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It is important in the understanding of word definitions to know the root words too. It is also important to understand the original meaning of phrases. I hear phrases being misused by mostly younger people who probably never heard them before. Not that their use is wrong since it is usually the young that give them meaning in the first place in the form of slang.
Can't defend "same difference" except they mean "it's the same thing", and are trying to be cute. One of those errors that people know is wrong but do it anyway, such as saying "I couldn't care less". Lot of folks say "same ol, same ol", or SOS DD, too. I see nothing wrong with an author using those as long as it is in keeping with the way his charactor talks; does anyone disagree?
"I couldn't care less" is correct. It's when people say "I could care less" that drives me crazy.. How about 'all the sudden?' I even hear people on TV say that!
"I couldn't care less" is correct. It's when people say "I could care less" that drives me crazy.. How about 'all the sudden?' I even hear people on TV say that!
Uuuugh - my pet hate too.
If you COULD care less - then you care. Drives me nuts when I hear people say "I could care less" when it should be "couldn't".
I also hate it when people say "My bad".
Complete, asinine nonsense.
And people who can't pronounce "proBABly" and say (or worse, write) "prolly"
3. I hate the word "Ya'll." It resonates within me as something absurd, horrid, and downright detrimental to my eardrums.
Not me. Southerners actually happened on a construction that takes confusion out of the language. It's an oddity of modern English that there's no difference between Second Person Singular and Second Person Plural, so one uses "You" to refer to either a single person or a group of people. This is particularly unhandy when one is calling a single person who happens to be standing with others.
Other regions have tried to solve this problem with the inelegant "You guys" or the especially horrid "Youse." At least "Y'all" is simple, lyrical, and instantly solves a problem. After all, nobody says "Y'all" to address one person.
It used to be that Thee, Thou, and Thy served that purpose (The same as "du" does in German today), but those pronouns have died out almost completely. So I think "Y'all" will actually become more and more mainstream by virtue of its simplification of English grammar.
All rhyming slang that carries no actual meaning beyond being a cutesy rhyme. "I'm the boss, applesauce." Yeah, well, your show's a dud, baked spud. Great if you're five years old; beyond that, *barf*.
Hm.. In New Jersey, "boss" and "applesauce" don't even rhyme.
"I couldn't care less" is correct. It's when people say "I could care less" that drives me crazy.. How about 'all the sudden?' I even hear people on TV say that!
THANK YOU. My daughter says "all the sudden" and I don't know where she got it from. Drives me nuts.
When someone say "be careful driving" as if I am going to go out and purposely be reckless. Seems like they are sending out negative Karma with this statement.
Worse than that is "Safe home". That's not even a sentence.
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