mcflounder wrote:
it is a result of dumbifcation ... at one time, words had meaning.
retards are reproducing like cockroaches.
Right, like how kids these days use "awful" to mean "bad." Everyone from my generation know that awful means "awe inspiring."
luv2run wrote:
At one time they did not mean the same thing, but they have come to mean the same thing.
I go with the old school version that bi weekly is every other week.
CORRECT (except for that small detail where this is not about two different words meaning the same thing but rather one word meaning two different things)
So it has been picked. So you shall stick with it.
An Oldtimer wrote:
mcflounder wrote:it is a result of dumbifcation ... at one time, words had meaning.
retards are reproducing like cockroaches.
Right, like how kids these days use "awful" to mean "bad." Everyone from my generation know that awful means "awe inspiring."
Uh, are you from the 12th century or something?
Actually, "terrible" in French can mean either "terrible" or "freaking awesome."
kartelite wrote:
An Oldtimer wrote:Right, like how kids these days use "awful" to mean "bad." Everyone from my generation know that awful means "awe inspiring."
Uh, are you from the 12th century or something?
Seriously. Dude must be at least 200 years old.
"While once it meant awe-inspiring and full of awe, the years have taken their toll on awful. Sometime in the 19th century, it came to mean distasteful; an 1818 dictionary reported, "In New England, many people would call a disagreeable medicine awful, an ugly woman an awful-looking woman..."
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/origins-of-common-words-awful.htmSome1 Responsble 4 Such Things wrote:
im a penguin not a joker wrote:Is that anything like raising a building or razing a building?
Yes
it's as simple as;
The building burned up.
The building burned down.
Similar thing drives me crazy with altitude versus elevation. Everyone says that guys and girls go to altitude for altitude training. Altitude is an aeronautical term used to indicate how high in the air someone is above the ground. Elevation is a term that should be used to indicate how high above see level someone is. Altitude training would mean that some one is running in thin air suspended above the ground.
For some reason the mis usage of this drives me nuts.