How most people use Hercules when talking about Greek mythology, when its actually Heracles and Hercules is the Roman version.
Most Bizarre Errors You Constantly See
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So much this. I'm a barista and while I realize that it's a common and easy mistake to make it still grinds on me every time. Also, I'm sincerely baffled by how many Americans insist that their form of government is a republic rather than a democracy even though those are in no way exclusive terms.mitchell271 said:
Probably the most serious gripe I have is how many people talk about the Middle East as though it's been a conflict-ridden hellhole since time immemorial and that everybody should just leave the people of the region to their own devices "because they're never going to stop anyway." It completely ignores that most of the issues they're talking about have their genesis in the early 20th century after the end of World War I. Not that it's been a utopian, conflict-free paradise either, it's just that the people talking about how violent the Middle East is never seem to remember that the various states of Europe were perpetually at each other's throats until VERY recently.
Maybe. I'm American too and was taught primarily in poor public schools.PoolCleaningRobot said:
I am afraid of brittain now.Ed James said:
Explain please, how does critical = normal.Vegosiux said:
I think the problem is that they misspelled it on a very popular TV show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111999/referencedolfan1304 said:
Normal in the sense for the reactor to work, it has to be critical.Strazdas said:
Similarly, there's a big difference between a nuclear weapon initiating, and exploding. If the trigger charge goes off, and there is no nuclear reaction, that's a chemical explosion. If the nuclear reaction goes off as intended, that's a nuclear initiation. If a plane carrying a nuclear warhead crashes, the device might explode (which is bad), but unless it was armed, it won't initiate (which is much worse).
Strazdas said:
I'll actually let Wikipedia explain it, will do a better job than me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_criticality
Basically, "critical" means the reaction is self-sustaining and constant. That's how you'd expect a nuclear reactor to operate if you wanted it to be useful at all. Supercriticality and prompt criticality are the areas where things can start getting out of hand if you're not careful with them.
Tropes and people using 'plot holes' for things like character inconsistencies. How do they differentiate from an actual plot hole?Blood Brain Barrier said:
But language changes... (as a new generation grows up incorrectly thinking they know what the previous generation was talking about).
People cosplaying Yuno Gasai covered in blood.
I get that you want to pay homage to her yandere side, but if you actually pay any attention to the anime/manga whatsoever, you'll realize she's actually very clean and careful in the way she kills. It's very rare that she ever ends up with more than just a few streaks of blood on her skin or clothing. She certainly doesn't bathe in the stuff like most people seem to believe.
This also extends to people who aren't cosplaying as Yuno but do still want to soak their cosplays in blood. I get that not everyone is a blood spatter analyst, but when it comes to costumes, less blood is usually more. Why not just soak a paintbrush in fake blood and flick it at your costume? It looks much more natural and less ridiculous than just pouring fake blood everywhere.
I get that you want to pay homage to her yandere side, but if you actually pay any attention to the anime/manga whatsoever, you'll realize she's actually very clean and careful in the way she kills. It's very rare that she ever ends up with more than just a few streaks of blood on her skin or clothing. She certainly doesn't bathe in the stuff like most people seem to believe.
This also extends to people who aren't cosplaying as Yuno but do still want to soak their cosplays in blood. I get that not everyone is a blood spatter analyst, but when it comes to costumes, less blood is usually more. Why not just soak a paintbrush in fake blood and flick it at your costume? It looks much more natural and less ridiculous than just pouring fake blood everywhere.
I call the Playstation the PSX all of the time since it was referred to as the PSX for years before the actual PSX ever even saw the light of day. And since it never saw the light of day outside of Japan, and it didn't sell well to begin with and was discontinued after only 14 months, the odds that anyone who says PSX on an english website means the DVR without specifying it are so unbelievably slim as to be completely negligible.Terratina. said:Was reminded of it when I saw it today: people calling the Playstation One/Playstation/PS1 the PSX.
Now:
There is a difference. Call a Playstation, or the Playstation One, or even PS1 - it doesn't matter; it's clear you are referring to the first Playstation which was released in '94/'95. While if you call a PSX, I can only assume that you, if you are not Japanese, are not referring to the video recorder which could also play PS2 games, which was never released outside Japan. Oh, and please don't refer to the PS1 as the PSone either.
