• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        A peeve of mine is the term “pet peeve”. 😅

        If something bothers you so, why the fuck would you keep, nurture, and tend to it as a pet?

        I propose it change to haunting peeve, because you don’t want it, can’t get rid of it, and it exists regardless if you think about it or not.

        😁 (I’m not super serious about this, but “pet peeve” really does low-key bother me)

        • ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          It’s partly a joke (your favourite peeve, for example) and probably a reference to the other, now archaic, meaning of pet:

          fit of peevishness, offense or ill-humor at feeling slighted

          I think you can accept idioms as they are or you’ll be endlessly feeling like one saying or another has got your goat

      • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Just because you understand someone well enough to correct them doesn’t mean everyone else will

        Just because you understand them well enough today doesn’t mean you will tomorrow

        We should all be striving to be better than we are, not breeding resentment from contentment

          • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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            1 year ago

            Interesting choice given the way that’s been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.

            If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would’ve been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it’s hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor