What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[scootr]

The downside of self-publishing. These days, anyone with Adobe and a PC can be an "author".

Or worse - an influencer.
I watch you tube videos on topics I like that I can't hardly get through, terrible delivery, repeating themselves, irrelevant ramblings, bad video, sound, whatever. Hi You Tube watchers, here's my thoughts on this again....oh no! Not your stupid thoughts again
Then you see this guy has 10k or 20k subscribers and wonder, how? Why? Who?

 

[alexpops]

Yeah ... some of them are reminiscent of Rocky & Bullwinkle pulling rabbits out their hat.

 

[mrmikey]

I had to go through it with a red pencil, correcting phrases and fixing run-on sentences to make it readable. After about 3 chapters I quit.
Not that I'm a wordsmith or literary genius, but I also don't make my living writing.

I feel your pain.
Nor am I a literary genius but when people type their, there, they're, your, you're etc. interchangeably it drives me bonkers.

 

[scootr]

Rut row, the grammar police are here

 

[masseyrider]

I feel your pain.
Nor am I a literary genius but when people type their, there, they're, your, you're etc. interchangeably it drives me bonkers.

Your two sensitive aboot there minor fopahs.

 

[Engineer42]

Rut row, the grammar police are is here

 

[Jstpssng]

The downside of self-publishing. These days, anyone with Adobe and a PC can be an "author".

This was an author with over 180 novels.
I'm not sure I should admit I read her books but picked up "Message from Nam" at a free book swap and enjoyed it.
The next one, not so much.

 

[scootr]

The grammar officer is here. Grammar police indicates plural. (there are 2 of you checking in on this topic) Of course this is open to a lot of lateral interpretation. But 'grammar police is here' would be like seeing a single soldier and saying the Army is here. Again my interpretation.
You do you. I'm certain you won't run out of sentences needing corrections in this lifetime. Cheers

 

[rontaki]

Speaking of grammar police, the usage of "U" and "UR" to replace "You" and "Your" respectively has me wondering what happens to all the discarded "Yo"s. Do we just loose them? Do they brake apart? I used to care enough to want to correct these travesties, now I realize that I'm trying to drain the ocean with a spoon. Languages are constantly changing, what I consider to be correct was probably some ancestor's peeve.

 

[Engineer42]

The grammar officer is here. Grammar police indicates plural. (there are 2 of you checking in on this topic) Of course this is open to a lot of lateral interpretation. But 'grammar police is here' would be like seeing a single soldier and saying the Army is here. Again my interpretation.
You do you. I'm certain you won't run out of sentences needing corrections in this lifetime. Cheers

I was being sarcastic to make it more grammatically incorrect, as in funny, haha, not to correct your grammar.

Mondays are too early for that evidently.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[Jstpssng]

the usage of "U" and "UR" to replace "You" and "Your" respectively has me wondering what happens to all the discarded "Yo"s

This one's easy. They put two together with a string in the middle... and called it a yo-yo.

I'll show myself out now.

 

[mrmikey]

Speaking of grammar police, the usage of "U" and "UR" to replace "You" and "Your" respectively.....

Ur correct, I'm guilty as charged

 

[NoTrespassing]

Ok, since we're on the subject of grammar, mine is by no means perfect, but I was taught to use adverbs when modifying action words. I constantly here advertisements that use adjectives instead of adverbs. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me every time. It happens so often that I'm starting to question whether or not it's poor English.

 

[DarkBlack]

Me thinks , both ways are correct depending on his intentions of one, or more.

The sheep(one) is here
The sheep (more than one) are here

 

[Jstpssng]

Ok, since we're on the subject of grammar, mine is by no means perfect, but I was taught to use adverbs when modifying action words. I constantly here advertisements that use adjectives instead of adverbs. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me every time. It happens so often that I'm starting to question whether or not it's poor English.

Thankfully, mine is impeccable.

Monitors, please delete the discussion string associated with this.


PS: this post was meant as a joke on myself. At the same time I was complaining, I made a faux pas in another thread.

 

[BravoXray]

Not really a pet peeve, more of a complaint.
Back in October, one of the TPMS sensors on my Suburban went dead, so I went to my local tire store and had them change it. I asked them to ping the others to see if they here liable to fail also. I watched while the tech pinged them and they showed no problems. Two weeks ago, the "Tire Monitor System" message came up on the dash. Pulled out the Launch X431 scan tool and it showed that the other three were offline due to low batteries.
So, today I went back to the shop and had them change the other three sensors.
I guess it's my fault for not having the shop go ahead and change them when the first one failed even though they checked okay. Maybe it was the spell of really cold weather that finished them off. All good now though for a few more years.

 

[scootr]

I was being sarcastic to make it more grammatically incorrect, as in funny, haha, not to correct your grammar.

Mondays are too early for that evidently.

Sorry I didn't catch that it was humor ....

 

[drssg]

Not really a pet peeve, more of a complaint.
Back in October, one of the TPMS sensors on my Suburban went dead, so I went to my local tire store and had them change it. I asked them to ping the others to see if they here liable to fail also. I watched while the tech pinged them and they showed no problems. Two weeks ago, the "Tire Monitor System" message came up on the dash. Pulled out the Launch X431 scan tool and it showed that the other three were offline due to low batteries.
So, today I went back to the shop and had them change the other three sensors.
I guess it's my fault for not having the shop go ahead and change them when the first one failed even though they checked okay. Maybe it was the spell of really cold weather that finished them off. All good now though for a few more years.

When they check the sensors, I don't think it can tell them a percent charge on the battery. It just indicates whether it's currently working.

If one battery is dead, and all the batteries are the same age, I think it makes the most sense to replace them all.

Even better, replace the sensors when replacing the tires. One set of batteries is unlikely to last through two sets of tires.

 

[WinterDeere]

One set of batteries is unlikely to last through two sets of tires.

Never even thought of this, as I haven't ever had a TPMS fail, short of corrosion causing the stem to literally snap off. Are failing batteries in TPMS sensors a normal thing? I have had cars with TPMS for up to 12 years, and have never seen a low battery warning. I presently have one truck 10 years old and another car at 9 years, still on original TPMS's.