Pedantic Pet Peeve

antmanb · Aug 9, 2005

OK i've just hit breaking point!

It is absolutely doing my head in to see so many people writing Turino.

The Italian spelling is Torino, the english spelling is Turin. It is one or the other not a frankenstein's monster of both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:scowl:

Sorry just blowing off steam!!!!!!!!!

Ant

SusanBeth · Aug 9, 2005

Thank you! I've seen it spelled so many ways that I wasn't sure what was correct! Torino, Torino, Torino.... I think I've got it!

Spirit · Aug 9, 2005

Thanks for the spelling correction. I was Torin in two about which to use.

Mathman · Aug 9, 2005

Spirit said:
Thanks for the spelling correction. I was Torin in two about which to use.

SingAlto · Aug 9, 2005

Spirit said:
Thanks for the spelling correction. I was Torin in two about which to use.

Very punny. :laugh:

SkateFan4Life · Aug 9, 2005

Thanks for the lesson in spelling! I'm afraid that Torino isn't a word we can run through spell check! :rofl:

dancindiva03 · Aug 9, 2005

Wow I never realized what a big deal it was. I'm so glad we have the spelling police on board.

Dyan · Aug 9, 2005

Spirit said:
Thanks for the spelling correction. I was Torin in two about which to use.

Anyway, antmanb thank you for blowing off some steam. Some of us have been guilty of misspelling Torino/Turin because we didn't know any better (speaking of myself of course.)

And not to hijack your thread but since we are on pet peeves... I can't stand it when the ladies wear boots covers that don't cover the entire boot. Rather it comes down around the ankle but the boot is uncovered. I've mostly seen some of the younger skaters do this but MK did it at Worlds in Moscow (not picking on Michelle in particular but I figured everybody would have seen her in Moscow so it would be easier to explain what I'm talking about.)

I like the tights in the boot or the entire boot covered but the half and half look makes me :scratch: .

Antilles · Aug 9, 2005

Dyan, I'm with you on the half-boot covers.

Mathman · Aug 9, 2005

SkateFan4Life said:
Thanks for the lesson in spelling! I'm afraid that Torino isn't a word we can run through spell check!

I ran Torino through spellcheck and it came out Toronto.

iluvtodd · Aug 10, 2005

Mathman said:
I ran Torino through spellcheck and it came out Toronto.

Not to sound petty or hijack this thread, but I would love to see people spell "Eldredge" correctly. I've seen so many misspellings of his name in newspaper articles, etc. - "Eldridge," "Eldrege, " "Eldrige," "Elderage." Come on! What's so difficult about it?

OK, I've said my piece and made my point. :yes: Hopefully I spelled "misspell" right (one "s" or two?).

Ptichka · Aug 10, 2005

Mathman said:
I ran Torino through spellcheck and it came out Toronto.

In a previous version of Windows Word spellchecker, there was rhis neat trick. If you entered "zzz", and ran a spell checker, you'd get "sex". Go figure!

Zanzibar · Aug 10, 2005

Okay - my pet peeve is when fans write about their favorite Russian skaters using the overly familiar form of their names - and especially when Americans do this. Example: calling Evgeni Plushenko by the more familiar 'Zhenya."
Or....calling Alexei Yagudin by the familiar "Lyosha" or "Alyosha."

Now, I agree that with Alexander Abt it's okay to call him "Sasha" because he seems to be universally called by that name...although when he identifies himself, at least in English, he always refers to himself as "Alexander." But some people take even that too far and refer to him as Sashenka.

I just find it a teensy bit annoying that fans that would never address a skater by the more 'familiar' nickname when meeting them face-to-face feel free to do so when discussing and writing about them. If the person doing it is actually Russian, then it's more acceptable but when I hear Americans refering to them in that manner, it does grate. It would sort of be like hearing a US fan approach Tarasova and say to her, "Hey Tanja, how 'ya doin?"...you get the drift.

Okay - SIGH OF RELIEF - I've gotten that off my chest, LOL.

Spirit · Aug 10, 2005

Does this mean it would be inappropriate to refer to Michelle as "my sweetie honeybunch?"

Zanzibar · Aug 10, 2005

Only to her face, LOL - but then again she's American so you can probably get away with anything...

Dee4707 · Aug 10, 2005

Zanzibar said:
Okay - my pet peeve is when fans write about their favorite Russian skaters using the overly familiar form of their names - and especially when Americans do this. Example: calling Evgeni Plushenko by the more familiar 'Zhenya."
Or....calling Alexei Yagudin by the familiar "Lyosha" or "Alyosha."
.

I think the irritant for me is when we call Evgeni, Plush or Plushy and especially when we call Alexei.............Yags. I guess I don't understand how you get Yags out of Yagudin. :laugh:

I don't know why it irritates me so much but then I guess with my first name, not Dee, people can have me sign and print my name right in their presence and they enter it misspelled. Ugh

Dee

Zanzibar · Aug 10, 2005

Dee4707 said:
I think the irritant for me is when we call Evgeni, Plush or Plushy and especially when we call Alexei.............Yags. I guess I don't understand how you get Yags out of Yagudin. I don't know why it irritates me so much but then I guess with my first name, not Dee, people can have me sign and print my name right in their presence and they enter it misspelled. Ugh

Dee

That's funny - can't spell 'Dee' correctly - what do they put in? Just 'D'??
Regarding Plush and Plushy - his agent(s) and even Mike Collins from COI will
often refer to him that way.

It was a bit of an eye-opener the first time as I had thought the pronounciation was 'Plush' as in 'Plush toy' but they call him 'Ploosh' with a hard O. So then I had to stop saying it, LOL - I just couldn't say "Ploosh!" with a straight face.

Ptichka · Aug 10, 2005

Zanzibar said:
Okay - my pet peeve is when fans write about their favorite Russian skaters using the overly familiar form of their names - and especially when Americans do this. Example: calling Evgeni Plushenko by the more familiar 'Zhenya."

I don't know. When I'm speaking in Russian, I'd never call Plushenko "Zhenya"; however, when I'm writing in English it just comes naturally; I even write "Plushy" or "Yags" just because it's easier.

On a similar note, do you get annoyed when press refers to Condaleeza Rice as Condi?

Zanzibar · Aug 10, 2005

Ptichka said:
I don't know. When I'm speaking in Russian, I'd never call Plushenko "Zhenya"; however, when I'm writing in English it just comes naturally; I even write "Plushy" or "Yags" just because it's easier.

On a similar note, do you get annoyed when press refers to Condaleeza Rice as Condi?

Yes, LOL, but only because I lost so much respect for her after watching the 911 hearings on TV last year. Her complete lack of grasp for any of the issues - small or glaringly large - surrounding aviation security was apalling. 911 may have come as a complete surprise to her, but even flight attendants in the industry were aware of the lack of security and credible threats were a constant source of discussion. I think she answered 'I don't know' to about 99 questions in a row, which was really sad because it wasn't like she didn't have time to do 'catch-up' homework.

Okay - rant off - and back to pedantic pet peeves, lol, so that this thread doesn't get hijacked.

Ptichka · Aug 10, 2005

Zanzibar said:
I think she answered 'I don't know' to about 99 questions in a row, which was really sad because it wasn't like she didn't have time to do 'catch-up' homework.

While I know I should get the conversation back to the topic, I still have to say - you don't really believe she doesn't know, do you? This is a woman whose attention to detail throughout her career has been impecable. Unfortunately, the climate in the US is such that it is more advantageous for the leadership to appear ignorant than to say anything at all that might make it look like they are incriminating themselves. Sad.

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