Hola, everyone!

Anyhoo,

Some of you may have noticed that for a short while the main page of this site on Wednesday (yes, it was late, I'm slack) was completely screwed. Man that was annoying, especially considering my computer has a bit of difficulty accessing pages that are already on the server.

I have something to rant about again today, and that is the use of the word 'shotgun.'

As most of you are aware (thanks to Tuesday's ep), there was a LAN happening at my house, involving several people, including Bob and Dave. Talking to Dave a few nights before the LAN, he declared: "Bob and I shotgun the coffee table."

This annoys me - for one, shotgun is a noun. The word shotgun can only be used to reserve one thing, and that is the front seat of a car. Or possibly a shotgun. So two things. But no more.

Being in the front seat of the car in the olden days was referred to as "riding shotgun" because if the coach was attacked by bandits (exciting times, these olden days), the person in the front seat would whip out a shotgun and blam them a bit.

Dave already knows this, but his argument is that language has evolved as it is wont to do, to include the verb "shotgun," to reserve something. Pah. Language has evolved so that people can say "could of" and have apostrophes for plurals, but it doesn't mean that the people who do these things come off as complete tards.

Speaking of which - how annoying is it when people put apostrophes in the wrong place? It sounds pedantic of me, I know... well, that's because it is. But still - how difficult can it be? If you're shortening "it is" you get "it's", if something is owned by it, it is "its." Case closed. Plurals NEVER have apostrophes.

Well, that's kept me interested for the time being.