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Good evening wonderstar... Yes, 'perogative' is one that gets me as well, along with those people who don't appear to know that there is an 's' in specific.
Even funnier though are those people who use 'nonce' when they mean nous.
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"Nous" as in... canniness? (Not as in "we"). I must admit I don't hear a lot of people using the word nous at all, let alone using it incorrectly. Perhaps you mix with a higher class of illiterate.
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I think Samnorton's just in denial about the fact that the local kids really do think he's a nonce, and like to vocalise this every time he's within earshot.
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At what point, exactly, did 'addictive' turn into 'addicting'? As in www.addictinggames.com
I went to a couple of lectures at the Brighton Science Festival the other weekend and, for some reason that now escapes me, attended a lecture on transistors. The lecturer told us that a lot of students, when writing about transistors, will say that 'geranium' is used to make it work. This would be a fantastic example of flower power if it were true, but the truth actually is that 'Germanium' is used.
Which is something else entirely.
Which was invented in Germany.
Hence the name.
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At what point, exactly, did 'addictive' turn into 'addicting'? As in www.addictinggames.com
This bugs me too. Also when people say they have an addictive personality which would suggest it would be possible to become addicted to that person's personality, like an addictive drug or similar. This is compounded by them saying addicting personality which is when I really want to stab them.
Especially the inferrence of "Oh, it's not my fault I became addicted to heroin, or that I go out and get absolutely slaughtered every night. You see I have this personality defect whereby I can easily become addicted to anything!"
NO! You fucking moron. You're just a twat who does things to excess. If you have a personality defect it's that you fail to properly consider the consequences of your actions, but to try to deny responsibility for systematically fucking yourself up is fucking retarded. Stop making excuses for yourself, grow up, or fuck off!
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anenome, instead of anemone.
febuary, instead of february
secketary, instead of secretary.
Xmas, rather than Christmas. You lazy fucker.
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quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: how much more it costs you to be healthy rather than eat crap
Only if eating out, though. When it comes to shopping, normal food is always cheaper than processed stuff.
Not if you buy packaged pre-sliced and pre-washed fruit, and a packaged caesar salad with packaged pre-grill chicken pieces, like I did because I am pathetic. I did however mix the chicken with the salad, in a form of "cooking".
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When people describe their vacuum cleaner as a 'hoover' when it's made by any company other than Hoover. That really grinds my gears
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: If anyone ever called me 'X' because they're too lazy to write 'Chris' I would literally kill them.
I suppose they could only technically do it if your name was "Christ" though. Anyway, shouldn't it be +mas? It was St Andrew that got strung up on an X wasn't it?
Here's one that gets me, reminded to me by NWoD's birthday... Micheal, instead of Michael. I even had to correct someone once whose name was Michael and had written it Micheal. "Are you sure?" he said.
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Is there anyone that is able to say "theatre" in the way that actors can? It's sort of "thee-etter", but it never sounds right when I try it.
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Adults using baby speak really does my head in - stuff like Interweb is all cutsy and ha ha look at me, I'm an adult sounding cute - but when people say poo instead of shit that just annoys me completely. A friend's ex used to say 'Oh, you've made a smell' instead of farted - and would say things like, 'and then he said the 'f'...' - fine, if you're in a primary school lesson at the time, not fine when you are a) in a room full of adults and b) in a room with adults that have heard you moaning like a whore in the next room of a night....
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Baby dance... Jesus Christ. That's as clear a symptom of the complete loss of perspective that parents and aspiring parents are in danger of undergoing when their whole life becomes focussed on BABY. All the joy and love and zest and excitement of banging your partner is distilled off in favour of the sole aim of fertilising an egg. Grim.
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quote:Originally posted by Lickapaw#2: "You're more clever than what I am."
Surely this is a simple jest - the grammatical mangling being a self-spoofing demonstration of the speaker's lack of cleverness. It's exactly the kind of humour you see on here, all the time.
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