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AIBU?

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Original poster

to find it really irritating when people on here end there sentences with, no?

55 replies

FreddysTeddy · 18/04/2008 18:43

For example;

"but surely that is the point, no?"

It just comes across as so bloody smarmy.

Feel free to kick me in the head for this, this is AIBU.

OP posts:
amidaiwish · 18/04/2008 19:31

it's an american thing
whenever dh comes back from the US he does it, very very annoying. i soon knock it out of him!

DoodleToYou · 18/04/2008 19:35

Message withdrawn

AlistairSim · 18/04/2008 19:40

I'm too busy wiping the entire post from my memory to remember the details.

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/04/2008 19:42

I normally do it like you Doodle, but was humouring the other poster, no?

Psychomum5 · 18/04/2008 19:44

lol at the irony of complaining about speach patterns when you use the wrong 'there' in your thread title.....

captainmummy · 18/04/2008 19:51

Yes, no?

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 19:53

irony of complaining about grammatical error's when you have spelling speach error

Bectheneck · 18/04/2008 19:55

It irritates me but it's not like I lose sleep over it more of a momentary shudder.

What's more irritating is people who use a grammatical or spelling error to take the piss out of someone they don't agree with.

But we're all agreed that anyone using 'babe' or 'hun' should be shot, yesno?

Psychomum5 · 18/04/2008 19:56

....I knew I would make a mistake but still just pressed 'post'....

am on the wine, can I be excused miss....!!

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 19:56

awww the huns and babes are the stalwarts of MN

hecate · 18/04/2008 19:57

Irony of highlighting someone's spelling mistake when you have an apostrophe in the wrong place....

This is fun.

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 19:57

Yes more wine and freedom of spaech i say

Psychomum5 · 18/04/2008 19:58

thats right....take the piss out of me now......

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 19:58

aww no now what about me!

hecate · 18/04/2008 20:00

'error's SM no ' needed.

Psychomum5 · 18/04/2008 20:00

pmsl @ scottishmummy....

see....speech is far to easy to spell wrong!!!!

Bectheneck · 18/04/2008 20:01

Please take the piss out of me! Go on - I'll put in a spelling mistaek to make it easier!

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 20:01

hokey cokey i dont do the pedant thing - find 'em too scarey.get performance anxiety

scottishmummy · 18/04/2008 20:02

i was trying to be smart arse clever, non

Wallace · 18/04/2008 20:06

Oh the iroony of correcting someone's misuse of an apostrophe when you have used four full stops in your ellipsis rather than three

Very good fun!

Original poster
FreddysTeddy · 18/04/2008 20:06

Ah, but some of you weren't pedantic enough to spot the deliberate spelling error, no?

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 18/04/2008 20:11

Oh, the irony of correcting someone's iroony ...

We could go on all night

Original poster
FreddysTeddy · 18/04/2008 20:12

PMSL WWB, tell me iroony was a deliberate typo

OP posts:
Psychomum5 · 18/04/2008 20:14

am regrettting my post big time now!

Wallace · 18/04/2008 20:15

PMSL no it wasn't deliberate

I even double checked to make sure I hadn't made a mistake