it's fucking stupid. it's an adjective that stupid people with small lexicons use to punch up their sentences. that's bad enough as it is, but it's also usually done for comic effect, even though it never works, because nobody who does anything in the way of, say, reading would ever use such a weak qualifying adjective to denote enormity, so using it for comedic exaggeration is just as stilted and and inarticulate as the entire surrounded context in all likelihood is.
I don't know it's just been pissing me off lately.
I have to agree. Same with the constant misuse of irony.
Quote from: Robotic Bear;1699258Same with the constant misuse of irony.
:this:
I have to admit that I haven't really experienced what you're talkin about.
Quote from: Marlin Brando;1699289I have to admit that I haven't really experienced what you're talkin about.
me niether
Also people need to learn the difference between "infer" and "imply". :mad:
Quote from: SnakeClock;1699356Also people need to learn the difference between "infer" and "imply". :mad:
Haha, how do people mix those up?
People who use masticate to describe a sexual act.
People that can't use context to distinguish between aural and oral.
People that think Alice in wonderland isn't the product of a ninteenth century mathematician, rather, some kind of LSD-soaked psychonaut named Lewis that would have had to have gotten their hands on a few tabs somewhere in the 1940's and subsequently sold the rights to Disney, not to mention have stolen the idea from any of a dozen films on the same subject released throughout the early 20th century.
People that use the term "crotch rot".
Quote from: Solenoidclock;1699427People who use masticate to describe a sexual act.
oral.
Heh heh
I hate it when the idiots who do the subs for your American shows put in the Portuguese equivalent to "pairs" when someone says "peers"
Quote from: Eyebrows Mcgee;1699487I hate it when the idiots who do the subs for your American shows put in the Portuguese equivalent to "pairs" when someone says "peers"
Pears, piers. Pairs, peers. Pares, pierce.
When people confuse homophones in writing, it makes me cringe.
Quote from: Solenoidclock;1699545Pears, piers. Pairs, peers. Pares, pierce.
When people confuse homophones in writing, it makes me cringe.
This too.
"infer" and "imply" is actually a matter of debate- it's usually easy to... infer from context which meaning of "infer" the speaker is using, and the usage that's synonymous with "imply" has been going on well beyond living memory, but some (myself included) find the distinction to be good general practice, because we already have a word that means "imply" (it's "imply") but surmise, conclude, interpret, intuit and extrapolate aren't quiiiiite synonymous with "infer" so it kind of sucks to get the meaning of "infer" muddled.
since this topic is now apparently about general linguistic complaints, it irks me when people act like "supposably" is a mispronunciation of "supposedly" when it's SO obviously the adverb form of the adjective "supposable" (meaning that which can be supposed.)
This is obvious, but how about those people who write "they're" instead of "their"? It annoys me like fuck.
The only thing that really bothers me is when people say irregardless.
Because whenever somebody says it they think they know what they're talking about.
when..... people think that.......... this is how you... use an ellipsis.................
Each time I see someone do this I make a little mark in my book and every year on October 17th I go to an old folks home and punch an old person for every mark in the book that it how much I loathe you if you do this.
My biggest linguistical oddity is that I say probably as prolly. Probably has annoyed an english major at some point.
I hate black people.
Wait...
Like, doesn't it like, bother you when like, someone says "like" too much? Like, it's really annoying, and you want to like, punch them like, in their jaw, or whatever?
Quote from: ButtplugClock;1699624when..... people think that.......... this is how you... use an ellipsis.................
I don't even know how somebody can be so stupid that this happens.
When people say "Same Difference".
Quote from: SheepClock;1699668When people say "Same Difference".
Well that's just a way to say "the difference is not significant" while being a bitch.
Still, I think it's I'm a edgy teen.
Quote from: Slurpee;1699661I don't even know how somebody can be so stupid that this happens.
Whaaaat seriously? I see it all the time. To be clear I was talking about strictly on the internet. There is always someone that does this every time I go to some other forum, and a lot of times people leave comments like this in places like youtube and NG. Many times it is done in the place of a commas, and more often than not they are females who love anime (no I am not kidding, I am saying this from experience).
I hate when people pluralize with an apostrophe. They do it all the time around here, too. I see it everywhere, including "professional" signs, newspapers, etc.
Quote from: Gayface;1699731I hate when people pluralize with an apostrophe. They do it all the time around here, too. I see it everywhere, including "professional" signs, newspapers, etc.
Do you mean putting the apostrophe in the wrong place? I know I fuck it up sometimes.
I see ellipsis overdose a lot on YouTube too. I noticed that people who like being "dark" use ellipses a lot.
Quote from: Kombucha;1699737I see ellipsis overdose a lot on YouTube too. I noticed that people who like being "dark" use ellipses a lot.
Haha yeah exactly! It really gets to me, I can't even see why they would think it is a good idea.
Same goes with Exclamation and Question Marks. They also seem to get overused much like the Elipses.
Quote from: ButtplugClock;1699734Do you mean putting the apostrophe in the wrong place? I know I fuck it up sometimes.
I mean when you go to write a word in plural form, but instead of just tacking on an "s", you have to throw in an apostrophe for some undiscernible reason.
Example:
"I had a fun time with the guys last night."
vs.
"I had a fun time with the guy's last night."
It really pisses me off, especially when I see it in places like newspapers, where the reporters are supposed to be experienced writers who know their own first language fairly well and they have editors to spot these mistakes on top of it all.
if you get upset about "same difference" it's equally valid to get upset about any idiom because they're all really weak in literal meaning.
I think it's hilarious when someone on the Internet tells someone else they're "retarted". Also, Internet providers should start checking if people know the difference between there, their and they're. THEY'RE AWAY AND THEIR DOG IS OVER THERE. How hard is it?
I think it's annoying when people say "I could care less" which signifies that it's possible for them to care less, instead of "I couldn't care less".
Also yeah plurality with an apostrophe is really lame. Reading it is like listening to someone with a really annoying accent/speech impediment.
Hey fuck you I have a speech impediment
I think "I could care less" is actually a weaker ("clean") version of "I could give a shit/two shits/a fuck/damn", which is meant to be ironic. its intent just becomes muddled because "care less" is, for this intent and purpose, a mealy-mouthed little bitch of a verb/adverb combination.
on the note of that sentence I just typed, "it" is a pronoun and its possessive form doesn't require an apostrophe, and the phrase "for all intensive purposes" is just about meaningless.
also, an analogy refers to a comparison drawing similarities between two given things- an actual thing being compared (that's to say not the comparison itself) are called analogues.
I'm gonna be honest, although I think that I pretty much excel at English(just saying), I can't spell "disappointed". It's spelled right in this post, but that's because of the spellchecker. In essays I always fuck it up :wiebel: