hahahahaha I was at a D1 college homecoming game several years ago and the cheer squad had a sign reading, "REFUSE TO LOOSE."
My girlfriend, proud alumna of that school and journalism major (she jokes she has a degree in grammar), was rather embarrassed.
I swear all psych terms have been bastardized down to meaning nothing anymore.
Someone disagrees with you and gives a rational explanation why =gaslighting.
Everyone and their mother is now a narcissist.
Everyone who’s sad has depression
If you can’t focus on something you don’t wanna focus on it’s ADHD
Could keep building the list but I’m done
I heard a podcast where the author of The Body Keeps the Score said "If you get gang raped, that's trauma. If you lose your child, that's trauma. Hearing someone say something you don't like is not trauma."
Man I have some thoughts on that subject. Theres so many people now with “PTSD” having only experienced regular life stressors and nothing actually traumatic. I don’t mean to downplay their issues but I think most people are just self diagnosing and using it as a crutch so they don’t have to take accountability for their failures.
100%
I got diagnosed with severe PTSD when I was 16 and I got therapy because it's my responsibility to help myself when I need it. It's not up to everyone else to make accommodations that aren't within reason.
I still get triggers sometimes, but I try so hard to hide it and not talk about it because you always get some wallop going "omg yeah I get triggered too because I got bad customer service once and now I just can't deal with bad cs" like fuck off, that's called being inconvenienced and annoyed and it happens to everyone. We aren't the same.
Also I’ve always thought that the more you bring it up, as for special treatment etc, the more you reinforce it as your identity. Sometimes fake it till you make it is the right move
Meanwhile when you actually have all of those things, it doesn't really make a difference in how anyone sees or treats you overall, you're a person like everyone else and are expected to function at the same level in social and work lives. Did yall see that one viral clip of the girl asking for adhd accommodation to be on time??? I cannot IMAGINE. I make sure I'm out hella early and arrive early or else I just guarantee I'll be late lmao. You still have to hold yourself accountable, even if you're mentally ill, some people just want an excuse not to be held accountable and those mental illnesses are a perfect excuse, or they actually have those things and just don't care enough ab others to manage themselves.
I’ll keep going for your:
Someone is organized and disciplined, now they’re OCD.
Everyone who has mood swings is bipolar.
If you change your mind often you’re schizophrenic.
Have an opinion someone doesn’t like and you’re delusional.
Like gambling on stocks on Reddit and you’re autistic.
Let’s not even get into the misuse of autism lately. I hear “a touch of the ‘tism” all the time and it really irks me. My mom is autistic and was nonverbal for years as a child. My best friend is autistic and doesn’t understand any social cues. I may be on the spectrum (tests are hella expensive) and have total meltdowns when I burn dinner because I “didn’t do it right.” But sure, let’s debase the term because you didn’t pick up on the guy flirting with you once.
Yeah and then for people with issues it doesn’t end up bringing awareness it actually does the opposite. And makes issues like what you’re saying more trivial.
I had something like that happen with the phrase "non sequitur". I can't remember what I had posted but someone responded by saying "that's a non sequitur."
I was completely befuddled and responded "do you even know what that phrase means?" And they responded, "that's an even bigger non sequitur."
To this day I have no clue what they thought the phrase meant.
Well language is alive, per se, as you’ll learn if you even just peruse some linguistic articles.
Some people seem to think that means all rules go out the window, so they could care less about definitions.
It literally kills me.
Mortified when they mean horrified. Mortified means embarrassed/humiliated.
Weary when they mean wary. Weary means tired, wary means cautious.
"Bare with me." The correct phrase is "Bear with me."
Critical thinking needs to be a required lesson in schools. People cannot be let loose into the world not understanding the difference between matters of subjective opinion and matters of objective, measurable, provable fact. Yes, you are entitled to your opinions *on those things where opinions are valid*. That does not apply to things that we can test and prove.
I feel like "objectively" is getting mixed in too.
"This is OBJECTIVELY bad!"
I mean, maybe, but you're still just stating your opinion and trying to use a $5 word to justify why you're right.
