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PKM said:
y'all is proper grammar.. no doubt.
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In a way it is. It is short for "you all", which is more proper than "you guys". Many languages have a plural of the pronoun "you", in German it is "ihr", which we lack, so we make up for it in this way.
 
LazyD said:
Getting jelly on my fingys while eating a pbj
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To piggyback on this topic: I despise having a loaf of magnificently assymetrical bread only to realize this after you have prepared the wrong sides for battle.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
I suppose I can get behind these.



Not arbitrary. It's called the glottal stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

I'd love for you to say mounTAIN.



So I guess since Loggrad wants this thread to be about pet peeves and not people complaining about pet peeves (which is seemingly half the posts in this thread), one of my pet peeves is people thinking the way they pronounce words is vastly superior to another's.

When are you guys going to complain about "ask" being pronounced "aks?"
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Late arrival:

I'm not sure what your point is (only rational, consensus-voted pet peeves are allowed?), but okay: It's a glottal stop. For what it's worth, though, I think what we're talking about is at best a very soft glottal stop (i.e. "lay-uhn") rather than the glottal stop we all use (i.e. "layt'n"). Pretty nitpicky of me, but pet peeves are weird that way. Let me know if I should set up a poll, and I'll get on it.

Otherwise, what's with making this into a personal attack? I didn't say a thing about being vastly superior to anyone. On the other hand, your approach-- providing us all with a definition, calling me out on my pronunciation of words (I say mount'n, thanks), and beating this dead horse relentlessly-- is a little patronizing, don't you think?

Lord, dude. Go take a cold shower or something.
 
olden_undercover said:
Late arrival:

I'm not sure what your point is (only rational, consensus-voted pet peeves are allowed?), but okay: It's a glottal stop. For what it's worth, though, I think what we're talking about is at best a very soft glottal stop (i.e. "lay-uhn") rather than the glottal stop we all use (i.e. "layt'n"). Pretty nitpicky of me, but pet peeves are weird that way. Let me know if I should set up a poll, and I'll get on it.

Otherwise, what's with making this into a personal attack? I didn't say a thing about being vastly superior to anyone. On the other hand, your approach-- providing us all with a definition, calling me out on my pronunciation of words (I say mount'n, thanks), and beating this dead horse relentlessly-- is a little patronizing, don't you think?

Lord, dude. Go take a cold shower or something.
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No. It's a passionate issue.

What I question is why you would ever consider it a peeve in the first place. It's very common in English (which is why I brought up Dayton), in fact, it would be rare to NOT use the glottal stop in this case. So I get confused to why this would ever be an issue and the only thing I can ever come up is "it's an annoyance when they don't speak the word I think they're supposed to, so they're inferior to me." Only other scenario I can think of is that it makes the noun harder to hear when it's pronounced, and I don't think that's the case here.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
No. It's a passionate issue.

What I question is why you would ever consider it a peeve in the first place. It's very common in English (which is why I brought up Dayton), in fact, it would be rare to NOT use the glottal stop in this case. So I get confused to why this would ever be an issue and the only thing I can ever come up is "it's an annoyance when they don't speak the word I think they're supposed to, so they're inferior to me." Only other scenario I can think of is that it makes the noun harder to hear when it's pronounced, and I don't think that's the case here.
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Oh, it's a passionate issue. Well when you put it that way... My god, I've been blind. This peeve of mine really doesn't make sense, does it? Please indulge this feeble explanation:

You see, both my attorney and financial adviser were on vacation when I initially encountered this potential pet peeve lingering in the dark and low places of human thought, and I was simply swept up before having thought it through properly. I do hastily acquiesce to this being poor justification: All this time I've been laughing privately at this little quirk of mine, which I see was and is wrong of me. Having now made a public spectacle of my peeve and learned my folly, I will consider this a lesson learned and deliberate over future potential pet peeves by researching them thoroughly on wikipedia.org, gauging popular opinion, weighing risk factors, and then consulting with you to carefully select the ones you consider the best overall value. Thank you, Darkwing, my mentor, for gently exposing a dearth of character and judgement in having carried with me all this time what can only be described as a shameful and cowardly pet peeve. How embarrassing it is to know; I will now excuse myself from engaging with you and all others of superior intellect and moral fiber, and spend the rest of my days 1) examining and re-examining my superior attitude in relation to those around me, 2) apologizing to those I may have harmed when involuntarily noticing their "soft" glottal stop, and 3) of course endeavoring to much loftier pet peeves.

To any and all fellow jazzfanz on the wrong side of this passionate issue, I say to you it is my desire, nay my innermost longing-- birthed from the ashen womb of humility-- that you might soften, not as glottal stops in Payson, but as hardened stools in a toilet bowl, and allow yourselves to be flushed by the swirling omniscience of the Ego Orb. Soften... soften... soften.

(dramatic exit)

Is that abdication passionate enough for you?
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Let me respond with a question:

Why is it a pet peeve that people say Layton the way they do?
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I believe it is a similar phenomenon to fingernails on a chalkboard. This particular thing never bothered me, but if I ran my fingernails over a chalkboard with my wife in the room she would do all she could to eviscerate me with the first item she could lay her hands on. I must say that the aluminum top of a yogurt package is remarkably effective at evisceration, albeit somewhat less than fatal.
 
Is that a pet peeve of yours, when a thread you don't have to read or participate in if you don't want to goes to ****?
 
Hantlers said:
If it was once an amusing thread, then yes. Typically people don't like it when good things become bad things.
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Just like the peeves expressed in this thread, including yours, it is all relative.
 
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