[OT] today's random language gripe

[Pielorinho]

i laughed at this till my belly hurt, thanks, i needed that

Glad to help!

Personally, I would've told the teacher I couldn't transition, but if she wanted me to become or put or seem or cascade or oblige, I'd be happy to oblige. That's a pretty dumb rule, even if transition is a pretty dumb verb (since it means the same thing as "change")

Daniel

 

[KidCthulhu]

I'm still trying to figure out when people say others are "whinging". What the hell does that mean?

Whinging is whining for the more British among us.

 

[heirodule]

"costed"

 

[Number47]

Affect or effect. Grr. Learn it.

Apstrophes are for anyplace I choose to put them. Please just stop using them, then. Poor little apostrophes. Don't even get me started on the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe.

Mute point. Now I'm gettin' my gun.

 

[Rune]

A lot of language misuses get me, but the one that gets me more than others is probably using "quote" as a noun. It's a verb! Quotation is a noun!

I do understand that language evolves with use, but if it's wrong, it's still wrong!

For instance, I'm aware that even Milton and the King James Bible use the phrase, "from whence," but it was wrong then and it's still wrong now!

 

[bwgwl]

my hated buzzwords are "paradigm" and "methodology."

also, wherever the mythical "box" is, i want to be inside it, because it seems everything i hate is "outside the box."

 

[johnsemlak]

A lot of language misuses get me, but the one that gets me more than others is probably using "quote" as a noun. It's a verb! Quotation is a noun!

If people communicate effectively with the langauge that they use, then they aren't misusing the langauge.

Anyway, 'Quote' is frequently used as a noun and is labeled as both a noun and a verb in Webster's dictionary.

 

[Aaron L]

Yeer, everin soulp spheil vor ponornck think hover teh fel leeke.

 

[Pielorinho]

A lot of language misuses get me, but the one that gets me more than others is probably using "quote" as a noun. It's a verb! Quotation is a noun!

When lexicographers first discovered the word "quote" during the English Enlightenment, it functioned as a verb all the time. But just before the beginning of the twentieth century, lexicographers noticed that the word was beginning to function as a noun some of the time.

For the past hundred years, lexicobehaviorologists have observed "quote" more and more often acting as a noun in sentences. Some of these behaviorologists, the more theologically inclined, believe that by doing so, "quote" is working directly against the will of God. More mainstream scientists, however, regard it as yet another example of the evolution of language.

Cite

Daniel

 

[Rune]

If people communicate effectively with the langauge that they use, then they aren't misusing the langauge.

Anyway, 'Quote' is frequently used as a noun and is labeled as both a noun and a verb in Webster's dictionary.

I direct you to the last paragraph of the post you quoted from. Language does get into the dictionary based on how it is used, but that doesn't make it correct!