I'm not a bigot. I love inarticulate people, too. Well, some of them. Anyway, I'm a nerdy pedantic wordsmith.

Fuchsiacoiffeurist.

You broke google. Fuchwhatscoiffeuriwhatchamakalit?

Fuchsia = pink
Coiffure = hairdo, usually female

Plus a nod to "derailleur" with the extra "e."

A neologism, but one not sans fundament.

We now return to your regularly scheduled geekery, already in progress.

How can a thread be off-topic when it was never on? Love this thread!

I hate this post LOL

It's a great word, to be sure, but please leave your fundament in your cycling shorts, and out of the conversation. Well, unless it's those Michelangelo shorts in the Spandex-bashing thread. :D

(For those unfamiliar, see Merriam-Webster's definition.)

There's a sign at a parking lot I pass every day on my way to work.


POSTED
NO PARKING
Violators will be towed at your expense!



At MY expense? hmm...

No mention of excessive exclamation marks!!!!

OR CAPS LOCK ABUSE?!?!

You'd think this thread would have been over right here, with perhaps a closing DOH! by the OP...but nooooooooooooo....

Oh, I forgot to provide my "D'oh!" or mea culpa for my error in my opening post. Sorry about that. But clearly, these language peeves are entertaining to a few of us. I predict this thread won't die for a long time.

Long live the language peeve thread!

I hereby commute your sentence.

:thumb:

Oh, I love stupid work signs.

At parking lot entrance: "Smoking Prohibited. Smoking in designated areas, only." Which is it?

"Excellence Everyday!" (or at least every day that they're not coming up with slogans.)

Work BS slogan of the year: "Our best resource is our people."

What it really means is that they chew em up and spit em out as fast as possible.

This thread peeves me off.

I should of let this thread pass without comment, but there are a few things that bother me when reading forums even though I try not to let them. One of which is the third word in this post.

It does disturb me more when the level of discourse falls more than it does when the level of grammar falls.

I do find myself giving more weight to the opinions of those who can compose reasonable messages, which may or may not be to my benefit. After all, there may be a "Rain Man" among us that doesn't communicate well, but can tell us almost intuitively what the ideal bicycle or equipment configuration is for a given commuting scenario. Definitely 32 spokes 3 crossed with XT hubs... ;)

Ah speak 'merkin, dangit. Yer either wiff me or agin me.

How about "Walk Cars":)

I stopped minding it as much when I realized it was a phonetically accurate misspelling of should've. Still can't see it in print without wincing, but the two are indistinguishable when spoken.

It's nice to see Chipcom occasionally retract his clause.

Chronosynclasticinfundibulum. My days as a teenage Kurt Vonegut reader. AAAhh.

As someone who has been learning new computer programming skills recently, I had to wonder about this statement. Computers are extremely unforgiving when it comes to errors of syntax, spelling, and vocabulary.

Oh, and what looks like an error in grammar, syntax, or spelling to one person may look like difference of dialect to an actual linguist. Anyone here wanna own up to being an "extreme prescriptivist"? (see below) ;)

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguis...on_in_conflict

Raise ur hand if ur grammer n spelling r grate wen u comunicate whith a computor but u can't write propperly in english! :crash:

^^^ some people actually know the difference between proper grammar, usage and syntax used in programming and formal communications/prose, and the lazy shorthand used in applications like e-mail, chat, instant messaging, usenet, BB and discussion forums. They are usually the people who can also walk and chew gum.

I am getting better at not letting any of the errors bother me, since if I can understand the meaning the words have obviously accomplished their purpose.

However, this is one that makes me wonder. What does the speaker/writer think the phrase means? I know there are phrases I have not known the meaning of, and have researched. There are books written on obscure phrases in daily use. But some of these don't even make syntactical sense.

There are a few of these phonetic "homonyms" that just make no sense if you slow down and try to figure out what they mean.

"I should of known," versus "I should've known."

"Every once and a while," versus "every once in a while."

There are others as well that are just not coming to mind.

I think I broke the punctuation rules in presenting my examples. ;)

Now that I have read this far now I have to mention a few of my peeves, I usually keep them to myself. When folk's use big words to describe things instead of little words, the little words would work just as well. And when forum member's don't proofread, people just type what comes into there head.