A complaint against use of a word

It drives me totally nuts when a person begins their side of the conversation with:

"Question"

Not, "I have a question" "Can I ask you a question?"
Just the word "Question" usually with the word drawn out as long as possible.

The practice is spreading throughout my bank and I am ready to smack the next person that says it!

Thank you for your time. That is all.

LOL... me too.

Quesssstion: How long has this been bothering you? ()

I will admit I say that to people.

And it totally makes me think of this song:

Question
Why is it that every time I turn on the radio
I hear the same five songs
Fifteen times a day
For three months

Possibly you are hearing it so frequently in the bank because they have all discovered that if they don't preface the conversation by letting you know it is a question, you just stand there with a blank stare on your face? Whereas most people at some point come to realize a question is being asked, there are some who don't figure it out unless it is pointed out to them. Possibly they are trying to alert you so that you can actually formulate a response, rather than have them start over after stating it is a question.

Alternatively, when this occurs, you should start your reply with "answer" every single time...

My personal pet peeve is when someone asks "can i ask you a question?" to which point I always reply "you just did, do you have another you'd like to ask or was that it?"

My elemenatry school principal (a nun) would have replied, "I don't know; can you?" She beat into you the difference between 'can' and 'may'.

you people sure stress out about the most rediculous things, sheesh

there are much more important things happening in the world.........like the demise of Hostess!

or the continued mispelling of "rediculous"

"you people"

and I went to Hooters for lunch, there didn't seem to be any hostess demise, we were seated immediately

take off your skirt and get over it, Nancy

Every conversation with my daughters starts with her saying, "I have a question."

Really??? After 18 years I would have never guessed.

EVERY conversation? I think someone may be exaggerating just a tad...

I never ever ever ever ever ever exaggerate!

Pet peeve: people who say "over-exaggerate".

Sort of like someone under subterfuging...?

Ask Tom...

Like, people who can't start a thought without saying "like" first. Like you know?

I had an LO who subbed "um" with "yah know." No, really...I DON'T FREAKING KNOW. Good times.

implement the "3x you know" rule...anyone saying you know 3x in a conversation gets hung up on if on the phone, or just walk away if in person...

I actually had someone at work that said "pacific" instead of specific. I don't know why but it always drove me nuts.

There, Their, & They're
Your, You're
To, Two, Too
Are, Our

Since when did they become interchangeable? I think some head thumping should be put into place when they are used inappropriately.

Our IT area (offsite) sends an e-mail every day at about 2:00 and lists e-mails that have been picked up by the spam filter just to verify they aren't spam. Today I got one that said:

'Payroll Account Holded by Intuit'

Holded?

I hate hearing the word "texts" pronounced "text-ez". Or really...more like "texas".

Those people should of known the difference between the different spellings.

I hope they were scolded sceld for that one!

You forgot sale and sell.....

Also (along the lines of Cheekee's comment), Please dont ask me if I "know what your sayin'" more than once....EVER!
The odds are good that yes I do know, if we are both speaking English....
I just dont give a carp.

I know I'm from the generation that changes the spelling of words in order to make them sound how they are said.

Ex. Werd instead of Word, Dood instead of Dude

I doona mind.

And why is it that bankers have a problem spelling the words commercial, withdrawal, and compliance? You would think we've typed those words enough times to know how to spell them.

Y'all are uptight! Take things for granite, will ya?

How many times have threads devolved into pet peeves, anyway?

::head thump _ just because::

Or the use of "seen" instead of "saw" as in "I seen this sign at lunch today". This puts me over the edge.

How about when somone is telling a story, and they "go" and "goes" instead of said and says. I was listening to a friend of a friend tell some story and 45% of what he said was "go", "goes" and "like". It drove me batty!

irregardless

... and then he was all...

I hate the misuse of sale and sell also - especially on credit approvals. 'The loan will be repaid when the house sales'. Geesh!

One of my pet peeves is when someone ends a sentence with so or but...

"I'm not in the mood, so..."

"We decided that it isn't worth it, but..."

