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Topic: Virgo influenced people and pet word peeves
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Geeky
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From: the Sun, vacation house on Mercury
Registered: Dec 2012
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posted January 11, 2016 02:38 PM
  
When people use "impactful" in business writing.No. Stop now. You meant to write, "influential" or "significant." "Impacted" or "impactful" reminds me of a bowel obstruction or wisdom teeth that need to be removed. I have Virgo Sun & Saturn with Mercury very close at 29,32 Leo. ------------------
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Violets
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posted January 11, 2016 02:45 PM
^ Wheezing again.  EDIT
I also want to make sure that no one gets offended by our pet peeves! They're just gripes, everyone has them. With Virgo influenced people, I've noticed that our pet peeves often involve words, punctuation, or putting things in the wrong place.  But still, we will love you even if you do these things.  IP: Logged |
Sikanda
Knowflake Posts: 460
From: 28080
Registered: Aug 2015
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posted January 11, 2016 03:12 PM
I'm a Virgo Sun and Mercury. I don't think I have pet word peeves. But I'm often a lively speaker and I can't stand it when people don't express themselves rightaway, as in saying everything twice or three times with different words or paraphrasing themselves when everybody else has understood. That slows conversation down importantly and so it can get quite frustrating. Oh I also like pronouncing things correctly, and being as grammatically correct as I can. I don't like hearing things mispronounced or seeing bad orthography. But of course it's not like the end of the world for me. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted January 11, 2016 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
Lol. There's the irony for me, I think. I cuss like a sailor, but I swear to God if someone describes food as being "scrumptious", or if a grown adult refers to their stomach as their "tummy", my hand starts twitching.
oops. I sometimes do that. IP: Logged |
Elysia
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posted January 11, 2016 03:18 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
^ Wheezing again. EDIT
I also want to make sure that no one gets offended by our pet peeves! They're just gripes, everyone has them. With Virgo influenced people, I've noticed that our pet peeves often involve words, punctuation, or putting things in the wrong place. But still, we will love you even if you do these things.
Word.  Yes, that's true. We love you anyway. In fact, more so if you have flaws enough to keep us busy. With our mental lint rollers and logical Lysol. (Just kidding! ) IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted January 11, 2016 03:20 PM
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Originally posted by Elysia:
Funny thing, I started using this so that it would annoy me less when other people use it. "Let's see what all the fuss is about..." Off the top of my head - it bugs me when people say "and yet.." YET is also a bloody conjunction. You don't need two consecutive conjunctions. Stop wasting conjunctions. There are starving kids in Africa. --Virgo Venus
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Violets
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posted January 11, 2016 03:23 PM
My husband has Mercury in Virgo, and he also doesn't care even remotely about whether or not people pronounce words correctly, spelling, etc.
He's a prime candidate for using made up words that grate on my nerves, actually.His Mercury is square Saturn and trine Moon, but he has Aquarius Mars and Sag Asc, so I think that maybe balances out his Mercury. I will admit that grammar is not my area of expertise, and I often don't pay much attention to it (seems out of character, but I guess my Pisces Sun takes the wheel when it comes to that). IP: Logged |
Elysia
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posted January 11, 2016 03:27 PM
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Originally posted by teasel:
I think I'd better stop reading. I'll be too afraid to post.
Oh no no, please don't! I just thought on a Virgo pet peeves thread, I could legitimately be a little snippy. I guess my Scorp mercury doesn't allow for gradations in 'snippiness' (if that's a word) and it comes out a lot sharper than intended. All in good fun. IP: Logged |
Violets
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posted January 11, 2016 03:31 PM
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Originally posted by teasel:
I think I'd better stop reading. I'll be too afraid to post.
No, don't do that!  It really is all in good fun! I'm fairly lenient, it's just that there are certain words that just...do that for me. I mean...I annoy myself with how many emojis I use. I think that's just the way of the Virgo influenced thought process. IP: Logged |
Violets
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posted January 11, 2016 03:40 PM
@ FaithI hope we didn't scare you off, too?
 I'm sure that my husband does not appreciate my incessant corrections regarding pronunciation, so I can only imagine what it's like to be married to us, lol. But hey, when we clean the house it sparkles, and we're good teachers when the kids take an interest in spelling, right? We also keep all of the puzzle pieces in the right boxes. IP: Logged |
Elysia
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posted January 11, 2016 03:43 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
@ FaithI hope we didn't scare you off, too?
I'm sure that my husband does not appreciate my incessant corrections regarding pronunciation, so I can only imagine what it's like to be married to us, lol. But hey, when we clean the house it sparkles, and we're good teachers when the kids take an interest in spelling, right? We also keep all of the puzzle pieces in the right boxes.
I'm hoping they've just gone on a tea break. But Violets, thanks for this thread - here, we get to be weird borderline-OCD freaks about *words* of all things. Where else can we do that?