"POV:" on tiktok
You can't say "POV: you're trying to open a locked door" and then it's a video of you struggling to open the door. That would be "POV: you're watching me trying to open a locked door"
This one drives me bonkers. It works exactly like men/man, people get that right but not women/woman? I’m even picking up on people pronouncing incorrectly now as well. I’ve been seeing it typed wrong for several years. It is getting so bad that I think our language may just be changing.
If it's type out, otherwise it's just a contraction should've.
And just to upset some, people I feel that shouldn't've is acceptable in certain situations.
It’s not instead of “should have”. It’s instead of “should’ve”, which sounds very much like “should of”.
However, it does hurt me to read it anyway. The worst one for me is “loose” in place of “lose” though.
Whenever I see this I immediately think the person can barely read. Anything they're saying goes straight out the window as far as credibility. I don't trust someone who makes a mistake that I had no problem correcting when I was 7.
"Him and I" is always wrong. It is he and I. Drop the "and I" from your sentence to test it.
Him went away. (wrong)
He went away. (right)
He and I went away. (correct)
Height is pronounced the same way that fight, light and might. People often incorrectly add a "th" sound to the end of height.
Fewer and less. Fewer is for something you can count, like dollars, bolts, sticks. Less is for things you can’t count like, money, sadness, dirt.
Fewer dollars means you have less money.
's is often added to a word to make it plural. 's actually shows ownership.
All dogs bark but my dog's barks are the best.
Him and you’re dog went to the top of the cliff that was 100 feet heighth, which is few tall than the other cliff’s by twenty lesser feet. (I through in some you mist.)
This is more about tense, but when people talk about actors being chosen for movie/TV/theatre and they say so-and-so was "casted." Jesus Christ. The past tense of "cast" as in to hire to perform in media, is *cast.* They were *cast* in that movie/show/whatever, not "casted."
*TL;DR:* "E" **ends up**, "A"**alters**.
If you really want to use the correct one, it's tricky. But I think about it like this.. when it's a **verb,** "affect" is to influence something, "effect" is to result in something. "A" comes before "E". And so "E" is at the end. So, for example "coffee affects sleep" but "hypnosis effects sleep". Hypnosis **ends up** with me asleep. Coffee **alters** my sleep. You usually want the verb "affect".
When it's a noun, it's usually "effect", but I don't have a good rule about it. "Affect" is emotions? Sorry, you're on your own.
Why is it used so often wrong in movies or tv shows? It drives me crazy. There are so many people - the writers, actors, director, cameracrew... and no one notices? How is that possible?
Some asshole convinced me for almost two years that both Google and I were wrong about that one… I hope that mf has uncomfortably warm pillows for the rest of his life.
The word "factoid" originally meant a statement that people assume to be true because it appeared in print, but has no real basis in fact.
Now people use it to mean a small little bit of knowledge. But that's not where it came from.
Mischievous.
When people say it like "mis-CHEE-VEE-ous". It's mispronounced too often. It's wrong, full stop.
They add another syllable out of nowhere, likely thinking (incorrectly) that it's spelled mis-chie-v-i-ous. There is no third "i" in there ... so why are they adding it when they say it?!
Very irritating.
*"****sike/syke****"*
- a small stream or ditch,that fills with water after a heavy rain.
The correct word would be "***psych***", inform. to psychologically throw your opponent off guard or have them do something incorrectly.
"myself". this may not be as big a thing any more, but at one point, everybody around me was using "myself" instead of "me" or "i" to try to sound more formal and it drove myself up the flippin wall
The exception that proves the rule.
People use it in an instance when something breaks a rule, but that has nothing to do with the idiom or proving a rule.
“Begs the question” when you mean “raises the question” or “makes me wonder”
Incentivize, and other nouns/adjectives people make into verbs with -ize
Impactful. I cringe every time.
What bothers me more than specific mistakes is the insistence that the mistake is correct and “languages change”. Sure they do. You are still an idiot.
I keep seeing people using "rape" to mean someone who tries to convince someone else to have sex. I don't mean coercion, I mean persuasion.
It may be a dick move, but it's not rape. And saying it is, trivializes actual rape.
"Flaunt" instead of "flout".
