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What's your most ridiculous pet peeve?
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I hate to be prescriptivist at all, but for some reason my pet peeve is mixing things up like “peek” vs “peak”, “weary” vs “wary”, and “apart of” vs “a part of”.
English is a silly language and has been imposed around the world by genocide and violence. It can’t even come up with spelling and/or pronunciation reforms to make itself more easily understood. Deeply unserious.
Honestly, prescriptivism gets a bad wrap. Sometimes it's beneficial to be loose in language, but other times precision and standardization is needed. A good mix of both creates the most effective communication and artistic language.
It's a bad rap, not wrap, since we're being prescriptivist. It's an interesting slang etymology: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-bad-rap-vs-bad-rep-vs-bad-wrap