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Anybody else have these? Some words just make my skin crawl. I think that most of the ones that bother me are the ones people use to sound "in the know".


"Society" drives me nuts, for example.



Anyone else?

 

 

"Chillax" dude!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The one that gets me is a two-word phrase: "very unique."


:mad:
:mad:
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Look, "unique" means "one of a kind" (check the Latin root!). You're either "one of a kind," OR YOU'RE NOT!


There are NOT degrees of "uniqueness," any more than you can be "a little bit pregnant," or
"mostly dead."
:freak:

:mad:

/rant



I just got a medical opinion that says you can be only mostly dead.
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That weren't me.

That weren't mine.

I weren't doin it.


etc.

 

 

Wow ~ that would drive me nuts, too. In my business, I run across a lot of misused English. Like, a LOT. But I haven't run into that. Yet, lol.

 

Most often, I see the opposite: "I wish I was" instead of the correct "I wish I were," etc.

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This one pisses my lady off like you wouldn't believe. She gets red in the face.
:lol:



Dude, seriously...Me too. I work with a guy who does it ALL. THE. TIME. It seems like it shows up at least once a day, and each time I just want to go postal and correct him, but I don't because that's who I am :lol:

It really does drive me up the wall though.

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irrevelant (makes me....so mad. You dumb {censored}s, how do you SPEAK dyslexia?)

 

irregardless (has been used incorrectly for so long that it's technically a word now. It's meaning is "regardless". That's right. People have been adding a {censored}ing extra "ir" for no god damned reason long enough that Funk and Wagnel (and mr. Webster) decided it should have its own entry in the I section. Someone kill me. I don't know if I can live in a world where that level of ignorance is not only accepted but rewarded).

 

literally (because it's never actually a literal interpretation of events. It's hyperbole. IF YOU LITERALLY HAD TO WALK LIKE 1,200 MILES THROUGH THE PARKING LOT, YOU WOULD HAVE LITERALLY DIED FROM DEHYDRATION AND EXPOSURE YOU STUPID {censored}).

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