Well here is my grouch...I hate it when people optain a new object and they have brought that, and not bought it....I say (I am usually subtle) do you bry your groceries or buy them:Tophat:
Well here is my grouch...I hate it when people optain a new object and they have brought that, and not bought it....I say (I am usually subtle) do you bry your groceries or buy them
HZ Jasmine Yellow Windowless Sandman, now being driven everywhere and is finished!
HZ Madeira Red Windowless sandman now Sold to Bigrob
HX Mandarin Red Sandman Ute finished, and club registered
1979 HZ malachite windowless van with 308 5spd, all chromed up and shiny finished and named "The Player"
Married to RodneyHZ253
im converse in good england type language..coz ive seened it with my own visions and heard it with my own hearings...
and you brought some more good cars to wreck...Originally Posted by ozbox
im converse in good england type language..coz ive seened it with my own visions and heard it with my own hearings...
HZ Jasmine Yellow Windowless Sandman, now being driven everywhere and is finished!
HZ Madeira Red Windowless sandman now Sold to Bigrob
HX Mandarin Red Sandman Ute finished, and club registered
1979 HZ malachite windowless van with 308 5spd, all chromed up and shiny finished and named "The Player"
Married to RodneyHZ253
and you brought some more good cars to wreck...
NA...i buyed them..:Tophat:
I like that Gaddy. Never thought of that before.
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My pet hates are the words library, primary and secondary. They are all pronounced incorrectly,librairy, primairy and secondairy. Cant stand it. Zed pronounced Zee is another one. Cookie instead of biscuit, train station instead of railway station, train tracks instead of railway line. Ah its endless.
That's my biggest gripe. I absolutely hate it. It gives you the perception that the person is uneducated, yet some of the worst offendors I've come across who do it, are in very senior roles within large organisations. Obviously the grammar checking in MS Word doesn't catch it for them....
The things that Gen Y come out with at work are hilarious. I got an email from one today asking me to confirm some operating specs on a part for a guy at "Pump and something a-rather" not "something or other"....... I guess you can't blame them for trying, but does anyone else see the huge flaw in the trend of teaching kids to spell phonetically?
Blocker touched on another one of my pet hates - word redundancy. Although the examples he gave were quite subtle, the obvious ones you hear in daily life are very annoying - like ATM Machine, PIN Number, AC Current etc.
All you have to do is browse a car forum with Gen Ys posting on it.... they go to the wreakers to get spare break callapers because the pistins in the old ones are ceased.
It does seem these days that you don't actually need gramatical skill at all. I find it disappointing.
You even see common misconceptions and incorrect terminology everyday in our collective hobby. A few examples:
Calling V2 Monaros VX and VY Monaros. These Monaros were V2, V2 series II, V2 series II and VZ.
VN or VX utes.
Collectively calling HQ-WB "Kingswoods". They are Holdens and Statesmans. Kingswood is a luxury level like Premier or GTS. This is the same as calling all Toranas SL/R's or all Hiluxes SR5's.
Calling a Statesman a "Holden Statesman". Statesmans are not a Holden.
Calling a Sunbird a Torana.
Calling LS1, LS2 etc engines "Chevs".
Calling VU onwards utes Commodore utes. They are Holden utes. No more Commodore than a Monaro or Statesman is.
Calling VP and late VN auto gearboxes TH700R4. They are 4L60 boxes.
Referring to VT V8 engines as the last of the GMH V8s. VS were actually the last.
Calling aussie 4spd's M21 or M20.
Calling XU-1 gearboxes M21's.
Plus dozens more!
I will give a common farming one, you swath a paddock with a swather and what you have left are windrows. You dont use a windrower to windrow a paddock. This one is too far entrenched to ever change.
Americanisation of english is another hate of mine. Combine is becoming the excepted word for header. We invented the bloody things and named them headers so thats what they are!
SUV......come on.
Americanisms! That reminds me: Styleside Utes. Pisses me off no end! And I hate how American software keeps telling me I am spelling words incorrectly, like: metre, recognise, catalogue, tyre and anything else with an ise at the end.
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