Things annoying me today

[ailbhe]

1. People who say apropos when they mean appropriate.
2. People who spell apropos apropo.
3. People who can't spell weird.
4. People who think that saying "I'm really wierd!" makes them more interesting. Especially if they're over 15.
5. Warner Village Cinemas advertising which says that one can get "Two Pepsi's" with a special offer. If anyone can afford to hire someone literate, it's Warner Bros, for crying out loud.
6. When the news servers we peer with are broken and/or vanished and I have to manually pull in the articles.
7. Being woken at 5 am with what feels so like period pains that I go back to sleep and have a nightmare about bleeding and miscarriage.
8. Not being able to sell valuable furniture that's in the way because we can't possible deliver it anywhere.
9. Procrastinating, especially when it's me procrastinating getting the bottles to the bottlebank. They're heavy!
10. People who assume that "not working for money" means "useless parasitic lump" without checking what the non-worker actually does.
11. People who say "Oh well, at least you have your health," to people who, um, don't. Duh.

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

To be fair, in many contexts 'apropos' and 'appropriate' would be entirely interchangeable.

[ailbhe]

Not in nearly as many contexts as I've seen them used this week. In fact, in very few of the posts I've seen on lj using either word, I'd estimate that fewer than 5% of them could have been ambiguous.

Of course, we're talking about somewhere in excess of 800 posts, and I didn't analyse as I went along, but just because "plump" and "voluptuous" are interchangable in some contexts doesn't make 'em interchangable in all. See also "thin" and "anorectic".

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

True. But inappropriate 'apropos' / 'appropriate' interchange is somewhat more forgivable, for their overlap, than the general abuse of words like 'ignorant' or 'ironic', whose meanings seem to bear absolutely no relation to their usage whatsoever.