Is it too harsh to call people ‘Dumb-ass’ if they get these wrong?
Malapropisms seem to be rife these days. Is it because we communicate MORE by written text than we did twenty, thirty years ago?
Please feel free to let me know in the replies.
Could care less
Pacific
Colon
For all intensive purposes
Fall by the waste side
Irregardless
Escape goat
Peeked interest
Tender hooks
Should of
Nipped it in the butt
Beckon call
Case and point
Extract revenge
And today, I saw this – Oat cuisine
Another thing coming (as in, If you think that, you’ve got another thing coming)
Couldn’t care less
Specific
For all intents and purposes
Fall by the wayside
Regardless
Scapegoat
Piqued interest
Tenterhooks
Should have
Nipped it in the bud
Beck and call
Case in point
Exact revenge
Haute cuisine
Another THINK coming
Also, "mute point" (for moot point)
Supposively
Seen on a top-of-trending steem post:
"prepper blogs used to teach you how to start a fire with potassium pomegranate" (instead of permaganate)
re: another think/thing... ive heard it both ways ,and i think its commonly accepted both ways, though the way youre not used to sounds silly.
just saw another one in an email thats always been one of my pet peeves.
"udderly" for "utterly"
Replying to both
I gloss over those articles these days. At one time, I would think about correcting the writer's errors, but who's got time for that?
right: A whole other
wrong: A whole nother
Sadly, irregardless has managed to worm its way into common usage/acceptance.
Oh yes, that's a whole nother can of worms (shudder!)
One I've seen in emails at work is 'Bare in mind'. Makes me smile
Isn't 'another thing coming' okay? As in, if you are expecting to get paid you have another thing coming.
Yes, I giggle at that too. Bare with me - or, let's get naked together!
This article defines the think/thing definition well - Think or Thing
The OED defines the phrase “to have another think coming”, a little flatly, as “to be greatly mistaken”. It only works in tandem with the phrase “if he thinks that ...” or similar. The earliest example the OED gives is from an American newspaper, the Syracuse Standard, in 1898:
“Conroy lives in Troy and thinks he is a coming fighter. This gentleman has another think coming.”
Well I've obviously had it wrong all my life. Not sure I've ever heard or read 'another think coming'. Interesting.
This blog series was good https://geekdad.com/tag/word-nerd/
Thank you, I'll study it further.
lol when learning english I thought this was the correct one for years. :D
This one reminds me of British people? I think they use that a lot in spoken language.
hahaha
'Pacifically' is one that sets my teeth on edge most, I think.
:D
Perfect!
I actually saw here on Steemit, in the title of a post, the verb "aspect" instead of "expect". Does it count as malapropism? or just plain simple typo?
I think that would be more than a typo. Unless the auto-correct facility took over, but you'd have to have pretty large thumbs to get 'a' and 'e' mixed.
These are hilarious!
Disturbingly so. The level of education is in free-fall - will we ever recover?
I'm sure we will eventually:)
Before or after the apocalypse? (:
:)