Incorrect phrases you often hear

[mugs]

Incorrect: one in the same
Correct: one and the same

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I hear "I'm not very computer illiterate" on a daily basis.

Just say "yes you are".

 

[ObiDon]

the use of some of the phrases in here is definately ludacris.

 

[Delita]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Anubis
statue of limitations

also

moo point

i hate it when people tell me its a mute point. and irregardless was added to the dictionary, but it is still incorrect. the incorrect use of I bugs me as well, and i know my kids are getting sick of me correcting them.

Language should not be rigid

 

[mugs]

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?

If you're going to be pedantic and say that the approaching weekend is "next weekend," how can you possibly think it's acceptable to also call it "this weekend." By your reasoning, it would only be acceptable to refer to "this weekend" during the weekend. That's the only time the phrase makes sense if taken literally. And by the same token, how can you possibly think it's acceptable to refer to Saturday and Sunday as the weekend at all, when Sunday comes at the beginning of the week?

To the overwhelming majority of people,
Next weekend = the weekend of next week/the end of next week
This weekend = the weekend of this week/the end of this week

 

[Stifko]

What about "like I said?" How many ppl you know say that?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Stifko
What about "like I said?" How many ppl you know say that?

everyone

 

[MiniDoom]

.

 

[ExPFC Wintergreen]

People thinking "cliche" is an adjective: "That expression is so cliche."

And: "That didn't phase me."

 

[silverpig]

should of
could of
would of

 

[Red]

Many of the things mentioned in this thread bother me, in addition to stories which are comprised mostly of "he was like... and then she was like... and then he was like..."

I'll admit that my wife and I are both occasionally guilty.

 

[bigi]

Lens, not lense.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

The thing that annoys the fuck out of me - and it appears everywhere - is when people use "all but." For example (and this is used often in newscasts and stuff):

"New Orleans was all but destroyed by Katrina."

IT WAS DESTROYED! WTF??!?!?!

It annoys me when people say "could care less" too.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: ExPFC Wintergreen
People thinking "cliche" is an adjective: "That expression is so cliche."

And: "That didn't phase me."

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/...u&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


George Carlin had a million of these:

Near miss? A near miss is a collision!

"Wow, you see those 2 planes collide?"
"Yep, they nearly missed too"

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
The thing that annoys the fuck out of me - and it appears everywhere - is when people use "all but." For example (and this is used often in newscasts and stuff):

"New Orleans was all but destroyed by Katrina."

IT WAS DESTROYED! WTF??!?!?!

It annoys me when people say "could care less" too.

Eh, it wasn't totally destroyed. All but destroyed implies that there is a little left. Partially destroyed would be a better term for New Orleans. Waveland, Mississippi was all but destroyed.

<---Katrina "Ground Zero" resident

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2

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

That just means there are so many idiots, it became an accepted word. It still isn't a real word.

Yeah, we have a consultant right now that says "irregardless" all the time and it drives me nuts.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: E equals MC2

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

That just means there are so many idiots, it became an accepted word. It still isn't a real word.

Yeah, we have a consultant right now that says "irregardless" all the time and it drives me nuts.

That would be "drives I nuts" I believe.

 

[DrPizza]

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.

Originally, it was "duck tape" when it was developed. Duct tape became more common later on. But, as has been pointed out, there's still a "duck tape" brand.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: 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.

im guilty of both of these, as well as rarely using apostrophes. its not out of some need for equality, its basic laziness on my part. i dont think it matters in this application to use perfect grammar/ punctuation. when i write a report for work everything is correct, grammar is good and punctuation/ capitalization is spot-on. here? dont really care. if people think im less educated due to it, that is their downfall, not mine.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Delita

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Anubis
statue of limitations

also

moo point

i hate it when people tell me its a mute point. and irregardless was added to the dictionary, but it is still incorrect. the incorrect use of I bugs me as well, and i know my kids are getting sick of me correcting them.

Language should not be rigid

that rigidity is due to the rules placed on it. if you want it to be less rigid, remove the rules binding it.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

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.

Originally, it was "duck tape" when it was developed. Duct tape became more common later on. But, as has been pointed out, there's still a "duck tape" brand.

i used duct tape long before i ever saw a roll with the duck tape brand... duct tape was used for taping up duct work, and had strings for strength as well as more sticky to suck into holes that may have been missed, creating a sealed duct. gaffers tape was used on stages once they realized they needed a different color duct tape to blend in better to the set design. it also got a rougher, more carpet-like face on it in multiple colors. it needed to not be so slippery. i still have many rolls of gaff tape from when i was a professional stagehand. the purple was my fave roll, but my kids found it and taped up damn near everything in my house with it...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Delita

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Anubis
statue of limitations

also

moo point

i hate it when people tell me its a mute point. and irregardless was added to the dictionary, but it is still incorrect. the incorrect use of I bugs me as well, and i know my kids are getting sick of me correcting them.

Language should not be rigid

Language should not be illogical. Regardless is a word with a clear meaning. Irregardless should mean the opposite of regardless, and the presence of the prefix ir- and the suffix -less create a double-negative situation. It's a word that should not exist.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: 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.

i dont capitalize "i" because im too lazy to hit the shift key when im typing on the internets

same deal with the forms of there and your, its,..... i simply dont care

i have like 100 custom autocorrects set in word, if im typing something important it fixes all my crap for me

on forums i couldnt care any less

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Delita

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Anubis
statue of limitations

also

moo point

i hate it when people tell me its a mute point. and irregardless was added to the dictionary, but it is still incorrect. the incorrect use of I bugs me as well, and i know my kids are getting sick of me correcting them.

Language should not be rigid

Language should not be illogical. Regardless is a word with a clear meaning. Irregardless should mean the opposite of regardless, and the presence of the prefix ir- and the suffix -less create a double-negative situation. It's a word that should not exist.

Stop being irridiculous.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
*They're vs their vs there
*Could of vs have and its ilk
*Its vs it's

These are all based around misuse of apostrophes, and in that spirit, people who use apostrophes for pluralization are idiot's (<- notice how stupid that looks). Apostrophes can show posession, they can be used for contraction, but they do not pluralize (except in rare cases where you are pluralizing individual letters, in which case it is still preferred to enclose the individual letter in quotation marks with a lowercase "s" outside, i.e. I got 3 "A"s that semester; A's looks cleaner, so I'll forgive that use of apostrophes to pluralize, but that's it!).