Yup. Now, are you of the persuasion to say you lucked out when in luck? Both ships sailed but only one seems to bug North Americans.
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words most often used incorrectly
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It's a pet peeve and some try to excuse it as enthusiasm but anyone who says they gave effort in any amount over 100% needs to go back to Jr High and start over. Please. Anything over 100% DOES NOT EXIST. Anyone who says different is cheating you out of something.
It's actually a cafe in Raleigh. I often wonder how many customers have no clue it's a play on words.
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You CANNOT tell me they are reverting to the correct and proper Old English.
To quote Neo in the Matrix, "No, I don't believe it"
"baited breath" - got a worm on your tongue?
Re: modifying the dictionary...
There are two main types of English dictionaries, prescriptivist and descriptivist. The latter is going to get modified pretty much by definition.
There are two main types of English dictionaries, prescriptivist and descriptivist. The latter is going to get modified pretty much by definition.
Beat me to it. To me, this is like fingernails on a blackboard.
No, because I noticed she lost her crap when I politely suggested a spelling correction in one of her "Sorry Not Sorry!" diatribes.
I'm clever enough not to do it again & just laugh at how poorly she expresses herself.
You obviously didn't actually read my post before trying to poke holes in it.
Of course I noticed your conspicuous attempt at calling me shallow & pedantic!
I'm done here
This is how you so often choose to conduct yourself & I'm fed up with it
Sorry not sorry?
While there was such a thing as a standard Old English at a certain stage, it never achieved bulletproof consistency. Neither did any subsequent standards, for that matter, and the present one is no exception. Both forms, with and without metathesis (the -sk- one happens to be etymologically truer to the Germanic and Proto-Indo-European antecedents, but it could have gone the other way just as easily), coexisted in Old English times, and the -x- form pops up throughout the recorded history of the language. I've never studied this item in detail but I suppose it's not easy to establish if its current use in AAVE is directly inherited from specific British dialects or, as is probably the case, a re-creation due to metathesis being a very common type of phonetic change.You CANNOT tell me they are reverting to the correct and proper Old English.
To quote Neo in the Matrix, "No, I don't believe it"
Not that it matters. "Ax(e)" in the sense of "ask" is not part of Standard English and no one disputes that. Also, it wouldn't be any more or less prestigious if it came directly from Old English; putting aside direct inheritance, even the fact that it isn't anything new has no bearing on its acceptability: "standardness" is a product of continuous re-negotiation within the speaking community, not a given or a never-to-be given.
What I hope awareness of the long history of the form can do is make it less of a shibboleth, an overly loaded point of contention. It's just a word form, not a sign of laziness or willful ignorance, let alone a Sign of linguistic End of Days. Apocalypse in a language happens every new generation: we are the agents of decadence, but what comes next is no chaos, just a new, precarious order.
Sometimes, I care a very small amount, so I could care less, not much, but a little. There are times when I don't care at all, then I couldn't care less. It all depends on "care" existence levels.
Peak/peek/pique.
I see a lot of dating profiles with "peak your interest", rather than pique.
I see a lot of dating profiles with "peak your interest", rather than pique.
My biggest gripe at work as an editor is people that can't form plurals or possessives correctly, or God help me, plural possessives.
I try to turn that stuff off when I'm online in a casual setting, but I still grit my teeth a bit over the misuse of its/it's. I shouldn't let it bother me.
I try to turn that stuff off when I'm online in a casual setting, but I still grit my teeth a bit over the misuse of its/it's. I shouldn't let it bother me.
The one that bugs me the most is "orientate", and "orientated". No, it is orient and oriented. My fellow engineers say this a lot. My 6th grade teacher used to say this too and it bugged me then. Of course she also commonly would say "oh don't you just love going to the gas station and sniffing the fumes" and "oh don't you just love standing behind the school bus and sniffing the exhaust".