GRRRR

Then why did you tell me that you thought your boss has a big butt?

Fixed

OMG - I sew no wear your coming from on this topic...

and let us not forget those who say "debt" and "Credit" as "debic" and "credic"...

or my employee who called and couldn't come to work because of "loose vowels". Loose vowels? Your "a, e, i o and u" are loose?

I got my 14 year old son a shirt for Christmas that says, "There. Their. They're not the same."

He would wear it every day if I'd let him!

They say english is one of the most difficult languages to learn.

Who said. I have an article on the internet (so it must be true)that says otherwise

http://mylanguages.org/difficult_languages.php

Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese are said to be the hardest, based on the approximate learning expectations compiled by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US Department of State. Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are also among the hardest because of the countless noun cases. The Pronunciation is even harder than in Asian languages as they usually have long tong twisting consonants.

Sorry, that information is unclassified secret.

I tend to do that...

Or if someone says "I have a question", I say "I have an answer. Do you think they might be a matching set?"

I took Russian in college, it was the hardest thing to write.

Stolichnaya

I would guess the attawandaron indians language, as they were from Buffalo and their name translates to "people who spoke a slightly different language"

I do that, except my response is, "I have an answer, but it might not match."

Theyist

their they're

don't get all bent out of shape

Do people also get annoyed with all the acronyms used now? OMGeeeee.

LSHISMGO!

??????????????????

ROFLMAO!

COLDCUT

LSHISMGO!

I have a feeling this is getting spreadsheeted!

:looks for sox:

Lets
Show
How
I
Smuggled
My
Golden
Oranges

fixed for Miscuit.

It bothers me plenty when people aren't grammatically correct, it's bad enough in business emails, but I don't get how one can be off when speaking it. Seen and saw is a particular issue. We have a particular teller that also seems to think if she seen it in the past, then she seened it.

That being said, I'm very much used to abbreviations and "text lingo", though I rarely use it myself. I don't have a problem spelling out "you", so "u" isn't necessary.

You're weird.

The incorrect use of "Our" and "Are".

This is are policy for check cashing.

Or

Using "th" for "ff"

My totals are ditherent than yours.

Imo, the problem is that in school we don't learn the "official" names of the tenses (at least I did not), we just learn how to use them (although it seems some people have not learned). All I remember is past, present, and future.

It wasn't until I took Spanish that I learned officially about present progressive, and past perfect, and future perfect progressive. I feel as if officially learning these in English would have made Spanish that much easier.

^^^ is a member of AHA.

Acronym
Haters
Anonymous

Until the advent of the smart phone the word "qwerty" never really existed.

And subjunctive! French grammar has all these strictly regulated tenses as well.

LSHISMGO

Let's
show
how
I
stole
mom's
garage
opener

?

Let's
start
hiring
ignoramuses
so
management
gripes
openly

Agreed! College Spanish was the first time I knew something called the subjunctive even existed!

English has all these tenses, we just don't learn what they are (called) when we're taught the language.

As does Latin.

Remember diagramming sentences? ::sigh::

No....

The sad part is so many people are using it that it is becoming accepted.

I absolutely hated diagramming sentences.

Good 6th grade memories.

Subjunctive is not a tense. It is a mood.

I thought when you had stuff in your eye it was subjunctivitas

That would be conjuctivitis...

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

For all intensive purposes Really grinds my gears!


Oh and anything that has an "i" in front of it.

(i)ntensive purposes

has an i in front could this be a trend

Now that I think about it, texting is getting to be more like Latin. No punctuation and just running words together. You have to know the context of the entire text to know what is being said....
Yup, we just need marble and some chisels!

Did you save yours from when you were in school?

give it time, I expect i-Samsumg one day soon as Apple exerts their dominance

I'll have to be more "pacific" next time

I know someone that cannot pronounce all of his words correctly to save his life. Pronouncing names is even worse. It can be funny at times, but tends to fall more on the ridiculous side anymore. And his favorite saying "That being said" just drives me nuts!

Vent over.

Fixed.