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For a period of time on spezsite, people loved posting photos using the title "Just a (whatever the thing in the photo was)".
I don't know why, but that convention of using "just a..." started to get under my skin after a while. The fad kind of faded away, though you still see it occasionally.
It's not that there's anything wrong with titling a post in that manner. But over time, it felt like nonstop humblebragging.
I'm probably making zero sense. Pet peeves can be weird like that.
Just because thing, [that] doesn't mean other thing.
You can't even prove that it's grammatically incorrect!
But it sounds awful. And I can't even come up with an alternative.
"Correlation is not causation" is the phrase I use in that situation.
The letter w. Absolutely unjustified existence vhen v can be used instead. Also referring to people as pupil. Nothing else in English sounds as bad. Like, there isn't even anything fundamentally vrong with it. It's just bad.
The over usage of "that" on news broadcasts.
"It's that time of ___!" (Insert day, week, year, fall, spring, summer, etc)
There are many countless examples. It's like nails on a chalkboard every time I hear it
Generally these weird roundabout constructions used in English (not my native language). Like "I'm going forward to do X". There's always a bit of padding in language, but English seems to be very "paddy".
Oh, and very non-descriptive words for very specific things. Like washer. What is a washer? It doesn't do any washing. In German, we call these things Unterlegscheibe. A disk (Scheibe) to put (legen) under (unter) something. Says exactly what it's doing.
"This is key" (in business speak)
Commonwealth vocabulary versus non-Commonwealth vocabulary. Despite being commonwealth in terms of my native culture, some of it sounds like we're trying too hard to be contrarian. Take chips and fries for example. The British call potato chips "crisps" and french fries "chips" and they'll have that discussion with you all night long, but they were patented as chips and fries respectively. Or how about "mom" versus "mum"? Despite interchanging them, I prefer "mom", especially in a world where "ma" and "mama" are common, which makes "mum" just sound like you're auditioning as Wednesday Addams. If you look in historical documents from the past, it's certainly never "mum". It all doesn't bother me so much as what bothers me is when those people (you know, the ones who call it the telly instead of a TV) say other people are the derivatives or must bend to them. If I visit London, I'm ordering french fries from McDonald's, not McChips.
It speaks to an ever-evolving world, culture and society. But nothing and nobody really speaks to me.
"Didn't used to".
Lay lie, ffs why differentiate Who whom, it serves no great purpose Words like recie||eive, do I need to explain? Must not should be must’n
