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That's it - quite a while since I've heard it spoken as she died in '94. I can say it though I suspect a true Scot would cringe at the accent and pronunciation
She was born in Cowdenbeath and lived in Blairgowrie for all of 2 years before her family moved to Australia. I've visited Blairgowrie - it's just a bit north of Edinburgh; Perthshire I think.
I'm from the east coast originally - near Aberdeen, so I probably qualify as a true Scot
Nice talking to you - I haven't thought about that phrase in forever!
Gee, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. I don't understand why companies do that. I've had it happen, and then I just don't go back and make the purchase. How does this help the company?
If I forget to mute my speakers before visiting crafty blogs & the blog has music...it scares the bajezus out of me when the music suddenly starts playing. I kinda wish there was a flashing 7 second warning sign upon entering music filled blogs. Enough time to hit mute or lower the volume.
Other then the initial startle, I usually enjoy the music.
My number one pet peeve is music on blogs. I am visiting blogs mostly at night when everyone is asleep and I hate when I click on blogs and the music starts.
It also drives me nuts when people write "boarder punch" instead of a border punch. Plus the word "cricut". I will always always call it a "crycut" and not a cricket. My brain just can't read it any differently.
"Nestabilities," because it's a trademarked "name," would fall under the "group noun" umbrella, which in American usage generally takes the singular verb, much the same way we Yanks consider "family," "crew," "company," and other group nouns to be singular (but can also be used with plural verbs: "the crew agrees that Capt Kirk is a clown, but the crew are divided over whether to mutiny," wherein "crew" is a single unit with respect to their opinion of Capt Kirk, but plural in their indecision about what to do about him).
/grammar lecture
Just throwing this out there but if you added the word die to the end, it would sound right - oval nestabilities die.
Incidentally, I say nesties when listing the items I used which I'm sure is somebody's pet peeve.
I'm also one of those evil people who list the main URL of their blog instead of directly linking to the project but I'm going to try to start doing that now - rejoice that this thread has converted me!
LOL at Sophie and the voila - I spotted that last night, but the list Sophie gave me of keyboard shortcuts for accents was upstairs . I'd agree, all the variations on it bug me, but then my mother was French.
I couldn't for the life of me find the combination for the other accented A! All I could find was the one I used. Since we don't use them in English words, I don't use the alt key codes except the ones for pictures ♥ ☻
Oh my gosh, I am hanging my head in shame. I accidentally use cuddlebug instead of cuttlebug and don't know for the life of me why it happens, it must be a mental problem! I catch myself sometimes and correct it. I capitalize in my comments sometimes if I am really excited about a card I am looking at, I use explanation points like there is no tomorrow....and I think I use nesties too.
Oh I am in sad sad shape!!! Oops..see I just did the explanation points thing again. Somebody help me pleaaaaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeeee.
My pet peeve is about written English (American English), I wish that certain words were spelled the way they are in British English... Color = Colour, Favor = Favour.. .etc.. One time in Middle School I decided to spell my words in British English for a paper. My teacher marked off, of course, which lowered my grade. I asked he why. She said because those words were misspelled, and as high as my grades were, I should know better. I told her "they are not spelled incorrectly." She informed me that they were.. I said "Nope. I just spelled them the English way instead of the American way. So therefore, they aren't TECHNICALLY wrong." LOL
She just looked at me, shook her head and said.. "You're right. But for the future Miss Smarty Pants, I expect all your writing assignments for this class to be spelled in AMERICAN English." LOL ... She DID raise my grade though, and reversed the point deductions for misspelled words.
Hey guys! In reference to an earlier post I have a four legged black hole with a tail that finds it necessary to cohabitate with me in my scrap space. LOL
I have someone who sits in the cubicle next to me that slurps her coffee LOUD. Sometimes its sounds like she doesnt even set the cup down in between slurps. AND sometimes a "cha cha cha" follows the slurp.
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This has been a fun thread to read. (Sorry grammar police)
Although sometimes I get a wee bit annoyed at grammar or spelling mistakes, I then remember this:
I have a sister-in-law and a niece and a nephew who are highly intelligent caring people. However, they have dyslexia and other problems that created havoc in their early schooling and in their adult lives.
