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"i could care less" is commonly used in the place of "i couldn't care less" and it drives me up the wall.

I hate to be prescriptivist at all, but for some reason my pet peeve is mixing things up like “peek” vs “peak”, “weary” vs “wary”, and “apart of” vs “a part of”.

English is a silly language and has been imposed around the world by genocide and violence. It can’t even come up with spelling and/or pronunciation reforms to make itself more easily understood. Deeply unserious.

Maybe it's just a little slow running in which case it'll never be right.

If it's slow it's going to be right some of the time too, just much less than twice a day.

I have mostly overcome my prescriptivism, however, two that get me are: liberry (instead of library), and my biggest one is unnecessary apostrophe’s. They are everywhere.

Starting a sentence with "I mean"

I don't know why it bugs me so much but it does

Baseball specific one: "ground-rule double" colloquially used almost all the time to mean "automatic double." If a batted ball bounces on the warning track and goes over an outfield wall, it's an "automatic double," that's what it's called in the rulebook and that's a universal rule regardless of what ballpark the game is played at. "Ground rules" are specific to the ballpark, like a ball getting stuck in the ivy at Wrigley Field, or the catwalks on the dome in Tampa. One of those catwalks is a ground-rule home run, but nobody ever says that. For some reason, "ground-rule double" is ubiquitous for automatic double, but actual ground-rule stuff is very rare.

People in media who black out/see red in order to fight. It's the butt of every joke in combat sports, but one time my friend put it in his novel and I protested during critique. As a rule of thumb, if you're doing something wrong, doing it wrong harder probably won't help.

Maybe it's just a little slow running in which case it'll never be right.

On a long enough timescale it'd match up again

I get angry at people being thrown off balance by g-forces on public transport

EDIT: never mind I just realized I get angry at people being thrown off balance and doing a shit job of recovering from it, excluding people under the influence for some reason

"A few bad apples."

"TO EACH THEIR OWN!"

Retirees wasting 15 minutes in the grocery store line buying lottery tickets, I know they are the victims in the situation but couldn't you just learn to buy crypto for online casinos and let me buy my beer in peace

1. I hate when someone else's pet peeve becomes your pet peeve.

2. seats warm from someone else sitting in them before you

3. describing qualities with quantities. For example: saying "This is a huge issue." Unless the issue is actually, physically large, the correct phrase would be something like "This is an important issue."

4. people who talk a lot without saying anything

5. people who don't get to the point.

6. getting food on my fingers. As tasty as dorito dust is, I don't like getting it on my hands.

7. people who don't think about their turn when it's not their turn, then take a long ass time during their turn.

8. people who ask questions, then don't like the answers you give. If you did not want to hear certain answers, then just make an assertion. It causes less conflict than making me answer and then rejecting that answer.

9. similarly, wanting me to make a choice when I have no information or influence on budget, timing, etc. If our budget is $10 and I don't know if it's $2 or $50, I have no idea what an appropriate suggestion will be.

10. I might be on the ace spectrum, so it bothers me when stories always have to have a love story plotline. Like two cishet people can't just be friends? Do people really just do that where they "fall in love" with someone they've known for all of 3 days?

11. people with too many pet peeves.

12. ice hitting my face while drinking out of a glass

13. self-aware and self-deprecating humor in ads. You're trying to sell me a product. I am already anti-capitalist and will turn your shit off if I can. If you somehow get me to watch your ad, it is not funny or cute when you don't hype your product. I'd rather you make bad jokes on accident than on purpose when trying to sell me something.

14. non-standard UIs.

15. changing the UI.

16. change for the sake of change

I have more but this list is already too long. TY for reading have a rare Apu:

So many phrases and acronyms I'm too scared to admit. Maybe some fascist chud won't be able to doxx me but might just internet stalk me and message them to me all the time or as replies to every comment, which would drive me right off the edge. I don't even admit them to my friends for fear they will start using them or use them more just to mess with me.

But I absolutely fucking loathe when someone interrupts a movie.

Using "irregardless" when they mean "regardless".

People who use "infer" when they mean "imply" and vice versa.