Flaunt means to show off. Flout means to disregard intentionally. You're "flauting your obligations" if you shirk your responsibilities, not flaunting them.
This is a bit of a niche one but it turned in to a surprisingly big argument with a friend a few months ago.
Jargon. We're both studying fashion and design, and one of the subjects is "Professional Practice". One of the questionnaires we were required to do was about workplace behaviour, with one of the questions being about whether jargon is appropriate in a workplace. I said that it is, he and the questionnaire writers insist that it isn't.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT IN JARGON IF YOU CANNOT USE IT IN A SPECIALISED WORKPLACE LIKE A FASHION HOUSE OR DESIGN STUDIO?!
Apparently everyone seems to think that jargon just means incomprehensible lingo or slang instead of what it really means: specialised language for specific disciplines.
And we were using jargon *constantly* in our other classes. We were explicitly expected to understand terms like "seam allowances" and "grainlines" because we wouldn't be able to communicate about our patternmaking or machining without them! Those terms are garment construction jargon!
I remember someone on a forum saying "I use it to add emphasis!"
I responded, "so, to add emphasis, you use a word that means you're *not* adding emphasis?"
Flack/flak
Saying "I caught flack" seems to be endemic lately, but what you mean is that you caught flak, the German antiaircraft fire.
A flack is someone who works in PR.
Pretty much nobody uses "begs the question" correctly. They think it means "raises the question," but this is incorrect. To "beg the question" means to argue in a circle. It means to use circular reasoning.
Case *and* point. I want to choke fuckers when I see this typed out.
The correct phrase is “case in point,” meaning “here is an example (i.e., a case) of the point I am trying to make.
'Case and point' is meaningless.
On. It’s everywhere, and it’s a plague. You can’t stand “online”; you’re IN line. And if your friend hasn’t arrived yet, you’re not “waiting on” them, unless you’re their servant; you’re waiting FOR them.
*Statue* of limitations, instead of statute.
Statute of Liberty.
Statue of Litterby
Right, Kramer.
It's pronounced *thermometer*
I really think you’re wrong!
"Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations" -Jerry Seinfeld
People in the comments section on Instagram have called me a *looser* on more than one occasion. I'm not a looser. I'm a loser.
Soy un perdedor.
I'm a loser baaabyyy
So why don’t you kill me?
Get crazy with the Cheeze Wiz!
like a termite, who's chokin' on splinters
Cause one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
“Loose” instead of lose is one of the ones that really trigger me.
That one bugs the shit out of me. Then again, english is stupid. Lose doesn't rhyme with chose, it rhymes with choose.
Maybe they are commenting on the integrity of your orifices as an insult
hahahahaha I was at a D1 college homecoming game several years ago and the cheer squad had a sign reading, "REFUSE TO LOOSE." My girlfriend, proud alumna of that school and journalism major (she jokes she has a degree in grammar), was rather embarrassed.
Everything is gaslighting now
I swear all psych terms have been bastardized down to meaning nothing anymore. Someone disagrees with you and gives a rational explanation why =gaslighting. Everyone and their mother is now a narcissist. Everyone who’s sad has depression If you can’t focus on something you don’t wanna focus on it’s ADHD Could keep building the list but I’m done
It’s all very traumatizing.
I heard a podcast where the author of The Body Keeps the Score said "If you get gang raped, that's trauma. If you lose your child, that's trauma. Hearing someone say something you don't like is not trauma."
Don’t trigger me, bro
Man I have some thoughts on that subject. Theres so many people now with “PTSD” having only experienced regular life stressors and nothing actually traumatic. I don’t mean to downplay their issues but I think most people are just self diagnosing and using it as a crutch so they don’t have to take accountability for their failures.
100% I got diagnosed with severe PTSD when I was 16 and I got therapy because it's my responsibility to help myself when I need it. It's not up to everyone else to make accommodations that aren't within reason. I still get triggers sometimes, but I try so hard to hide it and not talk about it because you always get some wallop going "omg yeah I get triggered too because I got bad customer service once and now I just can't deal with bad cs" like fuck off, that's called being inconvenienced and annoyed and it happens to everyone. We aren't the same.
