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Pet Peeve #326
 
Highlighter in my used coursebooks. I made the mistake this term of buying a book without flipping through it first, only to pick it up later and discover that some twit had gone highlighter-happy with it. In multiple colors. And they didn’t just highlight important sections; they did it to everything, like some two-year-old coloring his favorite picture book. What, I ask you, is the point of highlighting the entire book? I thought I’d be all right with it, but I’m gonna try to take it back because I find that instead of thinking about Gender Issues when I read I am thinking, “Fuck you, phantom student, fuck you and your rainbow of highlighters.”

Also, it hurt my retinae.
 
Pet Peeve #548
 
When people confuse the words “palpate” and “palpitate,” especially in professional articles about medical checkups. Yes, I found this in a Reliable Source for Medical Information, and it was wrong. “Palpate” is what your doctor does when s/he feels for swellings and figures out what kinds of swellings they are on the body using hir fingers. “Palpitate” is what your heart is doing when it’s beating irregularly.  And “Palpatine” is a guy who looked like your nice grandpa until he turned on the ugly beams and took over the galaxy, converting Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side and throwing the senate at Yoda in the process.  You probably won’t use that much in the doctor’s office, unless you have a really cool doctor. But it is not a verb. Yet.

Date: 2008-04-19 05:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] annotated_em
Re: #326 - This is why I decided a while ago that it was better to just suck it up and budget for buying the brandnew books. *wry* Unless you can find a "gently used" used book, the cost difference is kind of worth it to me.

But then, I'm a dragon about my books, so my opinion isn't exactly sane.

*goes to rub her paws gloatingly over her books again*

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