Common Misconceptions That Piss You Off - a safe place for snobs

[The Last Stand]

Agreed. Iphone let idiots onto the internet and that wasn't even remotely a good thing.

Some people think the I in iPhone/iPad/iMac would be capitalized or truncated with a dash. I get the rule to capitalize the first word in a sentence, but Apple's word branding is an exception to that.

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

Dr. Jekyll was the bad guy and there is no Mr. Hyde. Jekyll's potion doesn't turn the good Dr. Jekyll into a monster, it just disguises Dr. Jekyll so he can do the things he wants to do without social consequences.

Also, I get irritated by YouTubers who can't pronounce the "th" sound. It seems really common for some reason.

"Look at dis tweet from last dursday".

 

[nycifer]

"I've outlived my father and X relative"

To me, to outlive someone, means you surpass the age of which they lived. You don't outlive them because they died one day and you continue on. If you're 25 and someone close to you died at 47, to surpass them, you need to be over that 47 mark. They lived longer than you did and they just happen to die.

It's more like they outlived you than you outliving them, so reach for the higher number!

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

Factoids are the opposite of a fact:

factoid​

/făk′toid/​

noun​

1. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.

But the factoid that factoid means fact persists

 

[LateNightMuffin]

Factoids are the opposite of a fact:

I think what most people call "factoids" are properly "factlets."

 

[ChompChomp]

That ancient Romans (and anyone else back then who spoke Latin) pronounced "v" like we do today.

They actually poronounced it like you might if substituting "w" for "v." So, something like "Hail, Caesar!" ("Ave, Caesar") Would sound like, "Ah-weigh, Kaiser!"

But, since that makes them sound like a bunch of idiots several crayons short of a pack, I'm all about sticking with the modern pronunciation.