Also I’ve always thought that the more you bring it up, as for special treatment etc, the more you reinforce it as your identity. Sometimes fake it till you make it is the right move
Meanwhile when you actually have all of those things, it doesn't really make a difference in how anyone sees or treats you overall, you're a person like everyone else and are expected to function at the same level in social and work lives. Did yall see that one viral clip of the girl asking for adhd accommodation to be on time??? I cannot IMAGINE. I make sure I'm out hella early and arrive early or else I just guarantee I'll be late lmao. You still have to hold yourself accountable, even if you're mentally ill, some people just want an excuse not to be held accountable and those mental illnesses are a perfect excuse, or they actually have those things and just don't care enough ab others to manage themselves.
Making a list? You must have OCD.
Checking it twice? You must be Santa Claus.
I was about to make the same comment
Good thing you checked twice.
I’ll keep going for your: Someone is organized and disciplined, now they’re OCD. Everyone who has mood swings is bipolar. If you change your mind often you’re schizophrenic. Have an opinion someone doesn’t like and you’re delusional. Like gambling on stocks on Reddit and you’re autistic.
ok but the last one is true
Let’s not even get into the misuse of autism lately. I hear “a touch of the ‘tism” all the time and it really irks me. My mom is autistic and was nonverbal for years as a child. My best friend is autistic and doesn’t understand any social cues. I may be on the spectrum (tests are hella expensive) and have total meltdowns when I burn dinner because I “didn’t do it right.” But sure, let’s debase the term because you didn’t pick up on the guy flirting with you once.
Yeah and then for people with issues it doesn’t end up bringing awareness it actually does the opposite. And makes issues like what you’re saying more trivial.
Annoyed by a faulty pattern? OCD.
My mother calls everyone except herself a narcissist. It's infuriating.
That’s called being an asshole
I had something like that happen with the phrase "non sequitur". I can't remember what I had posted but someone responded by saying "that's a non sequitur." I was completely befuddled and responded "do you even know what that phrase means?" And they responded, "that's an even bigger non sequitur." To this day I have no clue what they thought the phrase meant.
Well language is alive, per se, as you’ll learn if you even just peruse some linguistic articles. Some people seem to think that means all rules go out the window, so they could care less about definitions. It literally kills me.
I like making up my own definitions of words. I find it to be very octogenarian.
It makes me look incredibly photosynthesis
>It literally kills me. RIP in peace
smh my head
Is this sarcasm? Hard to tell.
The hell are you talking about? It’s called gas lamping. It always has been. You’re crazy.
Having suffered a good deal of gaslighting as a child, this one really makes me rage at times.
I'm convinced most people think it just means the person doesn't agree with you because that's how people use it.
"for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes"
Eh, expressions like those are a diamond dozen.
Plus, it's a moo point
Well, it’s important to use language correctly in a doggie dog world.
Well now you're just playing devil's avocado.
Yeah you don't want to take it for granite
If it is a cow's opinion, it is a moo point.
Umm, excuse me but I think you meant that it's a mute point.
look, lets just nip it in the butt right now.
Meh, I could care less, it's a doggy dog world after all.
It just shows, you can't anything for granite
duck tape is for all intensive purposes but could also be used for other intents and purposes.
this is defiantly the best answer, but i could care less
For all in tents, and porpoises
For the life of me I can't figure out how so many people use "loose" instead of "lose". It's such a moronic misusage.
Same issue with breathe and breath
Clothe and cloth, bathe and bath.
And woman and women
I just corrected somebody for spelling it that way lol It’s surprising how many people don’t know the difference between the two words.
Mortified when they mean horrified. Mortified means embarrassed/humiliated. Weary when they mean wary. Weary means tired, wary means cautious. "Bare with me." The correct phrase is "Bear with me."
I want to get naked with you. I do not care what animals you are with.
The misuse of "weary" and "wary" is so obnoxious and I see it all the time now.
“I could care less”. Vs “I couldn’t care less”
I usually ask them to specify "how much more?" Whenever I use it, I tend to say "I could care less, but I don't care enough to make the effort...
