All bow down before Wikipedia, the fount of all knowledge...

 

Yes, I know Wikipedia isn't exactly a most credible source, but I really didn't feel like searching for a 'proper' source when it takes two seconds to look it up on Wikipedia. Regardless, irregardless is still grammatically incorrect and it pisses me off every time I see it.

 

Yes, I know. Wiki has become a running joke with my friends, even when you do occasionally find accurate information on it.

 

One of the things that just rubs me the wrong way is, "All present and accounted for." In a roll call, there are those who are present, those who are not present but are accounted for (infirmary, or authorized absence) and those who are neither present or accounted for - AWOL.

The phrase is "All present OR accounted for."

I have no idea why this irritates me so much, but there it is. By the way, it's ROLL, as in calling a list of names off a roll of paper, not Role, as in casting call...

 

Yeah, we understand. Like it's Ancient Runes, not Ancient Ruins.

 

I've seen mare instead of mere. That annoyed me, made me think of a fat female horse every few paragraphs. I didn't make it past the first chapter of that story

 

I hate it when people use Lilly instead of Lily. Probably my biggest pet peeve in fanfiction.

 

I hate it when people necro. Probably by biggest pet peeve on the internet.

 

A recent peeve of mine is the misuse of the word "decimate." Originally, the word meant to kill every tenth man, or one-tenth of the population. Now the word seems to be synonymous with "annihilate," meaning total, or near total, eradication.

 

It's not a misuse, as the latter definition isn't a colloquialism. Both are valid, and the words should be taken in context.

 

I just looked it up, and I don't agree. Decimate used when meaning 'to destroy completely' is indeed a colloquialism.

Think about it this way: When talking about a large army (say a million people), the death one-tenth of that number is actually a huge amount. It's like the spell Demi in final fantasy, or Static Field in Diablo 2.

 

Thier is noting worng wiht speling stuf wrog.

 

Yes there is you illiterate fuck.

 

....seriously?

I guess it annoys you when people call another person "gay," then. "I don't know if they mean he's happy or homosexual - geez!"

 

It's misused when it refers to total destruction, but it seems that destruction of a greater size than just 10% is a common acceptation, and not a colloquialism. Pretty standard evolution of language, as I see it, and the word would barely be used otherwise.

 

A "recent" peeve? My guess is that the beginning of your peeve coincided with "decimate" coming up on your Word-Of-The-Day toilet paper.

 

Guess it wasn't clear I was being sarcastic.
I fucking hate when people confuse their and there. It makes want to kill them and mutilate there corpses

 

No, I know what people mean when they say it.

My problem isn't so much that people use the word as they do, it bothers me that no one uses it as it originally was meant to be used.

Actually, I've known what the word meant since high school.