my sister picked up on my usage of "like" as well. Must come from hanging around with teenagers too much. Every time I say either of them now I cringe. The shame, oh the shame.

Spike, illegible, that is one I remember being used all the time in Singapore, used to crack me up all the time.

[Sardonicus]

Yeah a lot here, I'm trying to think of a few. Not unlike mixed up plurals - pluralising the wrong words, and not pluralising the right ones.

In the movie 2010, the Russian Cosmonaut says to the American astronaut about a tough mission "piece of pie", where he is corrected "piece of cake"; he later remarks to the same guy "easy as cake" and is again corrected "easy as pie".

I read messed up idioms all the time, but they always make me laugh - some are just smothered in unintended irony. I have a running list of favorites around here somewhere, but can't put my finger on it now. Damn!

[Duck]

I have to admit to using "actually" way too much, and my sister picked up on my usage of "like" as well. Must come from hanging around with teenagers too much. Every time I say either of them now I cringe. The shame, oh the shame.

Spike, illegible, that is one I remember being used all the time in Singapore, used to crack me up all the time.

'Actually' Pinklepurr...you're not alone with that admission...I am also guilty of using the term too often...D'oh!

[Pinklepurr]

Thanks Duck, glad to know I am not the only one.

[Sardonicus]

Sentences ending in question marks that are statements?

[canuck]

Sentences ending in question marks that are statements?

Yes that is annoying

[Sardonicus]

Got one! From a recent FB post: "...when the shit hit the ceiling..."

I read messed up idioms all the time, but they always make me laugh - some are just smothered in unintended irony. I have a running list of favorites around here somewhere, but can't put my finger on it now. Damn!

EDIT: syntax

[canuck]

Got one! From a recent FB post: "...when the shit hit the ceiling..."

I read messed up idioms all the time, but they always make me laugh - some are just smothered in unintended irony. I have a running list of favorites around here somewhere, but can't put my finger on it now. Damn!

EDIT: syntax

Eem it is fan.

Okay new rant
vpost wtf!!?

Arrived the 3rd,still no fecking package

[slinky]

Okay new rant
vpost wtf!!?

Arrived the 3rd,still no fecking package

Oh, we're ranting about stuff that hasn't arrived?? Yeah, I can play. CitiBank US -- supposedly sent my debit card on or about Aug. 16. I got the PIN for it about 2 weeks ago via FedEx, but still no card and here we are Sept 6. Was told last week that they can't send the cards via FedEx, they come US Airmail. Where TF is my card, I wonder?? Can't set up online money transfers between US and Sing Citi accounts because some doofus entered Mr. S's birthdate wrong for the US account and, no, they can't tell us what they entered nor can they change it, apparently. We need to 'stop in our local branch' to fix it -- yeah, see you next summer And since I don't have a functioning ATM card I can't set up the money transfers using my name and it wants the birthdate entered (correctly - according to their records) if I try and do it with his ATM card number

[canuck]

Had stanchart send me a card in singers, never showed got a new one weeks later, tell them it is mia send a new obe, immediately! Dammit!

Edit: funnily after phone rant they managed two day delivery

[slinky]

This rant has prompted another call -- I'm on hold right now. When she told me (again) that the only way to get the birthdate changed was to go into a local branch I said: "Yeah, I'll just hop on a 24 hour flight to Chicago." She then gave me an address where I can send a written request She's now 'getting some help' - whatever that means, but I hope it results in a 2 day delivery!!

[slinky]

OK, probably not quite 2 days, but this time they say they are sending the card via FedEx, so hopefully that's an improvement. She also said the PIN I already received will work on the new card......I must admit, I'm a bit skeptical, but we'll see......