Overused terms......
- Thread starter DaSleeper
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People that refer to themselves in the third person.
Only a little off course but irritating as dog $hit.
Only a little off course but irritating as dog $hit.
Irregardless-
Funny you should mention that... ever use the word unravel? The "correct" word is ravel, but because the language has moved on such a long time ago, nobody realizes it anymore. The same thing is slowly happening with thaw vs. unthaw and regardless vs. irregardless. With irregardless, I think people are just getting confused with irrespective.
With education aimed at the lowest common denominator, this surprises anybody? The English language is so bastardized that it hard to tell what is right anymore.
How ironic, I was just going to mention "unthaw". Another one that really irks and I hear it on the media all the time - buoy pronounced "buuuey".............."boy" is so much simpler!-
but unravel is now a word that one can find in the dictionary
really kind because I think they are just unaware that it is not a word
Exactly, don't know how many times I've heard people say they are unthawing meat for supper.
How ironic, I was just going to mention "unthaw". Another one that really irks and I hear it on the media all the time - buoy pronounced "buuuey".............."boy" is so much simpler!-
Where I grew up, the closest pronunciation is something like b'oy. Which I think is pretty close to what you are looking for. I say fooey to booey.
With unravel being a word, that is the point I am getting at. You should know I am a language descriptivist. You will also find irregardless in any good dictionary: Irregardless - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
As a descriptivist emigrant from an English speaking country, it pleases me to be surrounded by people who speak English as a second language. They iron out all the exceptions in the language. Yes, you runned to catch the bus. I like the general direction they take the language.
Strangely, only native speakers will do such things as say irregardless or unthaw. There are a number of other strange mistakes that only native speakers make that I cannot think of at the moment.
Oh, my god! You are absolutely amazing in your astuteness.
Oh, yeah, besides the ones I colored in my previous comments, there is what I call "copspeak" (and I rib the cops I know about it ibncessantly.
For instance: "Speed was a factor". Ya mean to say the vehicle was actually in motion? Naw, you're kidding, right?
