Belgium Waffles, and Other Language Pet Peeves

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Cliché, it's cliché, not cliched or anything else, though I won't insist on acute accents knowing I had to do without them when I was typing my Master's thesis on a Qwerty keyboard... wondered how they did when they wanted to type Irish though.

IF you're using Word Auto Correct will fix those little faux pas for you. Chargé d'Affaires used annoy the hell out of me.

We don't have accented letters on our keyboards.

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Ö Ü
å ä à â á ã æ ç è é ê í ì î ï ñ ô ö ó š ù ú û ü œ
Ä É Ê
£ ¥ ¢ ¡ ψ

[tattuchu]

Cliché, it's cliché, not cliched or anything else, though I won't insist on acute accents knowing I had to do without them when I was typing my Master's thesis on a Qwerty keyboard... wondered how they did when they wanted to type Irish though.

No accents on this keyboard

Cliche is a noun. You can say something is a cliche. Or, you can say something is cliched [adjective].

[Svartalf]

it's a French loanword and invariable.

[tattuchu]

it's a French loanword and invariable.

And what would you know about French words?

[Svartalf]

Enough to call you a brain defective, samesex favoring, buttfucked, dung eating illegitimate spawn of dubious parentage?

[tattuchu]

Enough to call you a brain defective, samesex favoring, buttfucked, dung eating illegitimate spawn of dubious parentage?

Those are all English words. I on the other hand am half French. Well, French-Canadian. But close enough. I have a beret*. So. French. I know what I'm talking about


*I had one once.

[Svartalf]

Va te faire foutre enculé de connard de pédé enculé. mange merde illégitime issu de parents douteux.

[hadespussercats]

Your gay

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your gay

Is that near Para Gays?

[Svartalf]

Your gay

They don't belong to me, my home isn't even in the gay quarter proper, just on the outskirts.

[Jason]

Paris is only a quarter gay? Fooled me.

A few to add:
Wenzday
Faverit
'In lieu of' - my father loves to misuse this little turn of phrase. Instead of using it to mean 'instead of', the proper meaning, he uses it to mean 'in light of the fact', ie. 'In lieu of your having signed the contract, as witnessed by..'
The way the French constantly borrow English words. Usually nouns but verbs and adjectives often enough as well. We call it Franglais.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I once asked a professor how he spelled "Idn't" as in "That's funny, idn't it?"

[Azathoth]

Va te faire foutre enculé de connard de pédé enculé. mange merde illégitime issu de parents douteux.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries?

[Saoirse]

A place near me is selling Xmas Tree's.

[Azathoth]

The grocer's apostrophe. Always a favourite for pedant baiting