Incorrect phrases you often hear

[broon]

Originally posted by: BigToque

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718

Originally posted by: JS80
Worst is when people try to sound smart and use "I" incorrectly (instead of "me").

Do you mean all of the "<person's name> and I" captions for 99% of pictures found on facebook, myspace, etc.?

I'm sure I've spoken/written like this before. Do you have any links describing why it's incorrect? What would be correct? Me and <name>?

It depends on the context. The rule is simple. Take out the other people and see how it sounds with just me/I. For example. "Respond to this thread addressing ColdFusion and....". Should "I" or "me" be used? What if it is simply "respond to this thread addressing me". In this case "me" is correct. However, which is correct in the following: "ColdFusion and <me> or <I> responded to the thread". There you go. Easy.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rdubbz420

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"for free" or "next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

next weekend is being used correctly when talking about the weekend after the one comming up

this weekend = the 12th-13th
next weekend = the 19th and 20th

This weekend is the next weekend.:|
And another is "Native Americans". isn't this anyone born in America?

heheh

that same arguement could me made for afarican/asian/... americans

that really only applies if you immigrated here from someplace else. born here = american regardless of racial/ethnic background

 

[waffleironhead]

Ive been around for a long time and what gets me is that all of you youngsters say the word "napkin". Back in my youth the thing was called an apkin. As in "I'll wipe my face with that apkin." Or "Could you pass me an apkin?" People started speaking faster and just blured an+apkin together and now all you idiots mar the english language with this new bastardized word "napkin".

Ouch my achy bones.
That is all.

 

[Miramonti]

Six of one, a half bakers dozen of the other.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: broon

Originally posted by: BigToque

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718

Originally posted by: JS80
Worst is when people try to sound smart and use "I" incorrectly (instead of "me").

Do you mean all of the "<person's name> and I" captions for 99% of pictures found on facebook, myspace, etc.?

I'm sure I've spoken/written like this before. Do you have any links describing why it's incorrect? What would be correct? Me and <name>?

It depends on the context. The rule is simple. Take out the other people and see how it sounds with just me/I. For example. "Respond to this thread addressing ColdFusion and....". Should "I" or "me" be used? What if it is simply "respond to this thread addressing me". In this case "me" is correct. However, which is correct in the following: "ColdFusion and <me> or <I> responded to the thread". There you go. Easy.

But what about:

Knock Knock
Who's there?
It is I.

Technically "I" is proper there right? But anyone not in a 19th century novel or without a stick up their ass would say 'me'.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
So my bud was like "for all intensive purposes..." I'm like, what? You mean "intents and purposes"? He's like, yeah. He then reprimanded me for "towing the line" and I could hear the "tow" instead of "toe" in his voice. He was getting annoyed at me now and threatened to "duck tape" my mouth shut. I told him that wouldn't make him correct but he said he'd do it "irregardless". I was only trying to help but he said he "could care less". So I took a queue from him and segwayed to another topic.

Maybe he really was going to use Duck Tape?

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Ive been around for a long time and what gets me is that all of you youngsters say the word "napkin". Back in my youth the thing was called an apkin. As in "I'll wipe my face with that apkin." Or "Could you pass me an apkin?" People started speaking faster and just blured an+apkin together and now all you idiots mar the english language with this new bastardized word "napkin".

Ouch my achy bones.
That is all.

You meant "napron" and "apron", didn't you?

 

[manowar821]

HAHA, that annoyed the crap out of me.

I cannot stand it when someone says something synonymous with "That's so -gay-". It's not an insult you retard frat-boy idiots, it means homosexual or happy, neither of which have anything to do with "stupid" or "lame".

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

There's a thread on here like 6 pages long about that.


Also, strangely, inflammable = flammable, not non-flammable. This one is actually understandable due to the prefix throwing everyone off.

The inflammable = flammable thing pisses me off. Not because the two words mean the same thing, just because we don't need both words. Plus, what the hell is "flammable." Able to be flammed? I've never flammed anything in my life. I've blown shit up. Maybe they should just put "This shit blows up" on flammable stuff. Or better yet "explosive." There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind what "explosive" means. It means that it explodes. Better not light it on fire!

One that was pissing me off as I drove down the highway yesterday was illegal vs. unlawful. Is there any difference in these two words at all? "Drinking and driving is illegal," "driving without a seatbelt is unlawful." Well what the hell? Is illegal worse? Would I rather do something that is full of unlaw? And then, just to fuck with you, they'll throw out "Unmuffled engine braking prohibited." Now we have three words, and they all mean the exact same thing: No. "No drinking and driving," "no driving without a seatbelt," "no unmuffled engine braking." Pretty damn self-explanatory to me. Try getting pulled over and telling the cop you didn't understand what "no" meant. Why must we attempt to obfuscate our meaning with superlative, brobdingnagian vocabulary?

