peeves

I hate the improper use of apostrophes in replacement of a letter. It friggin' kills me when they're eating the wrong way. I also hate when they're used in plural numbers.

I hate the lazy use of hyphens when en or em dashes are necessary. I blame keyboards, really, because most people don't know that typing two hyphens and various spacebar moves will change hyphens to dashes. WTF Microsoft Word, make it happen for me. IBM? Somebody?

I hate when I make grammatical mistakes that I am most likely aware of.

I hate when people say "further" when they're talking about going down a block.

I really hate when narrative poetry shows little appreciate of music in the individual line - or appears and hears as such.

I really love narrative poetry, though, so that's one of many reasons poems guilty of this bug me so much.

I really like that cliche...bugs me. What a great verbification of insects!