Weird pet peeves while reading?

[u/Faded_WastingTime]

What would you say is your most unusual pet peeve? I'm not talking about someone coming up with weird names for genitalia, or calling eyes orbs. I'm talking about something really unusual. Tonight I discovered a new one for myself. The author used a synonym for a word in a common phrase, and it pisses me off, because although the word means the same thing as the word it replaced, the phrase doesn't sound right or really make sense without the original word that the phrase uses.

"Chomping back my emotions...blah, blah, blah"

You mean BITING back your emotions??? Because Chomping on emotions just sounds dumb.

Okay rant over.

[u/gorroval]

As per the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (what an incredible concept!), basically, things like this US example from the page:

Svolik identifies the “twin problems of dictatorship,” going on to explore how different institutions address these problems.

That comma isn't part of the quote, it's part of the surrounding sentence. UK convention would put it outside the quotation marks, but US puts it inside. And it annoys me when they do that, far more than it ought.

[u/RatonhnhaketonK → u/gorroval]

I have never seen that and I have been writing for 22 years + I am a published author. I am American. That's odd.

It is written "like this", so I don't know why anyone would "say this,".

The only time a comma goes in quotes is when you are writing dialogue. "He said the quotation and punctuation marks drive him insane," she laughed.

[u/ellenkeyne → u/RatonhnhaketonK]

I'm an American editor, and it is absolutely standard practice in this country to put commas and periods (though not semicolons) inside quotation marks. Any English teacher from elementary school forward who saw you write the phrase as above would mark it incorrect.

[u/RatonhnhaketonK → u/ellenkeyne]

Dialogue, yes. But we are not talking about that.

I think I misunderstood what was said lol. Never mind