I agree. 'Expresso' is a corruption of 'espresso', which actually means something quite different. But what should you do if you actually want an espresso? Mime it? Draw a picture?
-- People who say "alternate" when they mean "alternative". Especially academic people who use it when it has alternative (ahem) meanings in a vital e-mail. Cretins.
Yes, I'm with you there, too. Although I think it's all about where you put the stress, really.
-- The automatic correct option on Microsoft products which "corrects" all lower case i's to capital I's, because obviously all languages are like English.
Yes, but they should be, and then we'd all be much happier and less confused. You can turn that off, you know, by clicking the little drop-down menu underneath the letter after pressing the backspace (although I suppose it depends on which version of Word you're using).
-- Loose Women. (Note the capitals.)
Noted. Loose women (note lower case) probably have AIDS and things, though, so should also probably be avoided.
-- "Superwall".
Yes, that irritates me, too. Mostly because I've noticed that many of my 'friends' (for which read 'people I haven't seen in ten years who think it's bohemian and trendy to go around "friending" people they don't really know in order to construct an illusion of popularity') have a video posted on there of a woman in a mask in a bath with fairly severe diarrhoea defecating on her own face. Even I thought that was too much.
-- The "puns" on Cash in the Attic &c.
I firmly disagree with you there. They are the heighth (that one was for you, Paul) of satire. Why were you watching Cash in the Attic? Don't you have a PhD to write or something?
-- The fact that I sometimes watch Cash in the Attic &c.
Yes, well, quite. But you could avoid this quite easily by exercising a little-known philosophical principle known as 'free will'.
-- People who say "expresso".
I agree. 'Expresso' is a corruption of 'espresso', which actually means something quite different. But what should you do if you actually want an espresso? Mime it? Draw a picture?
-- People who say "alternate" when they mean "alternative".
Especially academic people who use it when it has alternative (ahem) meanings in a vital e-mail. Cretins.
Yes, I'm with you there, too. Although I think it's all about where you put the stress, really.
-- The automatic correct option on Microsoft products which "corrects" all lower case i's to capital I's, because obviously all languages are like English.
Yes, but they should be, and then we'd all be much happier and less confused. You can turn that off, you know, by clicking the little drop-down menu underneath the letter after pressing the backspace (although I suppose it depends on which version of Word you're using).
-- Loose Women. (Note the capitals.)
Noted. Loose women (note lower case) probably have AIDS and things, though, so should also probably be avoided.
-- "Superwall".
Yes, that irritates me, too. Mostly because I've noticed that many of my 'friends' (for which read 'people I haven't seen in ten years who think it's bohemian and trendy to go around "friending" people they don't really know in order to construct an illusion of popularity') have a video posted on there of a woman in a mask in a bath with fairly severe diarrhoea defecating on her own face. Even I thought that was too much.
-- The "puns" on Cash in the Attic &c.
I firmly disagree with you there. They are the heighth (that one was for you, Paul) of satire. Why were you watching Cash in the Attic? Don't you have a PhD to write or something?
-- The fact that I sometimes watch Cash in the Attic &c.
Yes, well, quite. But you could avoid this quite easily by exercising a little-known philosophical principle known as 'free will'.
-- egg_shaped_fred
Upheld.
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