What is your pet peeve in 2024?

"are" is a perfectly valid pronunciation of "our" I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as "are", on the other hand does feel wrong.

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are” is a perfectly valid pronunciation of “our

What is the correct pronunciation of our? Pronouncing the word "our" correctly is essential for non-native English speakers. To do so, start by forming your lips into a small "o" shape while slightly raising the corners of your mouth. Then, bring the tongue to the back of your mouth and create an "r" sound. Finally, round your lips into an "uh" sound.

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- Accents exist, you know.
  
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- What is the correct pronunciation of our?
  
  It's commonly pronounced the same way as "hour."
  
  Ow-er. Ow, as in ouch.
  
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Mine is till instead of ’til to mean until and a in “two times a year” instead of per. I still say “two times a year” myself but when writing it looks so unprofessional and I always notice it in news publications.

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What bugs me most is whether 'biannual' means twice per year or every second year.

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- It means both which is setup to confuse everyone it seems.
  
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The words "shoppe" and "towne".

Oh, and "olde".

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Oh, and "olde".

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Everything requiring a personal phone number and/or email just so corpos can keep tabs and data harvest personal information out of people an do what the hell ever with it without any consent. My personal data is not your damn property, leave it the fuck alone.

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Local area code-867-5309. I use it everywhere.

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- But i would acttualy need the phone number for sms verification code for registering things online which i refuse to give my phone number. I like my online privacy
  
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Website redesigns. Just more whitespace all over the place, less information on the screen, and more trouble trying to get anything done.

Github is especially bad about this. I'm so tired of only being able to fit about 50 lines of code on the screen at a time, or issues with a similar lack of information density. I can understand this paradigm for websites that you only use once every year or so, but for something that most people use regularly every day, it's such a backwards anti-productivity trend. I hate it... hope it dies someday.

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People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like "can we check this?" , "we must do xy quickly". What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.

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My dad used to do this shit all the time. He would be like "let's clean the house" but what he really meant was "You clean the house."

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Nurse we

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Internet search has gotten stupider

Used to be I could always find exactly what I wanted with a quick google

Now I usually have to go into the second page or change my terms a lot before getting there.

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Google is so bad now and has been for a while, it's tough to believe its name is still synonymous with search.

I've been toying with the idea of using Kagi, but paying for a search engine is still such a foreign concept for me. I think if you can find a good SearXNG instance you'll have a much better time.

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- I am very happy with Kagi. Can recommend. In the end someone has to pay for the service. With Kagi I know I don't pay with my data but with money.
  
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I'd highly recommend Kagi! You can customise your search results as well, so you can make sure some websites show up more often than others (or even not at all), or higher up/lower down on the list.

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When you search google for answers and the search results end up being forum replies of someone saying "just google it bro"

Edit: sarcasm, not actual search result... yet

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- That specifically has actually not happened to me. Though I've seen people comment on it.
  
  ........... But.
  
  One scenario I run into a lot is finding a result that would be useful...
  
  .... But it depends on external links. And those links are dead. The internet is a perpetually on fire Library of Alexandria
  
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AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We're going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don't get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it's very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.

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people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.

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Censoring cuss words or "inappropriate" words either in memes by blanking it out or in text by spelling it differently just to get around an algorithm. Ex: dies vs unalive

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Unfortunately that's due to rules and bots. One uses that language to get around bots that seek "violent language" because enough people have had to deal with arguing themselves out of a ban.

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When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.

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As a psychology nerd:

the lack of understanding and empathy for others (even when their opinions are different or "wrong"
The lack of understanding of how behavior is driven and encouraged to change.
The comfort level with looking at something very complex and assuming you know it deeply in moments (referring to short form video "teaching" psychology and mental health stuff)
The overall disconnect between the physical medicine community and the psychological/mental health communities (i.e. mental health is a huge driver in cancer, autoimmune, and other diseases)
I could go on. Learning more is my passion but damn it's so depressing when I begin to understand something and see the abounding ignorance on it

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Fascism.

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For me that is much more than a pet peeve.

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- It's really got my goat, I'll say that.
  
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That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!