 

[FreshCrabLegs]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
segwayed

=)

segue

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: FreshCrabLegs

Originally posted by: sirjonk
segwayed

=)

segue

*sigh*

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

There's a thread on here like 6 pages long about that.


Also, strangely, inflammable = flammable, not non-flammable. This one is actually understandable due to the prefix throwing everyone off.

The inflammable = flammable thing pisses me off. Not because the two words mean the same thing, just because we don't need both words. Plus, what the hell is "flammable." Able to be flammed? I've never flammed anything in my life. I've blown shit up. Maybe they should just put "This shit blows up" on flammable stuff. Or better yet "explosive." There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind what "explosive" means. It means that it explodes. Better not light it on fire!

One that was pissing me off as I drove down the highway yesterday was illegal vs. unlawful. Is there any difference in these two words at all? "Drinking and driving is illegal," "driving without a seatbelt is unlawful." Well what the hell? Is illegal worse? Would I rather do something that is full of unlaw? And then, just to fuck with you, they'll throw out "Unmuffled engine braking prohibited." Now we have three words, and they all mean the exact same thing: No. "No drinking and driving," "no driving without a seatbelt," "no unmuffled engine braking." Pretty damn self-explanatory to me. Try getting pulled over and telling the cop you didn't understand what "no" meant. Why must we attempt to obfuscate our meaning with superlative, brobdingnagian vocabulary?

You sesquipedaliean you. Go beat a parody seal to death with a failure puppy

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

There's a thread on here like 6 pages long about that.


Also, strangely, inflammable = flammable, not non-flammable. This one is actually understandable due to the prefix throwing everyone off.

The inflammable = flammable thing pisses me off. Not because the two words mean the same thing, just because we don't need both words. Plus, what the hell is "flammable." Able to be flammed? I've never flammed anything in my life. I've blown shit up. Maybe they should just put "This shit blows up" on flammable stuff. Or better yet "explosive." There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind what "explosive" means. It means that it explodes. Better not light it on fire!

One that was pissing me off as I drove down the highway yesterday was illegal vs. unlawful. Is there any difference in these two words at all? "Drinking and driving is illegal," "driving without a seatbelt is unlawful." Well what the hell? Is illegal worse? Would I rather do something that is full of unlaw? And then, just to fuck with you, they'll throw out "Unmuffled engine braking prohibited." Now we have three words, and they all mean the exact same thing: No. "No drinking and driving," "no driving without a seatbelt," "no unmuffled engine braking." Pretty damn self-explanatory to me. Try getting pulled over and telling the cop you didn't understand what "no" meant. Why must we attempt to obfuscate our meaning with superlative, brobdingnagian vocabulary?

My chemistry teacher in elementary school thought inflammable was not flammable. I pwned her by pulling my pocket dictionary i had just got for my birthday that I had in my backpack and showing her. Not too bright that one.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

There's a thread on here like 6 pages long about that.


Also, strangely, inflammable = flammable, not non-flammable. This one is actually understandable due to the prefix throwing everyone off.

The inflammable = flammable thing pisses me off. Not because the two words mean the same thing, just because we don't need both words. Plus, what the hell is "flammable." Able to be flammed? I've never flammed anything in my life. I've blown shit up. Maybe they should just put "This shit blows up" on flammable stuff. Or better yet "explosive." There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind what "explosive" means. It means that it explodes. Better not light it on fire!

One that was pissing me off as I drove down the highway yesterday was illegal vs. unlawful. Is there any difference in these two words at all? "Drinking and driving is illegal," "driving without a seatbelt is unlawful." Well what the hell? Is illegal worse? Would I rather do something that is full of unlaw? And then, just to fuck with you, they'll throw out "Unmuffled engine braking prohibited." Now we have three words, and they all mean the exact same thing: No. "No drinking and driving," "no driving without a seatbelt," "no unmuffled engine braking." Pretty damn self-explanatory to me. Try getting pulled over and telling the cop you didn't understand what "no" meant. Why must we attempt to obfuscate our meaning with superlative, brobdingnagian vocabulary?

My chemistry teacher in elementary school thought inflammable was not flammable. I pwned her by pulling my pocket dictionary i had just got for my birthday that I had in my backpack and showing her. Not too bright that one.

:laugh:

I'm just picturing that in my head, there's so many things wrong with that.
A) Pocket dictionary for my birthday? I'd be pissed off
B) I've never carried a dictionary around in my life "just in case"
C) Yeah, the quality of teachers have declined in recent years

Does anyone get annoyed or maybe even say "Unless if" as in "I'll have to do it unless if..."
I add the if to the end of unless subconsciously and it bugs the hell out of my friend.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
You sesquipedaliean you. Go beat a parody seal to death with a failure puppy

I'm afraid sesquipedalian is biepsilonesian; it only has two "E"s. Incidentally, I found a new use for the fail puppy, and it's delightfully ironic. "You've really taken the baby seal of adversity and bludgeoned it to death with the puppy of success." It's a compliment, but the analogy is so horrifying that no one will ever want to hear it. Now that I've thoroughly derailed this thread, let's get back on track:

Originally posted by: mwmorph
Does anyone get annoyed or maybe even say "Unless if" as in "I'll have to do it unless if..."
I add the if to the end of unless subconsciously and it bugs the hell out of my friend.

