I notice a lot of people using generally in place of genuinely. "I generally think that's the case" my Mrs does all the time, but she genuinely ain't gotta clue when it comes to grammar.
It was even used incorrectly in an advert, Citroen I think, about dancing robots, the man in the Citroen factory said "and with delicious irony, this ones doing the robot"
A robot dancing the robot is not ironic.
That bint who's name I can't spell wrote a whole song about irony in the 90's and most of what she calls ironic in the lyrics aren't ironic at all. I suppose that's ironic in itself.
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".
Agreed EA. Disinterested is impartial, whereas the consequence of uninterested is something being boring, uneventful etc. The nuance of the English language is important and worth preserving where possible.
'Dinner' when referring to lunch. Where were these people dragged up ?
As a youngster living in a good working class area, we had three meals a day, breakfast, dinner and tea. It was only when I was elevated above the status of my birth by going to a grammar school that I learnt about lunch.
BBC journos saying "the data is...." It's a plural word you fuckwits.
The same journos saying "different to" rather than "different from". I'd like to smash them over the head with a rubber mallet while shouting "similar to, different from, get it now moron?"
'Different to' is absolutely fine. Unless the Oxford Dictionary and Jane Austen are 'morons'.
Maybe, but it still grates. You'd never say "similar from" would you?
Anyway this is what the BBC style guide has to say on the matter:
Different
Say different from (rather than ‘different to’ or ‘different than’).
But then it says this about data:
Data
Strictly a plural - but follow common usage and treat it as a singular, taking a singular verb (eg: Data was collected across the country).
Which I just don't get. You'd never say Charlton play at a stadia so...
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Any time someone uses hyperbolic and extensive words when a simple one would suffice. (<- A good example of hypocrisy, NOT, as some believe, irony.)
I also find grating people that refer to a helicopter's 'propeller' instead of its rotor blades. Come on, people, they're clearly different.
People that pronounce it pro-NOUN-ciation: please stop using the English language at once.
Finally, any American-ism. That includes incorrectly spelling coloUr, valoUr, jewelLery, honoUr and tYre.
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".
Disaster
Fatal
Crucial
You get the point, exaggerations.
Get real.
OMG.
Nuff said.
To be fair
To be honest
You have got to be kidding me
U make me so horny Hun xxx
"I generally think that's the case" my Mrs does all the time, but she genuinely ain't gotta clue when it comes to grammar.
It was even used incorrectly in an advert, Citroen I think, about dancing robots, the man in the Citroen factory said "and with delicious irony, this ones doing the robot"
A robot dancing the robot is not ironic.
That bint who's name I can't spell wrote a whole song about irony in the 90's and most of what she calls ironic in the lyrics aren't ironic at all. I suppose that's ironic in itself.
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
Consider yourself corrected.
It's not a word. It's dissociated.