Picky eaters who complain about food. I don’t mean real allergies, I mean people who just don’t eat so and so and like to point it out and complain about it. Just eat the food.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.

Like Mark Steyn who's Canadian but uses a fake British accent

There was a guy in our med school class who went to Australia for 18 mos and came back talking like Crocodile Dundee. He was brutally roasted for it, including have a character in our class play wander onto the stage every now and then and exclaim, "Good on ya!", and "Crikey!". He was unamused. I found it amusing.

This is not unusual. It's called linguistic convergence.

"A new study in the March 2022 issue of the journal Language, authored by Lacey Wade (University of Pennsylvania) shows that even our expectations about how other people might speak (rather than the speech itself) is enough to shape our own speech patterns."

Actual linguist here- they don’t actually change their whole accent in 18 months, especially if they’re an adult, unless they are consciously doing so because they value that accent more.

Additionally, the article you quoted implies that they would change back once they returned to the US and switch back to US English to be more similar to their interlocutors.

Short answer- no, this doesn’t happen and is cringeworthy

Anonymous wrote:I irrationally hate all televised sports. They are so loud, the announcers screaming, the fans, whistles blowing, crowds chanting, whatever it is. I'd rather have quiet in my small house but the tv is always on sports and I can hear it from anywhere.

We are a big sports family and we watch with the volume muted, so we can talk. DH grew up in a house where the television was on seemingly 24/7, loud volume, and they didn't really communicate, so he did not want that. We have been to sports bars where the playoffs volume is maxed out, so people can't talk to each other, and we leave right away. So, I agree - it doesn't make us angry, we just don't put up with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.

Like Mark Steyn who's Canadian but uses a fake British accent

There was a guy in our med school class who went to Australia for 18 mos and came back talking like Crocodile Dundee. He was brutally roasted for it, including have a character in our class play wander onto the stage every now and then and exclaim, "Good on ya!", and "Crikey!". He was unamused. I found it amusing.

This is not unusual. It's called linguistic convergence.

"A new study in the March 2022 issue of the journal Language, authored by Lacey Wade (University of Pennsylvania) shows that even our expectations about how other people might speak (rather than the speech itself) is enough to shape our own speech patterns."

...findings show that there are even more pressures shaping how we speak at any given time than we may have thought. Nobody has a single, static way of speaking -- we do not speak precisely the same way when giving a presentation to our colleagues as we do when we are chatting on the phone with a childhood friend -- and this new study suggests that yet another pressure may be at play: our expectations about others' speech. Not only do we imitate what we observe from others, but we also actively predict what others will do and shift our own speech to match. This means that our expectations about others, even those that reflect stereotyped associations between accent features and the people who use them, influence not just the way we listen, but also the way we talk.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching adults drink the leftover milk from their cereal bowl.

People who walk around while they’re eating an apple like they’re showing off or something.

OMG, this made me laugh out loud!

Me too. No lie!

I also don’t get people who eat clandestinely clawing their muffin or apple out of paper bags and won’t show off the food. Weirdo.

Acting like the food is some great mystery and has to be concealed while devouring

It keeps the crumbs in check! No one wants muffin crumbs everywhere. You are the weirdo!

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Anonymous wrote:I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.

Like Mark Steyn who's Canadian but uses a fake British accent

There was a guy in our med school class who went to Australia for 18 mos and came back talking like Crocodile Dundee. He was brutally roasted for it, including have a character in our class play wander onto the stage every now and then and exclaim, "Good on ya!", and "Crikey!". He was unamused. I found it amusing.

This is not unusual. It's called linguistic convergence.

"A new study in the March 2022 issue of the journal Language, authored by Lacey Wade (University of Pennsylvania) shows that even our expectations about how other people might speak (rather than the speech itself) is enough to shape our own speech patterns."

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Anonymous wrote:People who have poor walking etiquette. On sidewalks, in stores, etc.

I have no problem shoulder checking people hard, if you're walking 3 across on the sidewalk.

I'm a small woman. I read this and it really resonated:

https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/manslamming-manspreading-microaggressions.html

I started by just not getting out of men's way as a default. I'm never discourteous, if I'm walking toward 2-3 men on a sidewalk, I'll be on the right. But I'm not stepping onto the grass to accommodate their group. It's downright startling how ready they are to run into me. Not intentionally, but just because they assume I'll move.

The other issue is moms with multiple children. Moms need to actively instruct their kids to step aside in these situations. But they don't. So I find myself head to head with an 11 year old who doesn't have the common sense to step aside.

It's one of those kind of stupid things that I actually felt proud of one day. I was with my kid and my friend's kids on a narrow paved path through a wooded park - a very popular walking trail. My son and I fell in line whenever another party approached. But every damn time I had to tell the other 2 kids to move over. When I didn't, they just didn't budge. Took up the whole path as though they had no idea people were walking right towards them head on.

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Anonymous wrote:People saying “plant-based”.

When people don’t put the quotation mark outside the period. I’m serious.

The quotation mark is NOT supposed to go outside the period in the example to which you responded. The quotation mark goes outside the period when the words contained within the quotation are a complete sentence.

This is the way I learned it as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.

Like Mark Steyn who's Canadian but uses a fake British accent

Hilaria Baldwin says hold mi cervesa

This is nuts but GLUTEN! I get so grumpy and irrationally angry.

Book banning.

If you want to monitor/control what your own kids read, go for it! It's all good. But there's no reason for you to monitor or control what OTHER kids or people read. And let's face it...kids sneak what they really want to read. There was a copy of Judy Blume's Forever that made the rounds on the sly when I was in middle school. I also read Flowers in the Attic in 7th grade and ended up as a normal, functioning adult.

I irrationally hate all televised sports. They are so loud, the announcers screaming, the fans, whistles blowing, crowds chanting, whatever it is. I'd rather have quiet in my small house but the tv is always on sports and I can hear it from anywhere.

Anonymous wrote:I know an American guy (born and raised) who spent two years in the UK and now speaks with an English accent. It drives me so crazy, I can’t even talk to him. I don’t understand why someone would do this and - as an otherwise totally chill person - I literally just avoid him so I won’t rage.

Did he go to Oxford or Cambridge? It's like a sausage machine that takes people with different accents and spits out people with identical RP voices.

A friend was there for 3 years and lost her accent and makes fun of the fact that I still have my country's accent (as do the rest of her family).

Although I would argue that my anger in this situations is entirely rational.

People at the gym who
1) sweat a lot all over their treadmills, etc. and don't wipe it up
2) stake out a spot (usually in a nice place) and lay all their stuff out (mat, towel, etc.) while they work out elsewhere
3) stash a used paper towel or wet wipe in a cupholder on a piece of equipment and then leave it there for someone else to dig out and throw away