[quote]folly wrote:
Alot (A LOT) is one of the ones that gets me. [/quote]
Yes, alot (sic) of people do not know how to spell a lot…And yes I abuse the ellipsis ‘alot’ when posting on forums when I do not articulate my complete thought…
Good post, but sick is spelled with a “k” on the end. dum ass.
[quote]xjayx300 wrote:
folly wrote:
Alot (A LOT) is one of the ones that gets me.
Yes, alot (sic) of people do not know how to spell a lot…And yes I abuse the ellipsis ‘alot’ when posting on forums when I do not articulate my complete thought…[/quote]
Is this thread DONE yet?
DB
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
Is this thread DONE yet?
DB[/quote]
NO
“Loose one turn” -Jump to Conclusions board, Office Space
[quote]NealRaymond2 wrote:
I think most people who say “I could care less” think of it as “I care less (than anyone who cares)” with “could” added in as a filler word because it is part of the standard phrase.[/quote]
I would agree with this if I hadn’t heard it correctly until about the mid-1980’s. I think it is just that 1) people will tend to make things easier to pronounce out of laziness (i.e.; “noo-kyu-ler” is easier to say than “noo-clee-er”), thus the “n’t” is dropped, and 2) people parrot a catch phrase with a vague idea of its meaning, but don’t take the time to look at the words they are saying to see if it makes any sense or not.
[quote]The “not” confuses them because they do not reason the phrase to its logical conclusion using “could” as a meaningful word. To put it another way: “I blabbedy-blah-filler-word care less” seems more logical to them than “I blabbedy-blah-filler-word not care less”.
Most of the people who use the phrase without the “not” know what “could” means, and are capable of figuring out which version is really more logical if they made the effort.[/quote]
Yes, my friend, the key word being “if”, LOL! But, as I’ve stated earlier, I usually get blank stares when laying it out to people, so maybe you’re giving them too much credit.
[quote]But bear in mind that the original phrase is a clever play on words, with no sexual innuendo, and no money for getting it right. The kind of thing that amused people in a bygone era, but bores the hell out of them today.
Now, you are correct that “taking a s–t”, when one is actually “leaving a s–t” is saying the opposite of what it means, I’ll give you that.
Hmmm… I still wonder how “take a shit” got worked in to our vernacular. Should make for an interesting research project.
I would bet that “take a s–t” originated as an analogy to “take a bath” or “take a nap”. The “s–t” in the phrase is not the fecal matter, but the action or process of expelling the fecal matter.
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Jolly good theorizing, old bean!
[quote]NealRaymond2 wrote:
I am not sure if it is standard and proper; but there is no doubt in my mind that leaving one space before and one space after an ellipsis is logical when the ellipsis is used to show that words were left out of the middle of a sentence.
“I am not sure if it is standard … but … leaving one space before and one space after an ellipsis is logical when the ellipsis is used to show that words were left out of the middle of a sentence.”[/quote]
Logical for internet speak, perhaps, but would get you hung if writing an MLA format paper (in which two spaces is standard to seperate sentences, which an ellipsis always indicates the end of) or any kind of writing for publication.
I had a Lit minor in college and spent some time as the editor of the school paper, so I got this stuff beat into me pretty soundly.
[quote]helga wrote:
Apparently it started out as Alumium then went to Aluminum but some (British) tight arse thought that Aluminium sounded better:
'In 1808, Humphry Davy originally proposed the name alumium while trying to isolate the new metal electrolytically from the mineral alumina. In 1812, he changed the name to aluminum to match its Latin root. The same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium.
Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound. (Q. Review VIII. 72, 1812)’
I have done a quick search of periodic tables and some list it as Aluminum and some list as Aluminium.[/quote]
Interesting shit! Thanks, Helga! I learn something new here all the time.
