The thread of learning something new every day
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@Tim There are so many examples of that sort of thing.
To go full GOM it appears to be a lack of attention to the three R's People write (or say) what they have misheard. Modern day malapropisms. Some are quite amusing. Some are just weird and some quite (inadvertently) clever. I hear and see them all the time. From the glorious St Cindy down. Just can't recall a specific example at the moment.
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@Tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
While you're at it on this topic, the next person who posts "dribble" when they mean "drivel" will be banned permanently.
You are just bias against people what can't use the write words.
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@Dan54 said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Finally sat down and figured out how to tie a trucker's hitch. No big deal. Just wanted to state it for the record.
Never figured it myself NTA
This was the most succinct video - another useful tie-off in there as well, but I'll need the trucker's hitch for setting up the fly ridgeline when I go hiking.
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@Kruse yeah so I only learned (learnt?) this one a couple of years ago...
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@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
And don't get me started on "acronym"... although I hate to admit defeat, I 'm starting to think the dictionaries should just fucking surrender and update the definition of that word to mean what every fluffybunny thinks it means.
So, again, I had to look up the definition of the word to see if I had it wrong. I don't - so how is it being misused?
The one that got me was ironical. I would hear people using it and think 'how ironic'. Then I discovered. Ironical is an actual word. That means ironic. Go figure....
Acronym - most people use it in place of the correct word - "initialism".
eg: FBI - is NOT an acronym. Because it's pronounced "Eff-Bee-Aye"... spelling out the letters. It's an initialism.
But POTUS - IS an acronym (AND an initiatlism) - because it's pronounced as a "word" - this being the key bit that people ignore.
NZRU - initialism, not acronym.
Laser - acronym, and initialism.
Oh - and I think the definitions are subtly different in various dictionaries, but to my understanding - an acronym is not ALWAYS an initialism.
eg: Benelux - IS an acronym, but NOT an initialism.Do we have a pedant award in the Fernies, if so you're a lock this year against the your/you're crowd.
I do believe that when words meanings change that dictionaries are slow to change them, despite the fact they're less than 200 years old and had constant shitfights over meanings when they were being developed. I think it's somewhat silly to hold on to a historical definition if the meaning has clearly changed. No doubt I will be a hypocrite and will argue the opposite for a word I like in the future.
Deep down I'm resigned to "your" being adopted in place of "you're". But I shall verse it while I can.
I'm also pretty sure I can manage to pronounce most of @Kruse 's initialisms as words, I.e., Fibby, Nisroo ...
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse yeah so I only learned (learnt?) this one a couple of years ago...
I think this is like spelled and spelt, which, google tells me, are both correct, but may be more correct depending on which country you are in.
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@Tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
While you're at it on this topic, the next person who posts "dribble" when they mean "drivel" will be banned permanently.
Is that not a bit pedantical?
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There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "Bilge"
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Well goddammit, Sunday morning rabbit holes ...
https://www.econtentpro.com/blog/commonly-misused-phrases-and-expressions/56
Wrong Usage: “The spitting image”
Right Usage: “The spit and image”Who knew?
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@voodoo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@voodoo I had to check to see if I had the correct understanding.
I did
You kids' obviously didn't get a proper education.
I asked my wife and the 4 people in my team - we all had it the wrong way!
I feel like I might be the butt of some elaborate prank here...
Fuck. Me too.
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:
And don't get me started on "acronym"... although I hate to admit defeat, I 'm starting to think the dictionaries should just fucking surrender and update the definition of that word to mean what every fluffybunny thinks it means.
So, again, I had to look up the definition of the word to see if I had it wrong. I don't - so how is it being misused?
The one that got me was ironical. I would hear people using it and think 'how ironic'. Then I discovered. Ironical is an actual word. That means ironic. Go figure....
Acronym - most people use it in place of the correct word - "initialism".
eg: FBI - is NOT an acronym. Because it's pronounced "Eff-Bee-Aye"... spelling out the letters. It's an initialism.
But POTUS - IS an acronym (AND an initiatlism) - because it's pronounced as a "word" - this being the key bit that people ignore.
NZRU - initialism, not acronym.
Laser - acronym, and initialism.
Oh - and I think the definitions are subtly different in various dictionaries, but to my understanding - an acronym is not ALWAYS an initialism.
eg: Benelux - IS an acronym, but NOT an initialism.Do we have a pedant award in the Fernies, if so you're a lock this year against the your/you're crowd.
I do believe that when words meanings change that dictionaries are slow to change them, despite the fact they're less than 200 years old and had constant shitfights over meanings when they were being developed. I think it's somewhat silly to hold on to a historical definition if the meaning has clearly changed. No doubt I will be a hypocrite and will argue the opposite for a word I like in the future.
Deep down I'm resigned to "your" being adopted in place of "you're". But I shall verse it while I can.
I'm also pretty sure I can manage to pronounce most of @Kruse 's initialisms as words, I.e., Fibby, Nisroo ...
See you've shown me up to be a hypocrite already as I fully agree we must fight it.
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