# a very minor pitting. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639 "2007-01-04T03:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/21 "2007-01-04T15:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Oh yeah? Since when did ‘disappear’ get transitively verbed? … [/QUOTE] Ah, since [Magical Trevor](http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/) “disappeared” the cow, of course. Now, about this “verbing” that thou didst verb? Yes, I am sure that was deliberate: see if I care. 😃 Any excuse to revisit old Trev, I say. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/22 "2007-01-04T16:02:43Z")
I can handle nonexistent capitalization. I can handle poor punctuation. I can handle bad spelling. The worst for me is bad verb conjugation. Especially when combined with the above three. Just go to Yahoo!Answers and read any question. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/23 "2007-01-04T16:22:40Z")
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying but I just say to myself “Look! e.e. cummings is posting! Cool!” _Always look on the bright side of life_ _whistles_ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/24 "2007-01-04T16:57:53Z")
I was going to refrain from griping this time, but today I got this e-mail from a co-worker: > [@](#): > > _name snipped_ > last day with us will be Jan. 17th. She has excepted another position else where and she will deeply missed. We are going to have cake and ice cream and we would like to give her a gift. I will be collecting monies for this cause. Donations will be greatly appreciated of any amount. Come join us as we say are goodbye’s to a good friend and co-worker. Wow. I mean, damn. I just… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/25 "2007-01-04T17:38:46Z")
I Agree 100% With The OP. It’s Almost As Annoying As When People Type Like This And You’re Wondering If They Write Headlines For A Living, Or They Just Suffer From Parkinson’s Of The Pinky. I’ve been known to abuse The Capitals for inflection’s sake, but every single word? What The Hell? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/26 "2007-01-04T17:49:12Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] I was going to refrain from griping this time, but today I got this e-mail from a co-worker: Wow. I mean, damn. I just… :eek: [/QUOTE] Good thing she used a spellchecker. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/27 "2007-01-04T18:56:37Z")
People who call themselves the III or the IV. “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt III,” “Marmaduke Hussey IV.” Unless your great-grandfather is still alive or you are European royalty, _you are not the goddam III or IV!_ ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/28 "2007-01-04T20:19:58Z")
I keep coming across a [dickhead on Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/~circletimessquare) with a shift-key allergy. Someone once challenged him and his response was, in essence, ‘oh, you don’t need capital letters to get the meaning’ and ‘i just don’t want to do it.’ Cuntbag. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/29 "2007-01-04T20:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=StarvingButStrong] There’s a relatively new error ,one I’ve only started seeing lately .To wit ,the Case of the Hopping Punctuation Spaces .What’s with that ,anyway? [/QUOTE] Yeah, what IS with that? Drives me nuts. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/30 "2007-01-04T20:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] this is annoying. isn’t this annoying? and it’s not like it takes much work to fix. the shift key is right there! and yes, i’m a pedant with a bug up his butt about nothing. i just see this, and some grammar-respecting part of my brain starts complaining. [/QUOTE] I know you didn’t single out anyone, but when [a certain poster](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=7725) gets wind of this, something besides your brain is liable to start complaining. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/31 "2007-01-04T21:26:45Z")
> [@](#): > > We are going to have cake and ice cream and we would like to give her a gift. With all the other mistakes in this, I thought “ice cream” was another and I was internally pronouncing it like Mr Burns: “I think I’ll have some more of that ‘_iced cream_’”. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/32 "2007-01-04T21:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] Aw, MAN! Stupid code. That was supposed to be in all caps, but apparently new smart-tech code auto-case-changed it, changing my lame joke into something inscrutable. Hmm. Maybe the code was looking out for me after all. I like being inscrutable. Daniel disappearing a flash of smoke [/QUOTE] It works if you leave at least one letter lowercase. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/33 "2007-01-05T23:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] People who call themselves the III or the IV. “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt III,” “Marmaduke Hussey IV.” Unless your great-grandfather is still alive or you are European royalty, _you are not the goddam III or IV!_ [/QUOTE] What if your grandfather’s still alive? blah Sr., blah Jr., blah III. Isn’t that right? - Viridiana The First ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/34 "2007-01-05T23:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] I Agree 100% With The OP. It’s Almost As Annoying As When People Type Like This And You’re Wondering If They Write Headlines For A Living, Or They Just Suffer From Parkinson’s Of The Pinky. I’ve been known to abuse The Capitals for inflection’s sake, but every single word? What The Hell? [/QUOTE] ThAt Is At LeAsT bEtTeR tHaN tHiS. gOd, ThIs Is AnNoYiNg. AnD hArD tO tYpE tOo. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/35 "2007-01-06T00:13:17Z")
[QUOTE=Viridiana] What if your grandfather’s still alive? blah Sr., blah Jr., blah III. Isn’t that right? - Viridiana The First [/QUOTE] If your grandfather is still alive but your father is dead, you are Blah Blah II. If grandfather and father are still alive, you are Blah Blah III, and when Grandpa goes you become Blah Blah, Jr. I am getting weary of pretentious yahoos calling themselves Blah Blah VII. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/36 "2007-01-06T02:53:25Z")
My husband’s big peeve is people referring to themselves as “myself” when “me” or “I” is correct(“Bill and myself are going to the mall.”). Thanks to himself, it’s one of myself’s now, too. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/37 "2007-01-06T02:58:42Z")
To the folks who asked about the 9/0 thing plus the punctuation space hopping, my guess is that they’re made by blazing fast/lazy typists who fumble the shift key and/or the space bar. I can clock in at a reasonably fast clip on a good day, and sometimes my right finger just punches the Enter key before the message gets from my eyeballs to my brain that I’ve made a mistake. To keep this on topic, lessee. There was this one person in my group who would use the word ‘yet’ as a substitute for ‘but’. Now, I agree that in some circumstances you could make a case for it, but the person did it ALL THE FREAKING TIME. _crawls up wall_ _hangs from ceiling making wubbawubbawubba noises_ ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/38 "2007-01-06T04:28:58Z")
Spellin’ nerds? Kill 'em With Fire! ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/39 "2007-01-06T06:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=lizardling] To the folks who asked about the 9/0 thing plus the punctuation space hopping, my guess is that they’re made by blazing fast/lazy typists who fumble the shift key and/or the space bar. [/QUOTE] Somebody needs to invent some sort of ‘screening’ device that these people could use to ‘monitor’ their output for errors before submitting it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/40 "2007-01-06T06:17:53Z")
I wonder about the space before punctuation thing . Maybe people are accessing the boards through alternate devices ? They’re tapping it out on their cellphones ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639.md?page=3)