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My favorite thing to do is I have a secondary domain name that is setup with a catch all email address mailbox. So when they ask for a email i just give them nameofstoresux@domain.com and when they say i need a real email address I say it's real. The look on their face when my phone buzzes with the recept is priceless. Then promptly back hole that address

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- I don't even bother going that far. I just have a [words]receipts@[domain].com and use it for all of those e-receipts, accounts that make you sign up at checkout, known spam generators.
  
  If I need to search for a receipt for any reason, I have it there. But none of it clogs up my real email
  
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- Why not get a free email at mail.com instead of paying for a domain?
  
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News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.

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"Kim Kardashian slams neighbor's gate sparking an unhinged reaction. Tune in at 11 for more coverage of Gate-gate."

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- Lmao, how am I the first to invite this?
  
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Would also like to stop hearing the word Unhinged. I don't think it carries any value anymore.

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- I actually still crack up whenever I see unhinged.
  
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- I kinda want to start describing sensible people as "hinged" now
  
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It's infuriating are schools aren't doing a better job.

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Is our children learning?

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People putting out buckets of candy for Halloween instead of handing it out at the door. No more social interaction or tradition. Just grab free candy and go.

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I don't mind this when it's families that are out trick-or-treating with their own kids. If you're home and you do it, that's weird

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It drives me nuts that people frequently leave out the words "to be" when talking. For example, they will say something like, "the car needs washed." No, either the car needs to be washed, or it needs washing.

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It needs warshing.

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Midwestern usa maybe

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- Big in PA also
  
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- If so, it's propagating. I live in the NW USA and have been noticing it for years.
  
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Autocorrect always seems to choose the wrong spelling for its and it's. If you're trying to use the possessive, it changes it to "it's." If you're trying to use the contraction of "it is," it changes it to "its." 😬

I never had these dumbass incorrect context changes when autocorrect was new. It only seems to get worse over time, instead of better. It shouldn't even be correcting words that are already spelled correctly, even if the context is wrong.

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Last week I texted my wife "I desire chicken" and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don't, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing...?

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Autocorrect has gotten significantly worse for me recently. I used to be pretty well adjusted to my phone and know which words I did not need to capitalize/spell correctly because autocorrect would do it for me. Now, it feels like it is all over the place. It also does not seem to acknowledge commonly used proper nouns anymore. I type my brother's name all the time, yet it will autocorrect to the same name witn different spelling.

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- Autocorrect is devolving.
  
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Mine tried to correct 'about' to 'Scott' if I even swiped a bit wrong, and now it's locked in and doesn't even work if I do it carefully.

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- You can usually remove predicted words if this starts happening. On mine, it's done by pressing and holding the prediction, then confirming. If you use the name Scott regularly anyway, it'll re-learn it without the incorrect association
  
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- Autocorrect is devolving.
  
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The past tense of the verb "to lead" is "led."

"Lead" is a heavy metal.

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I wish we could be as certain about 'read'.

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Nails. Like the kind you hammer in. I hate them. They always come out and you have to hammer them in again eventually. Screws are the way to go.

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Put nails in at an angle, and alternate the angle so a row of nails looks like a row of Vs. Whenever reasonable I'd still go for screws though.

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I bought this skittles set for the kids to have a competition at a kids birthday party. The pins and ball are reasonable quality but the staples holding the box together fell apart the second we tried to pack it away.

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People on their phones while driving. Aside from the danger it poses, I have been stuck at a light behind someone who is obviously scrolling on their phone and then doesn't realize the light has turned green. Sometime this lasts for 10-20 seconds, which is a lifetime when trying to efficiently move through a series of stop lights. I'm not an aggressive horn honker, and I feel like an asshole if I have to use it. But if you are fucking with the flow of traffic you deserve it.

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I'm not an aggressive horn honker, and I feel like an asshole if I have to use it.

Come to the dark side. If someone has done something unrepentantly stupid, I will lay on the horn until that thing is undone.

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- I am joining the dark side on this one. It's justified when they are slowing down everyones commute.
  
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When I email someone a quick question that could be answered in like 6 words and, 90 seconds later, they're calling my phone.

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Text from my direct report at 7am Saturday morning: “Please call me as soon as possible!!!!!!!”

I call immediately. Him: “I can’t talk right now, when is a good time to call you back?” Me:
“Just call me when you can, omg.”

Him: Calls me three hours later to take 20 minutes explaining why he needs an afternoon off two months from now.

