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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Shadow0 posted:

If it bites you and you die, it's venomous.
If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.

man, my uncle could have used your wisdom

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Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

Shadow0 posted:

If it bites you and you die, it's venomous.
If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.

Had no idea lions and sharks were venomous

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

Devils Affricate posted:

Had no idea lions and sharks were venomous

You really gotta watch out out there, nature is deadly like that.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
it does NOT mean Kill Mother loving Depeche Mode

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

Shadow0 posted:

You really gotta watch out out there, nature is deadly like that.

I just realized lions and sharks are also technically poisonous!

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

Devils Affricate posted:

I just realized lions and sharks are also technically poisonous!

This thread is a place of learning. 😌:eng101:

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Devils Affricate posted:

I just realized lions and sharks are also technically poisonous!

no, they are dangerous you idiot

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

no, they are dangerous you idiot

You're missing a direct address comma before "you".

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Shadow0 posted:

You're missing a direct address comma before "you".

no I meant to call you an idiot too

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

no, they are dangerous you idiot

That's what I just said!

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

no I meant to call you an idiot too

Now you're missing an interjection comma, smh. Even though you had it right in your last post!

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

100% DOG LOVER
ALL DOGS LOVED, ALL THE TIME
nothing. as long as the person gets their point across i dont care how many spelling and grammar mistakes they made

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Shadow0 posted:

Now you're missing an interjection comma, smh. Even though you had it right in your last post!

you. Shadow0 are an idiot.
Did I get it right this time?

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

100% DOG LOVER
ALL DOGS LOVED, ALL THE TIME
also gbs is quite polite w/rt/ spelling and grammasr mistakes etc. as of late i have noticed. the pedantry is kept intenral where it belongs

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

also gbs is quite polite w/rt/ spelling and grammasr mistakes etc. as of late i have noticed. the pedantry is kept intenral where it belongs

:wink:

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
For some reason people think "mortified" means horrified. It doesn't!!! It means embarrassed!!!

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

nothing. as long as the person gets their* point across i dont care how many spelling and grammar mistakes they** made

*his or her

**he or she

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

Devils Affricate posted:

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.

I read a book recently where every time the author had dialogue where someone used the phrase “case in point” he wrote it as “case and point” and it was maddening.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


if i walk into the bathroom and catch you pissing incorrectly i will gently caress you up.

Wifi Toilet
Oct 1, 2004

Toilet Rascal

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

I read a book recently where every time the author had dialogue where someone used the phrase “case in point” he wrote it as “case and point” and it was maddening.

I've also seen this once and a while and it drives me crazy

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

beach side

Jandipoo posted:

It's actually Frankenstein's Monster.

"I am Leviathan, for I am many."

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




you can't say "y'all" if you're not from the south

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

100% DOG LOVER
ALL DOGS LOVED, ALL THE TIME

Bad Purchase posted:

you can't say "y'all" if you're not from the south

actually i want to change my answer to this

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Bula Vinaka posted:

"I am Leviathan, for I am many."

gently caress you.

Edit: Sorry, that was harsh. gently caress whoever said that in the first place.

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
pretty much the order of the universe. i often scream about this at strangers on public transporation

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

Wifi Toilet posted:

I've also seen this once and a while and it drives me crazy

Then again, for all intensive porpoises I could care less.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
'On accident'. It's wrong and I don't care how much you say language evolves. It's wrong.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



People who type "should of" when they mean "should have" deserve to suffer.

Rusty Shackelford
Feb 7, 2005
The use of the abbreviations for time zones out of season.

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

CaptainSarcastic posted:

People who type "should of" when they mean "should have" deserve to suffer.

Mountaineer
Aug 29, 2008

Imagine a rod breaking on a robot face - forever
I only encounter this because I like to watch dashcam videos, but I hate when people refer to any kind of car collision as a "wreck" regardless of the level of damage. A tap on the bumper is not a car wreck. Call it a collision, an accident, or even call it a car crash if you want to be dramatic, but please don't call it a wreck if no vehicle has actually been wrecked.

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR

CaptainSarcastic posted:

The common confusion between things like "its" versus "it's," "who's" versus "whose," stuff like that.

I am silently bothered by this too. The worst is when someone is talking about the correct usage of 'they're/their' and they slip in an incorrect 'it's'. It takes a bit of strength to hold my tongue instead of posting some trap poo poo like "proper grammar is its own reward."

My best bud and I used to get in arguments all the time about some other common ones; I'd insist "all right" is two words or that "OK" is two letters, and he'd lose his mind over it and we'd rage at each other. I haven't actually cared about that poo poo in years, but because we have that rapport of pushing each others' buttons, sometimes I'll pedantically correct him over something that's absolutely and obviously wrong:

"If we leave then, we'll have less time to set up when we get there."
"Fewer time."

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

beach side

Bula Vinaka posted:

"I am Leviathan, for I am many."

It's from 1973's "Frankenstein: The True Story", which I think is the only thing I've ever seen where the creature has anything resembling a name. He repeats a Bible verse he heard.

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

beach side

Bad Purchase posted:

you can't say "y'all" if you're not from the south

If you're from the American north east (especially Pittsburgh) you can say "yins" instead.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
A picture is hung, a man is hanged.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Das Boo posted:

A picture is hung, a man is hanged.

A man can be hung as well, not that I’m a size queen

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

teen witch posted:

A man can be hung as well, not that I’m a size queen

All the more reason it's important! You don't want to reply with "Good for him!" in the wrong instance!

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Das Boo posted:

All the more reason it's important! You don't want to reply with "Good for him!" in the wrong instance!

Counterpoint: he has a praise kink

E: huh guess this is my pedantic thing. Sex weirds.

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...
I didn't mind "addicting" until I heard someone actually try to argue that it was correct and apparently had been unaware of "addictive" and even tried suggesting it must have been a US/UK difference.

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Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

teen witch posted:

Counterpoint: he has a praise kink

E: huh guess this is my pedantic thing. Sex weirds.

:hmmyes:

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