Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a 
for getting annoyed at it.
I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a for getting annoyed at it.
I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
Mispronuniciations, my mom says ‘excape’, my former boss called arugula ‘aroo-gyoo-la’. A lot of language stuff actually, I have a current co-worker that pronounces feta like ‘féta’ and he sounds otherwise like a TV American accent. I notice when people’s semtence structure is wack. And the biggest one for me is people misusing words or using words wrong, if I could correct them and it be taken well and listened to, it’d be great, I could flex a bit. Non native speakers get a pass, that doesn’t bother me. I’m a big giant nerd about language and try to speak with some precision and poetry, and have a tendency to ransack the dictionary without sounding like I’m putting on a air. It’s one of those things where it came to me easy and I’m good at it and a tiny part of me still can’t understand why this stuff doesn’t come as easy to others.
I think the more correct way to phrase this idiom would be “putting on airs”
Anyway I have the same response but the problem with the English language is that most conventionally accepted pronunciations are “wrong”
Nope,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air#:~:text=%3A outward appearance of a thing,an air of mystery
And colloquial English isn’t considered wrong and if it’s a common misproniniation then it’s just a pronunciation. That’s how language works, but one individual who clings onto pronouncing something wrong is different.
Meriam Webster, gross
Anyway, you’ll see with that usage it should have been “without putting on an air of pretension” or something like that
If you read slightly further down the page, you’ll see
Which is explained further here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_airs (NATOpedia, also gross)
haha this is very relatable
Hope to make you cringe (linguistically), if I meet you in real life…
My biggest beef is with word misuse or people using words they don’t understand the meaning of. Pronunciation is easily the most forgivable, sometimes you’ve only read the word. People using five dollar words wrong to seem smart really grinds my gears when they constantly invert the subject and object of a sentence. Like if they want to say a customer is substituting olives for onions as an example they’ll always send it as sub onions for olives, it’s easy to figure out cause one ingredient is standard and the other isn’t but don’t do that while using language you vaguely really from high school.
Ok I see what you mean… that’s confusing to say the least…
I’ve learned it’s backwards and can intuit it based on knowing what goes on things normally but it’s hard for new people