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Spacious. I watch a lot of Home and Garden TV shows, and the people looking at homes on there use "spacious" in every other sentence. It's getting to the point that I don't even want to watch the shows anymore. And if anyone IRL uses the word "spacious" around me, I can't be held responsible for what I might do in response.
The misspelling definatly. I can feel my blood pressure rise whenever I see that one!
Oh, I agree completely. Although I will say that that misspelling led to one of the most unintentionally funny emails I've ever received.
An AP Specialist in one of our remote offices has a mild reading disorder, and she really struggles with composing professionally worded emails. She uses a spell-checker program (which, as we all know, is fraught with perils for the unwary!) to review her work before sending it off.
So one day, she and I exchanged a series of emails about problems we were experiencing with particular vendor's invoices. After figuring out what had happened and how to correct it, I asked her to please check for a particular error on their invoices in future, and to request corrected invoices whenever it recurred.
Now, I know that what she wanted to say in her reply was "I will definitely make sure that Vendor X's invoices are correct from now on."
However, once her spell-checker program had gone through and corrected things, what she actually said was "I will defiantly make sure that Vendor X's invoices are correct from now on."
Special, or worse, very special. Whenever I see or hear this, I know that what is to follow is a picture or story about someone with something physically different about him or her. That does not make someone special. It just means one thing is different. To me special is an unexpected card or a new and exciting dessert. Maybe saving lives is special, because we can't and won't all do it. Don't make a person special because you feel sorry for him or her. It's an insult, not a compliment.
Special, or worse, very special. Whenever I see or hear this, I know that what is to follow is a picture or story about someone with something physically different about him or her. That does not make someone special. It just means one thing is different. To me special is an unexpected card or a new and exciting dessert. Maybe saving lives is special, because we can't and won't all do it. Don't make a person special because you feel sorry for him or her. It's an insult, not a compliment.
I don't like all the euphemisms we use today. When I am elderly, I am not going to be a senior citizen. I am going to be an old person. But neither am I going to crab at people for calling me a senior citizen. I do plan to enjoy asking about the 'fossil discount' with a smile.
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