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Misunderstood concepts/phrases that make me crazy
- Thread starter DanielleMuscato
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For that matter Han could have never "made the Kessel run" in less than 12 parsecs, as it's also a measure of distance.
*Waits for a Star Wars geek/apologist to spin that into something making an iota of sense*
well in texas we use time to tell distance... "How far is San Antonio?" "Oh, about 3 hours"
There we go i win
One really common misconception that always ticks me off is when people think that the second of these phrases is a logical consequence of the first:
"I have the right to my own opinion." [Well, okay. We'll let that one pass.
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"My opinion is as valid as anyone else's." [Not necessarily.]
"I have the right to my own opinion." [Well, okay. We'll let that one pass.
]"My opinion is as valid as anyone else's." [Not necessarily.]
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Munji, thanks for the article... Interesting read. Did you find that online? I'd like to read more.
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Re: begging the question,
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Just thought that was interesting!
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Just out of curiosity, if enough people start saying "axe" instead of "ask," does that become a correct/alternate form, too?
- Marilyn vos Savant, the smartest person on Earth (according to the Guinness Book of Records)
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Just thought that was interesting!
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Just out of curiosity, if enough people start saying "axe" instead of "ask," does that become a correct/alternate form, too?
When people say "no offence intended but..." and promptly say something deeply offensive. They just want to feel all innocent and good about themselves, yet still try and rub people's faults in their faces.
Another one that bugs me personally:
RESPIRATION DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN IN THE LUNGS.
That is all.
Another one that bugs me personally:
RESPIRATION DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN IN THE LUNGS.
That is all.
Now this bothers me. Who is qualified to judge who is the smartest person on Earth? If she is the smartest person on Earth, we should ask her. If she doesn't say herself, then we've got a problem.
There are some good ones. I had a blog about this a while ago, I couldn't care less was one of them, but I'll repost it anyways....
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You can't have your cake and eat it too....
I tell you, if I buy a cake, I expect to eat some of it. Even if I am giving the cake to someone else, most of the time I expect to be at that event and eat the cake I purchased as well. If someone was gave me a slice of cake and told me not to eat it, I would throw it somewhere inappropriate, because if I am not going to eat a peice of cake that I am holding, it is going to entertain me somehow. I have no idea what this phrase is really getting at, literally of course.
I could care less....
I do beleive it really is suppossed to be 'I couldn't care less'. If you actually could care less, then this topic has some relevance you, and your awkward pause of trumping the conversation is probably met with strange stares because by all means one would expect a relevant followup to the topic. If you couldn't care less, then it is literally the last thing on your mind, further down than John Smith's, the guy down the hallway, DVR recording schedule or your neighbor's average trash weight. This topic litterally means less than that.
Chicken Fried Steak
Every time I wonder, is there actually chicken bits in the breading that you are putting on said steak? Or is it that normally this breading is put on chicken and then miraculiously one day some genius decided to put it on some beef? Cause it sure as hell is not the case that some chicken is frying steak. I could actually use the answer to this, as every answer just seems to point BACK at me saying 'oh you wonder about the dumbest things'. Maybe so, but this makes no freakin sense, and people want to spout about how others aren't good at english but clearly I have just shown some of the most riduculous phrases that I hear all the time, two of which I heard today. thus the rant. next time you feel like you want to correct a foreigner, whether some indian, asian, or mexican or whatever, consider taking a trip abroad. then you can see how hard it is to speak someone else's language, and it might open your eyes to phrases that make no sense.
Or, you could just order chicken fried steak with taters and nana pudding, cause honestly, rather than have a grudge about stupid phrases, I'd would rather just eat comfort food. It is questionable if I was productive today.
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You can't have your cake and eat it too....
I tell you, if I buy a cake, I expect to eat some of it. Even if I am giving the cake to someone else, most of the time I expect to be at that event and eat the cake I purchased as well. If someone was gave me a slice of cake and told me not to eat it, I would throw it somewhere inappropriate, because if I am not going to eat a peice of cake that I am holding, it is going to entertain me somehow. I have no idea what this phrase is really getting at, literally of course.
I could care less....
I do beleive it really is suppossed to be 'I couldn't care less'. If you actually could care less, then this topic has some relevance you, and your awkward pause of trumping the conversation is probably met with strange stares because by all means one would expect a relevant followup to the topic. If you couldn't care less, then it is literally the last thing on your mind, further down than John Smith's, the guy down the hallway, DVR recording schedule or your neighbor's average trash weight. This topic litterally means less than that.
Chicken Fried Steak
Every time I wonder, is there actually chicken bits in the breading that you are putting on said steak? Or is it that normally this breading is put on chicken and then miraculiously one day some genius decided to put it on some beef? Cause it sure as hell is not the case that some chicken is frying steak. I could actually use the answer to this, as every answer just seems to point BACK at me saying 'oh you wonder about the dumbest things'. Maybe so, but this makes no freakin sense, and people want to spout about how others aren't good at english but clearly I have just shown some of the most riduculous phrases that I hear all the time, two of which I heard today. thus the rant. next time you feel like you want to correct a foreigner, whether some indian, asian, or mexican or whatever, consider taking a trip abroad. then you can see how hard it is to speak someone else's language, and it might open your eyes to phrases that make no sense.
Or, you could just order chicken fried steak with taters and nana pudding, cause honestly, rather than have a grudge about stupid phrases, I'd would rather just eat comfort food. It is questionable if I was productive today.
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However... the meanings of words and phrases evolve. Saying that something is cool, at one point just meant that it was not warm.
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And hip people used to be called "cats." Now they're called "dawgs." I think Snoop is singularly responsible for that. Amazing how one person can make such a pervasive change in language!
Lamar, that cake thing is funny
I do think that people use this "meanings... evolve" argument too liberally. It's one thing if people understand the etymology of a word or phrase and choose to use it in another context, expanding its meaning, or bringing two things together in a new one. It's another thing entirely if people simply decide being educated is elitist and use words or phrases in whatever way they feel like using them without regard for their real meanings and say "meanings evolve." There comes a point where you have to say, enough is enough; this is just a euphemism for ignorance and laziness (not you personally, Gabu).
Being uneducated or ignorant and having a strong opinion contrary to educated people's opinions does not mean one simply has an "alternative" point-of-view. It means one is wrong, and I think we do ourselves and society a disservice by pretending it's inconsequential or irrelevant.
Lamar, that cake thing is funny
I do think that people use this "meanings... evolve" argument too liberally. It's one thing if people understand the etymology of a word or phrase and choose to use it in another context, expanding its meaning, or bringing two things together in a new one. It's another thing entirely if people simply decide being educated is elitist and use words or phrases in whatever way they feel like using them without regard for their real meanings and say "meanings evolve." There comes a point where you have to say, enough is enough; this is just a euphemism for ignorance and laziness (not you personally, Gabu).
Being uneducated or ignorant and having a strong opinion contrary to educated people's opinions does not mean one simply has an "alternative" point-of-view. It means one is wrong, and I think we do ourselves and society a disservice by pretending it's inconsequential or irrelevant.
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If we're on misspellings, I just have to whine about "rediculous." I honestly think people have just given up on this one.