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Violets
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posted January 11, 2016 03:55 PM
I'm glad some people are enjoying it! It was just making me laugh this morning (mostly at myself), so I started a thread.Mercury Rx is coming back to conjunct my Mars again, so perhaps I should have taken that into consideration.  IP: Logged |
Elysia
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posted January 11, 2016 04:01 PM
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Desiring Shadows
Knowflake Posts: 3439
From: UNITED STATES, BABY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 11, 2016 04:03 PM
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Originally posted by Elysia:
Funny thing, I started using this so that it would annoy me less when other people use it. "Let's see what all the fuss is about..." Off the top of my head - it bugs me when people say "and yet.." YET is also a bloody conjunction. You don't need two consecutive conjunctions. Stop wasting conjunctions. There are starving kids in Africa. --Virgo Venus
I don't know what the starving kids in Africa has to do with this, but okay. LMAO!! --------------
I'm not at all Virgo , but I must say
Words like "Wow" upset me. Mostly because when I use that word, I am judging someone in a negative way. Also "wtf" when used inappropriately comes off at rude. IP: Logged |
Elysia
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posted January 11, 2016 04:05 PM
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Originally posted by Desiring Shadows:
I don't know what the starving kids in Africa has to do with this, but okay. LMAO!!
It does, on a MUCH deeeper level. That's 8H Scorp mercury humour. 'Wow' is a pet peeve of yours? Really? Wow. IP: Logged |
DopGang
Knowflake Posts: 2029
From: INTJ
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted January 11, 2016 04:10 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
But still, we will love you even if you do these things.
Oh! Good! I don't want to say things like "moist pound cake" and get everyone worked up so that they hate me.  IP: Logged |
Desiring Shadows
Knowflake Posts: 3439
From: UNITED STATES, BABY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 11, 2016 04:13 PM
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Originally posted by Elysia:
It does, on a MUCH deeeper level. That's 8H Scorp mercury humour. 'Wow' is a pet peeve of yours? Really? Wow.
Wow wow wowowwwwww
😛 @Dop Gang
@Elysia
Also
MOIST POUND CAKE!!'
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Violets
Knowflake Posts: 5480
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Registered: Apr 2011
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posted January 11, 2016 04:15 PM
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Originally posted by DopGang:
Oh! Good! I don't want to say things like "moist pound cake" and get everyone worked up so that they hate me.
*more wheezing* 
Scrumptious, moist pound cake.
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hypatia238
Moderator Posts: 3752
From: Miami
Registered: Sep 2014
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posted January 11, 2016 04:15 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
Lol. There's the irony for me, I think. I cuss like a sailor, but I swear to God if someone describes food as being "scrumptious", or if a grown adult refers to their stomach as their "tummy", my hand starts twitching.
Lol haha I don't do either so we should be good. IP: Logged |
deepseablues
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From: the ocean floor
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted January 11, 2016 04:24 PM
My Virgo heavy friend is constantly correcting people's grammar and wording. He particularly despises the phrases "It's all good" or "I'm good" in response to asking someone if they want something. He also really hates the phrase "It is what it is." He will get into days long or weeks long arguments about little things. One recent was whether or not this girl's name should be spelled with an umlaut or not, then over what an umlaut actually is, and he ended up bringing his dictionary into work to settle it. Everyone knows he's like this so I'm pretty sure she just kept it going to tease him and drive him a little bonkers IP: Logged |
Violets
Knowflake Posts: 5480
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posted January 11, 2016 04:32 PM
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Originally posted by deepseablues:
My Virgo heavy friend is constantly correcting people's grammar and wording. He particularly despises the phrases "It's all good" or "I'm good" in response to asking someone if they want something. He also really hates the phrase "It is what it is."
Oh, no.
I'm absolutely guilty of using all of those on a regular basis. IP: Logged |
DopGang
Knowflake Posts: 2029
From: INTJ
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted January 11, 2016 04:39 PM
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Originally posted by Violets:
Oh, no.
I'm absolutely guilty of using all of those on a regular basis.
Me too! IP: Logged |
Violets
Knowflake Posts: 5480
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posted January 11, 2016 04:42 PM
I was doing that pet peeve thing where I explain something more than once, so I had to edit.  IP: Logged |
PixieMG
Knowflake Posts: 72
From: Argentina
Registered: Dec 2015
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posted January 11, 2016 05:27 PM
I'm Venus Virgo, I'm not bothered by any word as far as I can think now, besides some filler words, but sounds? That's another story. I can't stand the chewing sound and dogs licking their parts, I just can't. Once I hear the sound, the world stops, and all I can think about is that horrible noise, it awakens my most violent instincts, not joking.------------------
Gemini Rising.
Cancer Sun.
Capricorn Moon.
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Desiring Shadows
Knowflake Posts: 3439
From: UNITED STATES, BABY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 11, 2016 05:32 PM
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Originally posted by PixieMG:
I'm Venus Virgo, I'm not bothered by any word as far as I can think now, besides some filler words, but sounds? That's another story. I can't stand the chewing sound and dogs licking their parts, I just can't. Once I hear the sound, the world stops, and all I can think about is that horrible noise, it awakens my most violent instincts, not joking.
Wait, why don't you like the noise?
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