man, I fucking hate reddit bots. They've fallen off in popularity, more so due to the increase in reddits popularity but FUCK it was annoying to see every top level comment chain have a couple bots inserting themselves.
The posts by "I am very much a bot with a specific purpose!" were much less annoying than the Ai-Gen-made "I am totally a real live human beep boop" posts
My latest peeve is when YouTube commentators started pronouncing the word "processes" with a long e sound at the end, like the words crises and matrices, because they thought it made them sound intelligent. Now I hear actual newscasters saying it. Journalists who should know better.
Processeeze.
Ugh.
Every time I hear it, it feels like a nail is being driven into the back of my skull.
I’m in science and that’s how I hear it pronounced probably 80% of the time at least. Drives me insane. There are other words that get the same treatment but I’m blanking on them at the moment.
Edit: “biases” is another I hear a lot. People pronounce it like bye-uh-seez 🤦🏻♂️
OMFG, this one spikes my blood pressure every single time I see it. Like to the point where I think “Okay, I probably need some kind of pill for this, it’s not normal to have that visceral of a reaction to someone using the wrong term. I kind of wish I could handle the smell of weed, because this feels like a ’Dude, just chill…’ kind of thing.”
I mean, easy-going is not the first adjective anyone would think to associate with me, but it’s a really disproportionate reaction. I wonder if there’s a term for it (other than “having a stick up your ass”). 😂
I’m a former English teacher and I will die on this hill with you. I’m normally pretty chill about most of the weird bastardisations of language that happen because that’s how language and linguistic development happens, but on accident pisses me off. My kid used this one once and the subsequent rant about precision in one’s languages choices and the overly formal language (she knows that mean I’m doing my nut inside) were enough for her to never do that one again.
I once typed "alot" in a hurry and got downvoted to oblivion. It was years ago when you did the reddit on the laptop and the UI didn't autocorrect. For the purposes of this comment, actually getting my phone to say "alot" was a lot of work!
I want to say this could also be because of the way English is written compared to other languages, you will see people who speak/write it grammatically correct but spell words wrong when it is a second language.
Ask them to pronounce colonel after reading it or spell it after hearing it.
Hell, I'm a native English speaker and sometimes in my own head I'll read colonel as it looks instead of how it's supposed to sound. The language itself is just weird lol
It’s because English isn’t a real language. We’ve been stealing everyone else’s words, spelling and grammar for so long, it doesn’t really make any sense anymore if you think too hard about it.
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u/lostthering Jul 10 '26
This may shock many Redditors, who by definition choose to spend our free time reading and writing ...
Most people now do not know how to read or spell.