I get offended when people randomly throw "if" or "then" or "as" or "though" or other filler words into speech. It's like they're trying to sound smart, but it doesn't quite work out for them. "It's as then when it happens, though unless if as were..." What the hell are you babbling about?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Does this grammer job come with french benefits?

 

[Ballatician]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
So my bud was like "for all intensive purposes..." I'm like, what? You mean "intents and purposes"? He's like, yeah. He then reprimanded me for "towing the line" and I could hear the "tow" instead of "toe" in his voice. He was getting annoyed at me now and threatened to "duck tape" my mouth shut. I told him that wouldn't make him correct but he said he'd do it "irregardless". I was only trying to help but he said he "could care less". So I took a queue from him and segwayed to another topic.

I always bring that one up and no one seems to care.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Stifko

Originally posted by: Jdo

Originally posted by: Stifko
I hear a lot of ppl say "irregardless" lately even though that is not a word.

It is

thanks, I would have sworn that was not a word!

read up on it, they added it due to so many people accepting it as a real word, not because it in fact is a real word...

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: jjsole
Six of one, a half bakers dozen of the other.

How about:

"Half of one, six dozen of another"

I swear I have heard that more than once.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

"That wet my appetite."

MotionMan

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Does this grammer job come with french benefits?

For a long time as a kid I thought it was French benefits after watching "Big", when John Luvitz tells Tom Hanks about the slutty chick at the firm.

I'm not the only one: We don't get French benefits?

 

[Chaotic42]

These aren't so much phrases as general grammatical annoyances:

*Hypenated-American being used to describe people who were born in the US (I have a hard time taking seriously people who refer to themselves in such a way.)
*They're vs their vs there
*Then vs than
*Could of vs have and its ilk
*Its vs it's
*Any kind of internet crap like n00b, teh, pwn, and whatever else people like to dredge up off of the murky bottom of the linguistic cesspool. (lolz, I said poo)
*typing in all lowecase. some people don't capitalize 'i' out of some kind of "we're all equal" bullshit need they feel to be different.

Yeah, that's enough for now. I've been up for 30 hours or so.

 

[Fritzo]

I hear "I'm not very computer illiterate" on a daily basis.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
"next weekend" to describe the weekend after next.

There's a thread on here like 6 pages long about that.


Also, strangely, inflammable = flammable, not non-flammable. This one is actually understandable due to the prefix throwing everyone off.

The inflammable = flammable thing pisses me off. Not because the two words mean the same thing, just because we don't need both words. Plus, what the hell is "flammable." Able to be flammed? I've never flammed anything in my life. I've blown shit up. Maybe they should just put "This shit blows up" on flammable stuff. Or better yet "explosive." There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind what "explosive" means. It means that it explodes. Better not light it on fire!

One that was pissing me off as I drove down the highway yesterday was illegal vs. unlawful. Is there any difference in these two words at all? "Drinking and driving is illegal," "driving without a seatbelt is unlawful." Well what the hell? Is illegal worse? Would I rather do something that is full of unlaw? And then, just to fuck with you, they'll throw out "Unmuffled engine braking prohibited." Now we have three words, and they all mean the exact same thing: No. "No drinking and driving," "no driving without a seatbelt," "no unmuffled engine braking." Pretty damn self-explanatory to me. Try getting pulled over and telling the cop you didn't understand what "no" meant. Why must we attempt to obfuscate our meaning with superlative, brobdingnagian vocabulary?

My chemistry teacher in elementary school thought inflammable was not flammable. I pwned her by pulling my pocket dictionary i had just got for my birthday that I had in my backpack and showing her. Not too bright that one.

:laugh:

I'm just picturing that in my head, there's so many things wrong with that.
A) Pocket dictionary for my birthday? I'd be pissed off
B) I've never carried a dictionary around in my life "just in case"
C) Yeah, the quality of teachers have declined in recent years

Does anyone get annoyed or maybe even say "Unless if" as in "I'll have to do it unless if..."
I add the if to the end of unless subconsciously and it bugs the hell out of my friend.

A) I was in 3rd grade. Yes, I was pissed.
B) My dad more or less stuffed it in my backpack for me.
C) This was back in the early 90s. But yea, I've only had a few quality teachers in my public school career.

"The reason is because" irks me too.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Jdo

Originally posted by: Stifko
I hear a lot of ppl say "irregardless" lately even though that is not a word.

It is

Notice the little part there where it says 'nonstandard'? There ya go.

Just because it's in use doesn't mean it should be there.