My pet peeve? the word peeve
I'm making a rare appearance in Queens tonight. The place is called the Creek and the Cave in Long Island City. It's gonna be sweet or my name isn't Victor Alfonso Sanz. Huh?
Keeping with the theme that I do a fair bit of complaining here, I'd like to address something for which I hold total disdain. The one thing that has caused me to send women away, cut business ties, and pull open the emergency exit door on an airplane and allow myself to be sucked out at 30,000 feet is........Hello? That's it, 'hello' in the form of a question. Can't not, won't not, will not ever, be a party to the word 'hello' when inflected to communicate not knowing. 'Hello', reduced from its once great status as the foremost greeting, to simply being telephone speak, when it's shorter more user friendly 'hi' burst onto the scene, must now endure being dragged through the mud every time a Lee press-on secretary, syndicated talk show host, or your mom states the obvious? I'm not sure what it is about 'hello?', but I want to run screaming into the nearest vat of burning kerosene every time I hear it said that way. Just a heads up, if I ever say to you, "I bet you use hello in the form of a question?" I'm being a jerk. It shouldn't be a firing offense, or speak to that individual's overall value as a person, but everybody has different criteria by which to pass judgement. I mean, Howdy?
Keeping with the theme that I do a fair bit of complaining here, I'd like to address something for which I hold total disdain. The one thing that has caused me to send women away, cut business ties, and pull open the emergency exit door on an airplane and allow myself to be sucked out at 30,000 feet is........Hello? That's it, 'hello' in the form of a question. Can't not, won't not, will not ever, be a party to the word 'hello' when inflected to communicate not knowing. 'Hello', reduced from its once great status as the foremost greeting, to simply being telephone speak, when it's shorter more user friendly 'hi' burst onto the scene, must now endure being dragged through the mud every time a Lee press-on secretary, syndicated talk show host, or your mom states the obvious? I'm not sure what it is about 'hello?', but I want to run screaming into the nearest vat of burning kerosene every time I hear it said that way. Just a heads up, if I ever say to you, "I bet you use hello in the form of a question?" I'm being a jerk. It shouldn't be a firing offense, or speak to that individual's overall value as a person, but everybody has different criteria by which to pass judgement. I mean, Howdy?
posted by Vince at 7:55 AM
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