Psst… Kuz… I think you need to “halve” it before you can “loose” it… (ducking)
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
A well thought out argument that made sense and I appreciate. Something I wish more people here would do.[/quote]
Wow, thanks. I guess now is as good a time as any to apologize for our first exchange lo, those many moons ago. I can be a real stubborn ass when in “pissing-contest” mode. Glad you can recognize that’s not my only side.
[quote]You made a lot of sense and I can definitely see where you’re coming from, but I still disagree that that the phrase is “wrong.”
You talk about saying the opposite of what you mean, which in this case, I believe is sarcasm. I didn’t mention sarcasm here, but have in the past, and I really believe what this phrase is all about. I don’t know how the phrase originated, but I think sarcasm alone keeps it from being “incorrect.”[/quote]
Hmm… I think you’re giving way too much credit to the mouth-breathing masses for being able to knowingly use sarcasm correctly. Potato, potahto…
[quote]Also, another poster described a nice explanation on where “taking a shit” may have come from. Shit – as in the acion, not the fecal matter. Much like taking a bath, or taking a break. I can see that.
Finally, fosbury flop is a term for a way of jumping over the bar in the sport of high jumping. It was named after Dick Fosbury when he tried an unconventional way of high jumping.[/quote]
Oh, LOL! I was picturing some kind of well-dressed butler jumping into your tub (“I say, Fosbury, stop all this flopping about rubbish!”). Thanks for clearing that up. That’s two new things I learned today.
Ya know what pisses me off? Grammar Nazis. My favorite is when someone offers up an argument, and instead of refuting the point, they just point out someone’s typo. As if that somehow proved them conclusively correct.
You got something lodged so far up your ass I bet you can’t even walk straight.
[quote]vroom wrote:
Psst… Kuz… I think you need to “halve” it before you can “loose” it… (ducking)[/quote]
LOL! Nicely done, vroomy. tips hat
[quote]etaco wrote:
I agree. Things have gotten rediculous.[/quote]
I can’t get enough of this one. It’s ridiculous - as in deserving of ridicule, not diculous again…Shits me like you would not believe.
Although now would be a good time to define diculous. Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll be doing it again later.
[quote]PhDeviant wrote:
etaco wrote:
I agree. Things have gotten rediculous.
I can’t get enough of this one. It’s ridiculous - as in deserving of ridicule, not diculous again…Shits me like you would not believe.
Although now would be a good time to define diculous. Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll be doing it again later.[/quote]
From Urbandictionary.com
- diculous
a word that makes sence
“thats just diculous enough to work”
[quote]Neebone wrote:
PhDeviant wrote:
Although now would be a good time to define diculous. Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll be doing it again later.
From Urbandictionary.com
- diculous
a word that makes sence
“thats just diculous enough to work”[/quote]
No, no, no… a diculous is that lone, stray hair that sometimes gets cemented to the tip of your rod, quite efficiently splitting your stream along three highly divergent paths, none of which (of course) coming anywhere near the bowl. One hits the side of the bathtub; the other soaks the TP roll; the other hits the wall to the left, behind the toilet. Usually happens at 2:30am, when sleepiness, and the throbbing half-boner already make aiming difficult.
You (in the bathroom): “GodDAMNIT!!”
Girlfriend (in the bedroom; startled awake): “hu-wha? What is it?”
You: “It’s fucking REDICULOUS, that’s what it is. Fuck!”
GF: “Wha-? Oh. That, again. Well, you better clean that shit up, dude! You missed a spot last time. I get stuck doin’ it again, and I’ll kick your ass! Then you’ll know the meaning of ridiculous.”
[quote]PhDeviant wrote:
etaco wrote:
I agree. Things have gotten rediculous.
I can’t get enough of this one. It’s ridiculous - as in deserving of ridicule, not diculous again…Shits me like you would not believe.
Although now would be a good time to define diculous. Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll be doing it again later.[/quote]
Diculous almost sounds like it could be the name of a superhero that does good deeds with his super-powered penis.