Terms that gnaw on my nerves

[armenius]

Maybe I am just getting old,but as watching Bryan Williams on news the subject of the unfortunate aircraft downing came up.He referred to the "jet liner" and that was ok,but why do he and the newer people refer to "bomber jets" and "fighter jets".That to me is like talking about "truck diesels" or "train electrics".I have always been an aviation enthusiast and have been flying for 65 years and flew JET FIGHTERS and that's what everyone called them until the last few years.Makes me want to get a "rifle assault" or ""gun machine". Sorry,maybe I need to eat supper.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Let's see if I can do this. I have a heavy duty peeve with the reports of civilians getting killed in certain areas of combat activity.
They are all Civilians! They are very specific rules of international law which define Military Combatives. When you fight for a terrorist organization you do not meet that criteria.

 

[Road Rat]

There are no more REPORTERS.

Just a bunch of talking heads who have no idea what they are talking about.....just blah,blah,blah..............

They are hired for looks or heritage only. Must be politically correct on the big tube!!

I NEVER watch TV News.................it all sucks.

 

[zzzippper]

Could they be regionalisms? Like soda, pop, and coke? Everyone is from somewhere.

 

[radar1972]

What irks me is when the 'newscasters' feel the need to bore viewers with inane stuff that everyone knows.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

"Could they be regionalisms?" If you mean like the "yous" and "yous guys" in the Philly area, it still isn't correct grammar. That seems to have escaped the "Editors" of most media these days. The "Ivy League" education most these people get, didn't allow for this poor grammar and 'make it up as we go' style of reporting. This is coming from the management going for ratings instead of maintaining a standard that the people will emulate. At these rates the country will again fall into regional dialects that won't be able to understand each other (as it was in the civil war times). The movie industry chose the mid-west accent as a standard and that slowly became the almost national form of pronunciation. Now we are reverting to "Regionalisms" again and soon "Bad" means 10 things across the country (I can think of 3 already). Rant over, without apology. Ivan

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Could they be regionalisms? Like soda, pop, and coke? Everyone is from somewhere.

It's not how they say it, it is what they say.
It bothers me and apparently it bothers some other people too.

 

[shouldazagged]

...Sorry,maybe I need to eat supper.

I hope you did.

I understand what you're saying, it's just that now I have a peeve I hadn't really thought about before.

 

[Marshwheeling]

It used to bug me when people called the Metrodome the Metronome, but I'm over it since they tore it down.

 

[pineappleshooter]

My pet peeve is adding the word "at" at the end of a sentence that does not need it. It's "Where are you?" not "Where are you at?".

 

[Mcwsky09]

How about harrasment pronounced harrisment? Would you say "I was harrised?" Or don't harris me? Or she was being harrised? Apparently that pronunciation is so common even my phone's autocorrect is changing harrasment to harrisment but then it also sometimes does things like chance us to is, which makes no sense because us is a perfectly legit word spelled correctly so why would you even suggest changing it.
I forget what word it was but I was watching some interview and the guy being interviewed pronounced a word in an unusual way, perhaps a regional thing or a non native language thing, and the interviewer from that point on also pronounced it that way. Struck me as quite an odd thing to do.

 

[sipowicz]

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I always considered the talking heads on TV news to be a bunch of dorks, Ahem, I meant to say educated dorks. If they knew as much as they claim they would not make the gaffs or errors. The gal on MSNBC last night is an example.

 

[LVSteve]

My pet peeve is adding the word "at" at the end of a sentence that does not need it. It's "Where are you?" not "Where are you at?".

One that caught my ear when I came to the US was "change that out" for replacing a part. If you are going to replace something surely it is implied that the original comes out, there's only room for one in the hole.

 

[P&R Fan]

How about harrasment pronounced harrisment? Would you say "I was harrised?" Or don't harris me? Or she was being harrised? Apparently that pronunciation is so common even my phone's autocorrect is changing harrasment to harrisment but then it also sometimes does things like chance us to is, which makes no sense because us is a perfectly legit word spelled correctly so why would you even suggest changing it.
I forget what word it was but I was watching some interview and the guy being interviewed pronounced a word in an unusual way, perhaps a regional thing or a non native language thing, and the interviewer from that point on also pronounced it that way. Struck me as quite an odd thing to do.

You beat me to that one. It's harASSment. (hope that one doesn't get me another ding).

Missus Fan was talking about the ottomans in our living room yesterday and kept calling them Autobahns. I said "Doll, that's a highway in Germany".

I still love her though.
Yes, she's a blonde.
Jim

 

[kaaskop49]

Or how baseball broadcasters MUST use the word "allude." (...as you alluded to previously, Tim...) I never saw or heard this word until it became de rigueur to use it recklessly on BB telecasts.

Reminds me of the high school classmate who would "lard" his replies with "high-falutin" words he had just read. One day he met his match with a mispronunciation. The counselor, a brilliant man, replied: "The word is pronounced 'xxxxx', Mike, and incidentally, it's the wrong word."

 

[rwsmith]

i've mentioned this......

I've mentioned this, but it irks me so:

Nuclear = New + Clear or New + Clee + Are


It is NOT = New + Kew + Lar

 

[RobertJ.]

There are no more REPORTERS.

Just a bunch of talking heads who have no idea what they are talking about.....just blah,blah,blah..............

They are hired for looks or heritage only. Must be politically correct on the big tube!!

I NEVER watch TV News.................it all sucks.

Don Henley nailed it with "Dirty Laundry". And that was 30 or so years ago!

 

[Airpark]

My pet peeve is adding the word "at" at the end of a sentence that does not need it. It's "Where are you?" not "Where are you at?".

Mine too, you do NOT end a sentence with a preposition.

That being said most kids now-a-days would not know a prepopsition if it walked by and said "Howdy"

My dear mom, a school teacher, used to alway say between the "A and the T" if I asked where was it at.

And she always told me "Do not say AIN'T, because AIN'T ain't right."

 

[boatme99]

Laxadaisical.