The librarian in my junior high school conducted a class for all incoming 6th graders (which seemingly lasted for weeks on end) on the best way to use the library for research. Every couple of minutes she would utter the phrase "as a consequence..." It got to the point where all anybody could think about was in what context (and how quickly) she would say it again next.

Here's my newest peeve right from corporate America. My manager has recently become enamored with the word "granular", as in "we're going to break down this report to the granular level", or "we're going to get granular with these items".

 

The project manager on the last project I was working on loves the word "vet". Every meeting was to "vet" something out, and she must have used the word at least 20 times per meeting. For some reason, that word just really started to bug me.

 

I've noticed this basic phenomena as well. "Wordsmith", in the case I saw. It's some sort of verbal monomania that seems to afflict a large percentage of project managers and related professionals.

 

I had a professor who used the word "potentially" sometimes up to 100 times in an hour and fifteen minute class period.

 

I had a chemistry professor that said "ok?" after every sentence. We started a pool to guess how many times he'd say it in the hour that the class took. Once he broke 300, but no one had bet that high so the pool rolled over to the next day when some kid won a few hundred bucks for betting on 130. Perhaps if I had paid attention to what he was saying between asking "ok?" I'd have gotten more than a D in the class.

Here's my newest peeve right from corporate America. My manager has recently become enamored with the word "granular", as in "we're going to break down this report to the granular level", or "we're going to get granular with these items".

 

The project manager on the last project I was working on loves the word "vet". Every meeting was to "vet" something out, and she must have used the word at least 20 times per meeting. For some reason, that word just really started to bug me.

 

I've noticed this basic phenomena as well. "Wordsmith", in the case I saw. It's some sort of verbal monomania that seems to afflict a large percentage of project managers and related professionals.

 

I had a professor who used the word "potentially" sometimes up to 100 times in an hour and fifteen minute class period.

 

I had a chemistry professor that said "ok?" after every sentence. We started a pool to guess how many times he'd say it in the hour that the class took. Once he broke 300, but no one had bet that high so the pool rolled over to the next day when some kid won a few hundred bucks for betting on 130. Perhaps if I had paid attention to what he was saying between asking "ok?" I'd have gotten more than a D in the class.

 

Not a pet peeve anymore, as I don't work with him now, but a guy I used to work with would say "candidly" all the time. Started out using it correctly "candidly, I don't think we can do this for you right now", then must have liked the way it sounded because he expanded its use. "Candidly, I am going to lunch now". So unless he was Ned Flanders, and his assistant's name was Candy, I think he over reached on the word's use.

I've heard people use "pacifically" for specifically.

I've heard people use "pacifically" for specifically.

 

like the ocean?

 

surfs up!!!!

I've heard people use "pacifically" for specifically.

I keep hearing people use Physical for Fiscal.

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but saying "mute" when you mean "moot", and unbelievably, vice versa.

This is probably repetitive, but "exspecially" instead of "especially" and "firmiliar" instead of "familiar".

The mister says "acrosst" instead of "across".  I've been told it's a southeastern Ohio thing.

When people always harass me for saying "wooder" instead of "water." 

I was born in northern Delaware and that's all you hear there.  Plus I grew up in Jersey where the wooder/water pronunciation is split about 50/50 among the state...

Sorry if I offend anyone here, because I've seen people do it even on this board and I can't remember who or when, but...when people use "dominate" as an adjective instead of "dominant".

How about "vegitarian."  That one really annoys.

Hi I am CBC, and I am still battling a "effects/affects" problem. It causes me to pause and look uncomfortable when I take the time to figure out which word to use, come to think of it that is a major pet peeve about myself. A major lack of language skills, I am barely fluent in English which has made learning a second language nearly impossible...

The mister says "acrosst" instead of "across".  I've been told it's a southeastern Ohio thing.

 

Yes, its a southwestern ohio thing also (or should I say two?).  I'd seriously rethink the lifelong commitment.  Just when you get used to acrosst, he'll hit you with another!  :wink2:

ekcetera for et cetera.

intensent purposes

intensent purposes

*dies*

Obnoxiously ornamented cars (stickers, flags, rims, etc.)

I've never heard "intensent purposes", but I hear "intensive purposes" all the freaking time.

^omg really? this has been brought up since I have been on UO.

 

I don't like it when restaurants or pubs have myspace pages in lieu of a real web site with a menu. they need to grow up. 

^If they actually list accurate hours/location and semi-accurate menus, I'll take that over absolutely nothing.

I agree with peabody about the website over myspace.  Myspace is pretty much the cheap and, IMHO, immature way to promote your business on the web.  Whether you do it yourself or hire someone, a professional website is key in attracting good business.  I know a lot of bars and businesses of the sort use myspace and facebook to reach out to their fans and patrons, but a website should be their main focus if they want to be on the web.  That is all in my opinion, I know some people may think otherwise.

I agree with peabody about the website over myspace. Myspace is pretty much the cheap and, IMHO, immature way to promote your business on the web. Whether you do it yourself or hire someone, a professional website is key in attracting good business. I know a lot of bars and businesses of the sort use myspace and facebook to reach out to their fans and patrons, but a website should be their main focus if they want to be on the web. That is all in my opinion, I know some people may think otherwise.

 

I agree. It's true for bands as well, though many don't know that. While MySpace does play the role of a modern mp3.com (which was mind numbingly awesome until late 2003 when the major labels bought it and shut it down) by putting bands all in one place and allowing them to network with fans and each other, it's standardized layout makes it harder to differentiate your band from the thousands of other bands on there. Also, a real website legitimizes a band (or business), taking it out of the realm of a "MySpace Band". Plus, the non-musical side of MySpace has been a wasteland for over a year. I think people got sick of having the cheesy side of hip-hop culture crammed down their throat with every click.

