I’ve missed posting them, that’s for sure! So today, for your reading pleasure, I give you today’s random list of pet peeves!

• People who shorten words that don’t really need to be shortened, like “anyone” becoming “ne1″ and things like that. (That was painful to type!)
• People who lengthen words in the wrong way. Yes, there is a right and wrong way. “Niiiiiiiice” is how you would over-pronounce the word “nice,” but “niceeeeeeeeeeeeee” is more like nicey. Make sense?
• In going with the last one, I hate people who use the word “awe” when they mean “aw” - and they lengthen the Es on that one, too. “Aweeeeee” is “awey” and isn’t really a word at all, right? Right.
• People who type
  Like this
  So that it looks
  Like some freaky form
  Of poetry.
• People who overuse ampersands. I’ve ranted about this before but apparently that did no good. Not that I expected it to, but it still bugs me. This time, in addition to the double ampersand (ugh!), there’s a new problem. People beginning sentences with an ampersand! Where did they get the idea to do this? You’re technically not supposed to start a sentence with a conjunction, but it’s forgivable in informal writing most times. Starting a sentence with punctuation? Unforgivable, I think.

There’s much, much more where that came from, but I can’t think of any of it right now, so that list will have to do. Just know that if you do these things, you’re driving me slowly insane!