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[Félix]

A very strong word, dear Amelia.

[Jammies]

It bugs me when idiots don't listen to their voice mail before calling me back. I already ANSWERED your damn question, idiot.

[Félix]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeediots.

[Emily]

I only listen to voicemails about once a month, unless I'm expecting a call about something specific. Generally people I know will text so voicemails are often companies I don't have time for.

[Amy]

Zardoz is in the Tardis wrote: "Emily wrote: "Most cleaning activities annoy me."

I loathe dusting."

Does anyone enjoy it? If so, please stop by my house for some fun. Most of the time the dust in my house sticks around so long it could be arrested for loitering.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Amy wrote: "Most of the time the dust in my house sticks around so long it could be arrested for loitering. "

Good, I'm glad I'm not the only one. My dust makes me feel so guilty and self-loathing.

[Félix]

I visited someone's house once. Both people who lived there had severe dust allergies. Yet, there were thick layers of dust everywhere. The HVAC return grill was clogged almost completely with dust.

[evie]

I despise the fluffy floor dust that lurks around the chair legs and in the corners of a room. Of course it's in other peoples houses, not mine.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I like to call those dust serpents.

[Félix]

BunWat wrote: "How does a person with a dust allergy dust? Wearing a mask? Respirator? Hazmat suit?"

Good vacuum cleaner.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It bugs me when articles that need photos don't have them, and other articles have absolutely useless photos.

This article: "Honda launches comeback push with redesigned Accord." You wanna show me a picture of the new Accord? No? You want me to leave your website and google the car. Okay, not wasting any more time on your article, then.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classif...

Then the even more annoying trend at the Tribune which is to use a stock "photo illustration," the same one, at the top of each crime or accident article.

Here's the one they use for emergency/accidents:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/lo...

Wow, that illustration tells me so much! So very insightful.

Then there's the crime illustration:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/lo...

[Cynthia]

That is annoying, lg. Typically, the writer does not have input on photos with her/his news article. Usually up to the editor/section editor.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I know, I'm not blaming the writer. But someone needs to be blamed. Whoever it is!

[Cynthia]

Yes the crime scene tape image is just lazy. Or the photographer got lost.

[Amy]

Or cheap. Maybe they didn't want to pay a photographer.

[Cynthia]

True.

[Félix]

Cynthia, ya dint havta start using caps cause of what I said.

[Emily]

I was reading a book and they wrote "..for all intensive purposes." I immediately lost all respect for the author and now wonder how many people will read that and think it's right!

[Cynthia]

Félix wrote: "Cynthia, ya dint havta start using caps cause of what I said."

whatever.

[Félix]

:)

[Phil]

HI FELIX. I LIKE USING CAPS.

[Félix]

I'll put a cap in yo butt.

[Cynthia]

badass.

[[deleted user]]

Félix wrote: "A very strong word, dear Amelia."

On purpose...not that I really mean that I hate anyone, but I was intentionally strong to show my irritation.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Emily wrote: "I was reading a book and they wrote "..for all intensive purposes." I immediately lost all respect for the author and now wonder how many people will read that and think it's right!"

Thousands.

[Emily]

Depressing thought.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It has become incredibly annoying to me when people start sentences with "So,". I started to notice this a couple years ago, and it was among experts. I'd be watching Cspan, or some other program where experts were gathered together, or a clip from MSNBC where an expert was being interviewed by a TV host, or the PBS Newshour. Inevitably the person saying all the "so's" is youngish, in their 30s. This is not a trend among experts in their 50s and 60s.

I googled it thinking I wouldn't find anything, because it seems awfully obscure and I was probably the only person who noticed it. But google's autocomplete finished my request for me "people who start sentences with so" and found 229,000,000 results. And everyone who notices it is annoyed by it.

The reason I bring it up now is that I was having a conversation with my sister and she started doing it....at the moment in the conversation where she became "the expert," explaining something job-related to me. She picked it up by osmosis, at her job surrounded by highly educated experts. (Not that she was badly educated before, or surrounded by uneducated people, but I do think it has a whiff of the well-educated, high-status East Coaster about it.)


It's a "discourse marker."

In linguistics, a discourse marker is a word or phrase that is relatively syntax-independent and does not change the meaning of the sentence, and has a somewhat empty meaning.[1] Examples of discourse markers include the particles "oh", "well", "now", "then", "you know", and "I mean", and the connectives "so", "because", "and", "but", and "or". wiki

[Riona]

I start sentences with "so" all the time. Sorry, Lg.

I don't think I'm particularly well-educated, but I am an East Coaster.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

But are your sentences like, "So, where are we going for dinner?" Because that kind is okay.

[Riona]

Sometimes. Not always. In what context were the experts using it?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Here's an example I heard recently.

RACHEL MADDOW: When Scott Brown points to Elizabeth Warren`s appearance essentially saying she looks too white to have any Native American heritage, he seems to be saying he can judge her heritage based on her looks. Where does this come from? And what do you think it means?

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: So, on this particular aspect of it, there are two really important issues that are certainly at play here in Massachusetts, but much more broadly. The first is about race and what race is.
...
Race is a social construct, not a biological reality. So, you know, when we think about blackness, which is the one most can put their finger on, yes, most Americans think they can tell a black person when they see one....

So, it`s a weird kind of claim because it`s like she`s so white, you should be mad she claims she`s brown?

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Her first instance here is the most annoying and gratuitous one. When "so" is the first word the expert says, right after the question has been posed. There's no reason to begin with "so" at the outset of your answer. I don't have a problem with people using "so" to mean therefore. But you don't begin answering a question by saying, "Therefore...."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Omg, this article explains it all.

http://anand.ly/articles/so-pushes-to...

Barf!

[Phil]

Politicians start sentences with "listen."

[Phil]

So, that bugs you, too?

[Félix]

So, go sew buttons on a watermelon.

[Riona]

Yeah, I totally use "so" like that.

[Cynthia]

Félix wrote: "So, go sew buttons on a watermelon."

That's a new one.

[Félix]

Something from the deep, dark recesses of my childhood.

[Félix]

Totally.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yes, "look" is highly annoying too. Even more than politicians, political consultants start sentences with it. When someone starts a sentence with "look" I immediately tune them out.

[[deleted user]]

My problem with that example is more the extreme repetitiveness of the word than it's actual usage. Four times in about five sentences is just not okay.

[Phil]

Hwaet! So, look, you're, um, saying that, er, some of this is annoying? So, like, um, what can you do about it?

[Amy]

I would just like to interrupt here for a moment to say how much I enjoy reading this thread. Carry on, please.

[[deleted user]]

Pfft, I went to public school, I'm lucky I can read...

[Cynthia]

Hooray for midwestern Public Schools ! Booyah!

[[deleted user]]

Yay. I have an excuse for being illiterate. I went to a public school. Out side the Midwest. Neither of my parents finished high school. Remember that next time I make a grammatical error! Go easy on me!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I went to public and private.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gail wrote: "Remember that next time I make a grammatical error! Go easy on me!"

::chases Gail with punitive spatula::

[[deleted user]]

Cynthia wrote: "Hooray for midwestern Public Schools ! Booyah!"

Here, here!

[[deleted user]]

I don't remember going most of the time, and when I did there was little to no homework. I had one old drunk of a History teacher who used to write Heather and I hall passes to go to the corner store and buy gum as long as we swung by the caf and got him a chocolate chip cookie out of the vending machine... Yeah, he was one of the good ones.

I only had two teachers worth a damn, Mr. Gross (Psych & Soc) and Mrs. Hartley (Journalism and Creative Wr). In 4 years; that is SAD.