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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 10:58:10 GMT -5
I've argued about "literally" as metaphor with my kids, particularly my youngest. We have had to agree to disagree. I accept that language changes over time. I'm not willing to accept that it changes to an extent it completely abrogates the meaning of the word. Then you won't want to hear that "inflammable" and "flammable" have the same meaning. That has made such a negative impact on me.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 9, 2020 11:10:12 GMT -5
Then you won't want to hear that "inflammable" and "flammable" have the same meaning. That has made such a negative impact on me. The fact that flammable and inflammable have the same meaning is just proof that English is a nonsense language that is just making it up as it goes along.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 11:22:56 GMT -5
Then you won't want to hear that "inflammable" and "flammable" have the same meaning. That has made such a negative impact on me. The fact that flammable and inflammable have the same meaning is just proof that English is a nonsense language that is just making it up as it goes along. Which, I have to admit, is part of the attraction. It's the absence of logic more than the adaptability of the language that annoys me. Or should I say, aggravates me? :/
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 9, 2020 11:31:56 GMT -5
Then you won't want to hear that "inflammable" and "flammable" have the same meaning. That has made such a negative impact on me. The fact that flammable and inflammable have the same meaning is just proof that English is a nonsense language that is just making it up as it goes along. "Oversight" is a favorite of mine. It means the action of supervising something AND the failure to supervise something.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 9, 2020 11:32:14 GMT -5
The most recent language error that surprised me was seeing people use "ancestor" and "descendant" interchangeably, as if they were synonyms. I've seen it several times in the last few years, and it always makes me literally shake my head. Yes, literally.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 9, 2020 11:58:13 GMT -5
I like to keep things simple... we all come from four bears.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 12:00:34 GMT -5
The most recent language error that surprised me was seeing people use "ancestor" and "descendant" interchangeably, as if they were synonyms. I've seen it several times in the last few years, and it always makes me literally shake my head. Yes, literally. Hadn't heard this one, but why am I not surprised?
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 12:01:34 GMT -5
The fact that flammable and inflammable have the same meaning is just proof that English is a nonsense language that is just making it up as it goes along. "Oversight" is a favorite of mine. It means the action of supervising something AND the failure to supervise something. I guess we cleave to the meaning we prefer.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 9, 2020 12:11:23 GMT -5
I guess we cleave to the meaning we prefer. Ooo, that's a good one!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 12:15:13 GMT -5
I guess we cleave to the meaning we prefer. Ooo, that's a good one! I live to serve.
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Post by impulse on Jul 9, 2020 12:36:04 GMT -5
The last couple pages of this thread have been the most absolutely enraging posts in the history of the CCF. Yes, even worse then the Politics threads. You monsters. There, I said it! Wait, wrong thread... I'm so distraught I don't know where I am. Your all driving me crazy.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 9, 2020 12:47:31 GMT -5
My BF named his backing musicians The Infamous Loosers on posters and CDs, but on purpose. It was a loose line-up of who was willing and able often dependent on location, so there were different Loosers in Northern California than from further north.
Someone should start a group named just So, and before they perform one can come up to the mic and say "So..." and then they launch into a number. It seems to have become a thing for many people to start sentences that way and I don't remember hearing it at all a couple of decades back.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 12:52:54 GMT -5
The last couple pages of this thread have been the most absolutely enraging posts in the history of the CCF. Yes, even worse then the Politics threads. You monsters. There, I said it! Wait, wrong thread... I'm so distraught I don't know where I am. Your all driving me crazy. Now you know to not take your sanity for granite. (yes, I've seen that one multiple times.)
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 9, 2020 12:56:06 GMT -5
The last couple pages of this thread have been the most absolutely enraging posts in the history of the CCF. Yes, even worse then the Politics threads. You monsters. There, I said it! Wait, wrong thread... I'm so distraught I don't know where I am. Your all driving me crazy. I should of posted a alert.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 14:21:25 GMT -5
On language, I detest that “bimonthly” can mean twice a month or every two months. So if a publisher announces their schedule is shifting to bimonthly, what am I supposed to think? Grrr...
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