Supposably and Expecially (excetera, excetera, excetera)

[ThankQ]

I've yet to figure out how to create this sentence, WITHOUT changing the meaning, and without a double negative:

Don't let me die for nothing.

 

[Ruaidhri]

I work in the fundraising industry. Our reps work off a basic script as a guide to ensure that they are keeping close to the message our clients want to send.

These scripts all contain the word "donor" at least once per page.

Yet I continue to hear it warped into "donator" and it drives me up the wall. I don't know where they get it.

 

[Chris3123]

I could care less if people don't use words correctly.


And that's true, because I care a lot!

 

[SVD]

Yes, the misuse of "like" is agrivating. I file those people away in my mental, person classification system as Airheads.

Two regional ones of these malapropisms I've noticed in the Maryland area with the older folks:

"It aint no way!" (Should be "There...", Aint debate notwithstanding, since I like to use that word incorrectly for effect sometimes)

"It don't make no never-mind to me"

 

[ThankQ]

^I agree on "ain't".

In the right situations, "Ain't no way, buddy" fits much better than, "I'd really rather not."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've yet to figure out how to create this sentence, WITHOUT changing the meaning, and without a double negative:

Don't let me die for nothing.

"I'd like my death to count for something." - Tasha Yar, "Yesterday's Enterprise"

 

[ThankQ]

I've yet to figure out how to create this sentence, WITHOUT changing the meaning, and without a double negative:

Don't let me die for nothing.

"I'd like my death to count for something." - Tasha Yar, "Yesterday's Enterprise"

That changes the meaning.

 

[Kelthaz]

I've yet to figure out how to create this sentence, WITHOUT changing the meaning, and without a double negative:

Don't let me die for nothing.

"I'd like my death to count for something." - Tasha Yar, "Yesterday's Enterprise"

That changes the meaning.

How about "Make sure my death counts for something"?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've never understood the need to say, "etcetera, etcetra, etcetera" when one "etcetra" is all you'll ever need.

That reminds me: My Brother has the habit of saying, "and so on and et cetera." The worst thing is that he picked it up from a teacher at Zoo Mass, so he says it with an air of intellectualism.

And that reminds me of another one: Saying "worse" instead of "worst."

I use to go to church on Sundays.

That's part of the larger problem of dropping the -ed from the end of words. It's often hard to hear them when spoken and fewer and fewer people actually read, so they just don't know that they're there.

 

[FalTorPan]

I hate when people add an "'s" to store names -- even those which aren't named after people.

Examples:

Kroger's
Meijer's
Kmart's
Walmart's

 

[sbk1234]

I want to scream when I see people use an appostrophe before the s when making a word plural.

PEOPLE! Appostrophes are used for only two reasons in the English language: For contractions and to show possession.

Vulcan names have their own rules.

 

[Misfit Toy]

"Youse" instead of "y'all"

 

[KimMH]

The use of "over" and "under" when people are really mean "greater than" or "less than."

 

[Roshi]

Quadrilogy is one of my peeves. I still cannot fathom what went through the head of the dumbass who coined that word. Blending is a normal linguistic process/habit. But blending two words coming from two different dead languages for mercantile purposes is way beyond belief!!!

 

[Jadzia]

Would that be like a trilogy, with four parts? ... it would make sense

 

[Roshi]

That's tetralogy, hon'!
But your remark is undeniably funny!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Youse" instead of "y'all"

Not from Philly, I take it?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Quadrilogy is one of my peeves. I still cannot fathom what went through the head of the dumbass who coined that word. Blending is a normal linguistic process/habit. But blending two words coming from two different dead languages for mercantile purposes is way beyond belief!!!

It worked for television.

 

[Roshi]

Still I call it it! Or the "boîte-à-cons" (the box-that-produces-dumbasses)! Ha!

 

[SiorX]

Quadrilogy is one of my peeves. I still cannot fathom what went through the head of the dumbass who coined that word. Blending is a normal linguistic process/habit. But blending two words coming from two different dead languages for mercantile purposes is way beyond belief!!!

That reminds me of this t-shirt on zazzle.