[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

I despise "my bad".

The use of the words "freedom" and "democracy" in the same sentence, particularly when being emitted by an American.

I'm with Lux.

And I'm with Krista on "culture of life." Hate that.

I also hate it when people use "anxious" to mean "eager," though it's technically correct. It used to be incorrect, but since it was so common I guess the dictionary changed the definition of "anxious," which used to mean tense and not eager. I used to just want to scream whenever someone would say "I'm really anxious to get started" or something like that. I've had to get over it to a degree because it is so common. I actually wrote a paper for a grammar class claiming that "anxious" should not be used to mean "eager" and found many dictionaries that backed up my claim but unfortunately they were all a little dated. My professor told me I had done my research but it was still wrong.

One of my pet-peeves is what I perceive as misspelling of the word "y'all." Why would someone say "ya'll" when the word (granted it's not a real word, but still) is a contraction of "you" and "all"? The only logical spelling in that case is "y'all." I don't know--perhaps the other spelling refers to "ya" and "all."

I can't stand it when I see signs in the front of establishments that say "CONGRADULATIONS GRADUATES!" I learned how to spell that word when I was a little kid and grown adults can't spell it correctly?

Ahhhhhhhh. I'm nearly finished with my school work so I'm taking a break. (Well, I mean, this phase of it, anyway). It's so good to go back to being Ledge-obsessed. And this book I'm reading about the Salem witch trials is just awful so I'm loving this board right now.