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Repeat after me

  • Good, better, best.
  • Bad, worse, worst.
  • The best of all possible worlds.
  • In the worst case.
  • His own worst enemy.
  • For better or for worse.
“Worse” and “worst” ARE NOT SYNONYMS. You are using “worse” when you mean “worst”. You know who you are.

For fuck’s sake, we’ve already been saddled with the ludicrous situation where “literally” has become its own antonym. (Merriam-Webster, for one, officially gave up the fight on that one.) Now, when you use the word "literally", nobody knows any more whether you actually MEAN "literally" or "figuratively" or "ironically" or "absolutely not at all". The endgame of using just whatever word comes to hand to mean whatever the fuck you want it to mean right then, is that nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about because the words coming out of your mouth make no sense except to yourself.

Languages WORK because we agree on what words mean what things. When we just spew arbitrary word-salad, communication breaks down.

#PetPeeves #GetItRIGHT #EngrishAsSheIsSpoke #grammarfascist

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Katherine Bond diaspora
I used to be a picky English teacher, and social media has broken me. I give up.
I can comiserate. All this skool larnin didn't do no good.
Azure Cerulean diaspora
The anguish and anxiety you and others feel for this type experience is what I experience just by thinking of going out in 'the public' much less actually being there.
Don't blame you one bit.
Joyce Donahue diaspora
Oh, it started before social media. The one that broke my English major spirit was the substitution of "less" for "fewer" - in fact the word "fewer" seems to have almost entirely disappeared from common use.
I'm usually amply forgiving of regional vernacular, English from someone whose English is a second language--what I find unforgivable is media professionals murdering the language.
Katherine Bond diaspora
Bad or no punctuation also destroyed me. Does anyone know what a semi-colon is for, except for winking faces?
To be fair, they're difficult to wrangle with on a cell phone and because of that get dispensed with. On the phone. The phone's bad habits tend to bleed out off the phone.
Katherine Bond diaspora
It certainly does. I’ve never picked up the ability to type on your phone with your thumbs. I need my tablet. If someone texts me on my phone, they have to call me or wait til I get home to my tablet.
I recently got a 5G Android which has this handy feature of anticipating what the next word you need to type is, and you just tap the word insteady of typing it out letter for letter. If it didn't do that, I would have skipped over contractionary apostrophes as a rule rather than the exception. To type out "I'm" you'd have to hit shift for the capital I, change to the numeric keyboard to hunt for the apostrophe, then change to alpha keyboard for the M. Now I fully understand where the no-contraction term "Ima" comes from, short for "I'm going to". HELLUVA lot easier on the damn cell phone.
Katherine Bond diaspora
Mine anticipates the next word too, often wrong, but I’m starting to use the dictation option. It’s starting to understand me. At first it was ridiculous.
I have a friend that uses that sort of thing...speech to text...and the result can be hilarious. Often. Well, whatever floats yer boat. :-}}
I use speech to text all the time but you have to proofread it. It comes up with some weird shit sometimes.
Katherine Bond diaspora
Very creative and funny at times.
I'd say oft-times. 😁
Frequently.

Also, I prefer wurst, liverwurst in particular.

(Yeah, I know, somebody had to go there sooner or later. I figured I'd get it overwith.)
"It was the best of times, it was the würst of times."
Griff Ferrell 💙💛 friendica (via ActivityPub)
You've gone and made me hungry

I'd like some braunschweiger, onion, mustard, dark brown bread
Which one of you is the brat?
I'm the brat.

Liverwurst goes really well with a lot of things. One that surprised me is hot sauce, sweet or not. Sriracha (sweet) is good but I really like Crystal on it.

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