Let it rest. Everyone here knows what you think of Solinsky. You find a way to complain about him in every thread, even those not related to running in the least. If this was supposed to be a joke, we all knew the punchline before the end of your first sentence. I'm all for the sharing of opinions, but please keep it relevant.
Supposively
Woman ay my office uses this all the time. I did correct her the other day. Didn't go down too well
People love to use the word literally. I hear it used incorrectly all of the time.
I literally wanted to blow my brains out.
I was literally floating on cloud 9.
My heart was literally beating out of my chest.
Those are just some examples. Now go ahead and listen for it. I cringe everytime I hear that word because half the time it's used incorrectly.
Not making this up wrote:
Supposively
Woman ay my office uses this all the time. I did correct her the other day. Didn't go down too well
And its cousin, "supposably."
Acrossed.
This drives me up a wall to no end. It's not a word, never has been, never will.
Stop sounding like a moron.....you know who you are.
Yanqui wrote:
"Penultimate" is almost always misused, as if it meant something greater than or beyond ultimate. It actually means one less than the ultimate.
Um...actually no it doesn't mean that at all. Penultimate means next to last.
"The penultimate car in the parade carried the cross country team."
UNLESS you are using "ultimate" to mean "the final". ONLY in that way would you be correct. The word "ultimate" can be used many ways. If you are using it to mean "the greatest extreme; maximum" (which is how most people use that word) then no, "penultimate" does NOT mean one less than the ultimate.Best to describe "penultimate" as next to last.
Flagpole wrote:
Yanqui wrote:"Penultimate" is almost always misused, as if it meant something greater than or beyond ultimate. It actually means one less than the ultimate.
Um...actually no it doesn't mean that at all. Penultimate means next to last.
"The penultimate car in the parade carried the cross country team."
In Utah,
"Alls I know is..."
That would still be wrong. There are "count nouns" and "mass nouns". If it is easily countable, it is a count noun and therefore requires the use of "fewer". "I have fewer video games than you do". If it is not easily countable, then it is a mass noun and you use "less". "I would like less sugar in my tea than I had yesterday."The signs should read "10 items or fewer"If you are describing money, time or distance, then you use "less" instead of fewer even if you can easily count. "That movie lasted less than 2 hours." "I will pay you less than $100." You would still say "I ran fewer miles than you did", but you would also say "I live less than two miles from your house."Clear as mud?
irregardless... wrote:
I think it is supposed to be "10 items or less than 10 items" they just truncate the phrase so it doesnt use too many letters. Additionally, "less" has 1 fewer character than "fewer" so Walmart saves money on printing costs as well.
less and fewer wrote:Ha, yes, good call. Aisles. Express Aisles. Of course I would make this typo while criticizing the grammar of others. In my defense, I am just a guy posting on a message board. Those who screw up "less" and "fewer in store aisles are usually major corporations. You'd think that in all of the Wal-Mart company, there would be at least one person who could catch this mistake.
Just for fun, you don't hear that "all of the time". That would LITERALLY mean that's the only thing you hear.Know what I mean brother?
JahJah Garor wrote:
People love to use the word literally. I hear it used incorrectly all of the time.
I literally wanted to blow my brains out.
I was literally floating on cloud 9.
My heart was literally beating out of my chest.
Those are just some examples. Now go ahead and listen for it. I cringe everytime I hear that word because half the time it's used incorrectly.
Daylight saving*s* time. The correct name is bad enough without making it more stupid by saying it wrong.
Prana wrote:
In Utah,
"Alls I know is..."
The first word there is actually a contraction; the full-length phrase (still nonstandard English!) is:
"All as I know is..."
The word is "utmost," not "upmost."
I'm sorry if the latter "makes more sense" to you--it's still wrong (nonstandard).
Somewhat similarly, the word "technical" is NOT pronounced as if it were spelled "tetnical," but as if it were spelled "teknical." Damn.
Here's two that get me sometimes:
"rightfully"
When something happens *by right* this word is perfectly okay: "When the true heir was finally found, he rightfully took possession of the property from the impostor."
But when we're looking for a synonym for "correctly," the word to use is "rightly" and not "rightfully": "When she uses 'forte' to mean one of her strong points, she rightly pronounces it with just one syllable."
"backslash"
Man, I'm hearing this with increasing frequency. Most Internet URLs have one or more of these: /
That's a slash--just a plain slash.
THIS is a backslash: \
You don't ordinarily encounter a backslash in a URL; but when people are reading off a URL, say over the phone or in a radio ad, I keep on hearing them say "backslash" when they just mean a regular slash, and if you follow what they actually say, you don't get to the website.
Nerts, I see the backslash didn't come through (or at least it's not showing up on my screen). I did type it when I was composing the post, honest!
Anyway, a slash goes from "southwest" to "northeast"; a backslash goes from "southeast" to "northwest."
Hydrite wrote:
A lot of people spell defiantly when they mean definitely.
You're actually wrong. People spell it definatly, and then it gets auto-corrected to defiantly. People can tell that it's not spelt defia....as that makes no sense. But when people sound it out, definatly while wrong, sounds close.So it's either an auto-correct, or a type of a word spelt wrong to begin with.
not in Utah:
I been reading all this and I need to axe a question.
In New Jersey (home of morons):
Are yous (plural) going to the store?
I have a friend who uses the word pour when he means to use pore. He doesn't know that he should write "I'll pore over the results."
It truly bothers me when people use the phrase 'I could care less' when describing something they don't care about. The correct way to state the indifference is to state 'I couldn't care less.' They could use the sarcastic phrase 'Oh, like I oould care less.' But to just write 'I could care less.' about something tells the reader that the topic does have some level of importance.
I just hate stupidity.