What "grinds your gears"?

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What grinds your gears?

If you are unfamiliar with that expression, I am just asking what really bothers you.

I'll start:

When a Wrong Planet thread is locked and I've made a stupid grammatical mistake and I can't edit it. Very frustrating.

It really grinds my gears when people incorrectly say "whom" instead of who. (It's less annoying when they incorrectly say who instead of whom, for some reason)

Also, when people say they "graduated high school" instead of "graduated from high school"

The one time I don't copy my message before hitting submit, and after many times copying the message but it going through anyway, cloudflare decides now of all times it's going to screw me over by deleting my entire message and making me do several verifications before it will finally submit. And then noticing an error and having to go through it all again.

Or when I'm on my phone and the keyboard closes (only on WP) while I'm typing my message, causing me to hit the submit button. And then getting cloudflare.

Drives me nuts.

When people say "presentate" instead of present.

Here's a small thing: When people get angry at me for saying:
"I am a blank-blank orientated person" instead of "I am a blank-blank oriented person"
One is British and one is the American version- THEY ARE BOTH RIGHT!! !! !

I hate it when a word processor underlines something like 'honour' in red because it has an American dictionary.

When people say, "I'm gonna say such and such." Don't say you're going to say it; just say it!

Overly long and complected posts. Especially when they are replies. There are a lot of threads on WP and they should be concise replies forming a group conversation, not making a long speech. I have a very hard time following a lot of threads here because of how unnecessarily wordy they are.

People thinking the Eagles could have just flown the ring into Mordor.

When someone adds "-ize" to something: e.g., incentivize.

Same goes for adding "-wise": weatherwise, sportswise, trafficwise. I'm looking at you, news broadcasters.

Euphemisms to make something bad sound innocuous: downsize or rightsize for layoffs, terminate for kill, enhanced interrogation for torture

Turning nouns into verbs or verbs into nouns: we leveraged our resources, I had a critical learning from that project.

Corporate buzzspeak (can you tell I work in a corporation?): so help me, if I hear about a "best of breed," I'd better see puppies or horses!!

The fact that my spell check doesn't acknowledge Latin, Greek, and other dead languages; I have to continuously educate the darn thing any time I write about plants.