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I will always correct "alot" and "i.e." when it is used instead of "e.g." whenever I see it. I'm also very overly pedantic about the difference between ESL and EFL, even though it basically doesn't matter (and was actually the impetus to make this thread). Though in that case, I think of it as more as a neat fact than, like, an actual mistake. Also "reiterate" instead of "iterate". Anyway, what are you pedantic or even overly pedantic about?
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sometimes I think I am smarter than I actually am. This may or may not have happened to you OP
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Oct 2, 2022 21:54
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I hate when people say something "begs the question" when they really mean to say it raises the question. Begging the question means using circular logic.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:01
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people who can't end a sentence with a preposition
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Oct 2, 2022 22:02
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ElectricSheep posted:people who can't end a sentence with a preposition, rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:04
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it's very important to me that you use the original, literal meaning of the word "decimated"
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Oct 2, 2022 22:13
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The common confusion between things like "its" versus "it's," "who's" versus "whose," stuff like that. It always grates on me a little bit when someone uses the wrong one.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:17
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The common confusion between things like "its" versus "it's," "who's" versus "whose," stuff like that. It always grates on me a little bit when someone uses the wrong one. shut up nerd
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Oct 2, 2022 22:20
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:shut up nerd Missing commas also annoy me.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:21
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When people use "America" for the US instead of the whole continent. Hilarious when gringos get possessive about literally a Spanish girls' name.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:25
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The common confusion between things like "its" versus "it's," "who's" versus "whose," stuff like that. It always grates on me a little bit when someone uses the wrong one. I was curious about the whole apostrophe thing and eventually looked it up one day. Apparently it comes English's genitive case. I had always thought it was a contraction, like in other apostrophized words like "can't". But nope, it's from a case marker. There wasn't any standardization for spelling for a long time, and now we're stuck with these weird and inconsistent marks.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:25
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grilling is not barbeque
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Oct 2, 2022 22:26
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About everything related to photometry, colorimetry, photonics and visual system neuroanatomy, which basically means the entire Internet is a trigger zone because everything I've ever read about the human eye online is wrong. Between lovely studies about how many FPS we can see by scientists with no background in neuro-ophthalmology to wikipedia quoting that we can only see 1m colors from a book I own that literally doesn't say that, choosing colorimetry as my thesis gave me a career 10 years later but also made me reading anything about "the human eye" an actual hell.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:28
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When I was in college I bitched about the difference between "bimonthly/biweekly" and "semimonthly/semiweekly" so much that the Residence Hall Association rewrote their entire constitution to replace those terms with "once every two months/weeks" and "twice a month/week".
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Oct 2, 2022 22:37
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i counted all the colors i can see and it was way less than 1 million
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Oct 2, 2022 22:37
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Epiphone owners that say they own a Gibson. You don't. You loving don't.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:42
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I wanna instantly split all the atoms in the bodies of everyone who says "nucular" instead of "nuclear".
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Oct 2, 2022 22:46
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Elentor posted:About everything related to photometry, colorimetry, photonics and visual system neuroanatomy, which basically means the entire Internet is a trigger zone because everything I've ever read about the human eye online is wrong. Between lovely studies about how many FPS we can see by scientists with no background in neuro-ophthalmology to wikipedia quoting that we can only see 1m colors from a book I own that literally doesn't say that, choosing colorimetry as my thesis gave me a career 10 years later but also made me reading anything about "the human eye" an actual hell. Did u know the human eye disproves evolution??
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Oct 2, 2022 22:46
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Devils Affricate posted:Did u know the human eye disproves evolution?? That doesn't do anything to me but every time I stumble upon a site saying the left eye is processed by the right hemisphere of the brain and vice-versa I convulse a little.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:51
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Devils Affricate posted:Did u know the human eye disproves evolution?? how so? Please elaborate
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Oct 2, 2022 22:55
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:how so? Please elaborate It's a common creationist argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Eye
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Devils Affricate posted:It's a common creationist argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Eye Irreducible complexity may not actually exist in nature, and the examples given by Behe and others may not in fact represent irreducible complexity, but can be explained in terms of simpler precursors. The theory of facilitated variation challenges irreducible complexity. Marc W. Kirschner, a professor and chair of Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, and John C. Gerhart, a professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, presented this theory in 2005. They describe how certain mutation and changes can cause apparent irreducible complexity. Thus, seemingly irreducibly complex structures are merely "very complex", or they are simply misunderstood or misrepresented.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:13
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things get real weird when they get real small
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i am not a pedant
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Oct 2, 2022 23:18
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It's "Philadelphia Museum of Art" not "the art museum" you animal.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:39
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It's actually Frankenstein's Monster.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:40
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Epiphone owners that say they own a Gibson. They don't, they own a better instrument.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:52
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i spent a few years as a technical writer in the field of contact mechanics; i learned that "science friction" is a very funny term.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:56
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:It's "Philadelphia Museum of Art" not "the art museum" you animal. as a Philadelphia native, yeah it is. It's the stairs Rocky ran up. It is "The Art Museum"
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Oct 2, 2022 23:58
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inflammable. flammable. pick one to mean what you think it means, and let me know which means the opposite.
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Oct 3, 2022 00:11
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frumpykvetchbot posted:inflammable. flammable. pick one to mean what you think it means, and let me know which means the opposite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ
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Oct 3, 2022 00:21
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"Irregardless." Word?
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frumpykvetchbot posted:inflammable. flammable. pick one to mean what you think it means, and let me know which means the opposite. Really, "inflammable" should be "enflammable," if you think about it.
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i love to say "i could care less" because it triggers pendants like loving crazy.
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Animal-Mother posted:"Irregardless." Word? I think so. Just like embiggens and cromulent
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Animal-Mother posted:"Irregardless." Word? I love using it
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frumpykvetchbot posted:inflammable. flammable. pick one to mean what you think it means, and let me know which means the opposite. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flammable#English Kind of a crazy (and unfortunate) etymology. Apparently "inflammable" comes more directly from the Latin root. But I really like that "inflammable" is listed as both as synonym and antonym.
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A poisonous plant might be healthy without being healthful.
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Shadow0 posted:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flammable#English what a country
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If it bites you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.
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