My pet peeves fill a frigging zoo. The biggest is probably people who refuse to acknowledge errors or mistakes they have made, because of their ego or insecurities; leading others astray.
In Finnish, one of my pet peeves is missing the possessive suffix in formal contexts. (I don't mind everyday speech, I consider it something like an accent.)
One of the most annoying cases of that was a series of advertisements by the Sonera (now Telia) phone company, and their "Minun Sonera" ad campaign.
(The possessive suffix, and the correct form, is "Minun Sonera
ni". The difference is something like my/me in English to my ear; analogous to pirate speech in English: "me Sonera, arrr!".)
If they had used any of the local dialects in Finland, like "Mun Sonera" (which would match common spoken Finnish), then I'd be okay with it, but butchering proper Finnish like that to avoid a suffix in the trade name just grinds my gears. It sounds fake and contrived!
And one thing I cannot listen to for more than 3 minutes is someone who MUST start every sentence with "So..."
I apologise. I do not do it in speech, but in writing, I too often start a sentence with "So," or "Thus," to indicate the following paragraph is based on the axioms/facts/assumptions/preliminary conclusions stated in previous paragraphs. (Me fail English. Any and all suggestions on how to do better are very welcome!
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