Obnoxiously ornamented cars (stickers, flags, rims, etc.)

 

No punk rock car completely covered in band stickers for Scrabble.

edit: I shouldn't talk lol I use slang too lol

people who confuse "flaunt" with "flout"  :whip:

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"Make cake" ????? It's insipid, yet mesmerizing. Utterly irritating, yet I've been saying it to myself for the better part of an hour.

 

Are you sure she wasn't referring to soiling herself? She was drunk.

There's so much negative energy in this thread yet its so vibrant. I feel like I'm ruining the universe.  :oops:

There's so much negative energy in this thread yet its so vibrant. I feel like I'm ruining the universe. :oops:

 

Why don't you go make cake.

No offense intended... but my granular cake-making term for the day is "vibrant."  Nothing about a city, a streetscape, a color, or a culture is ever "vibrant" and it's been used way too many times in these contexts to still have the desired impact. 

New one. People who delete their previous post, causing my post to make no sense whatsoever.

Thank you!  I have been wondering WTF cake-making is about.

Thank you! I have been wondering WTF cake-making is about.

 

It was glorious. Drunk Girl, bus stop, Harry Potter, college, and make cake.

 

Make cake. Cake make. Makey Cakey Takey Bakey.

 

GRRRRR. DAVID!!

I am definitely not trying to start a crazy discussion by saying this, but I hate it when I tell people I didn't see Avatar, and they act like I'm some bad person for not seeing it. I know it was supposed to be a really good movie but come on! It's not like I committed a crime or anything by not seeing the film.

People are idiots sometimes.

 

Me: "Yeah I didn't see it."

 

Random friend: "OMFG you didn't see it?! Wow that's so weird."

 

Seriously, not an exaggeration. I just had this exact conversation with some friends the other night at a bar, of all places.

Obnoxiously ornamented cars (stickers, flags, rims, etc.)

 

No punk rock car completely covered in band stickers for Scrabble.

None of it!

 

I think anything over 2 stickers is really pushing it.  Even if I agree with every single thing they say, they still make the driver look crazy.

 

Case in point:

I am definitely not trying to start a crazy discussion by saying this, but I hate it when I tell people I didn't see Avatar, and they act like I'm some bad person for not seeing it. I know it was supposed to be a really good movie but come on! It's not like I committed a crime or anything by not seeing the film.

People are idiots sometimes.

 

Me: "Yeah I didn't see it."

 

Random friend: "OMFG you didn't see it?! Wow that's so weird."

 

Seriously, not an exaggeration. I just had this exact conversation with some friends the other night at a bar, of all places.

I never go to the movies  except maybe indie festival and that is only when I am in town that week, which is almost never since it coincides with spouses vacation time . I just happened to see Avatar b/c we took my 16 yo step daughter out to the movies. Otherwise I can assure you I would not have seen the movie. It was full of cliches....but it was more watchable than some mainstream movies. It is odd people would think it strange you had not seen it. Definitely pet peeve material.

What ever you do, don't let people know you haven't seen Star Wars if you haven't. Trust me.

Oh my god!  You haven't seen Star Wars?!

What ever you do, don't let people know you haven't seen Star Wars if you haven't. Trust me.

 

Oh, that simply won't do ;-)

Haha. my wife finally watched recently all of the Star Wars with our kids and really got into, after all of the years of acting like I was stupid for liking it....

 

She even liked the Phantom Menance, which after watching it again isn't that bad. It was just a huge let down based on expectations of the "new" Star Wars movie.

 

New pet peeve for me. Listening to my brother bitch last night while we were eating there that the food at Momocho isn't really Mexican and that the term Mod Mex is dumb. Shut up and enjoy the damn food....whatever it is called.

 

 

I fell asleep during Star Wars...both times I tried to watch it.

^Ya, but yer a girl!!! :-D j/k

In retrospect, I already knew the marriage was in trouble, but this proved to me there was no hope.  Took wife #1 (she hated Star Wars) to theater to see The Empire Strikes Back, and when it started, she leaned over to me and said, "I thought this was a baseball movie?"

In retrospect, I already knew the marriage was in trouble, but this proved to me there was no hope. Took wife #1 (she hated Star Wars) to theater to see The Empire Strikes Back, and when it started, she leaned over to me and said, "I thought this was a baseball movie?"

 

LOL. That was a bad sign.....

^Ya, but yer a girl!!! :-D j/k

 

I suppose, but I'm not sure that's relevant.  There have been other sci fi flicks and/or fantasy flicks I have loved.  But maybe those aren't parallels.  What would be "similar" movies that you would say well, if someone liked X or Y, they would likely also be a Star Wars fan?

Actually, I only saw the original three when I was younger and I don't remember much.  So I really need to see them again.

I suppose, but I'm not sure that's relevant. There have been other sci fi flicks and/or fantasy flicks I have loved. But maybe those aren't parallels. What would be "similar" movies that you would say well, if someone liked X or Y, they would likely also be a Star Wars fan?

 

Spaceballs!

*HATED* Spaceballs.  I kind of remember it as one big fart joke.

^Okay, that's just blasphemy! So many one-liners from that flick!

 

"You idiots, you've captured their stunt doubles!"

 

"My hair! They shot my hair!!!"

 

And I was KIDDING about Star Wars - some of my galpals love it (more than I do!), others not so much.