Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Make this week go away, please. Thirteen new tickets in two days, most of those between the hours of 5 and 7am. Can't I just be done now, please? :)
So, to distract me from work for a few minutes, so I don't go killing clients, here's a Thursday Threesome for May 29th.
Onesome: Ain't- There's a lot of slang floating around out there. Some of it has even found its way into the dictionary. Is there any one word that you find more annoying than others? That you just wish would fall off the face of the planet, never to be heard again?
Oh god. I can't pick just one word--the whole AOLer-speak drives me nuts. l8r, str8, U R ky00t, tonite...and the whole l33t sp33k thing just drives me fucking batshit. Strictly speaking, a lot of it isn't slang because they're real words (mostly), but most of my communication is done through a type-written medium, whether it be books, email, blogging, MUSHing, so I guess I still consider it slang. I think a lot of that goes hand in hand with the next question, too. I'm not an English major, I never was, but it bothers me to see the language butchered (as I see it) like that.
Twosome: It- It's/Its, they're/their/there. Just a few of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language. So the question is, when you blog, do you worry about grammar, punctuation and spelling? If you notice a typo do you go back and edit? Or do you shrug it off because everyone makes typos?
Yes, I do care about grammar, punctuation, and spelling. If I make a typo, I generally go back and edit--there's only one post I can think of where I haven't done that. In general, I'm careful about my typing *as* I make the post, so that I don't have to go back and edit later. Spell check is your friend. I don't ever shrug that stuff off, more because I feel a sense of pride in what I write, so to speak, and I can't if it's full of bad grammar and typos. Yeah, everyone makes them, and that's cool, but I don't like them in *my* work. Make sense?
Threesome: Purty?- Purty/pretty, crick/creek, warsh/wash. All common pronunciations, whether they sound pretty or not. And one is mispronounced. What's one commonly mispronounced word that just drives you nuts?
Ack, all of the above, that's a good start. I don't hear 'warsh' nearly as much now that I'm not in Utah. The one that really annoys me is the nukeyouler/nuclear thing, but I think that one tweaks everybody.
Posted by Liz at May 29, 2003 07:19 AM