I can't take it anymore. (meaning, sentence, paragraph, quote)
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My take is you have "fines levied against you" and "charges are leveled against you".
Dictionary.com is mute on this definition (not moot),
I had to go to four different dictionaries, before I found this usage of "level" as a verb, "to aim at" in Merriam Webster:
2
a : to bring to a horizontal aiming position
b : aim, direct <leveled a charge of fraud>:
Also, in McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
level a charge against someone
Fig. to place a charge against someone; to accuse someone of something. The neighbors leveled a disturbance of the peace charge against us. The cops leveled an assault charge against Max.
No, it's being mangled again. Just because someone uses a term incorrectly (even if it's repeated many times) does not make it evolution. It's more like a devolution. Someone has to maintain standards!
Of course it's being mangled again.
However, one member of this forum always seems to want to play contrarian, and--while his/her examples of language errors are always to be considered grievous--he/she usually pronounces the language errors posted by other members as examples of, "evolution", of the language.
This was an attempt at humor, which--clearly--was not successful.
....and the correction, of course: The old attage , 2 wrong's never make a write.
That sentence is one of the most discouraging of all. Attage?? Then they put a comma in the middle and finish it off with the ol' reliable apostrophe to form a plural. I'd hate to have to try to read a whole paragraph of this.
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The Case of the Missing Hyphens
