pet peeve

DrBegalke · #1 03/11/2007, 04:19 AM

Zoo's are a collection of living animals usually for public display....

Zoa's is an abbreviation for zoAnthids, a type of coral.

alexinfla · #2 03/11/2007, 08:14 AM

yeah, its a pet peeve of mine to hear people say "zoas"...trying to sound all educated.

BS · #3 03/11/2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by alexinfla
yeah, its a pet peeve of mine to hear people say "zoas"...trying to sound all educated.

I hates those ed ja macated ones two

Ding2daDong · #4 03/11/2007, 07:46 PM

My pet peeve is when a zoanthid gets "identified" by a flashy name and go up 400% per polyp.

Oh and I thought people used "zoos" as an abreviation for zoanthids because so many people actually say that.

-Matthew

manderx · #5 03/11/2007, 08:54 PM

'zoo' is a nickname that *everyone* has used *forever*. zoa is a truncation of 'zoanthid' that became popular with the latest batch of zoo newbies who think it makes them sound smart. i'll take a one syllable nickname over a 2 syllable truncation anyday.

SnailBert · #6 03/11/2007, 09:18 PM

why not spell the real word out? it aint going to happen, so why get upset either way it's spelled?

Siffy · #7 03/11/2007, 10:18 PM

I'm with DrBegalke, and I think SnailBert may share this... The abbreviations and acronyms are peeves of mine. Especially when I see those with much experience talking to someone who's new. They also make the search function near useless.

Also, I've closed windows to many threads when spelling is forgotten and words like then, than, your, you're, etc. are so badly misused my head starts to hurt. I once saw someone back up their "intelligence" by stating they had a bachelors degree after their spelling was commented. They misspelled "bachelor".

jjmcat · #8 03/11/2007, 10:46 PM

My pet peeves are people who cry about spelling of words and whineing about how the use of the word zoas.Come on now lets get real about this.My biggest pet peeve is when a fungus is taking over my blue zoas.

jafoca · #9 03/11/2007, 11:08 PM

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Originally posted by Siffy
I'm with DrBegalke, and I think SnailBert may share this... The abbreviations and acronyms are peeves of mine. Especially when I see those with much experience talking to someone who's new. They also make the search function near useless.

Also, I've closed windows to many threads when spelling is forgotten and words like then, than, your, you're, etc. are so badly misused my head starts to hurt. I once saw someone back up their "intelligence" by stating they had a bachelors degree after their spelling was commented. They misspelled "bachelor".

The RC search function doesn't need any help for being useless....

Zoo is just an abbreviation because people are lazy. I am lazy, I admit!

Let me ask you, do you drive a car or an automobile?

hmm.... in other languages automobile is even reduced to just auto... hows that for out of context confusion?

Dr Begalke · #10 03/11/2007, 11:20 PM

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Originally posted by Siffy
I'm with DrBegalke, and I think SnailBert may share this... They also make the search function near useless.

Glad I'm not the only one.

musty baby · #11 03/12/2007, 06:25 AM

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Originally posted by manderx
'zoo' is a nickname that *everyone* has used *forever*. zoa is a truncation of 'zoanthid' that became popular with the latest batch of zoo newbies who think it makes them sound smart. i'll take a one syllable nickname over a 2 syllable truncation anyday.

I'll spend the extra 1/10th of a second and 1/10,000th of a calorie to type/say the third syllable. I don't see it so much as making me sound smart as *not* making me sound otherwise.

peanut95 · #12 03/12/2007, 07:39 AM

I think someone needs some PUFFS PLUS!!!

ct_vol · #13 03/12/2007, 08:59 AM

Zoo's, Zoa's, Zoanthids. Really it doesn't matter. I agree that it may be annoying for someone who knows better. It is up to that person to educate the ignorant. My pet peeve is improper grammar, which some of you in this thread complaining about Zoo people are guilty of. Another pet peeve of mine is PH, ph. ITS pH PEOPLE!!!!! It stands for percentage of hydrogen ion.

musty baby · #14 03/12/2007, 10:17 AM

No it doesn't

timrandlerv10 · #15 03/12/2007, 10:21 AM

'are guilty of.'

way to end a sentence in a preposition...

(notice i dont capitalize anything...go figure...guess pet peeves are just that: pets.)

hrstrnr · #16 03/12/2007, 10:37 AM

I hate it when my husband leaves his socks inside out in the laundry basket

thecichlidpleco · #17 03/12/2007, 11:05 AM

ketchup or cutsup, it really doesn't matter to me, all I care about is that i drink pop and not soda.

thecichlidpleco · #18 03/12/2007, 11:09 AM

Also, ryan, his definition of pH is correct.

. You could be technical, but his answer is pretty much correct.

musty baby · #19 03/12/2007, 02:37 PM

Yeah, pH is a strange creature and I retract my earlier statement. I actually also agree with him, however I think it ventures too far into the realm of "nit-picky." Capital letters I can let slide.

Peter Eichler · #20 03/12/2007, 03:04 PM

I hate rainbows!

saturn tech · #21 03/12/2007, 03:31 PM

I hate when people use Zoo's when they mean Zoos

A have a few Zoos. Not, I have a few Zoo's. a few zoo's WHAT?

nUgZ · #22 03/12/2007, 04:30 PM

I think some of the confusion is because many people pronounce it Zooanthid, and not Zoanthid like they're supposed to. Zo sounds like toe.

BS · #23 03/12/2007, 06:53 PM

I hate PPE questions...............

xxtriggermanxx · #24 03/12/2007, 07:09 PM

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Originally posted by BS
I hate PPE questions...............

That reminds me ! I have a question about my ppe's zoos that kinda smell like "soda" after it spills on my dirty socks i left turned inside out in the laundry? did i mention they look more like rainbows when my ph is low?

BS · #25 03/12/2007, 07:23 PM

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Originally posted by xxtriggermanxx
That reminds me ! I have a question about my ppe's zoos that kinda smell like "soda" after it spills on my dirty socks i left turned inside out in the laundry? did i mention they look more like rainbows when my ph is low?

.....did you mean pH ? ....