Mike Johnston wrote: > > My pet peeve is people who use the phrase "begs the question" when > > they don't know what it means (they think it means "raises the > > question"). > > A couple of pet peeves: > > "one of the only" (it's either "the only" or "one of the few") > > (snp) > > Anybody got any other favorites? > > --Mike >
Well the "less" "fewer" thing always annoys me. Especially so when I see it on a questionnaire asking your income or how many miles you have traveled...etc., etc., where the flaw is compounded by the writer using "over" and "less than" together. Recently I received an email from someone on ebay who hope I could find a particular item for her. She wrote the entire email in CAPS. She was - um - about my age and on AOL. So I try to help by saying it is considered shouting to type in CAPS. She then quoted her son-in-law to me who considered that anyone who would be concerned about such stuff was living "in the 70's" (never mind that I didn't learn about it until getting on the internet in 1994.) Her son-in-law wrote to her and she shared this with me - not at all in a petulant manner, but because she thought she had gathered interesting information. Anyway.... Son-in-law wrote to her: >.... IRC got started, where people could type to each other >live, just like a conversation, so the geeks started describing typing in >caps as shouting, and a lot of bull about being rude. it used to matter >(before there were translators), now it doesn't, and no one gets to make the >rules. frankly anyone that has this concern is living in the seventies. >there is no correct format for anything anymore---that's what universal >communication is all about... Scary, eh? annsan