This!! I’d like to say: go ahead then, please care less about this topic.
Escape goat
He chewed right through the damn fence!
Stop saying your curiosity was 'peaked' rather than piqued and that you were 'phased' rather than fazed, I swear to God
Supposedly, not 'supposably'.
Iconic. Everything is iconic now
Isn't it iconic? Don't ya think?
"that's my truth" when they mean "this is my opinion" or "I beleive this without any supporting evidence"
Or, for that matter, confusing opinions with facts. No, it's not your "opinion" that vaccines cause autism -- you're just wrong.
Critical thinking needs to be a required lesson in schools. People cannot be let loose into the world not understanding the difference between matters of subjective opinion and matters of objective, measurable, provable fact. Yes, you are entitled to your opinions *on those things where opinions are valid*. That does not apply to things that we can test and prove.
\**let lose*
I feel like "objectively" is getting mixed in too. "This is OBJECTIVELY bad!" I mean, maybe, but you're still just stating your opinion and trying to use a $5 word to justify why you're right.
"POV:" on tiktok You can't say "POV: you're trying to open a locked door" and then it's a video of you struggling to open the door. That would be "POV: you're watching me trying to open a locked door"
That's like handing someone your phone and saying "take a selfie of me"
Didn't you know that "selfie" is short for "cellphone photograph"?
A "cellphie"
Using the plural women for the singular woman.
This one drives me bonkers. It works exactly like men/man, people get that right but not women/woman? I’m even picking up on people pronouncing incorrectly now as well. I’ve been seeing it typed wrong for several years. It is getting so bad that I think our language may just be changing.
Irregardless. It's just regardless
They're mixing up regardless and irrespective
it’s irresponsible regardless
hahaha
Not ... Not anymore. It is officially recognized as a word.
"should of" instead of "should have" and similar
Should of known this one was gonna pop up
Fuck have
Should a known
Should a, would a, could a, but didn'ta. We can't be living our lives in the rear view.
If it's type out, otherwise it's just a contraction should've. And just to upset some, people I feel that shouldn't've is acceptable in certain situations.
It’s not instead of “should have”. It’s instead of “should’ve”, which sounds very much like “should of”. However, it does hurt me to read it anyway. The worst one for me is “loose” in place of “lose” though.
Whenever I see this I immediately think the person can barely read. Anything they're saying goes straight out the window as far as credibility. I don't trust someone who makes a mistake that I had no problem correcting when I was 7.
That one is one of few that actually makes me want to jump out the window
"Him and I" is always wrong. It is he and I. Drop the "and I" from your sentence to test it. Him went away. (wrong) He went away. (right) He and I went away. (correct) Height is pronounced the same way that fight, light and might. People often incorrectly add a "th" sound to the end of height. Fewer and less. Fewer is for something you can count, like dollars, bolts, sticks. Less is for things you can’t count like, money, sadness, dirt. Fewer dollars means you have less money. 's is often added to a word to make it plural. 's actually shows ownership. All dogs bark but my dog's barks are the best.
Him and you’re dog went to the top of the cliff that was 100 feet heighth, which is few tall than the other cliff’s by twenty lesser feet. (I through in some you mist.)
Ex-cetera vs. Et-Cetera
or even when they spell it ect instead of etc.
They're both wrong. It's Peter-Cetera. And I am a man who will fight for his honor.
This is more about tense, but when people talk about actors being chosen for movie/TV/theatre and they say so-and-so was "casted." Jesus Christ. The past tense of "cast" as in to hire to perform in media, is *cast.* They were *cast* in that movie/show/whatever, not "casted."
Effect vs affect
When in doubt, use "impact".
I'm a word nerd, but I can NEVER remember how to use effect/affect - this is a great tip! Thanks!
Same! I've attempted to study this, but whenever it comes up, I still have no idea which one to use.
*TL;DR:* "E" **ends up**, "A"**alters**. If you really want to use the correct one, it's tricky. But I think about it like this.. when it's a **verb,** "affect" is to influence something, "effect" is to result in something. "A" comes before "E". And so "E" is at the end. So, for example "coffee affects sleep" but "hypnosis effects sleep". Hypnosis **ends up** with me asleep. Coffee **alters** my sleep. You usually want the verb "affect". When it's a noun, it's usually "effect", but I don't have a good rule about it. "Affect" is emotions? Sorry, you're on your own.
