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Old 10-11-2011, 1:29pm   #1
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Default Misused words that drive you crazy...

The girl in the office beside me continuously uses the word "whenever" instead of the word "when."

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"Whenever I was driving to work this morning, there was a lot of traffic."

I never knew how often the word "when" was used in conversation until I had to listen to her. I am not a grammar Nazi and I am FAR from perfect in the way I speak but I think I have already heard it about 50 times today and if I hear it again I might have an aneurysm.
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Old 10-11-2011, 1:38pm   #2
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You welcome or ax as in let me ax you something are two that I hear all the time and it drives me nuts. It does no good to try to correct them as they don't get it. You can show and tell people things but you can't understand it for them.
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Old 10-11-2011, 1:45pm   #3
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Let me ax y'all sumthin: Whenever you drivin to work in the mourning, ain't there a lots of traffic? I just don't see how she was wrong. You welcome.
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You welcome...
If you open up that can of worms you can include the modern conjugation of "to be."

I be...

He/She be...

It be...

We be...

You be...

They be...


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Old 10-11-2011, 1:47pm   #5
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seen. Like when someone says, "I seen her."

I saw her. We have seen her.
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Oh shit, let me see.




Watch as in "watch'ya doin'?"

Warsh. I am going to warsh my car.
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Old 10-11-2011, 1:56pm   #7
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Warsh. I am going to warsh my car.
One that my dad uses all the time... and I laugh at him every time.
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Old 10-11-2011, 2:17pm   #8
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Borrowed instead of loaned. "I borrowed him my car." Makes the user sound dumber than just about anything else a person could possibly say.
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When someone uses "irregardless" in our board meetings.

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The prefix ir- (i-r) is a negative prefix, so if you add the prefix ir to a word that's already negative like regardless, you're making a double-negative word that literally means “without without regard.”
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How about a phrase? "I could care less". I always respond "Then do."
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A Texican statement-I'm fixin' to go get it.
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"irregardless"
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Old 10-11-2011, 2:59pm   #13
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Non-verbs used as verbs.
The traffic heavys up as you approach the 101 freeway.
Yes, I actually heard that sentence uttered by a professional broadcaster on the radio.
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BUTT all yawl can ASSume dat I kan make a englush teecher skreem wit pain in a bunch a good daze....

I 2 can tipe fyne wit de best of dem.....

I can dangle my party nipple too, wanna SEA???

I too went four for ears of remidial englush in great skool too, so after awl dat edjumakshum in englush I no I no too much abut the subjekt to be ASStounded at wut U awl say.....

Crapisch??



And so we Stomp/Fart==Stomp/Fart Right on the Fuehrers Face......

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seen. Like when someone says, "I seen her."

I saw her. We have seen her.
That's the one I was gonna post.
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Old 10-11-2011, 3:10pm   #16
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"irregardless"
And that's the other one.
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How about a phrase? "I could care less". I always respond "Then do."
I always ask "how much less?". Confuses them.

Bugs me when people say "anymore" in the present or future tense.
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Drug as the past tense of drag. "I drug it down the hill when it became to heavy to carry."
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It's a dangerous thing to do in a room full of writers and copy editors.

3-4 of them will call out and correct the person.....
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Disrespected.

He disrespected me.

Yeah, well I want to kill you for saying that so STFU.
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