[Jelena]

Peeve: My procrastinating son. He seems to put everything on hold.

Anti-peeve: Chocolate ice cream and an episode of S.T Voyager.

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Jatsie

Peeve: those who lack the common courtesy to reply to a message you send them. I don't care if it was just a brief note I wrote on your Facebook wall, it required a response, not disregard.


*rabble rabble... scouse twat... rabble rabble... hunt him down... rabble rabble... feel my wrath...*

Oh I hate that too Jatsie. By the way, nice new avvie you got there!

[Squinky]

Actually, I think he's reusing an old one.

[lumi]

Peeve: radio DJs not mentioning what songs were just played.

Anti-peeve: hitting a golf ball.

[D.C.]

Peeve: When people mistake a good natured debate with an argument.

Anti-peeve: Umm... kittens?

[Giligan]

Peeve: Sites that make me confirm my age.

[Jatsie]

Peeve: finding out the bloody fool on the supermarket checkout charged me twice for something I only bought one of.

[Trader]

Artists and galleries thinking its ok to have an art exhibition that includes pictures of naked 13 year children. I have always supported an artists right to express themselves, using what ever medium they choose. But I felt sick after seeing these pictures, I know the human body is a beautiful thing but there has been so many child porn stories in the paper of late that I just can't think of this as anything other than child porn.

[Melanie68]

*grumble, grumble*

Peeve: My office is with five other people in a trailer (yes, an actual mobile home type trailer). When you leave, you need to shut the door securely so it doesn't fly open if not latched completely. Unfortunately, when everyone else leaves, they feel the need to slam the door to ensure it is closed which is loud and shakes the entire trailer. I very carefully pull or push it shut without slamming it. It's just annoying.

Anti peeve: My dog.

[Jatsie]

Peeve: The "This video is not available in your country" message that YouTube just threw at me. This is supposed to be the internet, a global thing... I hate websites that restrict access to content based on where one resides, and now YouTube is jumping onto that bandwagon, Google must die!

[Squinky]

Peeve: The word 'alright'. I haven't decided if it's because I grew up learning it wasn't a real word, or because it just plain looks ugly.

[Merricat]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Peeve: The word 'alright'. I haven't decided if it's because I grew up learning it wasn't a real word, or because it just plain looks ugly.

I actually happen to agree with you, but I have been relentlessly laughed at for being old-fashioned.

Let's trade--my peeve today is punctuation left outside of quotation marks (single or double), instead of safely tucked inside.

[Giligan]

Why? What's wrong with "alright"?

[Merricat]

Originally Posted by Giligan

Why? What's wrong with "alright"?

Well, it's not standard English...it's bastardized.

[Giligan]

That makes it sound pretty cool, actually. It's like... The Pissed-Off Bastards of Bloomington that Use The Bastardized English Language.

[Jatsie]

Originally Posted by Merricat

Let's trade--my peeve today is punctuation left outside of quotation marks (single or double), instead of safely tucked inside.

Technically speaking, the position of punctuation relative to quotation marks, is determined by the sense in which is it used.

There are differences in the rules regarding commas and full stops when it comes to American and Commonwealth English, but for things such as question marks, it's always contextual.

For example, in the construction:

> Is it normal for RLacey to say "Die Thread"?

As "Die Thread" is not a question, the question mark applies to the sentence as a whole, and therefore is placed outside the quotation marks.

[Merricat]

You are correct. And (leaving off the obvious debate as to the normalcy of RLacey) you must also be correct with regard to the differences between U.S. and British comma usage, since I would never use the comma splice found in your opening sentence.

[Merricat]

Originally Posted by Merricat

You are correct. And (leaving off the obvious debate as to the normalcy of RLacey) you must also be correct with regard to the differences between U.S. and British comma usage, since I would never use the comma splice found in your opening sentence.

Oops, sorry--that's not a comma splice; it's just wrong.

[Jatsie]

The British don't have steadfast rules for commas like the Americans do, we just insert them where we wish the reader to pause in a sentence.

But we do prefer the word normality to normalcy.

[Merricat]

Originally Posted by Jat316sob

The British don't have steadfast rules for commas like the Americans do, we just insert them where we wish the reader to pause in a sentence.

Oh, no, we're absolutely against using commas to indicate pauses--that's just madness, especially in text. But then, we write better than we speak; I suspect the opposite must be true for Brits.

Too bad about that word preference.