Words, Phrases, and Misspellings We Hate

[Weather Report]

I don't know what would annoy me more... me always thinking things are irony when they aren't, or me using a meaning of irony that's been in common usage for generations and finding out that the people who complain about it are just being overly sensitive.

Anyway, something akin-to-irony seems relevant here.

Is irony like iron but with bits of copper in it?

 

[Weather Report]

In game terms is Uncavalier to Anti-Paladin as Cavalier is to Paladin?

Githyanki are the first Anti-paladins!

 

[billd91]

Githyanki are the first Anti-paladins!

[Nitpick]Not if my memory serves. The anti-paladin NPC class appeared before the Fiend Folio.[/nitpick]

 

[TwoSix]

[Nitpick]Not if my memory serves. The anti-paladin NPC class appeared before the Fiend Folio.[/nitpick]

I'm pretty sure this entire thread has the [Nitpick] tag.

 

[Cadence]

[Nitpick]Not if my memory serves. The anti-paladin NPC class appeared before the Fiend Folio.[/nitpick]

Anti-Paladin in Dragon Magazine 39 - July 1980
vs.
Githyanki in White Dwarf 12 - April/May 1979 ?

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

Throw off the tyranny of the dictionary!

(Or check out the Wiktionary... I'd never heard it before you posted it, but they have the un- one meaning just what you think it should.)

Oh...I...I think I just had a religious experience. I have finally found my grammatical bible. Thank you for showing me the light, Cadence.

In game terms is Uncavalier to Anti-Paladin as Cavalier is to Paladin?

Quick, somebody get James Jacobs on the phone. This idea is worth millions!

I'm only kind of kidding. D&D certainly has a strong tradition of writing whole new anti-classes and PrCs, rather than simply letting go of alignment restrictions.

 

[thewok]

I've been tempted to have my players come across a herd of alots at some point.

 

[Dwimmerlied]

What I can't stand is those upstart trans-alpine bumpkins with their pronunciation of suffixal "-us" as "-ix". By Jupiter it sounds so ridiculous I tell ya it drives me mad as Vulcan at a Pompeiian blasphemy! Why I even heard the britons have done away with suffixes altogether! Ludicrous!!!

 

[Viking Bastard]

Ah, English. So easy to learn, so easily adjusted, so devoid of grammar, and such a pain to spell.

Being a non-native speaker, I have plentiful sympathy for the spellers of the language. If you don't read a lot, I'm not sure how you'd learn it, as there's so little rhyme or reason to it and you just have to remember it--so many sounds and so many words, but such a small alphabet.

 

[Dioltach]

Another one that bugs me: improper use of much, many, little, few.