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I saw a sign in the supermarket. Someone on my street is having a garage sale tomorrow, and they are selling a two-piece sectional couch with a matching oddaman.
I wouldn't want that. I divorced my oddaman a number of years ago, and I'm happy sitting on my own couch with just my cats.
This thread is getting more funner by the post.
MQ, I'll find the moment to rep you when the system isn't looking.
I always thought 'I could care less.' was a sarcastic statement rather than poor grammar, but then, I am an optimist. :-)
What bothers me is certain malapropisms. I understand that they don't start as simple ignorance, but are attributed to the way the brain processes language. A typo of the brain, if you will. But when it makes it into writing, surely the writer notices that what they have taken for granted is what they meant by the word, 'granite'.
I had a mild victory in the war against apostrophe abuse this past week.
There is a lovely, historic church near me, built before the American Revolution. I pass it every morning on my drive to the train station, and I know a few people who attend the church.
At the beginning of the summer, I noticed one morning that they'd put out a sign that said:
"Eucharist on Summer Saturday's 5 p.m." It's a cloth/banner type of sign hanging on the cemetery fence.
I saw that and said, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and that morning texted someone from the church whom I knew would understand and said, "GET THAT APOSTROPHE OFF THE SIGN! I CAN'T LOOK AT THAT EVERY MORNING!"
Yesterday morning I noticed that the apostrophe has been somehow whited out. It's much better, except that now there's a gap between "Saturday" and the "S", but I'm not going to complain anymore, hehehe.
I had a mild victory in the war against apostrophe abuse this past week.
There is a lovely, historic church near me, built before the American Revolution. I pass it every morning on my drive to the train station, and I know a few people who attend the church.
At the beginning of the summer, I noticed one morning that they'd put out a sign that said:
"Eucharist on Summer Saturday's 5 p.m." It's a cloth/banner type of sign hanging on the cemetery fence.
I saw that and said, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and that morning texted someone from the church whom I knew would understand and said, "GET THAT APOSTROPHE OFF THE SIGN! I CAN'T LOOK AT THAT EVERY MORNING!"
Yesterday morning I noticed that the apostrophe has been somehow whited out. It's much better, except that now there's a gap between "Saturday" and the "S", but I'm not going to complain anymore, hehehe.
Thank goodness. A church? And on a CLOTH banner? That must have taken some time and thought yet no one even checked to make sure it was correct. Thank you for getting that fixed--it was an insult to a beautiful, historic church.
What bothers me is certain malapropisms. I understand that they don't start as simple ignorance, but are attributed to the way the brain processes language
True. And they may have simply misheard a phrase. My sister's former boyfriend who had a master's degree once said, "That's the best thing I've heard since life's bread," and we argued with him about it. We could see his logic for using the term and it even made sliced bread seem less appropriate.
^ You might say, the Katz out of the bag! (Oy, vey!)
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