What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
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The use of "alumni" in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don't know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don't.
Conversely I hate the trend in English language to keep the original pluralization rules when adopting words from other languages. Just anglicize it to "alumnuses" or "alumnis" (if you want that to be the singular). Rules of the original language don't matter any more when you use it in English.
This exactly. I don't speak latin and don't want to.
True, but if I used alumnus instead of alumni, wouldn't I just sound pretentious?
No, because there's only one of you, you'd sound pretentio.
Do you find yourself correcting people who order a panini instead of a panino?
I do twitch a little when I hear someone saying bravi to a single person :)