Published on 12, July, 2020
My pet peeve are things said all too commonly that is all too common...
When someone says something like, “When the dinosaurs all died,” or when someone looks at an alligator and goes, “is this the only chance we’ll ever get to see an animal so close to a dinosaur?”
Or the other day when looking though books I might want to read i came across a title of a book that sounds interesting, but the title bugged me, “voyage of the turtle: in pursuit of the earths last dinosaur.”
Why does this bug me? Because we still have dinosaurs with us today, you see them in your gardens. Birds are literally Dinosaurs. They’re theropods (the same lineage as T-Rex! But they evolved from smaller theropods than T-Rex)
another pet pet peeve of mine is when someone sees a massive animal and they say, “it could be a dinosaur it’s so big!”
Because even before birds there were small Dinosaurs, for example Microraptor.
I also have a pet peeve about myths in general. An even worse pet peeve is when there is a myth that something is a myth if that makes sense. Lol.
So so what are your pet peeves?
That Australian up inflexion thing were people finish a sentence with their tone going up at the end as if they are asking a question - getting more and more common especially amongst teenagers.
Pronouncing the letter H as Haich and not aich = drives me crazy (usually teens are the main culprits again). I fear that an a few years time haich will overtake and become the norm.
and a new one Ive noticed recently - starting a sentence with the word 'so' as in - so I went shopping today etc. teens again are the main culprits.
Any of the above drive me mad. If i hear any I get a feeling like an electric shock going through me
I'm a Catholic from Northern Ireland. We pronounce H the way you dislike. ;)
We can remain friends, though?