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Seán Fenian Nov 13

@benroyce And that French exclamation is spelled "Voila!" not "Wa la!"

And while we're speaking of French:

'Blue cheese' is English.
'Fromage bleu' is French.
'Bleu cheese' is pretentious.

@zakalwe

Juh nuh say qua

Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈Nov 13

@zakalwe @benroyce Up there with "chaise lounge"

Chuck Nov 13

@benroyce We should add these to "Word Crimes" 🙂

@benroyce One must hold the fort, not hold down the fort.

Furthermore, it's noteworthy when one couldn't care less. When one could care less, it hardly warrants remark.

@tealeg

Thank you

Keep people aware of when they misuse those expressions, hold down the fort

🤭

Farah 🖖🏼🧶🏳️‍🌈Nov 13

@benroyce @tealeg Only time you’re going to hold down the fort when it’s actually a tent and you’re 6

@farah @tealeg

yeah but when people tell me i can't do something i take it as a challenge, no matter how stupid

@farah @benroyce absolutely!

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Nov 13

@tealeg One thing to consider is that if you say "I could care less" you're describing a situation where your distaste is so great that the actual output is modified. You're saying, "I could find a way to hate this more."

@Gustodon If you could hate it more, that would indicate that you could also care more. Not that you could care less. "I could care less" is saying - I am emotionally engaged with this to at least a minimal degree.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Nov 13

@tealeg It works both ways because the emotional engagement can be anger or sadness.

It feels like you're more serious about this than I am so I'll back away with my palms showing, caring less.

@Gustodon Classy move. I make this protest with my tongue-in-cheek, but in truth I do judge people internally for such things. Just as I judge myself every time I make a typo in public.

Log 🪵Nov 13

@tealeg @benroyce Holding down the fort is still relevant in tornado country. A few steel straps bolted to the foundation usually does the trick. Nothing worse than having your fort picked up and dropped a few meters to the side.

@log @benroyce yes, but surely that would be "anchor the fort"? Unless you're a really heavy person, it's unlikely an attempt to "hold down the fort" is going to leave much of an impression on the tornado ;-)

Log 🪵Nov 13

@tealeg @benroyce You're correct, it's mainly the anchoring straps doing all the heavy unlifting.

Willem Janssen Nov 13

@log @tealeg @benroyce If it’s a small tornado yoy can button down the hatches.

Wendroid 🇺🇦Nov 13

@tealeg @benroyce Oops, guilty 😳

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Nov 13

@benroyce I just can no longer read, “Thank you for your attention,” without a slight cringe.

@darth_hideout

You have my thoughts and prayers 🤭

Bill Hooker Nov 13

@benroyce Oh, this is a slippery slope: the first two are facts, but the third is subject to the many ways in which a living language evolves DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE ARE FUCKING RIGHT.

Ahem. Carry on fighting the good fight, comrade.

@sennoma

That's good judgment

Or should I say good judgement?

🤭

Bill Hooker Nov 13

@benroyce I see what you did there. *twitch* *twitch*

IanMoore3000 Nov 13

@sennoma @benroyce I think with this one the idea that judgement and judgment are words with differing meanings is an affectation we can do away with.

@IanMoore3000 @sennoma

we colour and emphasise our words with different meanings 🤭

M.S. Bellows, Jr.Nov 13

@benroyce Also, it's spelled "whoa," not "woah."

@msbellows

woah!

🤭

M.S. Bellows, Jr.Nov 13

@benroyce Delete your etc.

acb Nov 13

@benroyce also, everyone should of known that by now

⚜ Δράκακηϛ 🍁Nov 13

@benroyce

And when you want to stop something before it starts, you nip it in the bud. Nipping it in the butt will just annoy it.

@drakakis @benroyce I heard someone on the radio this morning say that a certain difficult situation "doesn't leave a lot of jiggle room."

That gave me a giggle… so it at least leaves some giggle room.

John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️Nov 13

@ottaross @drakakis @benroyce it's hard twerk matching the budget to priorities

@johnefrancis @drakakis @benroyce lol

John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️Nov 13

@ottaross @drakakis @benroyce all I'm hearing from Champagne and Suckcliffe is how great their budgets are without pointing out how the details support it.

Performance, not reason. Actual twerking is a lot more honest IMHO 😅

Allen but one of the good ones Nov 13

@benroyce I have learned to forgive these little errors. After all, it's a doggy dog world out there...

@uastronomer 😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Nov 13

@uastronomer @benroyce

Eggcorn - Wikipedia

@darth_hideout @uastronomer

yes!

that and:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/

Like when the food hella good, you say bone apple tea, it's like french or some shit. • r/BoneAppleTea

*Like when the food hella good, you say bone apple tea, it's like french or some shit.* A Bone Apple Tea is the mistaken use of a **real,...

Allen but one of the good ones Nov 13

@benroyce @darth_hideout haha, that's a good one!

Sheldon Nov 13

@uastronomer my god this reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He'd use slang terms wrong in speech and email. One time he fell in love with saying "hard coated" when he actually meant "hard coded." I swear he went out of his way to say those two words for weeks.

One day he sent me an email with his favorite new term. I replied with correct usage of "hard coded" in context hoping that the lightbulb would light up, but instead he replied back immediately and used "hard coated" in an elaborate sentence to suggest that I made an error in usage.

@benroyce

@sysop408 @uastronomer

Seems like he had hard coated behavior

Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸Nov 13

@benroyce Attention to this matter in particular? That I can manage. Attentiveness in general is a pretty big ask.

@hakona

i'm sorry, could you repeat that? i wasn't paying attention 🤭

@benroyce oh oh - and while everyone is trying so desperately to use the word "exacerbate" lately for some unknown reason, please note that "exasperate" is a totally different word and "exasperate the situation" makes no sense.

#peeve #words

@ottaross

on that note, you do not tell someone in spanish you are very embarrassed by saying "estoy muy embarazado"

(it means "i am very pregnant")

don't ask me how i know

@benroyce lol - second language challenges - oi 😜

Dave Nathanson Nov 13

@benroyce @ottaross My father misused “embarazado” once and the ensuing laughter defused a situation where men were pointing guns at him.

It did not diffuse the situation, it defused it.

[He was in a location he wasn’t supposed to be and didn’t realize it.]

@D_J_Nathanson @ottaross

Damn!

Farah 🖖🏼🧶🏳️‍🌈Nov 13

@benroyce Also may I add, you call in the cavalry, not the calvary!

I’m still miffed about the one line from Captain Pike on Discovery

@farah

bad subtitles? in my imported pirated media?

🇺🇦 Johnydon

he/him Nov 13

@benroyce
A bad one I like: each day is better than the next. Made famous in "Something about Mary".

Lea Nov 13

@Johny28 @benroyce
But that's true these days.

@leadore @Johny28

the problem with mountains is that there are also valleys

Face Thumb Nov 14

@benroyce @leadore @Johny28 No one ever sings, "🎶 Climb every valley! 🎶 ". It just doesn't make sense.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Nov 14

@chrisp @leadore @Johny28

if there were no valleys, there'd be no edelweiss

SteveJB has moved Nov 14

@benroyce @chrisp @leadore @Johny28 Can I just say that there is only one "L" in the word "Album"? Please?

Veronica Olsen Nov 13

@benroyce I'm sitting here nodding while I drink my "expresso".

@veronica

well you wanted it fast, i don't know what the problem is 🤭

Willem Janssen Nov 13

@benroyce @veronica It’s not as wrong as I thought it was. It’s a decent translation.
(Also, ordering an espresso in Italy doesn’t work. It’s just a caffè apparently.)