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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
I was older than I should have been before I learned it wasn’t should of been.
I also used to mix up used to use to. Did you use to do that, too? It’s not so confusing once you get used to it.
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No. Never did that.
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I don’t want to admit something you probably won’t believe. I used to mistake want and won’t when won’t opened the question won’t you save me.
I mixed up effect and affect but I’ve come to believe their meanings overlap more than most people think.
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They don't. They're entirely different.
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I used to think the knell in death knell came from the nail in the coffin not the death knell bell.
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This one I like.
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I’m convinced nobody knows for sure if it’s hear hear or here here.
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It's "hear hear". Always was, always will be.
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I wasn’t going to tell you I didn’t know gonna is spelled going to.
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Interesting. So it's going to orrehoea, is it?
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Originally Posted by grindy
Every single one of my colleagues pronounces 'bearing' like 'beering'.
I bet they also think a woman beers children.
Germans...
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Start those kids young, is what I say.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
* your's . It's possessive
^ That's an interesting confusion.
In Britain people used to send money by post, for which they would buy a special Post Office voucher, which the recipient could then redeem in another Post Office; it was safer than sending cash. As a kid I thought it was a Post Lorder, until one day I saw it written down: Postal Order.
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I love this one.
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Originally Posted by grindy
As fascist as I am about grammar, 'literally' never bothered me.
It's called hyperbole, for god's sake.
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No it isn't. You can't say "my stomach was literally hanging out" (unless you've been savaged by a bear, obviously). It does get overused.
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Originally Posted by grindy
Say one of those phrases and I will consider you a retard and never take you seriously again:
"Everyone has to believe in something."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Everything happens for a reason."
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Every dead fish has to believe in something while it swims with the stream for a reason.
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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
A good one this - 'Axed' instead of 'asked'.
I've said it before but the word 'pussy' makes me cringe every time I hear it tbh.
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Axed: where did that ever come from? I bet someone just mispronounced it once and it caught on. Pretty silly though, when axed already meant two separate things.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Something else that literally drives me insane is the increasing use of the so-called "Historic Present." This used to be confined to jokes told in an informal setting. "This guy goes into a bar...". Strictly speaking, if you are recounting a story, you should use a past tense. Of course nobody cares when they're listening to a joke, but more and more these days you hear it in otherwise reputable documentaries, " The Mayflower lands in Plymouth and the Pilgrim Fathers look for fresh water..."
If it happened four hundred years ago, it's the past, Mr.Should-know-better Presenter !  |
Didn't know the Mayflower could fly!
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
"Yours" is a pronoun and so does not require an apostrophe. "Yours" is considered a possessive pronoun already, same as "its".
Twit.
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Was going to say this. Without the twit added though.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ I was joking, hence the " " I was suggesting Lucem could of added another mistake to his sentence.
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Is it though?
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
"It is what it is". I ****ing hate this meaningless phrase.
Looked like you were being lightheartedly pedantic tbh.
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God I ****ing hate that one too.
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Originally Posted by grindy
I don't think it's an issue in English but in German many people put 'quasi' before every second word. I suppose it's somewhat similar to 'like' in English.
**** those people. Whenever they say this I want to grab them by their lapels and scream into their dumb faces that no, it's not quasi this and that. It's exactly this and that. **** you, you dumb ****, thinking that using foreign words makes you sound smarter. It ****ing doesn't, you little piece of dumb ****.
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Wouldn't that make them a dumb piece of quasi-****?