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Common sayings that are commonly misstated

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bassteban said:
I only officially *hate on* deliberate mangling. If you KNOW it's wrong, get it right. Slight derail- *hate* is WAAAY overused.
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Au contraire, I LIKE deliberate mangling such as coming up with a new word by taking other words and mixing and matching, for example "fantabulous". It's playing with the language and is fun, for me at least.

Q: "How are you?"
A: "Fantabulous" :hyper:

The reader/listener knows right away what the person answering means. Taking poetic license doesn't work when some jack-asterisk is making up random letters/words.

Q: "How are you?"
A: "Quorknishilus" :eyebrow:

However, I agree that if the mangling stems from laziness... gggggrrrrr-irk.

Anyway, back on topic... Common Sayings That Are Commonly Misstated...

"In this day and age..." Redundant, dagnabbit! Both "Day" and "Age" in this context refer to a period of time. Such as "In this day..." or "The age we live in... ". Make the redundancy stop. Make the redundancy stop. Whoah! Day job view. ;)

All the "LY" business others here have already mentioned drives me a little batty, too, e.g. "Drive safe!" Yes, I will drive as safely as is practicable.

Well, that about covers it. Good, I mean.
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#222
One thing that really ticks me off is the misuse and outright "made up" words used in rap and hip hop.
Yes, when I was young, we had our own "lingo" the adults weren't supposed to get, but most were based on proper words e.g. "groovy" based on "being in the groove"
What I hear these days, is totaly "out there"
What does "foshnizzle" mean, anyway? :confused:







Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN! :D
 
#224
pudgychef said:
"pacifically' instead of 'specifically'

"a mute point" instead of 'a moot point'

'easy as cake' also seems to pop up a fair amount....
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After about 11 years of listening to my wife say "mute point" I finally corrected her because I couldn't stand it anymore. She said, "If it is a mute point then it doesn't need to be said." I guess she had a point but it was moot, as far as I was concerned.
 
#229
Zoa said:
That a lot of the sayings mentioned are not misuse, just a different use. Just because something is correct in your dialect doesn't mean a variation is wrong in a different dialect. It doesn't mean the speaker is uneducated or stupid, they just speak a different version of the language.
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Quire right. What has also happened in some cases is when a well known saying has been abreviated or altered. "The proof is in the pudding" has been shortened from "The proof in the pudding is in the eating." In some cases some "common sayings" are culturally or idiomatically mistranslated.
 
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'Then' in place of 'than'. Cripes, it is all over TB. I saw it on a coffee maker box the other day; cripes.

'YOUR' in place of 'YOU'RE'. It's a contraction of 'you' and 'are'.

"I'm going to bring it to work." It's 'take it...'

As previously mentioned: "...hoe to road", I have heard it as "a hard hoe to row". What?

'Dilemma' is used incorrectly all the time as is 'ironic'.
 
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I'm just going to add:

  • Definitely. Not definately or deffinetly or whatever monstrosity you can think of.
  • A lot. To allot is something completely different.

To write "should of" instead of "should've" or "should have" is clearly a demonstration that you're suffering from a disconnection between writing and language analysis.
 
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