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Justin

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Fort Collins, Colorado, US

Orca Bay Images wrote:

Sure, make fun of my "narwhal" gaffe from another thread.

Apr 04 13 08:01 pm Link

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Top Level Studio

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Verbing weirds language:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I0JyZiMKuh0/R … -sm-01.jpg


A deeper look at that idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(linguistics)

Apr 04 13 08:48 pm Link

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Rick Dupuis Photography

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Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

WCR3 wrote:
"How are you?"

"I'm good."

George Carlin used this.

"How are you?"
"I'm not unwell, thank you."

Apr 05 13 09:26 am Link

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Rachel in GR

Posts: 1656

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

Caustic Disco wrote:
irregardless

I saw this thread, and this popped into my head.

I really can't stand when someone ignorant tries to "correct" my *literally* (yes, lol, according to my ACTs way back when) perfect English. -.-

Honestly? First learn what Oxford commas, semicolons, and their proper uses are, and then stop using the word  "myself" when you should only be using the word "I".

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Apr 05 13 09:41 am Link

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Blaine Dixon

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San Francisco, California, US

When an incorrect verb  is repeated long enough, the dictionary editors give in and accept it as an alternative meaning.  "Decimated" originally mean killing every 10th man in an ancient Roman legion as group punishment. So "Decimated mean destroying 10 percent. Its usage now is all over the map from 10 to 100 percent, but I think that is sloppy usage.

Apr 05 13 10:01 am Link

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Vivus Hussein Denuo

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New York, New York, US

Rachel-Elise  wrote:

I saw this thread, and this popped into my head.

I really can't stand when someone ignorant tries to "correct" my *literally* (yes, lol, according to my ACTs way back when) perfect English. -.-

Honestly? First learn what Oxford commas, semicolons, and their proper uses are, and then stop using the word  "myself" when you should only be using the word "I".

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A trend I've seen recently is the use of quotation marks to indicate emphasis:  Employees "must" wash their hands before leaving bathroom.  When did quotation marks start to mean emphasis?  Answer:  Never.

Apr 05 13 11:28 am Link

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Caveman Creations

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Addison, Texas, US

CheyenneRenae wrote:
And then then THEN when people here say, "Let's go DOWN to the shore!"

The beach isn't South of my location, it's East. Down?? It's... beneath us? Did you mean in the Earth's crust? You might have to drive then, because I don't know how to go "down" there.

This was covered once, but commonly in Texas, everybody seems to like to say, "Lets go down there..." or "...up there...". I can see, being from the Dallas area, going down to the shore, as it is South of here. When viewing a map, it is down.  What I don't like, is residing, in Dallas, and being asked if I would like to go up to Austin.

"Hey man, we're all goin' up to Austin this weekend. Wanna go?"
or...
"They live in Oklahoma. We should really go down there and visit."

Or, any of the comical usages of the phrase..
"Six of one, or a half-dozen of another..." Cracks me up.

Apr 05 13 12:04 pm Link

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Top Level Studio

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote:

A trend I've seen recently is the use of quotation marks to indicate emphasis:  Employees "must" wash their hands before leaving bathroom.  When did quotation marks start to mean emphasis?  Answer:  Never.

I've wondered about that, too, and I've concluded it's because some online comments spaces or message formats, like Simple Text, don't have the option of italic text, bold text, or underscoring, so the quotes are used as a substitute way to emphasize a word.

Apr 05 13 12:35 pm Link

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Vivus Hussein Denuo

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New York, New York, US

Top Level Studio wrote:
I've wondered about that, too, and I've concluded it's because some online comments spaces or message formats, like Simple Text, don't have the option of italic text, bold text, or underscoring, so the quotes are used as a substitute way to emphasize a word.

Well, that's true, as far as computer typing goes.  It's a lot easier to type " " than to type 4 brackets and a slash.  But I've seen quote marks used for emphasis in hand-lettered signs.

Apr 05 13 12:51 pm Link

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Christopher Hartman

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Buena Park, California, US

That's ironic...

Apr 05 13 12:56 pm Link

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Sam Comer Photography

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Knoxville, Tennessee, US

Oh ... and ...

"I have a 32gb SCANdisk memory card."

hmm

Apr 08 13 05:41 pm Link