Me: “This could have been a text, Pablo.”

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The words truth, facts or liberty in all caps.

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FREEDOM!!!!!

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people posting shit quality memes without spending the smallest bit of effort to find a better quality version of the same meme, especially when it's a comic and the author is cropped out.
people posting blog spam article links about an announcement instead of just linking directly to the announcement

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People answering a question like "Would you like to do X, or Y?" with "yes."

I didn't fucking ask "Would you like to do X or Y?", so put down whatever solvent you are chugging, then give me your choice.

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Yes

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Yesn't

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No.

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Banana

Edit: damnit. I should've gone with the car guy answer: "Miata is always the answer" but I'll leave it up.

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- Banana also isn't a valid answer, but if you have the chance, you always go Banana.
  
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Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.

I'm not sure if I've seen this, is this about the pronunciation?

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Yeah, I've never seen or heard that either. I'm sure there our plenty of dialects where those two words sounds similar or identical.

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- Our there? Or our you joking with us?
  
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- I mentioned this to my mother just a minute ago. I said I've never seen anyone use "are" instead of "our" and she was like "oh god that drives me nuts; I see that all the time!"
  
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THE TREND OF ALL CAPS IN MARKETING

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I really hate the use of quotes “for emphasis”

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also branding

particularly the style that gives up on capitalisation and punctuation

this is not primary school

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All or nothing perspectives with AI and zealous hate. It's helped me through my toughest year yet of physical disability and social isolation. It has improved my Python, CPP, and writing bash scripts. I've used it with cooking ideas, and finding products. It has helped me discover an entire science fiction universe of my own creation and helps me explore subtle nuances. It has helped me gain a much better understanding of the variety of human functional thought and psychology, especially in ways where other people may not understand my abstractive thoughts and connections across different spaces. It has also shown me why I get frustrated at people with different functional thought. The bad attitudes and emotional perspectives suck and can be depressing here. That is my biggest pet peeve this year. I've responded to it the most, and I've disconnected from here to go do other things the most from people with a bad attitude on AI.

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People who park the wrong way in the parking lot and then dive the wrong way. I'm talking about were the lanes aren't wide, so they're all angled. There even arrows painted at the entrance of each lane. But there always some dipshit that pulls through, or did the dumbest maneuver you've seen to back into it. And then they glare at people in their way who are going the right way...

Going to the grocery store has just infuriated me with a sheer number of entitled terrible drivers. Every last one of them should be sent back to driver's ed.

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???

How does this baffling word salad have upvotes? I hope that English is not your mother tongue.

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- Ah, so you're the type that parks wrong... and you feel called out.
  
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Messaging:

People who reply to direct text questions with 5min audio recordings.
People who use Enter as if it was the space bar, sending 10 messages for what could be easily sent as one.
People who treat their requests as of utmost urgency, but when you contact them back take hours or even days to reply back.

Online forums:

The sort of illiterate fuck who treats "but" as if it contradicted everything preceding it.
People who feel entitled to have ELI5 versions of the text content produced by other people. (i.e. throwing a tantrum because of difficult words, text size, or even conceptual complexity.)
Usage of "lol" and/or "lmao". (I mentally translate those into "I'm braindead and should be treated accordingly.")
The sort of dead weight that focuses too much on specific words being used to convey something, instead of what it conveys.

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/s 😁🍻

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- You // need // some // Xanax // /s 😁🍻
  
  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP IT!!!!!! /s
  
  Serious now. It doesn't work here, since there's no audible ping for every reply that you sent me. It's more like in whatsapp*: I definitively don't want to mute some people, but I wish that they didn't send me multiple short messages.
  
  *inb4 I hate whatsapp but not having it in Brazil is social suicide.
  
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Xanax

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Some

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Need

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You

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i do not like the weather

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I am all done with the phrases "speaks out" and "that being said."

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Add "reach out" to that list. God I hate business buzzwords.

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- "Suffice it to say"
  
  "At this time"
  
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The Americans need to have a giant pissing contest across the entire internet over which moron gets to lead the free world for the next 4 years.

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It would be fine if they just had a single election like everywhere else but they have their primaries too and seem to start campaigning around half way through the term. So there is some degree of campaigning going on around half the time.

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You mean elections?

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