Pet Peeves: Elevation != Altitude, "Pree-sentation"

[Red Devil]

ohhhhh, the times i have unfortunately heard someone use 'altitude' when they should use 'elevation'....

"Altitude with Attitude!"

Dummy....

Altitude pertains to height above sea level *when in an aircraft/above the terrain*.

Elevation pertains to height above sea level *when on the ground*

when you arrive at the border of a town/city, you don't see something like, "Atlanta, Altitude 738 feet", but, rather, "Atlanta, Elevation 738 feet"

grrrrrrrrr....

[Psychedelic Rhino]

The term that gets me is "fold", as in, "The spacecraft's speed has increased 5 fold."

Fold means, or should mean, to double the last quantity as in folding a cloth.

For example, if the spacecraft was traveling at 2,500 miles per hour and it speed increased 5 fold, it would not be 12,500mph, but rather 80,000mph.

[sabrebattletank]

What gets me is people with the idea that their lexicon is the only lexicon.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Another is when people continuously correct others when someone means alien ship and says ufo.

However, now after all these years of the mystery, I tend to accept the parlance of ufo meaning "alien craft".

[TnT]

The term that gets me is "fold", as in, "The spacecraft's speed has increased 5 fold."

Fold means, or should mean, to double the last quantity as in folding a cloth.

However the suffix "fold" means "having the stated number of parts, or multiplied by the stated number" (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-fold, http://dictionary.cambridge.org/diction ... ish/fold_5). Hence, fivefold means five times the previous value.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I understand the etymology and common use, that's why I said 'should mean'.

[Red Devil]

ARGH!!! Pretentious snobs saying "pree-sentation" instead of "presentation"

[Dataanti]

GSH banning me is one of my pet peeves....

I'm surprised he hasn't banned me here yet....

[Ded10c]

People moaning about their pet peeves

[sabrebattletank]

Using != as a statement

[Red Devil]

people complaining about the pet peeves of others

darn, now i'm caught in a loop...

[Baconboy]

My pet peeve = people being idiots.
So I get angry a lot...

[Ded10c]

Using != as a statement

It's a mathematical symbol, or an approximation of one.

[Baconboy]

As in:
3! = 3 x 2 x 1
21! = 21 x 20 x 19 x 18 x 17 x 16 x 15 x 14 x 13 x 12 x 11 x 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1

[Ded10c]

No, as in 3≠4 / 3 != 4