another whottt do you really hate? thread

[ashbeeigh]

People who say cool beans.

This movie is so bad it's good.

[DarkReign]

People who don't know that a lot is two words.

1. Allot is a verb that means to distribute, to assign a portion, or to divide.
Example: The instructor allotted me 20 minutes to take the test.
Example: They allotted six square feet per family.

2. Alot means nothing because it is not a word in the English language and therefore should not to be used.

3. A lot (two words) is an informal phrase meaning a large portion or large quan y of something. According to what I read it is proper to use “a lot” when describing non-countable quan ies such as water, sand, ice, or time. The word “many” should be used when describing countable items such as hours, people, or books. I doubt I will be able to change my usage, “He has many books” does not carry the same meaning to me as “He has a lot of books”.
Example: A lot of water has passed under the bridge.
Example: I don’t have a lot of time to make amends.

Check my post history and youll find I was guilty of this misconception until about a year ago. Who knew?

I also refuse to use apostrophes unless the contraction will make the word confusing ex. Well and We'll. I dont know how to type, I use 5 fingers to type and they dont find themselves too often in or around the apostrophe.

[Kermit]

People who don't know that a lot is two words.

1. Allot is a verb that means to distribute, to assign a portion, or to divide.
Example: The instructor allotted me 20 minutes to take the test.
Example: They allotted six square feet per family.

2. Alot means nothing because it is not a word in the English language and therefore should not to be used.

3. A lot (two words) is an informal phrase meaning a large portion or large quan y of something. According to what I read it is proper to use “a lot” when describing non-countable quan ies such as water, sand, ice, or time. The word “many” should be used when describing countable items such as hours, people, or books. I doubt I will be able to change my usage, “He has many books” does not carry the same meaning to me as “He has a lot of books”.
Example: A lot of water has passed under the bridge.
Example: I don’t have a lot of time to make amends.

your/you're

I used to think that people were just ing with the english language, but the more I encountered this abomination, the more I started to believe that people nowadays are just re ed.

[Dex]

your/you're

I used to think that people were just ing with the english language, but the more I encountered this abomination, the more I started to believe that people nowadays are just re ed.

I think 'your' absolutely right.

[=RTM=]

your/you're

I used to think that people were just ing with the english language, but the more I encountered this abomination, the more I started to believe that people nowadays are just re ed.

[DarkReign]

I cant stop laughing at Grammar Time.

[DarkReign]

...pathetic, I know.

[JoeChalupa]

[Xylus]

Grammar Time is hilarious.


Oh, I cannot stand when someone says the word "irregardless."

[CuckingFunt]

WTF is that???? Some epicurean looking mom is going to the trouble to make a fresh, healthy meal in an extremely nice looking kitchen and her ing ginger asshole kid, who's not culturally aware enough to pronounce two ll's as a y, starts ing and she just immediately caves and gets him pizza? I agree 100% with whoever brought that commercial up. Sickening. It's everything that's wrong with America compressed into a 30 second clip.

She doesn't technically cave. Caving in would imply that she put up some sort of resistance to begin with. All she does is give that stupid W.A.S.P. "boys will be boys" eyeroll and start dialing for crappy pizza.

That commercial has angered me far more than it ought to.

[CuckingFunt]

Since we're on grammar:

"I could care less."

[Summers]

Grammar Time is hilarious.


Oh, I cannot stand when someone says the word "irregardless."

I hate that non-word too!!

I had to look up "brosef". Never heard it.

People always misuse "his/her" and "their". One is singular. One is plural. And confusing "me" and "I", as in "He gave Jim and I a TV for Christmas".

[DarkReign]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

...because I had the "Irregardless is not a word" argument recently and my dbag friend pulled up merriam webster.

Yeah, its more based on dialect, yeah its less than 100 years old and only used in speech, but it is most certainly a word, unfortunately.

I frickin hate being wrong.

[Xylus]

Irregardless can technically be considered a word, but it doesn't make any sense. It's a double-negative. If "regardless" means "without regard," then "irregardless" means "with regard" or "without no regard."

[JoeChalupa]

It makes sense if you don't over analyze it. You know what they mean.

[Xylus]

It makes sense if you don't over analyze it. You know what they mean.

Without analyzing it for more than 2 seconds, though, it's obvious that it means the opposite of what people use it for.

Same with "I could care less." Means the opposite of the intended meaning.

[CuckingFunt]

it's a perfectly cromulous word

Cromulent.

But, nice reference.

[PixelPusher]

Cromulent.

But, nice reference.

Is it "imbiggens" or "inbiggens"?

[balli]

Since I just caught 15 seconds of it on American Idol- Whole Lotta Love a la Led Zeppelin.

Used to be a HUGE Zep fan (and still am to the extant that people over 20 can be) but that song right in the ear hole. Black Dog too. Everything else they did-

[CuckingFunt]

Is it "imbiggens" or "inbiggens"?

Embiggens, I believe.

"A noble heart embiggens the smallest man."

[Calvin]

[marini martini]

This thread discombobulates my mind!!!

[mrsmaalox]

This thread discombobulates my mind!!!

That's Marini with "discombobulate" for 25 cents folks!

[balli]

Dudes who don't know how to move heavy furniture. I went to help my richer friend move about a year ago and he and his brother were trying to move heavy ass dressers and by picking them up from the top, like a half an inch from the ground and shuffling their feet.

Be a man, bend your knees, lift that up, and walk. How you go your whole richer life without ever carrying anything correctly is beyond me.

[DarkReign]

This thread discombobulates my mind!!!

That's Marini with "discombobulate" for 25 cents folks!

I believe marini was making a Calvin&Hobbes reference.