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Mr. Funk E. Dude ππ¨People confuse etymology with entomology all of the time.
I have no words for how much that bugs me.
DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!!!!
I already know that's a horrible pun.
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Ben Fulton@Mrfunkedude On the contrary. That reaches the level of Groucho Marx wordplay.
How does this old ass joke still have legs?
Ned Wilcox@Mrfunkedude It's a solid joke.
@Nedwilcox1 Thatβs why I brought it out of retirement. You should always honor the greats.
I write this 10 days ago and this old bad pun is still moving thru the fediverse.
Crazy.
Pamela Barroway β Biz Editor@Mrfunkedude Just fabulous! I love it here.
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@Mrfunkedude People confuse things that are so simple.
"I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"
All the misuse of your, yours and you're. And more that I can't think of now because I just woke up.
Like dude, I'm not a native speaker and I notice those instantly, and it pisses me off because in the care less example it's not even really a grammar thing, it's a simple logic problem. Could you or could you NOT care less? Because if you could then congrats, you do care.
This kind of mistakes is SO common that Weird Al made a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Now hopefully I didn't commit too many word crimes here because it would be ironic. But hey, if I did I have the non native speaker pass.
"I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"
All the misuse of your, yours and you're. And more that I can't think of now because I just woke up.
Like dude, I'm not a native speaker and I notice those instantly, and it pisses me off because in the care less example it's not even really a grammar thing, it's a simple logic problem. Could you or could you NOT care less? Because if you could then congrats, you do care.
This kind of mistakes is SO common that Weird Al made a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Now hopefully I didn't commit too many word crimes here because it would be ironic. But hey, if I did I have the non native speaker pass.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)
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ZΜoΓ©@Mrfunkedude the worst is when you accidentally summon the wrong superhero https://xkcd.com/1012
Zeem@uint8_t @Mrfunkedude I admit I didn't know the difference (or what either word meant in the first place tbh) but this comic illustrates it wonderfully
James Stanford ππ² π΄ π@Mrfunkedude I've been guilty of this! Imagine my embarrassment when I realised my mistake, but no one else who heard me use "entomology" in relation to the origin of words picked it up.
Marco van Burgsteden π@Mrfunkedude Especially at spelling bees.
Howard Chu @ Symas@Mrfunkedude you'd have to trace pretty far back into the past to figure out why it bugs you so much
Oum Eneti@Mrfunkedude entomology is a science, etymology is a private hobby, masquerading as science
Peter Kahnπ³οΈββ§οΈπΊπ¦π΅πΈπ³οΈβπ@Mrfunkedude or entemensology. The study and consumption of baked goods. Schstchruuudle for the win
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Karen E. Lund ππ@Mrfunkedude I have a BA in English. I know a naturalist at a local museum whose specialty is insects.
Now I'm thinking we should collaborate on a book about the origin of insect names...
The Etymology of Entomology!
Aleksei οΏ½ MatiushkinThe etiology says ethology might have an explanation of why is that.
RoarshackHow *dare* you.
Fish Head@Mrfunkedude
I need a way to follow EVERYONE who responded to this with yet more egregious puns.
Glad to be on masto!
I need a way to follow EVERYONE who responded to this with yet more egregious puns.
Glad to be on masto!
Allyson Williams β
@Mrfunkedude I know, right?
James Westman@Mrfunkedude As part of an interdisciplinary research project, an etymologist and an entomologist entered a spelling bee into a spelling bee.
Albert Cardona@Mrfunkedude Truly a semiotic concern and not a semitic one, and while semantics would help, it's not at all sematic ... quite the smite yet neither senile nor sinitic!
#riddle
#riddle
Afterpants@Mrfunkedude
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@Mrfunkedude Hahahaa. The fate of entomologists