Commonly misunderstood phrases that annoy you

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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There's an old article from 1939 where a journalist criticizes the saying. He believed that it was responsible for a growing number of customer entitlement and "undue bullying, of clerks, waiters, and others."

https://archive.org/details/east-liverpool-review-1939-03-07/page/n3/mode/2up

If only he knew how bad things would get.
 
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"Nonplussed" has become one of those special words retards like to use so they can sound smart, and often use it in the opposite way of its definition.

It's supposed to mean "surprised to the point of being unable to react to something", not "unfazed" or "not surprised". Doesn't help that dictionaries now include the opposite "wrong" meaning as an "informal definition", so when retards get pressed at using the word wrong they become uppity niggers about it.
 
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Not sure if this counts, but I fucking despise it when couples say "we're pregnant".

I'd argue it does count, because those who say it demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of what the word 'pregnant' means.
 
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Garina'sVengeance said:
Modern American society's apparent inability to voice the possessive.

"Shaniqua car got stole"
"DeWayne house got robbed"
"LaFlasha ass got bust"
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Isn't that various Cornwall and irish dialects that was adapted by african americans? As well as scottish where things like "he done told me" came from.
 
Arbiter said:
"Survival of the fittest"

Almost always used incorrectly and misunderstood. People misunderstand evolution in general.
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Evolutionary fitness just implies you've reproduced and those children survived to adulthood. Seriously, by the standards of old, black women are the most fit people on the planet.
 
"Exponentially"
Literally refers to a kind of growth with a number raised to an exponent. As such, it tends to start off very small and growing slowly, and then begins growing bigger and faster.

I see people say "exponentially bigger than" to say something is much larger than something else. "An airplane is exponentially bigger than a paper airplane."

10 squared is 100, but 1/2 squared is 1/4.
 
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