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Originally Posted by BeckyJ
"tyre" and "centre" are a couple of my favorites.
I note that locally, many of the city's legit theaters use the British spelling in their names:
Zellerbach Theatre and Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center (go figure)
Walnut Street Theatre
Suzanne Roberts Theatre of the Philadelphia Theatre Company
Forrest Theatre
So perhaps we should salute the truly American outfits:
Wilma Theater
Prince Music Theater
Merriam Theater
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okay, if we're talking about things that sound weird or that make your skin crawl, I've got a few examples:
"Preggers" or "bump" - in reference to a pregnant woman.
"disrespect" used as a verb and not its normal usage as a noun. One is shown disrespect, one is not disrespected (AFAIK).
"Git R Done."
The whole cottage industry within celeb media industry-sector dedicated to coming up with new words that are combination of two (or more?) words/names. I give you as example....
Brangelia
Bennifer
Octomom
Momtourage
Mantourage
Manlove (or man-love or just man love) when talking about some radio or tv sports analyst showering too much positive attention on an athlete
Orgasmic
Some others that are more likely creations of people being lazy online:
lemme = let me
prolly = probably (not two words but still)
And what's with several artists going with their stage names as "lil" so and so?
Lil Wayne
Lil Kim
Lil Romeo
Little Richard had a great career without having to go all "lil" on us.
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"If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitrarily, because it is THEIRS, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that it is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact is how cities did grow great...Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."
ah, yes. The really "bromantic" analysts get on my nerves.
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"If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitrarily, because it is THEIRS, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that it is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact is how cities did grow great...Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."
Etymology: like something you cannot swallow, based on the literal meaning of craw (the throat of a bird)
I was being a bit sarcastic, what I really mean is why do we [still] say stuff like that rather than just verbalize it in one's own way...
Once in a while, it's fine, but people pepper entire conversations with sayings like that, so much so that I don't think they can come up with other ways of expressing themselves on their own!
"six of one, half a dozen of the other"
"caught between a rock and a hard place"
"a blessing in disguise"
"a piece of cake"
"a slap on the wrist"
"drop of a hat"
etc., etc....
And another thing that bugs me...It's "ET-ce-ter-a, but people most often say "EKcetera" or just "EK-ce-TRA."
Oh, and "interwebs"... Some people seem to actually use this term seriously and don't realize it's a JOKE word! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb
is a malapropism used satirically or to indicate inexperience by intentionally and incorrectly merging the terms 'Internet' and 'World Wide Web'. The joke is that many inexperienced users access content on the World Wide Web (or "Web") via the "Internet" without knowing what either is.
Once upon a time I had a wife who used that word frequently. I loved her so much that I never uttered even a peep of protest. Now whenever I hear it, it reminds me that I'm a hopeless irromantic.
Once upon a time I had a wife who used that word frequently. I loved her so much that I never uttered even a peep of protest. Now whenever I hear it, it reminds me that I'm a hopeless irromantic.
hahaha! I couldn't have married someone who used a term like that!
People abusing the terms "literally" and "virtually." Now, it has come to a point where "literally" and "virtually" are often on par and may be used interchangeably.
It used to be that "literally" meant that you are saying something without exaggeration... now, it is used (abused?) whenever someone wants to make a stronger point... "The Blue Route literally became a parking lot!", when in fact it didn't really turn into a parking lot in the usual sense of the term "parking lot".
Am I making too much out of this? Do I literally/virtually have the panties in a wad?! :P
Perhaps the Wekster or Ms. Jones can set me straight on this issue.
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"If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitrarily, because it is THEIRS, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that it is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact is how cities did grow great...Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."
People abusing the terms "literally" and "virtually." Now, it has come to a point where "literally" and "virtually" are often on par and may be used interchangeably.
It used to be that "literally" meant that you are saying something without exaggeration... now, it is used (abused?) whenever someone wants to make a stronger point... "The Blue Route literally became a parking lot!", when in fact it didn't really turn into a parking lot in the usual sense of the term "parking lot".
Am I making too much out of this? Do I literally/virtually have the panties in a wad?! :P
Perhaps the Wekster or Ms. Jones can set me straight on this issue.
The correct word in place of a misused "literally" is generally not "virtually"; it's
"figuratively."
I note that locally, many of the city's legit theaters use the British spelling in their names:
Zellerbach Theatre and Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center (go figure)
Walnut Street Theatre
Suzanne Roberts Theatre of the Philadelphia Theatre Company
Forrest Theatre
So perhaps we should salute the truly American outfits:
Wilma Theater
Prince Music Theater
Merriam Theater
My understanding is that properly theater should be used to refer to the physical edifice in which the business of theatre takes place. In common usage, however, the two have become interchangeable.
When I was a kid I thought this expression was "six of one half...a dozen of the other" and it made no sense to me, for obvious reasons. It all depends on where the stress is placed when you say it.
My favorite pet peeve about poorly written public language (i.e. signs, etc.) is the use of quotation marks to indicate emphasis, e.g.:
This parking lot is a "secure" facility
Maybe that's not the best example, but I see a lot of signs where pretty clearly the quotes are meant to act in the same way italics or boldface would - to emphasize the point being made. Of course, they have ironically the exact opposite effect, undercutting the meaning of what's been printed. I wouldn't park my car in a "secure" facility.
That's another one that makes me crazy!!
