Comments on: “Peeved” http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/ about the craft and business of fiction Wed, 23 May 2012 03:22:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Doug http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52759 Doug Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:59:30 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52759 I suffer the same peeve...Only one thing exceeds my hatred of overused quotations, and that is the apostrophe S. Just because it ends in S, it doesn't need an apostrophe...Drives me crazy. But, as you can see I have an unhealthy attachment to the ellipsis...I guess everyone has their "thing." I suffer the same peeve…Only one thing exceeds my hatred of overused quotations, and that is the apostrophe S. Just because it ends in S, it doesn’t need an apostrophe…Drives me crazy.

But, as you can see I have an unhealthy attachment to the ellipsis…I guess everyone has their “thing.”

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]]> By: Juliet http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52356 Juliet Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:02:22 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52356 Actually I'm wrong - Borge had a routine in which all the punctuation marks were indicated by sounds. This memory dates from the days when my parents listened to his recordings on a wind-up gramophone! Actually I’m wrong – Borge had a routine in which all the punctuation marks were indicated by sounds. This memory dates from the days when my parents listened to his recordings on a wind-up gramophone!

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]]> By: Juliet http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52351 Juliet Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:08:12 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52351 I think comedian Victor Borge may have been the first person to use wiggly fingers to indicate something in quotes - back then, it was genuinely funny! I think comedian Victor Borge may have been the first person to use wiggly fingers to indicate something in quotes – back then, it was genuinely funny!

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]]> By: Carina Araujo http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52299 Carina Araujo Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:10:40 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52299 I'm always annoyed if I see someone using way too many commas in a single phrase. It irritates me even more than the quotation marks! Of course, this only happens with amateurs. But since I tutor a couple of kids, I have to read their comma-filled texts. LOL Hilarious post! :D I’m always annoyed if I see someone using way too many commas in a single phrase. It irritates me even more than the quotation marks! Of course, this only happens with amateurs. But since I tutor a couple of kids, I have to read their comma-filled texts. LOL

Hilarious post! :D

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]]> By: theamcginnis http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52264 theamcginnis Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:07:19 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52264 well, kathleen, 'to thine own self be true'...i mean, i would never consciously take ownership of other people's original thoughts. but i have used quotes before, and will probably use them again, to emphasize sarcastically, my opinion, of some other person's idiocy or pomposity. and i'm 'sure' others have air quoted me as well!!!!!!!!!! well, kathleen, ‘to thine own self be true’…i mean, i would never consciously take ownership of other people’s original thoughts. but i have used quotes before, and will probably use them again, to emphasize sarcastically, my opinion, of some other person’s idiocy or pomposity. and i’m ‘sure’ others have air quoted me as well!!!!!!!!!!

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]]> By: astrothsknot http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52241 astrothsknot Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:57:17 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52241 Bunny quotes are used because the world needs more bunnies. Even fake ones. Bunny quotes are used because the world needs more bunnies. Even fake ones.

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]]> By: Cath http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52225 Cath Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:05:24 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52225 Biggest pet peeve ever? "For you and I." Everytime I hear someone use the pronoun "I" as the object of that prepositional phrase because they think it "sounds right" I want to scream. But I don't have a problem with quotation marks. Obviously. (Very funny link. Thanks!) Biggest pet peeve ever? “For you and I.” Everytime I hear someone use the pronoun “I” as the object of that prepositional phrase because they think it “sounds right” I want to scream.

But I don’t have a problem with quotation marks. Obviously. (Very funny link. Thanks!)

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]]> By: Anthony S. Policastro http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52224 Anthony S. Policastro Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:04:29 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52224 Hi Kathleen, One of my peeves is with names. Check out this photo of a company name that I think is rather ridiculous from my photo blog, Moments in Phontography at http://momentsview.blogspot.com/2007/09/whats-in-name.html Hi Kathleen,
One of my peeves is with names. Check out this photo of a company name that I think is rather ridiculous from my photo blog, Moments in Phontography at http://momentsview.blogspot.com/2007/09/whats-in-name.html

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]]> By: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52222 Kathleen Bolton Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:19:47 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52222 (You’ll note above I used a slash between blogging/web — I’m sure that’s someone else’s peeve. Along with parenthesis and hyphen I just used.) LOL, Eric! (Oh god, more peeves unleashed). (You’ll note above I used a slash between blogging/web — I’m sure that’s someone else’s peeve. Along with parenthesis and hyphen I just used.)

LOL, Eric! (Oh god, more peeves unleashed).

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]]> By: Eric http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52221 Eric Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:09:25 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/07/peeved/#comment-52221 I'm guilty of the quotes thing. The only reason I do it is to emphasize sarcasm, because it's impossible to convey sarcasm & cynicism in everyday text. Example: Kathleen thinks that excessive quotes reduce the 'quality' of text. Here I'm poking fun at the definition of quality in blogging/web writing. If I said it out loud, there would have been a snarky emphasis on 'quality.' I suppose you could use italics or find some other way to emphasize. (You'll note above I used a slash between blogging/web -- I'm sure that's someone else's peeve. Along with parenthesis and hyphen I just used.) I know another peeve some people have is the use of actual quotations of famous people and such. The argument is that they're so ubiquitous as to be meaningless. Clearly people place value in them otherwise they wouldn't use them? Yeah it's a bit tired, but what isn't? Maybe we should ban the entire English language for peevish overuse. ;) I don't really have any peeves in style of writing or what devices people use. If I had to pick some peeves, I'd say it's just the general not capitalizing sentences or using punctuation, not spelling things correctly. Can you write without excessive use of parenthesis, hyphens, use of two words simultaneously divided by a slash, etc.? Sure. Especially for something official like a published document or a book. But in a casual sense these anachronisms make up part of a writer's style, and for web writing it probably doesn't matter all that much. I’m guilty of the quotes thing. The only reason I do it is to emphasize sarcasm, because it’s impossible to convey sarcasm & cynicism in everyday text.

Example: Kathleen thinks that excessive quotes reduce the ‘quality’ of text.

Here I’m poking fun at the definition of quality in blogging/web writing. If I said it out loud, there would have been a snarky emphasis on ‘quality.’ I suppose you could use italics or find some other way to emphasize.

(You’ll note above I used a slash between blogging/web — I’m sure that’s someone else’s peeve. Along with parenthesis and hyphen I just used.)

I know another peeve some people have is the use of actual quotations of famous people and such. The argument is that they’re so ubiquitous as to be meaningless.

Clearly people place value in them otherwise they wouldn’t use them? Yeah it’s a bit tired, but what isn’t? Maybe we should ban the entire English language for peevish overuse. ;)

I don’t really have any peeves in style of writing or what devices people use. If I had to pick some peeves, I’d say it’s just the general not capitalizing sentences or using punctuation, not spelling things correctly.

Can you write without excessive use of parenthesis, hyphens, use of two words simultaneously divided by a slash, etc.? Sure. Especially for something official like a published document or a book.

But in a casual sense these anachronisms make up part of a writer’s style, and for web writing it probably doesn’t matter all that much.

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