Commonly misunderstood phrases that annoy you

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I had a teacher that would say "you are silence now!"

But that's more being bad at english, like Rutte saying that he was "sliming" at Trump.
 
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Pee Cola said:
"I could care less".

I can't put into words how much disdain I have for this phrase, so I'll let an angry Britbong do it for me.

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There was a radio host that I was an avid listener of for a number of years. I liked him because, since he was on a little pea shooter AM signal that did not have local coverage in any of the nearby large markets, he could get away with saying "offensive" and funny things that the hosts on the 50,000 watt sticks in the big cities could never dream of saying on the air. He was a registered Democrat, but definitely more of the "blue dog" type, and not very PC. In other words, he would be considered a normal person before the country went full-retard. At some point, he either started getting dumber and more liberal, or I started getting more conservative and just started noticing things a bit more. Maybe a bit of both. One of the moments when I started questioning why I was still listening to him was when he argued that "I could care less" was the correct phrase! He wasn't trolling, he was being dead serious. This same guy also argued that the Kenosha police should have let Jacob Blake drive off and apprehended him at a later time. That was the day I stopped listening to him and the station he was on. This man was probably in his late 60s at the time he was saying these things! Never underestimate the ability of stupid "smart" people to double down on their ignorance.
 
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Megaton Punch said:
I'm not going to be lectured about sounding stupid by a culture that refers to dish soap as "fairy liquid".
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hmmmmmmm :thinking:

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Lemmingwiser said:
hmmmmmmm :thinking:

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That just proves that we Americans had too much intellectual fortitude to be tricked into using such a stupid term.

Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go to the bodega and buy a Coke. Specifically a Mountain Dew Coke. It's skeeter season and I bin itchin something fierce so I need something to calm my nerves.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Youtube essayists are barely literate retards almost without exception, but one that is very common and particularly annoys me whenever I hear it is "can't be understated".

No, you're trying to say "can't be OVERstated" as in there are no words in existence that are too extreme to describe something. It's not "I'd like to understate this for some reason, but I'm just too duty-bound to the truth" or something faggy like that. Imagine having so little grasp of your native language.
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I was watching a game review this week and heard someone say that for the first time. The line was something like "I can't understate how much I enjoyed the story". I played it again just to make sure I didn't imagine it or, if they did use 'understate', check if they actually didn't like the story and they were just phrasing it weirdly. Turns out they meant they loved the story and therefore intended 'overstate'. I haven't noticed it otherwise, but it's funny that you've encountered many examples. It must be becoming normalized.
 
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skykiii said:
Whole video is about this stuff. It mentions "the blood thicker than water" one but also "customer is always right" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps."

I share the feelings of those who hate how "literally" has been mangled.

Incidentally has anyone else here ever had the phenomenon of you actually are using a word correctly, then some dumbass comes and "corrects" you?
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This video gave me cancer.
gobbles said:
I recently saw “decimated” used in a somewhat formal, i.e. professional, context when the data itself was merely halved. I couldn’t tell if they were taking the piss, but I don’t think so.
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You can argue the word has morphed of having a large ratio of casualties, it's mainly a problem when someone use decimated when not a single person survived.

Thread tax, but in Hebrew. The phrase "The one who steals from a thief is excused", the missing part is "from paying the multiplier". The punishment for stealing is paying the cost of what you stole, but if you do it from someone who stole then you still need to return the item to its rightful owner.
 
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This video gave me cancer.
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Gonna be honest, I expected this reaction to be more common.

Bettina Levy is a tumblrite reading other Tumblrites... that said, she's based as far as that goes. There was a video she did recently called "Explaining Gendered Linguistics" which I almost didn't watch because I thought it was gonna be ranting about how much language is man-centric. It actually winds up with someone debunking that shit, pointing out that every word feminists think of as "male-centric" actually had nothing to do with gender at all.

(It actually didn't occur to me until just now that the linked video actually fits the topic, at least from a certain POV).
 
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"paradigm shift" - a critique of the scientific method that has been turned into a positive slogan used to sell shit.
 
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Rei is Shit. said:
"paradigm shift" - a critique of the scientific method that has been turned into a positive slogan used to sell shit.
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How was it "a critique of the scientific method?"

I always understood "Paradigm Shift" to mean that essentially, your entire outlook or thought process changes in relation to context or new information, or some such?
 
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The scientific method is supposed to integrate new information as its discovered, meaning that theory slowly evolves over time. In actuality scientist will stay wedded to whatever the pet theory of the day is, ignoring any contradictory experiments or observation by claiming instrument error, misinterpretation, ect. At some point the weight of all this contradictory evidence is so great that a new theory will be developed which the scientific establishment rapidly adopts, then the process repeats.
 
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skykiii said:
Bettina Levy is a tumblrite reading other Tumblrites... that said, she's based as far as that goes. There was a video she did recently called "Explaining Gendered Linguistics" which I almost didn't watch because I thought it was gonna be ranting about how much language is man-centric. It actually winds up with someone debunking that shit, pointing out that every word feminists think of as "male-centric" actually had nothing to do with gender at all.
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That shit was being made fun of as early as 2001 in Legally Blonde. One of the other girls at Harvard was some feminist who was handing out fliers for a "first ovester" event to protest le patriarchy. Because "semester" must mean semen.
 
People tossing around "The customer is always right" as some sort of rule that allows customers to be obnoxious and entitled to the point of absurdity

When you say the customer is always right, it's just an expression about meeting demand, not emboldening Shaniqua to get in the face of a random staff as if the establishment is her home

99% of the time i hear someone say THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT i expect some serious niggery
 
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souschef said:
People tossing around "The customer is always right" as some sort of rule that allows customers to be obnoxious and entitled to the point of absurdity

When you say the customer is always right, it's just an expression about meeting demand, not emboldening Shaniqua to get in the face of a random staff as if the establishment is her home

99% of the time i hear someone say THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT i expect some serious niggery
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Wasn't the original saying "the customer is always right... in the matter of taste".

Testacles Maximus said:
"Nice guys finish last."

The original quote was about a baseball team, not being an angry virgin.
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I think this is a transposition that fits very well, though. Like baseball, human coupling is fiercely competitive and being too kind and considerate can be a detriment.
 
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Lemmingwiser said:
Wasn't the original saying "the customer is always right... in the matter of taste".
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Yes it was. The original meaning was basically, "be happy the customer wants to buy something, even if what they're buying is something you think is stupid. That guy who just bought Scooby Doo Wrestlemania is still giving you money."
 
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