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<\/a>Me, while writing this!<\/p><\/div>\n
Back in the day, I used to just enumerate the items on each list, but now that I\u2019m a bit more of a writer, I\u2019ve added some explanations for you.<\/p>\n
So here are the ones that came to me at the sink that day; the small number here means that you should expect\u00a0Things That Drive\u00a0Me Crazy Part II<\/em>\u00a0in the near future.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get to them, just in the order I jotted them down:<\/p>\n 1) When people think they\u2019re classy to refer to \u201cAfternoon<\/em>\u00a0Tea\u201d as \u201cHigh<\/em>\u00a0Tea.\u201d Especially after I\u2019ve explained the difference to them, so they should know better. If they only knew how classless that really makes them sound to people in the know. While Afternoon Tea is a lovely, classy repast of finger sandwiches, scones, and sweet treats, (sometimes accompanied by classical music,) served in the afternoon, (duh,) High Tea is a peasant supper, consisting of meat pies, sausage rolls, crusty bread, and the like, and eaten after 5PM. We Americans need to feel fortunate that Afternoon<\/em> Tea is the one we offer in this country, and\u2026know the difference and label it correctly!!! Enough with dummies already. (If you’re interested to learn more, here’s the link to a full article I wrote on the topic a couple of years ago: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/national-daydiningkarens-lessons-happy-national-tea-day<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The tea meal differences, explained beautifully.<\/p><\/div>\n 2) News people and sportscasters with awful voices and speech impediments! Who is hiring these people?! Hearing them is worse than nails on a chalkboard for me.<\/p>\n 3) When people erroneously say, \u201cMe and my friend,\u201d as opposed to \u201cMy friend and I!\u201d (The same for all terms like that\u2014\u201cme and my children,\u201d \u201cme and my husband,\u201d \u201cme and her\u201d; you get it.) Who is teaching our children???\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard supposedly smart\/educated people, (including producers and teachers!,) talking like that recently, and I\u2019m shocked every time. If you\u2019re<\/em> someone who wants to better yourself, here\u2019s the rule: Always put yourself last! Period. And referring to yourself<\/em> as \u201cme\u201d or \u201cI\u201d is decided by how the sentence would read if you eliminated the other person or people.<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0 Actually, now that I\u2019m getting riled-up about incorrect language for the umpteenth time, I get sick from all the other<\/em> grammatical errors I hear on a daily basis. Especially the ones I hear on TV, at which I shout corrections from the couch! People thinking that \u201cbrought\u201d and \u201cbought\u201d are the same word is particularly maddening. (If you don’t understand the difference yourself, and want to better yourself, this tutorial is for you: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-lessons-the-difference-between-bought-and-brought<\/a>.)<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0 The use of the word \u201cthey\u201d for a\u00a0single\u00a0<\/em>person, when \u201cthey\u201d has referred to\u00a0multiple<\/em>\u00a0people for thousands of years now! I\u2019m absolutely fine with people referring to themselves as \u201cnon-binary\u201d; I want everyone to be happy. If you feel like you\u2019re neither male nor female, or both, great. But please, someone, come up with a new word for non-binary people already!!! One that indicates one<\/em> person, not more<\/em> than one, as \u201cthey\u201d does. It should be something like \u201che,\u201d \u201cshe,\u201d or \u201cme.\u201d\u00a0 There are seventeen other available letters to put in front of \u201ce\u201d!!! So please, everyone, anyone, come up with one of them, pronto.<\/p>\n<\/a>