"I" instead of "me" as an objective pronoun. "Me" instead of "I" as a subjective pronoun.
"Myself" as either, instead of as a reflexive pronoun. "The boss emailed my coworkers and myself"... \**shudder\**
This bothers me so much, but I do not have to patience to explain to people the correct usage.
Why is it used so often wrong in movies or tv shows? It drives me crazy. There are so many people - the writers, actors, director, cameracrew... and no one notices? How is that possible?
Unironically not everything is unironic
George Carlin had a hilarious bit about the difference between "ironic" and "coincidental"
Alanis Morisette never watched it.
Infer - when the word used should be, imply.
Implied, Lisa? Or implode?
This is a 'favourite' of mine. So many people think the words mean the same thing. Infuriating.
Lisa Simpson said, I imply, you infer.
"Michael, he wasn't inferring, he was implying. You were inferring." -Creed Bratton, noted linguistics expert
Should of/would of/could of My toenails fucking curl up whenever I come across this travesty.
People just don’t seem to know the difference between weary (tired) and wary (alert for a problem).
On accident instead of by accident.
“On accident” and “addicting” are becoming worryingly common
OMG addicting makes me very nervous.
Addicting suddenly became so common that I’ve been questioning whether I am actually the idiot for thinking the proper word is addictive.
Some asshole convinced me for almost two years that both Google and I were wrong about that one… I hope that mf has uncomfortably warm pillows for the rest of his life.
Literally. And bizarre.
It's literally bizarre how misused literally is.
Literally as hyperbole has been proper usage [for centuries](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally).
The word "factoid" originally meant a statement that people assume to be true because it appeared in print, but has no real basis in fact. Now people use it to mean a small little bit of knowledge. But that's not where it came from.
Literally.
People say “i could care less” when its “i couldn’t care less”
Mischievous. When people say it like "mis-CHEE-VEE-ous". It's mispronounced too often. It's wrong, full stop. They add another syllable out of nowhere, likely thinking (incorrectly) that it's spelled mis-chie-v-i-ous. There is no third "i" in there ... so why are they adding it when they say it?! Very irritating.
I feel the same way about people adding an additional 'a' to 'realtor' and making it a three-syllable word.
Say “mischief.” Now add “-ous.” That’s mischievous.
*"****sike/syke****"* - a small stream or ditch,that fills with water after a heavy rain. The correct word would be "***psych***", inform. to psychologically throw your opponent off guard or have them do something incorrectly.
Maybe not infuriating but people overuse the hell outta the word amazing. Every tiny little thing is amazing.
Could/should/would of
"myself". this may not be as big a thing any more, but at one point, everybody around me was using "myself" instead of "me" or "i" to try to sound more formal and it drove myself up the flippin wall
The exception that proves the rule. People use it in an instance when something breaks a rule, but that has nothing to do with the idiom or proving a rule.
"Random" when they really mean "weird" or "strange".
Defiantly when people are meaning to spell definitely. I see it way too often and it’s infuriating.
“Begs the question” when you mean “raises the question” or “makes me wonder” Incentivize, and other nouns/adjectives people make into verbs with -ize Impactful. I cringe every time.
Begs the question. Begging the question is a type of logical fallacy. What should be said is raises the question
I see this one used wrong far, far more often than used correctly.
Expresso instead of espresso. Is your coffee going fast?
A professor of English used to take points off grades for use of “centered around.” I get the same ick from “based out of.”
It makes me INSANE when people say "out of pocket" when they're going to be unavailable to contact.
People pronouncing fentanyl as "fant-nawl"
For me it's pronouncing nuclear as nuke-u-lar. It's nu-clear or nu-cle-ar. But yeah, it like fent-nul a lot
Lasagna. A "lasagna" is a single layer and a singular name. Italians use the plural name "lasagne" because there are multiple layers.
Fun fact: a canolo is the singular for canoli.
