hochqualitative berichterstattung bei der funke mediengruppe

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trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:

Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...

when people using the false plural "octopi", do they also do it for other words ending in -us for which -i is not the correct plural form?

i propose to name this field of study "autobi"-ography