Current mood:	irritated
Current music:	KHAAAN!

pet peeve #2498573
i've been encountering a lot of terrible English the past few years and it grates on my nerves like you would not believe...shit like 'stand on line' instead of in for example...i'm finding people are also often writing things the way they hear them without knowing what they are actually saying [writing 'of' instead of 'have' for example] and i'm even noticing it in other languages like French...

my biggest pet peeve with this recently is the trend of French speakers that are using the slang for 'dollar'...in English Canada the slang is commonly '5 bucks' for '5 dollars' but in French Canada people who aren't aware of the cultural history of their slang are saying/writing '5 pieces' ['pieces' read in French not English] instead of the proper '5 piastres' which embodies a whole cultural history that is being forgotten out of sheer ignorance...for some reason this particular language nightmare is especially irksome to me, although if i hear/read 'stand on line' one more time i'll be wishing i'd never quit being a weapons tech & sharp shooter in the artillery...