Pet Peeves

[BigBlueHen53]

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

Enjoying you guys' comments on these subjects .. in my younger days, I always held myself to a high standard of spelling, correct grammar and punctuation, as well as ... just trying to communicate effectively and articulately. Now, however, I find myself making errors in all these areas, and it's embarrassing! Especially when I'm enthusiastic about a topic, I tend to rush and forget to proof myself ... and like one of you said above, even after I check and recheck, I'll still find a glaring error only after I hit Post!

 

[CedarLane]

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.

Thank you for this reminder. Different dialects and different regions of the country or world! They add a lot of "flavor and spice" to the world, don't they? They can enrich us if we let them. There are some words that are pronounced differently in one region than they are in another. Sometimes the dictionary lists both pronunciations. My way isn't always the "right way."

When I was teaching school, I had a student who had recently moved to the US from Canada. As a result, she used Canadian spellings. While I always circled these words to help her become aware of the differences between American & Canadian spellings, I did not mark them wrong or take away points. She needed time to make the adjustments/changes. She was an "A" student so she adapted relatively quickly.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thank you for this reminder. Different dialects and different regions of the country or world! They add a lot of "flavor and spice" to the world, don't they? They can enrich us if we let them. There are some words that are pronounced differently in one region than they are in another. Sometimes the dictionary lists both pronunciations. My way isn't always the "right way."

When I was teaching school, I had a student who had recently moved to the US from Canada. As a result, she used Canadian spellings. While I always circled these words to help her become aware of the differences between American & Canadian spellings, I did not mark them wrong or take away points. She needed time to make the adjustments/changes. She was an "A" student so she adapted relatively quickly.

You are the essence of a true educator!

 

[Sally PB]

When I was teaching school, I had a student who had recently moved to the US from Canada. As a result, she used Canadian spellings. While I always circled these words to help her become aware of the differences between American & Canadian spellings, I did not mark them wrong or take away points. She needed time to make the adjustments/changes. She was an "A" student so she adapted relatively quickly.

You are the essence of a true educator!

Ditto!

I had a math teacher who sometimes wrote test questions on the board instead of using the ditto machine (remember those? their smell?). If you got the question wrong, he would check to make certain you had copied the problem correctly. If your answer was correct to the problem you had written down, he gave you half credit.

Someone asked him, why don't you just ditto the test instead? He had a few different answers. One was, the ditto machine in the teachers' lounge was in use/broken/out of paper/fluid. Another time he said, "Paying attention to what you're doing is part of the test."

He was one of my favorite teachers, and one of the best I had.

 

[user662715]

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.

Ohhh I do this FAR TOO MUCH, like yesterday I said "Beeper let her pick me up" instead of "Beeper let me pick her up" (Beeper is one of my cats)

Bread crumbs in the soft butter

Ugh fr! DRIVES ME CRAZY

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Dirty dishes on the counter, not stacked. Each one standing alone, like customers waiting in line for shop doors to open, huddled together but not speaking to one another, taking up all the available space so there is not room for another fork or even a toothpick. I come along, say Tsk! and impose order upon them and behold, they fit together like people in an elevator, taking up only one footprint and eliminating congestion, and suddenly my kitchen is almost clean. I feel like a genius among idiots.

 

[CedarLane]

You are the essence of a true educator!

Thank you. I tried to do my best, but I know I made plenty of mistakes. There are some things I would love to have the chance to do over....

 

[fluffycrow]

Thank you. I tried to do my best, but I know I made plenty of mistakes. There are some things I would love to have the chance to do over....

This, once again, proves how true the statement above is

 

[tripletfeb]

Dirty dishes on the counter, not stacked. Each one standing alone, like customers waiting in line for shop doors to open, huddled together but not speaking to one another, taking up all the available space so there is not room for another fork or even a toothpick. I come along, say Tsk! and impose order upon them and behold, they fit together like people in an elevator, taking up only one footprint and eliminating congestion, and suddenly my kitchen is almost clean. I feel like a genius among idiots.

Why don't you just wash them? (asking while my sink is full of dishes...)

 

[Brooks_]

Why don't you just wash them? (asking while my sink is full of dishes...)

I have found that if you leave them long enough; they become clean like magic.