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words most often used incorrectly
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Have you never worked on something with sharp edges and end up bleeding from knuckles and fingers?
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When people use the wrong tense. When, for instance, they say,
instead of "I've also come to know...," etc.
Calm down Francis.
It can be a noun or adverb:
n.
1. Sensitive or raw exposed flesh, as under the fingernails.
2. The most personal and sensitive aspect of the emotions: The remark cut her to the quick.
3. The living: the quick and the dead.
4. The vital core; the essence: got to the quick of the matter.
adv. quicker, quickest
Quickly; promptly.
[Middle English, alive, lively, quick, from Old English cwicu, alive; see gwei- in Ind
Every word preceding "but" becomes irrelevant in every case.
Ayuh. Here's one of my most recent posts, in response to this one:
" Thanks, didn't know this one!
(Apologies to you guys if it's common knowledge, but) "quick" used to mean "alive, living" (two of its Indo-European cognates being Greek "bíos" and Latin "vīvus").
Still used that way in the King James Version: "...who shall judge the quick and the dead". It already meant "intelligent, keen" in Old English, but the metaphor was that of "possessing a lively intelligence" rather than "swift at understanding". In "quicksand" and "quicksilver" too its sense is "alive-like, active, moving" rather than its modern, more restricted meaning "moving fast, speedy, rapid". "
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The problem some speakers may have with the adverbial use is a more general one, the fact that others use non-suffixed, adjective-looking forms such as "bad" for "badly", and many others. (It's probably been mentioned upthread.)
I have my preferences in English but I'm not a native speaker and don't really have strong feelings against the practice in question. Not that it matters.
Here are two incorrect phrases I hear often.
"I'm going to jump in the shower"
"I jumped in the car".
Why would you jump in the shower? It works better if you stand without jumping.
It is hard to jump in a car? You would hit your head.
The phrases would be more correct as "I'm going to jump into the shower" or "I'm going to jump into the car" even though it is physically difficult to actually jump into a car.
"I'm going to jump in the shower"
"I jumped in the car".
Why would you jump in the shower? It works better if you stand without jumping.
It is hard to jump in a car? You would hit your head.
The phrases would be more correct as "I'm going to jump into the shower" or "I'm going to jump into the car" even though it is physically difficult to actually jump into a car.
Reminds me of George Carlin's "you can get on the plane, but I'm getting in it"
"I'm going for a walk". O.K. well how do you get to where you start your walk...crawl on your hands and knees?
"I could care less".
I get confused when somebody adds a snarky sarcastic spin to an already rudely dismissive phrase. As such, to me, it become almost a positive-sounding phrase and add the very least trips me up when I read it.
How about this:
Person 1: 'You care so much about the squirrels in the woods over there. We can't save every squirrel and this town needs more homes!'
Person 2: 'Yeah, well I guess I could care less about the squirrels and try and see the bigger picture.'
Versus "frankly I could care less about active basses". It is clumsy and nonsensical, in my opinion.
I get confused when somebody adds a snarky sarcastic spin to an already rudely dismissive phrase. As such, to me, it become almost a positive-sounding phrase and add the very least trips me up when I read it.
How about this:
Person 1: 'You care so much about the squirrels in the woods over there. We can't save every squirrel and this town needs more homes!'
Person 2: 'Yeah, well I guess I could care less about the squirrels and try and see the bigger picture.'
Versus "frankly I could care less about active basses". It is clumsy and nonsensical, in my opinion.
Ha, don't even get me started about pronunciate here in the boonies.
I want to ask people if they know where the Near House is, because I've heard them talking about the Far House (firehouse).
and they talk about Lars (Ulrich) a lot as well, when they intend to be talking about liars
I want to ask people if they know where the Near House is, because I've heard them talking about the Far House (firehouse).
and they talk about Lars (Ulrich) a lot as well, when they intend to be talking about liars
