Pet peeves

Is this thread really still going :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Here I am caught out AGAIN by the rubbish unreadable date attached to each post.

You can’t read “Jun 2014”?

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As I have said before, the text is too faint and is at the wrong place on the screen. It should precede the poster’s name.

Why?
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Those that call Hand Egg football. :slight_smile:

Those who use “that” when “who” is the correct word :smiley:

Also, those who use “who” when “whom” is the correct word. :slight_smile:

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Yes, but I don’t think you can do “Those whom call Hand Egg football”

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Fairy Nuff :slight_smile:

When I write a book, I can still find mistakes that I wrote :slight_smile:

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I’m sure this thread was locked about a year ago :slight_smile:

Not being possible to create design time reactive components in Xojo. Everything is just a square waiting for runtime to show itself.

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OMG - is this thread still going! :slight_smile:

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Anyways… :wink:

Toilet paper rolls being put on the toilet paper holder the wrong way.

It’s OVER, not UNDER!!!

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People using i.e. when they mean e.g. and vice versa:

i.e. - short for id est which means “that is”
e.g. - short for exempli gratia which means “for example”.

People who don’t know where to put the possessive apostrophe. People who don’t know that the possessive “its” doesn’t have an apostrophe.

People who write “who’s” when they mean “whose”.

And more besides, but that is plenty to be going on with.

Even Google’s AI-bot jumps up and down with rage at some of these.

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People who give books bad online reviews because they were written by British people, about British people, doing British things, using British spellings.

Apparently even in London, it’s a bad idea to use the wrong colour mobile phone, while walking along a pavement to your favourite underground station, eating a bag of crisps.

(This has happened to a friend of mine, who gets infuriated by it.
Some editors say to revise it to make it USA-friendly, but then it just reads weird…
Using the wrong color cellphone on a sidewalk to your favorite subway, eating chips.
Just… no…)

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People who write “should of” and “could of” instead of “should have” and “could have”.
The same goes for “verses” instead of “versus”.

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Upstarts giving new names to things that already have perfectly good names. Sorry, Arduinoids, a daughterboard is not a “shield”, nor is it a “hat”, despite what raspberry people say, and a computer program is not a “sketch”.

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