Prescriptivist Pet Peeves of the Day:

[subduction]

1. Decimated means "10% destroyed", not "obliterated". It's right there in the first two syllables, people, figure it the $%^# out already.¹
2. "Phase" is what Geordi does to the injector coils when they don't work right. "Fazed" is what J.Shep is when a space princess wants to get it on. Yes, it really is spelled that way.
3. It's called the subjunctive,

Comments

[brewsternorth]

Russell T. Davies made great play of getting "decimated" *correct* in "The Sound of Drums".

Me, I blame the tabloids.

And yes, nothing more annoying than writers who can't tell the difference between "phase" and "faze" - alas, some of those are pros.

[subduction]

Yeah, I was totally delighted when I saw/heard that in the ep, and I'm pretty sure I made a point of noting it in a subsequent LJ post, too. :D

Phase/faze is one that's driven me crazy for years -- it's one thing (still irritating) to see it in fic, but I've also seen it repeatedly in (non-tabloid) newspapers and other sources which should really know better.

[i_phianassa]

I really dislike it when they say, "____ and I" and then use the "I" properly. There really are times when it's "____ and me" people!

And I started a music share entry (that I have been too lazy to finish yet) a couple days ago. :)

[subduction]

Oh, that bugs me too! So many people seem to use one or the other exclusively, when they're both right in different contexts.

It's funny: I can deal with lolspeak, which totally butchers the language, but these sorts of (relatively minor) errors in usage annoy me so much more, probably because I almost always see them in contexts where I expect a high level of discourse.

Yay, more music! Not that I don't already have more than I could shake a stick at and/or ever conceivably listen to. :>

[randomalia]

Your geekery warms my heart.

[subduction]

Ahaha. Thanks. :>

[randomalia]

Also (while I am spamming your journal with eighty trillion comments) I'm snagging the last two songs. Thanks!

[subduction]

I love your spam. <33333 Enjoy the tunes!

thanks much

[anonymous]

thats for sure, guy