Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.
It’s always going to be the “of” people. Its “would have”, “should have” etc and not “would of”.
People saying “exscape”, “expresso”, “pasghetti”
The vast majority of these issues could be solved if people a) read any halfway-decent book, b) and didn’t choose to remain willfully ignorant. It’s fine to misunderstand or just not know something. We’ve all been there, we’ll be there again. NBD. But to be shown or offered the correct way and still choose to do it wrongly? That’s not cool at all.
About 1 in 3 posters here say “loose” when they mean “lose”
Online in general: using “reductio ad absurdum” as a fallacy.
It’s a longstanding logical tool. Here’s an example of how it works: let’s assume you can use infinity as a number. In that case, we can do:
∞ + 1 = ∞
And:
∞ - ∞ = 0
Agreed? If so, then:
∞ - ∞ + 1 = ∞ - ∞
And therefore:
1 = 0
Which is absurd. If we agree that all the logical steps to get there are correct, then the original premise (that we can use infinity as a number) must be wrong.
It’s a great tool for teasing out incorrect assumptions. It has never been on any academic list of fallacies, and the Internet needs to stop saying otherwise. It’s possible some other fallacy is being invoked while going through an argument, but it’s not reductio ad absurdum.
What entitlement means vs false sense of entitlement.
I tell people they are entitled to their rights and have an entitlement to their social security money for example, and they get offended thinking I mean “false sense of entitlement” instead.
Using “racking” instead of the correct “wracking” in “wracking my brain”. Not very common, but it annoys me… But not as much as “could of”… That is the worst, just stop it!
This is online and in person in Canada.
Niche is pronounced neesh and not nitch
I heard Nice things about France
I’ve heard this one like 3 times in the last month on youtube and it bothers me a lot
Depends on the context IMO
How
“addicting”
This thread peaks my interest.
I hope my words
piquedsomeone else’s interests more.“Shoot that guy when he peaks the corner again”
Oh this one’s peak
I know someone that says ‘Pacific’ instead of ‘specific’. The man has his talents & his place in the world, food man, but yes that is infuriating.
Yeah /yĕ′ə, yă′ə, yā′ə/ is a different word than Yea /yā/
Haha is this a follow up on that one post with the OP writing “back-petal”?
“For all intensive porpoises” is the one that really annoys me.
They’re dolphins, not porpoises. Fuck, get your cetaceans right.
Lol I believe it’s “for all intents and doplhins.”
[cetacean needed]
For all intensive porpoises, we should create a care-free environment.
For all intensive dolphins
Feral intensive dolphins
Idiocracy is literally a documentary anymore
