Stray peeve

[davidlevine]

This peeve just wandered in and I'm wondering if I want to adopt it as a pet: people who write redundant things like "$25 dollars." I've seen it in several professionally-produced ads from reputable companies and it just makes me shake my head in sorrow.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That one irritates me, too. Trying to be charitable, I sort of assume they pick it up from the correct usage of "$25 Million."

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

One of my pets is the "have got" construction -- "We've got what you want!" Arrrrgh!

[davidlevine]

I think that's legitimate in British, though not in American.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I should think that that construction is more American, as Brits don't love "got" quite so much as we do.

Still, it's better than "We got ... !"

[nancymcc.livejournal.com]

Isn't there some ordinance that governs how many pets each brain can have?

[kvaadk.livejournal.com]

Like using your PIN number at the ATM machine?
(Just to mention two of my favorites.)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. Keep going. You need to use your personal pin number in the ATM machine to get $100 dollars.

"Department of redundancy department. Can we help, assist, or otherwise serve you in any way, shape, or form?"

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Department of repetition department. Department of redunancy bureau.

adoptions

[fairiegodmother.livejournal.com]

compassion and love make better pets ..

just my .02

Re: adoptions

[davidlevine]

That's a real good point.

Shoo! Away, stray peeve! Go make big fat puppy eyes at someone else.

Re: adoptions

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

And stop chewing on that slipper!

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and have you seen people write ".02 cents" when they do not mean 2/10ths of a cent? I've seen that construction on price labels and it is tempting to call them on it.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Gods, I meant 2/100ths of a cent. Tyop.

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Inadvertant redundancies. They crop up quite often when people abuse acronyms. HSA account. PIN number. Drives me batty.

Nothing makes me battier than misplaced apostrophes, though. I see them more often, and they annoy me more.

M

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks so much. I hadn't been noticing that, and now it'll pop out at me every damned time.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I needed the giggles!