Some of the ones already mentioned hit the ZAP button hard ("anyhoo", especially). I've been known to split infinitives and dangle participles (although occasionally as bait, looking to hook dinner :-), so am not entirely cerain I'm qualified to gripe. Nonetheless, there are several things that bother the bodily fluids out of me: "doable", "different than", and two that I acquired on my first editing job, "upon" (when used for "on", in almost all cases) and "employ" (when used for "use", rather than "hire").
Oh, and leetspeak, valley speak, or most dialect, used nonsarcastically.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-06-20 07:19 pm (UTC)Oh, and leetspeak, valley speak, or most dialect, used nonsarcastically.
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:19 am (UTC)I use it a lot and a severe beatig witha grammar bat wouldn't lessen my love of the word.
Teddy
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:52 am (UTC)It's not a killing offense to use "doable"; I just see it as part of the laziness that is verbing nouns (another irritant).
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Date: 2006-06-21 12:15 pm (UTC)Teddy