Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What is one saying or quote you always get wrong?

Comments

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

One that I have noticed being used wrong all the time although i dont use it myself is mainly from people in the US, they say "could care less" whereas it should be "couldn't care less". to say i could care less, means you actually care a little. whereas couldnt care less means you dont actually give a sh*t.

[avis-noctis.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've noticed this as well. Usually when I try to explain why they're misusing the phrase, people have no idea what I'm saying. -_-

[(Anonymous)]

Its obviously how they say it out there, every person from the US i speak to has used it. I gave up trying to explain lol

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I gave up correcting that one along with "Should of" rather than "should have"

heh

[empatia.livejournal.com]

It's not really a saying but I have always said to "unthaw"something in the microwave when really "unthaw" would be freezing it not defrosting it. I'm horrible for making up my own little words and then being completely shocked when no one understands what I mean.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Lyrics in general. That may be why I don't generally care about them.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Honestly, sometimes I could care less and sometimes I couldn't care less. Kind of careless of me, eh? I'm not bothered. HA!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

I actually used to screw up "on" and "in", but not for the reasons you might expect. I always thought cars were "on" lanes and not "in" their lanes because a car was "on" the road, ergo the car was also "on" the lane. What I couldn't grasp was that the car was within the boundries of the lane. FOr me it was just a logic issue.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Unthaw? LOL!

[pasticcio.livejournal.com]

I don't screw anything up 'cause I'm perfect don'tcha know?

I suck at punctuation though ...

Oh, and one thing that irks me is people who use "then" instead of "than".

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yep, that irks me too!

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

Something along the lines...

"If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, you have to marry a fat woman to be your wife".

I know its wrong, but its around the right way!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

Great one!

[gaia43.livejournal.com]

I also do that, only I say "dethaw" instead of "defrost"

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Dethaw?

:D

[pasticcio.livejournal.com]

More then what?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Just for that, I made this icon...

;)

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

I'm crap at punctuation. I tend to put commas where there doesn't need to be commas, I forget my full stops. I use to always say "should of" instead of "Should have" I find that I sometimes lapse into that way of talking. I generally worry the way I write is wrong.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any glaring grammatical errors... (I'm a closet grammar geek) :D

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

That's good! I worry I may write incorrectly at times. Or I use the word "things" to much because I cannot grasp the right word in my head that I want to use instead of "thing" and the word "and" I tend to use it a lot as well and I try not to.

It's the one thing I can't stand in people. I don't like internet talk.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I hate a lot of internet speak too! I even write text messages in proper English :D

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

Same here. I didn't always. I'll be the first to admit when it first came about that dropping letters from a word was the 'new craze' I jumped right on board and typed rubbish but then the more I spoke to people, the worse their typing became. To the point I couldn't understand what they were saying and then I realised that's how others must feel about mine! So I stopped.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Typos are one thing, but doing it on purpose causes me pain...