“But” – My Pet Peeve

I agree with you “AND” more challange than “BUT” I never like it all my life.
You are right that word “AND”.
Thanks,
Johanna

Kudos!

I cannot agree with you more about ‘but’! It irks me when people say it to me.

Keep up posting great vlogs! 🙂

what a terrible vlog but i loved it!

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Love this topic!

I have 3 pet peeves. Will name one from each work, home and personal.

1). Work – when making phone calls to business office. Auto-answering machine came on, “You have reach our Department. Please press one if you want to ask about application. Press two for more information about… Press three if you know the ext. # Press 0 if you need to speak with operator. I press #1 then it comes up again with press options. Yikes! hate it!

2). Home – I may be insane but I dislike seeing my husband biting his fingernails and playing with broken nail in his mouth. So annoying but maybe not to some of you?

3). Personal – After putting on my fresh socks and my foot step on floor where the wet spot is. Would you feel the same way as I do? haha

Happy vlogging/blogging!

finally I can go across the railway…

Spoken like a true counselor! It is a word that I saw often with some clients and it is worthy of a gentle challenge whenever it comes up.
Another pet peeve is the word “failure” used by some teachers in consultations away from the classroom…i.e. the student failed to meet goals, failed to complete homework, etc. THAT tells me a lot about the teacher!

Hello Amy,

BUT AMY!!! (kidding). I tell you about that and I agree to what you said. One thing I alway say to both Deaf and hearing people that I’m sick of “but” as you are saying to no point or just soften the “blow” to make the statement. ugh!

I tend to say this….NO “BUT” or “IF” or “AND” or “Whatsoever to make the escuse!” Just do it!

Well….”AND” is another story here. Like you give an example tha the little girl is very smart but couldn’t read well. My reponses, “well, what are you going to do? feel sorry with no hope or what?” If you don’t want to make thing better, just fly a kite!

Well…umm…The little girl is failing AND we can help her in the best way as we know how to improve her education!

How’s that!

Judge, I’m trying to figure out what you are saying…Deaf tend to say “but” to make another point? postive way? I have watch Deaf person who said “BUT” and really mean like Amy said…no good to make the statement and they do really mean like “pointless to do.” Most of the time they don’t do anything postive after “but.” If you are saying that it just a “way” the Deaf use “BUT” for a good reason, I humble to say…I disagree.

Hope you can clear up to what you mean by using “but.”

Good discussion Amy!!

The Ponder Deaf Man

Amy, I, too, detest this term, “but”

Dianrez, ditto! I have never believed in grading any student. I believe that students would learn much better if the grading policy would be abolished. Students love to stay in the classroom at a private school much longer, absorbing everything as possible as they can. They would feel no sense of intimidation as long as teachers do not grade them. It is a small wonder that more and more private schools are founded every year.

I guess my ASL isn’t good enough to understand what was bad about it?

My pet peeve is “And”, in interviews, and especialy with interpreters,(like one famous Actress has). I hear “and”, where it really seems to be the start of a different sentence.

It’s hard to know when to put the periods in for the end of sentences. “And” I know that they are not signing “and”.

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Hey Amy,
I enjoyed looking at your vlog. Thumbs up.
I understand your point, BUT I have to disagree.

There are many times that we use the word “but” and it’s not always negative. For example, “that house is small, but it’s in a nice area of town” or “my new car is small, but gets great gas mileage.”

“But” splits a sentence into two parts and shows a disagreement between the two segments. It doesn’t always necessarily mean something negative (just different). For me, it just shows a difference.

Thanks,
Bobby L

Hello BUT HI, just kidding ! !

Well, Seems ” But ” really annoy you . I admit I never notice that. Now I will watch deaf people signing for fun.

Everyone has personal habit ! ! Always all people have some kind of pet peeves ! !

My pet peeves (2) are some deaf people do not tip and deaf people are standing in middle where heavy traffic like in doorway or hallway or in the middle huge opening area.

Thanks for your vlog. Hands waving ! ! !

I totally agree with you and I never thought that it does make the difference in the sentence. My ONE pet peeve word is LATER (I will do it later – I meant to do it now), when I ask my son or husband to help me with something – all they say is LATER! OYYY!

My pet peeve is fart fumes. I hate walking unaware into a fart fume. At least hearing people can hear the butt raspberry and be warned. In the deaf community they know they can fart and move to another spot so the finger can’t be pointed at them, then I walk into it. Hold your farts or say excuse me!!!

Hello Amy,

You are a great instruction.
Smile,
Emma

THAT IS FACT YOU GET RIGHT TO SAY POSTIVE THAN BUT I AGREE WITH YOU I AM WILL TELL FRIEND ABOUT I LEARN ABOUT YOU SAY BUT MANY THANK JUDY JO

You are bravo to speak out.. My pet peeve is BUSY. I cannot stand people saying busy. I always tell them back that Jesus never says “I am busy.”

Thanks a lot. Marie

My pet peeves, when someone say “sorry i’m busy” when they are not lol. when someone block traffic in hallway chatting so u can’t get through, But is one of them too it like excuses. when i am walking on the street, someone comes up, askes me a question but i did not understand what he or she said so i asked her or him to please repeat the question, they say “oh sorry” then just take off on me cuz i was deaf but i was also using my hearing aid too. also when i say ”i can’t hear” then some people say, “oh i soo sorry”. Some people just don’t understand us deafies, like how to converse with deaf people like using paper and pen or just simply repeating what they just said. other pet peeve, on tv, we use closed caption to understand what people are saying. on tv shows, if the tv guide said that show was suppose to have or normally have closed caption, i turn on the show and theres no closed caption at all or the captioning are all messed up with wording, so i have to miss the whole program just because of that. also when u buy/rent dvd movies, it said it would have closed caption on it but when i go to watch it, there are none. sometimes when u ask someone to repeat something by voice, they either speak loudly, slowly, more quiet or babyish. we are asking them to simply repeat words not change tone of voice. other thing is, when u tell people your deaf, then they assume things like, “oh you can’t drive?” or other foolish things. I am like, hey deaf people can do everything, only thing we can’t do is hear. also i don’t like it when deaf people are called “hearing impaired”, we should just be called “deaf” or hard of hearing…

I totally agree with what Martin Bogard said and I want to add that ASL usually don’t use But or And which is English influenced for polite or politically correct instead of pointing like ASL does. I know I never use but or and in ASL but I noticed that I had to use these signs with hearing people or Deaf people with strong influenced englishzed ASL. As for English speaking or written we are learned to write in English as second language. Well written English itself is vague complicated as well as ASL is simple and clear.

Love the vlogs between you and Judge!
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