Annoyingly misused words?
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Isn't that the motto of enlisted US Marines?arc1991 said:FML means Fuck My LifeEmileeElectro said:People who use 'FML' for no real reason. I've seen...
Lost my make-up bag, want to cry, fml.
Not getting Subway tonight, fml.
Can't be bothered to go to work, fml.
And my favourite:
'I'm going out tonightfml!'
I don't think she knew what it meant, but didn't want to be left out.
Don't ask how i know <.<
and yes, that is spelled out in burning shit.
Someone earlier mentioned using LOVE out of context and I partly agree with what they said.
Love shouldn't be cheaply thrown around but Love covers so much these days.
When using the word love, you should still use it with meaning; even if it is expressing your love for pizza.
The one thing I don't like about people using the word Love is when people say it to their partner/spouse on a whim. E.G "Love ya" at the end of a phone call.
If you're going to say it, take the time to say it properly and with love to give it some meaning.
Love shouldn't be cheaply thrown around but Love covers so much these days.
When using the word love, you should still use it with meaning; even if it is expressing your love for pizza.
The one thing I don't like about people using the word Love is when people say it to their partner/spouse on a whim. E.G "Love ya" at the end of a phone call.
If you're going to say it, take the time to say it properly and with love to give it some meaning.
Irony for sure!
Sympathy/Empathy (most people have them backwords)
Plethora
Sympathy/Empathy (most people have them backwords)
Plethora
"I could care less" is sarcasm.Owyn_Merrilin said:
So often you hear people use the word "electrocute" to mean "received a shock." I hear this so many places now, even here on the escapist by actual escapist writers with actual escapist editors. If anyone tells me they electrocuted themselves I am punching them in the face and running away screaming because they are the undead. Electrocute started as meaning "executing with electricity" (mixing electricity and execute) and latter came to mean any death by electricity. This makes sense. it makes no sense to use it to mean "shock" because we already have a word for that...shock. Or Zap. HATE HATE HATE.
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I would only add that "begging the question" is a logical fallacy, often used to make seemingly unassailable statements. It is important for people today to know what it actually is, because this fallacy is used so often.DiMono said:
You'll appriciate this then.zombays said:
A professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, Michael Bisping, is at the checkpoint, about to get into the octagon for a fight. As they are applying vasoline to his face, the guy gets some of it in his eye by accident. Its a little bit of a debacle, and theres some stalling as he tries to get it out, but eventually he has to get into the octagon so they can get the show on the road.
After the fight, durring the post fight press conference, someone asked him about it. He was like: "I didnt want to look like a ******, like i didnt want to fight, but i had vasoline in my eye." UFC President, Dana White, instantly cut him off and said: "He didnt mean that!". Bisping was like: "Well, you know what i mean...". Dana responds: "Trust me, they dont."
I thought that whole exchange was funny, because his use was in holding the actual connotation of the word. Even though it is more or less a catch-all insult, the connotation is that it means lazy or incompetent.
Times. All throughout grade school, I wanted to throw large and heavy objects at people who would say things like "You times it by five, then you times it by four." It just blew my mind. How could they not realize how STUPID they sounded?
Hooray Grammar freak thread!!!
"Times'd" instead of "multiplied"
"Versed" as another form of "versus"
and people using "literally" when there is no figurative or alternate form of what they said and they just mean "seriously"
I HATE PEOPLE WHO BUTCHER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!!
"Times'd" instead of "multiplied"
"Versed" as another form of "versus"
and people using "literally" when there is no figurative or alternate form of what they said and they just mean "seriously"
I HATE PEOPLE WHO BUTCHER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!!
Is this real? Do people actually use that word?LetoTheTyrant said:
I'm English, I've never heard that word used, or seen it before today. I sincerely hope I never hear it out loud, it's just awful!
according to my dictionary irony is pretty much the same as sarcasm i.e.AjimboB said:
"a mockingly humorous use of words in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is actually said"
So as far as i can tell seeing someone getting hit by a bus and saying how lucky would be irony
it is also apparently used "in a situation which seems to mock reasonable hopes"
and on-topic communism it does not mean a totalitarian dictatorship got it people
Also surely in most cases the most comman use of the word is the correct one which means i get annoyed when people try to dictionary definition me i mean come on language is not a written set of rules which never change and remains unchanged for thousaands of years
I hear you there. I was in my acting 2 class the other day and one of my partners for the scene couldn't say masochism or mahjongg. Masochism sounded more like machismo and I don't even know what he was doing to mahjongg but it hurt my soul just a bit.Eclectic Dreck said: