Things that irritate me:

- email messages that contain no punctuation of any kind just several 
sentences strung together presumably youre supposed to figure out 
sentence boundaries from context or something its really quite 
irritating though

- Email messages that overuse punctuation!!!!

- Sentences that end with a question mark despite not being questions. 
You know the kind of thing I mean:

   + What is the average flight time?
   + Draw a histogram of the light times?

- Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)

- Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a 
retard like me can understand it!)

- People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."

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Invisible wrote:

> 
> - Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)
> 

As in: Please bring me the estimates from the department of redundancy 
department please?

(Extra question mark thrown in for good measure!!!)

> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."

Oh, now it's personal! I used to have a problem with i.e. and e.g.

I know now to use i.e. when I mean "In other words ..." and e.g. when I 
mean "for example"

of course, I still get them screwed up.


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~Mike

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> As in: Please bring me the estimates from the department of redundancy 
> department please?
> 
> (Extra question mark thrown in for good measure!!!)

I Andrew

Yes that fixed it. not sure why it was broken in the first place??!!!

>> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."
> 
> Oh, now it's personal! I used to have a problem with i.e. and e.g.
> 
> I know now to use i.e. when I mean "In other words ..." and e.g. when I 
> mean "for example"
> 
> of course, I still get them screwed up.

It's quite easy. If it's an example, use "e.g." If it isn't an exmaple, 
don't use it. Simple.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Things that irritate me:

> - email messages that contain no punctuation of any kind just several 
> sentences strung together presumably youre supposed to figure out 
> sentence boundaries from context or something its really quite 
> irritating though

> - Email messages that overuse punctuation!!!!

> - Sentences that end with a question mark despite not being questions. 
> You know the kind of thing I mean:

>    + What is the average flight time?
>    + Draw a histogram of the light times?

> - Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)

> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a 
> retard like me can understand it!)

> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."

-  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
same goes for to lie -> lying.

- When you have a verb which ends in -uce and you want to make the
equivalent noun/adjective, it usually ends in -ucible, not "-ucable". For
example, it's reproduce -> reproducible (not "reproducable").

- People who constantly confuse the words "than" and "then".

- I think some people write "they're" instead of "there" on purpose, just
to annoy people.

- People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
are actually saying "I know something".

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>
> - Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)
>

I often do that by accident. I tend to end requests with 'please' and then, 
when I read back, sometimes I notice that I put it in at the beginning as 
well.

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Warp wrote:
> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
> are actually saying "I know something".

	I aint got no beef with none of that nonsense! No, sir.

-- 
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>    + What is the average flight time?

That's a question. :-)

>> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a 
>> retard like me can understand it!)

Or commas. Or, most recently, quotation marks to "mean" emphasis.

> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
> same goes for to lie -> lying.

And for all non-native speakers of English:
The past tense of bind is bound.
Having a limit is being bounded.

The TCP socket is not bounded after accept() returns.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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>>>    + What is the average flight time?
> 
> That's a question. :-)

Yes. THAT is a question. The other one isn't.

Worryingly, I see this kind of thing a lot of official test papers...

> Or commas. Or, most recently, quotation marks to "mean" emphasis.

That's not as bad as people who do that thing with their fingers when 
speaking out loud to mean quotation marks.

This in itself is less bad than my mum's pathology of repeating words to 
differentiate them. "This is the total. Well, I mean, it's not the 
*total* total, but it's the total." WTF?

>> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
>> same goes for to lie -> lying.
> 
> And for all non-native speakers of English:
> The past tense of bind is bound.
> Having a limit is being bounded.

I haven't come across either of these mistakes myself...

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Warp wrote:
> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
> same goes for to lie -> lying.

Not seen that one before...

> - People who constantly confuse the words "than" and "then".

In fairness, it wasn't until recently that I discovered that these are 
actually different words with subtly different meanings.

> - I think some people write "they're" instead of "there" on purpose, just
> to annoy people.

...or, generalising, people who do *anything* specifically for the 
purpose of annoying people.

> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
> are actually saying "I know something".

Ah yes, gotta love double and triple negatives. :-}

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> This in itself is less bad than my mum's pathology of repeating words to 
> differentiate them. "This is the total. Well, I mean, it's not the 
> *total* total, but it's the total." WTF?

My favorite was "The car wasn't just totaled. It was completely totaled!"

> I haven't come across either of these mistakes myself...

I think you get it more in places people tend to use english less. Most 
of the non-native english on this group is pretty amazingly good. I 
heard this all the time in school with exchange professors, tho. Quite 
distracting when they're talking about things like initial TCP window 
sizes, and they can't get straight whether it's a bound connection or a 
bounded connection. :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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