This may be too lame for the Pit, but it’s bugging the shit out of me.
Once again, I just came across the infuriating redundancy of a dollar sign and the word “dollars”. I’ve seen it many times on these boards, and on TV news shows, and in news articles. Fucking stop!
Here’s what I mean: “I paid $100 dollars for a pair of shoes.” So you paid one hundred dollars dollars?
Knowing these boards as well as I do, I know the majority of people are intelligent, and the other places I’m seeing this crap is not written by the likes of Paris Hilton or some drug-addled sub-moron. So why write it that way?
Is the language changing so that this is acceptable? If so, I refuse to accept it (language evolves of course, and I accept that. I just won’t accept this particular change if it is in fact a part of the evolution). I think it’s bullshit, and goes along with what Steve Allen called “dumbth” (he wrote a book with that title, sub-titled “…And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter”). Either use the dollar symbol, or the word dollar, but not both when talking about the same amount.
It could be much worse. This sort of thing isn’t the end of civilization as we know it (like listening to Sarah Palin squawk), but it just bugs me, and I felt better getting it off my chest.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a job like that, so you get to be one of the lucky contestants who gets it taken out on. Don’t you feel more special?
Or maybe I could just live vicariously through you, and let you chew people out for the both of us?
I’ve given up on ATM machine and PIN number. I know it’s an automated teller machine; you know it’s an automated teller machine; we’ll all just call them ATM machines and get on with our frustration at people who can’t park between the lines in a parking lot.
