The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Old Fezziwig]

DTRPG

It's "wreak havoc" and the fact that you let that pass suggests terrible things about the quality of your editing. "Wreck havoc" is gibberish, pure and simple.

I'm fascinated by phrases that get mangled like this. "Another think coming" and "bated breath" are favorites.

So anyway, I have found editing and re-editing and letting some time pass and re-editing again before sending something off to be a useful skill in some cases.

I write/rewrite/delete soooo many posts. My phone has posts in draft almost every time I open the boards on it.

 

[prabe]

I'm fascinated by phrases that get mangled like this. "Another think coming" and "bated breath" are favorites.

I was pretty sure "bated breath" was correct, and "bated" was some short/archaic term for "held still" or something. I see "baited breath" from time to time, which makes me think of the cat that ate the cheese ...

 

[Gradine]

I was pretty sure "bated breath" was correct, and "bated" was some short/archaic term for "held still" or something. I see "baited breath" from time to time, which makes me think of the cat that ate the cheese ...

Yeah, "bated breath" is the correct spelling. The key verb here is "abate" rather than "bait"

 

[prabe]

Yeah, "bated breath" is the correct spelling. The key verb here is "abate" rather than "bait"

Then I apparently misunderstood the post.

(Prabe goes back and looks at the post. Pages fly from the calendar. Prabe returns.)

I apparently have the dumb this evening--those were both the correct phrases, not the manglings.

(Prabe wanders off to see about rebooting his brain.)

 

[overgeeked]

The one that always gets me is “peaked my curiosity.”

Nah, man. Just nah.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

The one that I had to learn was "one fell swoop." I thought it was "one felt swoop" until I read Macbeth for the first time.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Horrifyingly, "another think coming" has become an accepted phrase, since everyone, including Dee Snider, misheard it that way.

 

[billd91]

Horrifyingly, "another think coming" has become an accepted phrase, since everyone, including Dee Snider, misheard it that way.

What? “You’ve got another think coming” is the original. It had better be an accepted phrase.

 

[overgeeked]

A. “How dare you yuck my yum!”

B. “Your yum is my yuck.”

A. “How dare you!”

Sigh.

 

[CleverNickName]

The one that makes my eye twitch is when people say "I could care less!" when they are trying to express how little they care about something.

The correct phrase is "I couldn't care less."