Pet Peeves

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Thank you so much, that's a huge compliment. I try to do the best I can with what I was taught, although it's not rare to doubt myself. It's nice to know that


my "work" is paying off

Let us just put it this way: If I could communicate in any of the 13 languages that I am learning as seemingly effortlessly as you can communicate in English, I would be working as a translator or teacher.

 

[fluffycrow]

Ah! I had not thought of that possibility. So many platforms, so many devices! Thank you for adding that.

Familiarity breeds contempt...? If you don't have to think about how to say something, it just pours out, unfiltered.

When learning a new language, you are often taught "the rules" of how to put parts of speech together. This kind of noun uses that kind of verb, etc. When I was in 7th grade and learned some of the grammar rules of English, I told my mom, "I just go by what sounds right. 'We was walking' doesn't sound right. 'We were walking' does." When I took French in high school, I had to learn the rules because I didn't know what "sounded" right.

Also, people tend to talk like the people around them, which is how dialects form, and even new languages. I enjoy being "around" all the people on BYC. Different experiences, different backgrounds, from different countries and areas in the US; all of it makes BYC the treasure trove of information that it is.

Yes, ditto.

Here, I completely agree. I was fortunate enough to learn English quite young. I too, follow the thought "whatever sounds right". Still, I feel like it does not give me the right to post things that include "texting slang", things like "fr" or, " if ykyk", while a fellow non-native speaker is struggling with "proper" English. Fortunatelly or not, BYC is not just the US, the UK, and AU. I feel like we should be at least mindful of the fact that what comes naturally to us, might not to others. I am not proposing being on edge all the time, fearing that another BYCer might not undertand us; BYC is a place most of us come to relax, after all. Keeping some things to a minimum, would be beneficial however. Things like the abbreviations I mentioned above, or making our posts slightly more coherent, and not so over the place (the latter being something I struggle with myself)

 

[fluffycrow]

Let us just put it this way: If I could communicate in any of the 13 languages that I am learning as seemingly effortlessly as you can communicate in English, I would be working as a translator or teacher.

Thank you so much! Very encouraging to hear

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Here, I completely agree. I was fortunate enough to learn English quite young. I too, follow the thought "whatever sounds right". Still, I feel like it does not give me the right to post things that include "texting slang", things like "fr" or, " if ykyk", while a fellow non-native speaker is struggling with "proper" English. Fortunatelly or not, BYC is not just the US, the UK, and AU. I feel like we should be at least mindful of the fact that what comes naturally to us, might not to others. I am not proposing being on edge all the time, fearing that another BYCer might not undertand us; BYC is a place most of us come to relax, after all. Keeping some things to a minimum, would be beneficial however. Things like the abbreviations I mentioned above, or making our posts slightly more coherent, and not so over the place (the latter being something I struggle with myself)

My mind tends to wander, so a lot of the times a paragraph that needed only a few short sentences all of a sudden go into long-winded tales of god knows what.

 

[fluffycrow]

My mind tends to wander, so a lot of the times a paragraph that needed only a few short sentences all of a sudden go into long-winded tales of god knows what.

I do the exact same. I do want to get my waffling under control, but I do admit it's very hard to do

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I do the exact same. I do want to get my waffling under control, but I do admit it's very hard to do

It is called waffling!? That is awesome. I am totally going to start using that phrase.

 

[fluffycrow]

It is called waffling!? That is awesome. I am totally going to start using that phrase.

I think it is. From what I understand, waffling is blabbering on about one or more subjects, without really getting somewhere, or get very philosophical. I totally agree, I think it's a brilliant phrase

 

[troyer]

Pet peeve: Someone that knows diddly-squat about the subject and project themselves as though they do.

 

[troyer]

Pet peeve: When my mouth moves faster than my brain can keep up with.

























In other words: Speak before I consider how it might sound.

 

[Free Birb]

Bread crumbs in the soft butter