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[smg01]

I haven't done one in awhile, so just for fun, a poll for Monday. Inspired by memories of a favorite English teacher and her polite but emphatic diatribe against the word "utilize."

[Poll #1186524]

Does anyone happen to know if there's a way to set up a poll so that people can check more than one answer to a question?

ETA: Oops. I just noticed I misspelled seeded. Irony can be kind of ironic sometimes.

Comments

[nasagrl.livejournal.com]

Fustrated. Yes, you read that right. There's this part of the population that seems to think that Frustrated only has one R. I want to smack people when they do that.

Also, if you use check boxes instead of radio buttons, people can check more than one box.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Also, if you use check boxes instead of radio buttons, people can check more than one box.

*tucks information away for future reference.* Thanks!

[moppety.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to add in "flustrated".

No "l" people, no "l".

[raithen.livejournal.com]

oh. yes. all of those. Current author is a fan of utilize. *sigh*. Also, she is one of many who doesn't understand the correct punctuation and usage of however....

And I'm sure there is more. but I don't have all day :)

[mediumdave.livejournal.com]

I also get terribly frustated when people utilize the wrong word, irregardless of whether they're well-known to be errors. It was literally drummed into my head in school to not make these errors, but some deep-seeded impulse overrides it, apparently. I think we can take it for granite* that these errors will continue to be common.

*Had to add my own.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I started to create a poll introduction that used all of the words, then decided that it was too leading. Thanks for doing it for me! :)

[mediumdave.livejournal.com]

Had to maintain my reputation! :D

[nailsie.livejournal.com]

I get a little irked at people (especially scientists) using "data" as a singular noun, with "criteria" a close second.

I still bemoan the loss of "agendum".

[moppety.livejournal.com]

"For all intensive purposes."

It drives me to the battiness.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good one. I'm sad that I didn't think of that for the poll.

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

My purposes are ALWAYS instensive, so I don't know what your problem is. ;)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Also: "for all intensive purposes." What? How does that make sense to anyone??

And I worked at a background check company for three years where EVERYONE said "the search was ran" instead of "the search was run about five million times a day. It made me want to commit homicide.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

"the search was ran"

That would drive me nuts. I can just imagine the day that you (or me, or someone) would finally snap and bludgeon someone to death with a stapler after hearing that phrase one too many times.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

i hate "literally" used as emphasis and not for a literal meaning. GAH!!!

another one is its/it's -- it drives me crazy when the possessive is written "it's"

but i lovelovelove portmanteau words. we make a lot of them up here, like flusterpated (so frustrated that you're flustered, too). and i love chrissy's adorkable.

[uufarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Any incorrect Latin plural. I saw "taxons" in a biology textbook a few weeks ago. Sent me up a frakkin' *tree*...

Also: Nucular. Orientate. People who insist pronouncing the first "r" in February.