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Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:55 pm
by D.o.S.
AxAxSxS wrote:D.o.S. wrote:Neither of these are misspellings, but:
"alright" instead of "all right"
"ax" instead of "axe"
both piss me off to no end.
Do you mind if I ax you why this irks you so? Bcuz Eyed r33Iy liek 2 now.
Ax just looks wrong to me if you're talking about the choppy thing (or, alternatively, a thing getting cancelled, etc.). Also because I was outvoted at work and now we use Ax instead of Axe.
The rest of it I can basically ignore if I pretend it's Prince song titles.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:46 pm
by Mudfuzz
D.o.S. wrote:Prince song .
thats worse than bad spelling
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:27 pm
by tabbycat
british and american spelling (aka british spelling and american misspelling).
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words ... n-spelling
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:59 pm
by Big Mon
I once knew a girl who said "cadiver" instead of *cadaver* After I corrected her, she spent the next ten minutes apologizing for it. She did that vocal fry thing, too.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:53 pm
by tabbycat
blooghost wrote:I once knew a girl who said "cadiver" instead of *cadaver* After I corrected her, she spent the next ten minutes apologizing for it. She did that vocal fry thing, too.
after the first nine and a half minutes of apologising i would have probably stepped in and told her that she had already apologised enough.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:12 am
by futuresailors
This thread is gonna make me go nuculer.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:01 am
by Dark Barn
I'm not a grammar Nazi. Language should be mutable and useful but over time it should trend towards being more useful, and in my opinion more colorful. Using peek or peak in place of pique has the opposite effect. Using language as a measure of the general fitness of the culture, I hold pique misuse up as an anecdotal indicator that people be stoopid are uninformed.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:04 pm
by Big Mon
tabbycat wrote:blooghost wrote:I once knew a girl who said "cadiver" instead of *cadaver* After I corrected her, she spent the next ten minutes apologizing for it. She did that vocal fry thing, too.
after the first nine and a half minutes of apologising i would have probably stepped in and told her that she had already apologised enough.
She was drunk and going off on several tangents, but infallibly came back to apologizing for having said "cadiver". So it wasn't exactly 10 minutes of consecutive apologies. And she had
PIQUED my friend's interest, so I didn't want to appear rude for his sake. Also, I've never been able to hear Dio's "Holy Diver" the same way since
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:55 pm
by Caesar
When people pronounce the work "frustrating" as "fustrating" without the r.
It frustrates me.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:55 pm
by Caesar
For the rest of the stuff, I could care less.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:55 pm
by Caesar
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:27 am
by Achtane
libary
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:36 am
by Iommic Pope
Lyeberry.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:54 am
by UglyCasanova
I can't remember who, but someone here shapes their posts as poems, and I haven't figured out if I like it or hate it. I don't care how you spell things. Text (and language in general) is a flawed form of communication. If I can grasp the idea of what you're trying to tell me, I'm good.
Re: Pet peeve misspelling: pique
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:18 am
by Twangasaurus
UglyCasanova wrote:I can't remember who, but someone here shapes their posts as poems, and I haven't figured out if I like it or hate it. I don't care how you spell things. Text (and language in general) is a flawed form of communication. If I can grasp the idea of what you're trying to tell me, I'm good.
Ahhh, Ryan Summit? As a fellow Ryan I defend his right to do things that I also don't really understand.