I know it's horribly pedantic, but the different names refer to different things. *sigh*
I get the names mean different things, and it's part of the reason I don't say PSone when referring to the Playstation in general. But nobody is going to mistake someone saying PSX to mean the actual PSX. It just doesn't happen.
Because in most advertisements of Frankenstein the monster is always shown (because the monster is a very important and iconic figure of the book). I've only ever seen one advert, or trailer or TV show that even shown the Doctor nevermind said his name. Plus in western cultures 'Frankenstein' usually isn't seen as a name, and as it's not a name you could easily slap it onto the monster.Lovely Mixture said:
The seemingly habitual tire squeal in movies and shows. YES the tires WILL make that noise sometimes but not when pulling away at the kind of speed that they are actually going at. The best example of this I can think of is in "The Transporter" in the very opening scene when Mr Statham is going about 10-15mph in a car parking lot. And the tires make SOOOOO much noise. Petty possibly - but I wish they'd cut it out. Would make it more effective when someone really is high-tailing it and slamming on max power.
Ah, but Frankenstein is a surname, and the monster (whom I like to call "Kevin") could be considered to be the doctor's son, meaning that he would inherit the surname.Lovely Mixture said:
For me, I don't get why people have so much trouble with "there" (referencing a location), "their" (adjective describing something that belongs to a group of people), and "they're" (contraction of they are).
I hear people saying "flush out" a lot, when what the really mean is "flesh out".
As in: "We really need to flush out those paragraphs to better describe what we're looking for."
No. You don't. To flush out means to evacuate. To flesh out, on the other hand, means to expand upon.
I've heard more than one grown adult say this as part of a business meeting, and I have not been in any position to be pedantic without getting fired, but still, it bugs me to no end.
I've also, in proposals, from big-name companies, spell "Doppler Effect" as "Doppler Affect". Not a one-time thing, either. Throughout the whole {long string of expletives} document.
As in: "We really need to flush out those paragraphs to better describe what we're looking for."
No. You don't. To flush out means to evacuate. To flesh out, on the other hand, means to expand upon.
I've heard more than one grown adult say this as part of a business meeting, and I have not been in any position to be pedantic without getting fired, but still, it bugs me to no end.
I've also, in proposals, from big-name companies, spell "Doppler Effect" as "Doppler Affect". Not a one-time thing, either. Throughout the whole {long string of expletives} document.
That's a bit like the whole Britain = England thing. I find myself wondering though, does this actually happen? Do people from foreign lands (like America) confuse Britain with England, as if forgetting the place is made up of more than one country? As the only time I can recall this "mistake" being made happen to be in the film In the Loop and in GTA IV (in a way) where they both intended for comic effect.Little Woodsman said:
Also, one of the most recent Tragic News Stories was about a supermarket roof that collapsed in a country somewhere (the article is no longer listed on the BBC news app, and that's as far as I'll go to check), killing some people. Anyway, part of the story was the president of said country saying that the roof collapse was murder, seemingly. It seems I will need to revisit my definition of murder then, if that's the case. If that is the case, could I now treat the time my kitchen ceiling collapsed as attempted murder? After all, I could have being at least seriously hurt should I have been in the room while our usual weather pattern carried out its nefarious plan to finish me off by dislodging some roof tiles.
Except, you know, birds of prey, especially the big ones like eagles. Or cassowaries, who can rip you open with a kick.beastro said:Birds are what I eat, what my cats wants to eat and what my lab used to chase during walkies.thaluikhain said:XKCD would disagree with you:beastro said:
Cept Crows, but they're more like winged ferrets than birds....
I can't speak for other places, but around here most people are not in fact aware that there is a place on Earth called 'Wales', never mind it's relationship to England, Scotland & Ireland.MarsProbe said:
Of course around here (and this one drives me absolutely crazy as well) I have had to explain *repeatedly* that Kuwait is not part of Iraq. Mostly to people whose husbands or siblings were stationed/serving in one or the other!