I have family and friends who have grammar impediments that occassionally cause me to cringe internally. But they are creative and loving people.
Over the years I've become a lot more accepting of people's mistakes. If I can understand the core of what they are saying, it no longer matters to me if they cannot spell correctly or even speak correctly.
I also think that there are fads in speaking and in informal writing, so even though 'wallah' drives me crazy, I know that many people use it as a sort of slang, knowing perfectly well that it is not a 'proper' word. The English language has so many variants, regional accents and international derivatives that it truly is a living thing.
On the other hand, I get truly annoyed when published writing is full of spelling and grammar clinkers.
Well, enough of that grouch.
My crafting pet peeve- hmmm, I must have at least one....
well, maybe not after all. ;-)
I usually am okay with cards unless they have some new technique.
What I dont get is when someone makes this box that is "easy" and when you print the tutorial its 1985 pages long, has 384 folds and you really need 4 hands to make it properly LOL
I think my biggest pet peeve happens when you watch a haul video. I love watching them and getting a look at all the cool things out there on the market, but please why can't you take everything out of the plastic bags and have it sitting in a pile beside your camera? It drives me crazy to have to listen to all the rustling while people did through bags. Same goes for the cellophane packaging items come in. If you are going to show us every item you have bought at least remove the cellophane before you start taping. Maybe people don't know how much noise this makes on camera, but sometimes I have to mute my speakers just to watch the video.
I don't get too jacked about spelling. If I can figure out what a person is trying to say, I figure that's good enough. I'm one of those evil people that doesn't always fill out the recipes for cards I post in the gallery. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I just want to share what I made. (shrug) I say "sistah" and "�ber", too.
One of my crafting pet peeves would have to be the feel of gluestick glue on my fingers. It's like nails on a chalkboard for me. I caught my then 2 1/2 year old son eating a gluestick once...just about hurled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <----intentional use of exclamation points. ;)
I'm just sitting here laughing at some of these replies! LOL
My craft related peeve is this: some evil craft fairy keeps messing up my studio while I'm sleeping and while I'm at work. When I go in to start stamping a card, I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up after that dadgummed fairy before I can play. She's a quick little thing, too, because I can never seem to catch her! Hmph!
Anyone know where her sister is - the cleaning fairy??
BTW - those of you who can't stand "embellies" - don't hate me! LOL I'm one of the gals on the Belli Challenge DT. Hee hee hee!
Hehe, I knew you were from the midwest as soon as I got to the word "dadgummed". COmes right after "dadburned" in the midwesterners dictionary.
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1. Music. UGH. I know the blog is "your home" and I'm your guest, but I don't visit people's homes where the music annoys me and makes the visit unenjoyable... and I'm not going to visit your blog home if it assaults me there either.
2. Basic grammar errors that make it painful to read. I know we all make errors-- for heaven's sake, the proof cover of my last book had "Is Aggie loosing her marbles?" GULP. We all do it! However, when I read "could of" "Should of" "must of" instead of have, have, and have... I want to run-- far away. Very, very far away. Their/they're/there... yeah. Basic stuff like that. Oh, text speak on blog posts-- please don't.
Oh, you know, I thought of something else. I really do get tired of companies with poor customer service. I don't ask much. I order, you pack, you ship, I receive. That's all I ask. I don't even care if there's a delay in there, but when I go to order something basic like white card stock and then throw a few things in to try them out, and end up with just the extras because you're out of white card stock, it doesn't bode well for our future business relationship. I know things get out of stock, but a paper company being out of white card stock just seems a bit much.
Yeah. I'm still irked over that one. I paid a lot for shipping on things I would never have purchased if I didn't need the paper first.
The good thing is, these things aren't really all that prevalent. Most of my experiences have been wonderful!
<shuddering> A snowflake with nine points - that's a bit much! I can see how people might carelessly draw or create a snowflake with eight points, but... nine??
I actually don't mind many of the things listed here. Yeah, I think putting music on your blog is just silly, but I don't mind turning off the sound.
God love all those folks willing to take the time to make video tutorials, but, please, folks. turn up the volume. Granted, I have a slight hearing impairment, but I can usually hear most videos - except these home made craft videos. I have everything turned up as loud as I can and my ear right up to the speaker, and I can still barely hear you speak. I don't watch most videos because it just depresses me that I can't hear it. And, chickies, we baby boomers are getting older, I know I can't be the only one with this problem.
