Linguistic Pet Peeves

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Okay, y'all. In spite of what some people will say, your use of language will influence what people think of you, and how intelligent and/or competent they think you are.

My current number one: You don't LOOSE your license, you lose it. (If your license is loose, you need to capture it...)

Don't even get me started on loosing YOU'RE license...

What are other some other linguistic "nails on chalkboard" for folks?

Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
NursesRmofun said:

Thank you for the link; that was interesting. However, I still think a lot of those discourse markers just add unnecessary words, especially when used at the beginning of the sentence.

But you'll notice that I just used one, anyway.
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I have an undergrad degree in English, as well as a Master's in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages -and I swear I'm less annoyed than most of y'all...excuse me you guys LOL.

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If one begins a thread with "So ...", the implication is that there was a previous idea with which to connect. How can something be previous to the beginning?

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I once had to describe a "care-o-meter" and explain that if you could care less, that means you do care. Blank stare. Guess I should have drawn the care-o-meter.

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Me too. My grade school education taught me it was incorrect. Sounds worse than pretentious...sophomoric.

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Blame Buzzfeed.

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The usage of improper tense gets me. "You're going to get wrote up" or "I done my homework"....

That, and words getting used in the wrong context. Course/coorifice sew/so etc.

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Specializes in Surg- PACU/Anaes.

"For all intensive purposes"

"Play it by year"

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This post cracks me up. I hear nurses saying *******and fricking constantly, sometimes right in earshot of patients. Y'all is at the bottom of my list!!

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I'm hung up on adding apostrophe's to anything plural.

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Also y'all is casual, friendly, and gender-inclusive!

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Specializes in Short Term/Skilled.
You are correct.

Oh, and while I do use y'all, I get annoyed when people say ALL Y'ALL, because that's implied, right?

:)

It is!

I only don't say it because it sounds utterly ridiculous, but I use it in texts, on FB and on here all the time.

You guys need to move your caht off the cahpet so I can go get bahbeque sauce from the garahge next to the yahd.

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