My personal language pet peeves
In Japanese, when you want to refer to someone, you have to refer to them by their name in order to be polite. Even if they're right next to you. So if your coworker John leaves his hat on the table and you find it but don't know it's his, you basically ask "is this John-san's hat?" instead of just saying "your". I get it, honorifics and stuff, but I don't think that shit will ever sound natural to me. In Russian, sometimes when a word is borrowed from English, they'll borrow the plural form of an English word, but make it singular in Russian. I have two examples. Comics, and reels (like from instagram). In Russian their respective counterparts are комикс (komiks) and рилс (rils) and THESE words have plural forms which kinda fucks with my English brain. In Finnish, loanwords are even more annoying because of cases. In Russian, you don't need to decline loan words as it can still make sense in context. But in Finnish, every word no matter what needs to be declined. Most of the time you can just add an i sound at the end of a word and decline it that way but I ran into an annoying situation where I wanted to say I watched The Sopranos in Finnish but I didn't know whether to decline it as "sopranosta", or take soprano and make it plural (sopranot) or just say "sarjaa sopranos" (the show sopranos). And finally English. This is more of a dialectal pet peeve but it pisses me off that in British English, they refer to companies and groups in the plural form. So instead of saying "Amazon has built a new warehouse." they'll say, "Amazon have built a new warehouse." it's just wrong man
