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Pinball terms that 'get your goat'.......with extras, a fun thread, don't get serious please!

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OK, one of my pet hates is people calling pinball machines 'tables' - they just AREN'T so stop it now!

Another is when people constantly call battery damage (due to alkaline usually leaking from alkaline backup batteries) "ACID damage" - it ISN'T. Alkaline is the exact OPPOSITE of 'acid". Stop saying 'acid damage' please!

We could start on incorrect grammar but that would go nowhere fast!

"off of"
"there, their, they're"
"two, to, too"

My pet hate of all these is "to" instead of "too" (you can throw "two" in there as well) - using "to" instead of "too" actually makes it hard to read for me.

Are schools too busy teaching kids to be politically sensitive or gender/pronoun aware to actually bother teaching correct English?

I think we can blame USA TV for the "off of" as in "get off of that couch".

Flame away, I'm ready for it BUT please use correct English IE: speak proper like, OK Guv? ʅ（‾◡◝）ʃ
 
Homepin said:
OK, one of my pet hates is people calling pinball machines 'tables' - they just AREN'T so stop it now!

Another is when people constantly call battery damage (due to alkaline usually leaking from alkaline backup batteries) "ACID damage" - it ISN'T. Alkaline is the exact OPPOSITE of 'acid". Stop saying 'acid damage' please!

We could start on incorrect grammar but that would go nowhere fast!

"off of"
"there, their, they're"
"two, to, too"

My pet hate of all these is "to" instead of "too" (you can throw "two" in there as well) - using "to" instead of "too" actually makes it hard to read for me.

Are schools too busy teaching kids to be politically sensitive or gender/pronoun aware to actually bother teaching correct English?

I think we can blame USA TV for the "off of" as in "get off of that couch".

Flame away, I'm ready for it BUT please use correct English IE: speak proper like, OK Guv? ʅ（‾◡◝）ʃ
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I agree with all this, my pet hate is "should of" as in "he should of done that" the word is HAVE ffs "he should have done that". "He should, of his own volition, leave" is an example of one of the few times where should and of can be next to each other
 
I Really hate it when people write that ‘they could care less’. It’s often on American articles or forums but it’s literally the opposite of what they mean… ‘they COULDN’T care less’!!!!!
 
I think it's a generational thing. My old man says pinball table so the question is when did they stop being tables and start being machines?

Maybe it's country specific and 'machine' is the American term which has stuck?

Is 'table' is British thing? Everywhere in europe it's just 'flipper'
 
mufcmufc said:
I agree with all this, my pet hate is "should of" as in "he should of done that" the word is HAVE ffs "he should have done that". "He should, of his own volition, leave" is an example of one of the few times where should and of can be next to each other
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That was the vernacular where I grew up, I’m not even sure the teachers corrected us but my mum did. I only started doing it when we moved from London apparently and mostly I’d use both ‘could have of’ 😂

I just consider it part of local dialect though like when I met my husband he had a bunch of words for things I’d never heard of. Spelk, geet, stottie, get wrong for told off etc. I guess those are just words instead of sentence structure but you just repeat what you hear when you’re young
 
Americans being unable to use the same date system as the rest of the world 🤬 This then leads to U.K. newspapers using terms such as “911”.

Dito thick kids calling the police in the U.K. “feds”.

Finally old people (and newspapers) using imperial for temperature and claiming centigrade is too hard to understand.

None of which have anything at all to do with pinball and everything to do with me being a grumpy old codger.
 
Personal un-favourite - "needs shopped"

Also obligated.When did it change from obliged?

Burglarised
Conversated

Jeez!

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lighted. As in lighted speakers for example. So you've turned them off? Lighted is PAST TENSE. LIT is what you're after.
 
I prefer pinball machine over pinball table myself.

Pintable is an absolute grate!!


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Pronouncing research as reeesearch instead of ruhsearch.

Saying ****ed when you actually mean ****ed off instead of drunk.
 
mufcmufc said:
I agree with all this, my pet hate is "should of" as in "he should of done that" the word is HAVE ffs "he should have done that". "He should, of his own volition, leave" is an example of one of the few times where should and of can be next to each other
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My pet hate too. It comes from the contraction - could've becomes could of, should've becomes should of.

What annoys me even more is that it has become so common that I now actually hear people speaking it that way sometimes. It used to only be written, but now I occasionally hear it spoken with a distinct 'o' sound. It makes my nerves jangle!
 
A couple of the American Pinball podcasters pronounce especially as ekspecially, I correct them every time they say it. This is definitely a grumpy old men thread.
 
Complete lack of punctuation does my head in. There's someone on here who never uses any ( you know who you are! ), I get out of breath reading his posts!

Bought and brought...it must be a desease as my partners whole family only ever say bought. I met a woman the other day who does the opposite, apparently she brought this cottage 6 years ago :rolleyes: .

I'm sure I make plenty of mistakes too 😃.
 
Getting away from grammar, the thing that passes me off more than anything else is when football commentators when players can't get control and the ball is pinging around in the box saying that the ball is like a "pinball in there".

The majority of do have control of the ball and it's not just random bouncing around
 
Raising one’s voice at the end of each sentence like it is a question. It makes my brain hurt.

It just used to be just be the Australians, but it spread to the US and now it’s endemic here too.
 
What I have a problem with is when people email you in 'text talk' or do an ebay listing that way.

Or the well known ebay/facebook marketplace sayings
'not working - probably a fuse'
'had my car electrician look at it and he said it was an easy fix'
'used to work perfectly until moved and put in storage for 10 years'
'mint condition but currently does not work'
 
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