More non gun-related pet peeves, but none worth starting a new thread for.
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I got a letter today from our illustrious mayor, the esteemed Dr. Karen Weaver. When I saw it I thought, "What does she want?" She wanted to give everyone a "Thank You", with Thank You being in quotation marks. I can imagine her standing at the podium making air quotes with her fingers. I would have simply said that I wanted to thank everybody, not give them a thank you, and I certainly wouldn't quoted no one when I said it. There's a website that has 10 Things You Really Need to Know about Quotation Marks. Here are the first 3.
#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim.
#2: Quotation Marks Are Not a Highlighting Technique.
#3: Quotation Marks Can Communicate Sarcasm and Irony.
The other 7 things are less pertinent. Say it like you really mean it Ma'am. She holds a bachelor's degree from Tougaloo College, a master's degree from Long Island University, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. Somehow she "earned" a B.A., M.A, and Psy.D without learning any of those rules. I know there's a difference between educated and smart, but I'm only a graduate of a crappy public high school and know them. The good doctor should too.
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I got another letter today, from a credit union telling me about the 30,000 plus "ATM Machines", or whatever the number was, that I could use at no charge. Anyone running a financial istitution should know that ATM is an abbreviation for Automated Teller Machine. ATM Machines would mean Automated Teller Machine Machines. Get it right, people.
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And people are still referring to water heaters as hot water heaters, as if they're being used to heat hot water, not cold water. If it was hot water you wouldn't likely need to heat it even more with a water heater. I know that places like hotels and apartment complexes can use several water heaters at the same time, but I never heard of multiple water heaters being used in series, where the first one heats cold water and the following water heater(s) heat the hot water that came from the previous water heater. And if they did need a hot water heater to heat the water from another water heater, what are they going to do with super-heated water? Take 240 degree showers? I've been known to take hot showers, but I'd like to know who like their showers hotter than Hades.