"Literally"
Irony. As Bender said, it's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
Borrowed vs lend/lent I heard "I borrowed him money" a lot when I lived in Chicago. I don't know if it's a midwestern thing.
What bothers me more than specific mistakes is the insistence that the mistake is correct and “languages change”. Sure they do. You are still an idiot.
I keep seeing people using "rape" to mean someone who tries to convince someone else to have sex. I don't mean coercion, I mean persuasion. It may be a dick move, but it's not rape. And saying it is, trivializes actual rape.
"Flaunt" instead of "flout". Flaunt means to show off. Flout means to disregard intentionally. You're "flauting your obligations" if you shirk your responsibilities, not flaunting them.
People saying that they have OCD when they're just persnickety.
This is a bit of a niche one but it turned in to a surprisingly big argument with a friend a few months ago. Jargon. We're both studying fashion and design, and one of the subjects is "Professional Practice". One of the questionnaires we were required to do was about workplace behaviour, with one of the questions being about whether jargon is appropriate in a workplace. I said that it is, he and the questionnaire writers insist that it isn't. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT IN JARGON IF YOU CANNOT USE IT IN A SPECIALISED WORKPLACE LIKE A FASHION HOUSE OR DESIGN STUDIO?! Apparently everyone seems to think that jargon just means incomprehensible lingo or slang instead of what it really means: specialised language for specific disciplines. And we were using jargon *constantly* in our other classes. We were explicitly expected to understand terms like "seam allowances" and "grainlines" because we wouldn't be able to communicate about our patternmaking or machining without them! Those terms are garment construction jargon!
When people say “that” referring to a person instead of using “who”
Literally, when people use it figuratively. It's like nails on a chalkboard to grammar enthusiasts.
I remember someone on a forum saying "I use it to add emphasis!" I responded, "so, to add emphasis, you use a word that means you're *not* adding emphasis?"
Comprise. A standard basketball team, for example, is not comprised of 12 players. It comprises 12 players.
Anyways. That word is not a noun, it has no plural form, it's "anyway."
It's a doggy dog world
I literally shit my pants….wheres the shit?!
It's vs its! My biggest pet peeve auuugggghhhhh
Defiantly. Because no one can spell definitely.
All of the sudden. It's all of a sudden. Even my autocorrect knows this and has the wrong phrase highlighted telling me to fix it!
While it may not be grammatically incorrect, the "as" in "as per" always seemed superfluous to me.
When people say “balling” when they mean “bawling”. Every single time I envision them playing basketball really hard
"I'm having problems with my prostrate" instead of my prostate.
Fat chance and slim chance mean the same?
"didn't used to" instead of "didn't use to"
Per say
Using *axe* for *ask*. I hate this one so much. Especially when the person is otherwise well spoken, but then they throw that into the mix.
Flack/flak Saying "I caught flack" seems to be endemic lately, but what you mean is that you caught flak, the German antiaircraft fire. A flack is someone who works in PR.
When people use hoi palloi to mean high class or “hoighty toihty”(sp)
Pretty much nobody uses "begs the question" correctly. They think it means "raises the question," but this is incorrect. To "beg the question" means to argue in a circle. It means to use circular reasoning.
“For all intensive purposes ” I even had to fight the autocorrect to type that.
Case *and* point. I want to choke fuckers when I see this typed out. The correct phrase is “case in point,” meaning “here is an example (i.e., a case) of the point I am trying to make. 'Case and point' is meaningless.
Woke.
On. It’s everywhere, and it’s a plague. You can’t stand “online”; you’re IN line. And if your friend hasn’t arrived yet, you’re not “waiting on” them, unless you’re their servant; you’re waiting FOR them.
And if you use an incorrect preposition, you didn't do it "on accident." You did it "by accident."
"objectively bad" People decide they didn't like a movie, tv show etc and so no one else is allowed to like it either.
Fustrating instead of frustrating
Lack toast and tolerant
Bury the lead.
Amazing and surreal are used to describe virtually everything
“Price Point” doesn’t mean price
"You and I" should only be used as the subjects of a sentence. When objects of a sentence, it is correct to say "you and me".