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People who say "pierogies". Pierogi is plural. The singular is pieróg. Sure, write "pierogies"... if you want to look like an idiot. It's like writing "pastas" to refer to a bowl of penne.

Kind of similar - "legos" for lego bricks/pieces.

I thought I had many more annoyances, but those two are really annoying me right now.

"Needs cleaned / fucked / fed" is a perfectly acceptable regional speech variation. It's not a mistake if it's someone talking to you.

It's not Standard Written English and should be replaced if it turns up in professional or academic writing, but in an informal or spoken context, it's no more rageworthy than "y'all" or "wicked" as an intensifier.

Especially when persons who otherwise demonstrate intelligence comparable to that of a marginally successful high schooler use it. Or your boss. Over the walkie. Whichever.

I think Game of Thrones > ASOIAF. There's some differences I really don't like, but overall I think the characters are better portrayed, especially Catelyn. With more writers on board I feels like the female characters aren't as badly handled.

Anthony Mackie in looks, Anthony Mackie in personality. :)

Have you come across "definately," yet?

+10000000000000000000

those barbarians have been rattling the gates for a long-ass time, though; if it wasn't Those Damn Kids On My Lawn With Their Facebooks, it would be something else: Those Awful Jazz Records or the inexplicable new fad of saying "in Baltimore" when every reasonable person used to say "at Baltimore."

language drifts and innovates and drifts some more. personally, I love it.

Never come to North America.

I love "whom" so much, but seeing it used as a "formal" synonym for "who" hurts my brain, so maybe it's just as well. :(

Figwit role

"Are you done [something]"

Where did "with" go? Am I the only one missing it? It's just in the last two years I've noticed "with" is MIA. Especially for you Canadians out there: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH "WITH"???

It's "Are you done With dinner," "Are you done With homework," "Are you done With restocking"! In no other context have I heard it missing, but in this one sentence, It's Disappeared! I am so confuuuuused...

But the best yet: "Are you done your lunch?" What. Happened! Here! @n@...

I'm starting this nonsense again in the fall. I maintain nothing will ever be as bad as my high school French teacher, though.

yep

that's picky, though, if you're talking about pierogi that people are eating in North America. I mean, I feel you on the technical correctness issue, but I grew up in a giant-ass Polish family in the Polish heart of the rust belt and half my relatives said "pierogies." I'd call it a legitimate variant in the U.S.

And I've always used/heard "legos." It might be technically correct in some sense, but I can't remember ever referring to "lego pieces" or "lego sets" or hearing anyone else call them that.

(I'll stick on the correct singular of "pączki," though because "pączek" was my baby brother's nickname growing up :D)

this

I'll miss The Number One Threat to America: Bears

I hate the word "tween." It's so horribly chirpy and cutesy and pointless. Like, maybe it was funny when whoever coined it used it in a parenting-humor column in 1994 or whatever, but it is not suited to be swarming all over every damn education article or Disney Radio trend story in existence.

I hate when waitstaff ask me if I'm "still working on that." Way to make my lunch sound like a joyless labor. I thought I was enjoying it :(

Not a fan of "impacted" for "affected" or its derivative, "impactful," as in "Going on mission week to Haiti was such an incredibly impactful experience." In my head I always hear it as a combination of car crash and painful bowel trouble.

Yes! The musical is a thing of beauty. The book. . . eh.

I love A Christmas Carol, the book, but I think the Muppet Christmas Carol is legitimately one of the best adaptations, probably the best (haven't seen all 100 billion)

Oh God, yes to all of this. It's not even my favorite adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli 4 life) but there are so many smart, cracky, OTT brilliant touches. And it's definitely my favorite Friar Lawrence.

AMADEUS IS THE GREATEST THING IN EXISTENCE

omg I love it so much

Purists Will Object, but I really enjoyed the movie of Interview With The Vampire and thought it benefited enormously from the performances and from the absence of Anne Rice's writing. I liked the book, but I liked the movie more.

*GASP*

why do you want to watch shows with people that make you scream in rage

and why do you expect said shows to cater to you to make you less ragey

so many questions

I have mixed feelings about the huge influx of reboot!Trek fans into my Trekosphere. I'm happy for all the new fans, but I don't like anything about the movies except the cast, and I don't really want to talk about them. That's pretty selfish, though. Mostly, it's a good thing.

Star Wars fandom left me behind a long, long time ago. I'm ok with that.

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