Ok... so a little bad grammar is understandable, people make typos, and some people have difficulty spelling certain words.... but what about running accross a post where there is almost no punctuation. Or people who use fonts where the upper case and lower case letters are all mixed up. It hurts my head to read those.
I went to a blog just this morning where the spelling was atrocious, the grammar was worse than the spelling and the punctuation was almost nonexistent. I just left, I couldn't even stay there long enough to find what I was looking for.
I know I'm not perfect in any of these areas but it still drives me nuts when I see so many mistakes. It's like some people don't even try. It's even worse when I see these kinds of mistakes in regular published books. Isn't the proofreader supposed to find these errors?
I went to a blog just this morning where the spelling was atrocious, the grammar was worse than the spelling and the punctuation was almost nonexistent. I just left, I couldn't even stay there long enough to find what I was looking for.
I know I'm not perfect in any of these areas but it still drives me nuts when I see so many mistakes. It's like some people don't even try. It's even worse when I see these kinds of mistakes in regular published books. Isn't the proofreader supposed to find these errors?
I KNOW!
A chat forum is one thing.... but a published book, or a website for a company, an ebay listing, or any other medium that people use for a business or to make money.
I haven't had time to read all 5 pages, so forgive me if someone has already said this...but it annoys the bejeezus out of me when someone starts a thread or posts something that they want a response to and then repeatedly post "bump" every 5 minutes. Impatient much?
And speaking of bad grammar and typos, people who don't know the difference between "loose" and "lose" - drives me crazy!
I've just had a thought about music on blogs - I remember when I used to find it intrusive and annoying when music blared on opening some blogs but had forgotten about it because it hadn't happened in a long time.
Then I remembered why!
I use Firefox as my browser and a while ago I added an extension that blocks flash and shockwave objects (Flashblock). Most music and videos are flash so they are blocked. The flash object is replaced by a button so if you do want to play the music or video you just click on the button - very easy.
And for Internet Explorer users check out this link. Apparently there is a function built in that will do the job
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I will add my backing to the blogs and forum posts that can't write a decent entry! There is no excuse for the incorrect spelling, punctuation and grammar on things posted on the internet. If you want people to take your blog or post seriously, then write it properly. Try using spellcheck or a dictionary.
I also think that there are fads in speaking and in informal writing, so even though 'wallah' drives me crazy, I know that many people use it as a sort of slang, knowing perfectly well that it is not a 'proper' word.
I don't think many people know perfectly well what the word is, or, how to spell it correctly.
The first time I saw "wallah" I had no idea what the person who wrote it was talking about. I had never seen it spelled like that before.
At work one day, a lady was telling me about a fabulous new frozen dinner that you took out of the bag, cooked it in the microwave for 2 minutes and then it was done. I asked her the name of the product and she said "vi-yola" (Imagine a very STRONG southern accent when you say it to yourself). I asked her to spell it, and she spelled V-o-i-l-a, and again pronounced it as "vi-yola", meaning "there you have it". Maybe she would have been better off with "walla".
Sigh...
In any case, I used to be a proud member of the grammar police, quick to dismiss a person's intelligence for the misuse of their, there, and they're, or me, myself, and I. But, the more I work in a global marketplace, the more aware I have become that the English language isn't easy to master, even if it was your first language as a toddler followed by 12-ish years of education.
As the mother of 2 (well almost 1 as ds will be 20) teenagers, I can say that 'Whatever' and 'my bad' are definitely last year. Now everything is 'epic' as in 'Dude, that was epic!'. Sigh...
As the mother of 2 (well almost 1 as ds will be 20) teenagers, I can say that 'Whatever' and 'my bad' are definitely last year. Now everything is 'epic' as in 'Dude, that was epic!'. Sigh...
Pamela
LOL I'm 16, and I certainly vouch for this statement!!!! ;)
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As the mother of 2 (well almost 1 as ds will be 20) teenagers, I can say that 'Whatever' and 'my bad' are definitely last year. Now everything is 'epic' as in 'Dude, that was epic!'. Sigh...
