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re: Words You Discovered You Had Been Misusing
Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:07 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:07 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
None. I don´t get caught up in these invented business words either, and correct people. I piss people off.
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Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:14 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Mayne shoo bruh, I be usin all mah werds right.
Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:15 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
superfluous
I thought it meant great, super or extraordinary.
It actually means redundant, waste or not needed.
I thought it meant great, super or extraordinary.
It actually means redundant, waste or not needed.
Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:32 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
The occasionally misuse of irony/coincidence
Posted on 5/5/17 at 11:20 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Disinterested
Means unbiased, not uninterested
Been fricking that one up for a while now
Means unbiased, not uninterested
Been fricking that one up for a while now
Posted on 5/5/17 at 11:24 pm to Cold Drink
quote:
It is incorrect to say that the United States is comprised of 50 states.
Have you never heard of a past participle?
Posted on 5/6/17 at 12:12 am to PurpleandGold Motown
For and far get me every time. For is the distance between point A and B. Far is a pronoun that should hardly ever be used
Posted on 5/6/17 at 12:15 am to Cold Drink
Trope
Submerge
Logjam
Submerge
Logjam
Posted on 5/6/17 at 8:11 am to CapperVin
quote:
For and far get me every time. For is the distance between point A and B.
What is an example of how you misused it? Did you say he walked "far" a mile?
Posted on 5/6/17 at 8:16 am to TigerattheU
quote:
For a while I thought "penultimate" meant extra, super ultimate.
You got company
Posted on 5/6/17 at 8:26 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Penile
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:00 am to Nuts4LSU
quote:
Like a lot of people, I also misused "hopefully"
I'm guilty of this....
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Literally
Eta:
Alabama fans: "national championship"
Eta:
Alabama fans: "national championship"
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 9:03 am
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:08 am to PurpleandGold Motown
entomology - study of insects
entymology - study of words
and I looked it up - using "concerning" as an adjective is bullshite but so many people use it that it is being accepted
entymology - study of words
and I looked it up - using "concerning" as an adjective is bullshite but so many people use it that it is being accepted
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:10 am to gthog61
Etymology is the study of word origins.
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:11 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Niggardly
Rhymes with 'riggardly'
Rhymes with 'riggardly'
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 9:13 am
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:11 am to Nuts4LSU
quote:
For years, I misused the word "peruse", thinking it meant to skim in a cursory manner. I later found out that it means exactly the opposite, to scrutinize or study in great detail.
Like a lot of people, I also misused "hopefully" for a long time, using it as more or less interchangeable with "I hope", as in "Hopefully, LSU will win the game tonight". I later found out that its only proper use is as an adverb meaning full of hope, as in "We are looking forward to the game hopefully".
Well frick me
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