No, that's not how it goes! Grahh!!!
Are there any sayings that people always use wrong and it drives you batty? Either the saying itself is mis-stated or they use it regarding the wrong place or situation?
The one that drive me nuts is when people say, "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Oh, really? Last time I checked, everyone has their cake and then eats it. It's supposed to go, "You can't eat your cake and have it too." You can't eat it and then somehow have it magically reappear.
GRAHH!!!
I have never ever ever ever heard it the way you said it. The idea of possessing the cake is a long term action. Like you can either have your cake in front of you and look at it and see how pretty and smell how good it is, or you can eat it and taste how good it is, but not the two at the same time. The order doesn't really matter with that phrase. Superficially it might seem that way, but if you work with the idea that you aren't working with a certain chronology, it makes the utmost sense.
I had a pet peeve when i was among people who said it that they would say 'ideal' instead of 'idea' but it's gone away since I am not around people that say it.
It really annoys me when people say could of/would of/should of instead of could have/would have/should have. I know it may sound like 'of' when you're speaking, but it should be written properly.
Kinda guilty. I say Should've but in a way that sounds like should of. I don't write it like that at least :xOriginally Posted by Mr. Burns
Precisely what I was going to post.
I say it and write it correctly thankfully =]
what drives me crazy is their/there/they're and you're/your. People do it wrong SO MUCH and I do it wrong sometimes and it drives me CRAZY!!!
"Literally." That's the worst one ever.
"I literally died of laughter!" "I literally puked my guts out!"
It's the strongest argument for controlled breeding I can think of.
"It's a glitch!"
No it is not, you did something stupid. Is it just me or does common since not kick in as much as it should. Just earlier I was somewhere else and someone wanted to know where their sword skills went after they started using an axe. Of course instead of putting two and two together they said it was a glitch. And a while ago it was something like, "The desert is glitched!!!! He runs slow in the quicksand!!!!!!"
Literally can be used well, but not in those instances. There's times where literally should be used.
Ex:
One time my friend kept slapping me till I just started crackin' up. I'd tell that story, "I was literally slapped silly."
You just showed how exaggeration could suck. :P
Typing glitch?
"I could care less"
huh?
...for all intensive purposes.
Umm...no I did that on purposeTyping glitch?
That's usually sarcasm.
No, it's supposed to be "I couldn't care less". Using "could" doesn't make sense.
People really need to learn how to appropriately use apostrophe's.
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