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Do some language/grammar errors literally make your head explode?
Posted on 2/15/14 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 2/15/14 at 3:57 pm
"Literally" is the only one that pisses me off because so few people apparently know what it means.
For example, I was just watching a show where a guy was taken for a ride around the track in a race car. He gets out and says "we just kicked the day into high-gear... literally!"
Okay, yes, the car that was racing was in a high gear. Kicking the day into high gear is also a figure of speech. Just because "high gear" is a word both applicable to the car and the figure of speech does not mean there is any literal meaning there. It's just word play.
If he literally kicked the day into high gear, he would have taken his foot and kicked the day (which is impossible to kick) into high gear (which is also impossible because a day does not have gears).
What are some others that piss you off?
For example, I was just watching a show where a guy was taken for a ride around the track in a race car. He gets out and says "we just kicked the day into high-gear... literally!"
Okay, yes, the car that was racing was in a high gear. Kicking the day into high gear is also a figure of speech. Just because "high gear" is a word both applicable to the car and the figure of speech does not mean there is any literal meaning there. It's just word play.
If he literally kicked the day into high gear, he would have taken his foot and kicked the day (which is impossible to kick) into high gear (which is also impossible because a day does not have gears).
What are some others that piss you off?
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Posted on 2/15/14 at 3:59 pm to PrimeTime Money
I could care less.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 3:59 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:00 pm to PrimeTime Money
dominate/dominant
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:00 pm to Kafka
And you don't do shite "on accident", you do it BY accident
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:01 pm to PrimeTime Money
People who get "lose" and "loose" mixed up drive me insane.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:05 pm to PrimeTime Money
I don't post often, but when I do I perposely make a grammar or spelling error to troll the grammar/ spelling Nazis in TD.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
I ain't got no worries
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:07 pm to Sentrius
I could care less
Axe
Unexcusable
Supposeably
"Double negatives" of any kind
Axe
Unexcusable
Supposeably
"Double negatives" of any kind
This post was edited on 2/15/14 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
I throw "actually" into the same category with "literally". They're both throw-away words. You can annunciate the same sentence with or without using either word.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
Preventitive makes me lose my mind.
Wouldn't it just be preventive?
Wouldn't it just be preventive?
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:08 pm to PrimeTime Money
quote:
Do some language/grammar errors literally make your head explode?
No, but this thread that seems likes its rehashed every other week about other people's grammatical errors does.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:10 pm to JordonfortheJ
People who say "credik" amaze me.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:12 pm to PrimeTime Money
I literally could care less about grammer eras i do them sometimes on accident. Theirs alot more important things to worry about
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:13 pm to PrimeTime Money
Alls I know is I want to punch a hole in anyone's face who starts a sentence like this
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:14 pm to PrimeTime Money
They figuratively make my head explode!
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:16 pm to Kafka
quote:
Kafka
I love it and I'm stealing it
Posted on 2/15/14 at 4:18 pm to Kafka
I do not like the use of the word "get." So many better words to use than "get."
Example -
"The defendant got five years of probation." could be "The defendant [received] [was sentenced] five years of probation
Example -
"The defendant got five years of probation." could be "The defendant [received] [was sentenced] five years of probation
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