peeve: oriented vs orientated

TXaviator

TXaviator

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ARGGGGG i cant STAND seeing people use "orientated" when they should be using "oriented"

:banghead:

peeve of the day.

ie - Line ORIENTED Flight Training

not ORIENTATED!!!!

oriented = with relation to (a subject or matter)

orientate(d) = to gain or regain a sense of direction
 
I share this peeve and will add one.

nauseous - that which makes people sick (nauseated)
nauseated - sick (caused by something/someone nauseous)
 
killbilly said:
I share this peeve and will add one.

nauseous - that which makes people sick (nauseated)
nauseated - sick (caused by something/someone nauseous)
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BINGO!!!!!!!! BIN-%^&*(*&^%-GO!!

I hate seeing people making that mistake all the time. Waaaaay too many people ignore proper usage.
 
AngelFuree said:
BINGO!!!!!!!! BIN-%^&*(*&^%-GO!!

I hate seeing people making that mistake all the time. Waaaaay too many people ignore proper usage.
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Sadly, if enough people resort to improper usage, it eventually gets accepted. I understand that language has to evolve, but when it evolves for laziness it bugs me.

"Irregardless" should not be accepted usage, but it is now.
 
killbilly said:
Sadly, if enough people resort to improper usage, it eventually gets accepted. I understand that language has to evolve, but when it evolves for laziness it bugs me.

"Irregardless" should not be accepted usage, but it is now.
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regardless OR irrespective

but not BOTH!@!!1
 
killbilly said:
I share this peeve and will add one.

nauseous - that which makes people sick (nauseated)
nauseated - sick (caused by something/someone nauseous)
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That one, for some reason, bothers me so bad. Almost to the point where I de-rail the conversation to correct them. haha :)
 
It's annoying when phrases like "enrichen mixture" are used in presentations and documents provided by the university. One would expect a higher standard.
 
TXaviator said:
lol it makes the yaw wet?
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You've got me...I've never flown a plane equipped with one. :D Anyway, it was (is?) a checklist item on the Dash, and some new hires still pronounced it that way, even though they were staring right at the word.
 
Booker said:
To keep it aviation-related, don't ever say "yaw dampener," especially if you go to PDT.
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AWWWW, BULLCRAP. I purposely said DAMPNER just to peeve those crusty guys off!


/side note

both damper and dampner mean to wet and to, well, dampen a motion.
 
Dugie8 said:
AWWWW, BULLCRAP. I purposely said DAMPNER just to peeve those crusty guys off!
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Actually, I was referring to being in training. Aw heck, now you did it: Story time!

My first exposure to the controversy was when MM (you worked with him, right?) was doing our 2-on-1s. My partner, KT, said "dampener" while we were running lines. M looked at K with that half-crooked smile he had and asked, "You guys are from UND, aren't you?" K responded in the affirmative, to which M said, "Yeah, I can always tell because you guys always say 'dampener.' Why is that? I can't figure it out. What are they teaching there?" Typical MM BS, you know. Well, it was all news to me...I had always said "damper." Anyway, you know we were all about cooperating and graduating at that point. But after you get online? Sure...Twist that knife!
 
MM was the same "fella" whom I was flying a -300 with and he asked for flaps 5 (the -300 had some odd flap setting the -100 and -200 didn't) so I gave him what he asked for. Well here we are on short final, nose pointing at the moon when I query if he wants flaps 15? He does the typical gruff thing and grumbles yes.

We get on the ground and proceeds to crawl up my butt for giving him flaps 5 and not 15 when he asked for them! BS, he asked for 5 and forgot about it. Real class act this guy was him and "Dag".
 
Dugie8 said:
We get on the ground and proceeds to crawl up my butt for giving him flaps 5 and not 15 when he asked for them! BS, he asked for 5 and forgot about it. Real class act this guy was him and "Dag".
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Yup, typical BS. Yeah, I remember some guys would do flaps 5, gear down in the 300 because the speeds were something like 163 flaps and 160 gear rather than 158 gear and 148 flaps on the 1s and 2s. (Or something like that...I'm probably way off.) We were getting line checked in a 300 by JPf one day, and the captain did the flaps 5, gear down thing. Naturally, John was less than pleased, because "we don't train for flaps 5, gear down." The captain's response: "Then why do we have to know the limitation?"

You ever hear that line I like to tell about training guys (I'm talking about *airline* training guys for those reading this) being like pigeons? You have to throw rocks at them to get them to fly, and when they finally do, they crap all over everything.
 
:laff:

i specifically used "disoriented" in class .... oops! ms. martin repeated it back with disorientATed!!!

oh well. :rolleyes:
 
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