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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I prefer ''merked'' than ''pwned''. I use them both in any case.
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Merk it blood, innit?
I use the word 'literally' a lot of the time in its proper sense - "I'm literally standing still"; it annoys me endlessly when people use it wrong. I've said this before, but a lass at work used the sentence "literally, they were tearing their hair out. Literally!"
Of course, they were tearing their hair out metaphorically. The sense in which she was using it was metaphorically, which I pointed out, and she wasn't impressed.
Also in work - the person who has, in their signature 'krgrds'. First of all, she shouldn't be using 'txtspk' in the office; second of all, there's a very faint argument that it's quicker to type 'krgrds' than 'kind regards' which is hopelessly undermined by the fact that it's in her fucking signature.
'Action/ed' annoys me. 'Solutionise' doubly so. "Can you action this?" makes much less sense than "Can/ could/ would you
do this?", and is less of a circuitous way of asserting one's point/ request/ authority.
Also, people not using question marks. When I read an e-mail, if there isn't a question mark I assume it's a statement. If it seems like a question, but there's no question mark, then I assume it's a poorly constructed sentence. I
do not assume that any request or question was imparted to me, because surely question marks are more intuitive than commas? They're certainly more obvious than hypens, parentheses, semi-colons or colons. No-one should not know how to use a question mark. Therefore, if anyone at work is reading this,
do not get shitty at me when I haven't done something when your clauseless, dribbling, hollow-superlative, exclamation mark-ridden and smiley-blighted e-mail does not include a question mark.
I realise this is getting into the realm of 'I am grammarNazi, hear me roar'-type posting so I'll stop. For the record, I'm mostly forgiving of grammarslips/ typos - we all do enough of them. The chap in the office who is constantly bemoaning the 'drop in standards of people's English' annoys the hell out of me, and was brilliantly unimpressed when I pointed out his split-infinitive the other day. My point is that there is a certain level of courtesy attached to imparting information upon the populus, and when this is not met I see red.
Ahem. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, SYG.