It's "bald-faced liar", not "bold-faced liar."

[Anonymous]

Or if you are asked how you are doing. You are doing well, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will continue to reply "good" instead of "well" in most cases when asked how I am. It is common usage, and well does out of place in casual interaction with strangers.

I will not only reply "well", but I will make sure to mention that L'Enfant (lahn-fahn) is doing well too.

And I will say forums forums forums all I want. Fora will never cross my dirty little lips.

[TheManWithAUsername]

Anonymous wrote:Or if you are asked how you are doing. You are doing well, thank you.

Hmm...yeah...though I think that question is technically ungrammatical.

[Anonymous]

Octopodes, or octopuses, never octopi.

[Anonymous]

When talking about postpartum depression, why do people insist on shortening it to just "postpartum"?? I hear it all the time. I even read it in a WP article on the subject. "Women affected by postpartum may have difficulty bonding..." or some such. We're ALL postpartum if we've just given birth, depressed or not! If you must shorten it, call it PPD.

[Anonymous]

I'm one of those people always messing up sayings. Why? Because they were created in a different era when the saying made sense, and it does not now.
I can never remember whether its cooking with oil or cooking with gas. You can cook with either - one is a what you cook the food in, the other, what you cook the food on. You can cook with either slow or fast.
"Bald-faced liar"? Is that to mean that the liar is expressionless so you can't tell its a lie?
There are a lot of sayings that are rarely read written, so the person hearing them may hear them incorrectly and form a mental picture of what the words are. Much like music lyrics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Moot point: A debatable question, an issue open to argument.

It DOES NOT mean a closed issue or a dead issue. I don't know how or when everyone started to use it to mean it's not worth talking about or it's over--it means exactly the opposite.

Also makes me nuts.

This is a dictionary definition. It also means irrelevant. It doesn't mean a closed issue, except apparently when you're talking about legal matters. That must be how it came to be used incorrectly in everyday language.

Yes. We use it as 'irrelevant' on a daily basis in my line of work. Say they cancel or delete something in a paper...then we say their arguments regarding those issues are 'moot'.

[Anonymous]

My pet peeve:

It's "diarrhea", people. Not "diarhhea (sp?)". Not "dirariah (sp?)"

It's really easy to remember. Can you spell diameter? diagonal? dia- means "through"

-rrhea means "flow". There's a double R and only one H

Got it? RRH

dia -- rrhea

Now you can spell gono- rrhea as well as logo-rrhea and ameno-rrhea

You will also see the RRH in words like hemo-rrhage and hemo-rrhoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve:

It's "diarrhea", people. Not "diarhhea (sp?)". Not "dirariah (sp?)"

It's really easy to remember. Can you spell diameter? diagonal? dia- means "through"

-rrhea means "flow". There's a double R and only one H

Got it? RRH

dia -- rrhea

Now you can spell gono- rrhea as well as logo-rrhea and ameno-rrhea

You will also see the RRH in words like hemo-rrhage and hemo-rrhoid.

*Prays to the longest hair on Jesus Christ's nutsack that this is satire*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You "set" foot, not "step" foot. As in, I will never again set foot in his house.

And, metro operators, it is redundant to say that we are approaching the "last and final" station. Next and final, I get. But last and final? That bugs me.

There is no way that I am reading through all the posts, so maybe this has been brought up. It is common in the English language to use two redundant phrases like that. It dates back to when the French were in England and it was the law (in official publication) to use the Anglo and the French word for things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve:

It's "diarrhea", people. Not "diarhhea (sp?)". Not "dirariah (sp?)"

It's really easy to remember. Can you spell diameter? diagonal? dia- means "through"

-rrhea means "flow". There's a double R and only one H

Got it? RRH

dia -- rrhea

Now you can spell gono- rrhea as well as logo-rrhea and ameno-rrhea

You will also see the RRH in words like hemo-rrhage and hemo-rrhoid.

*Prays to the longest hair on Jesus Christ's nutsack that this is satire*

love this - will use it!

[Anonymous]

Something tidy is well-kempt, not well-kept.

You pore over documents you are trying to understand and pour liquids.

The peak is what you reach when you climb a mountain, peek is what you do when you look quickly at something, and your curiosity is piqued by something or you are unhappy so you leave in a fit of pique.

[Anonymous]

'There is no way that I am reading through all the posts, so maybe this has been brought up. It is common in the English language to use two redundant phrases like that. It dates back to when the French were in England and it was the law (in official publication) to use the Anglo and the French word for things. "

Are you related to Cliff Claven?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Moot point: A debatable question, an issue open to argument.

It DOES NOT mean a closed issue or a dead issue. I don't know how or when everyone started to use it to mean it's not worth talking about or it's over--it means exactly the opposite.

Also makes me nuts.

This is a dictionary definition. It also means irrelevant. It doesn't mean a closed issue, except apparently when you're talking about legal matters. That must be how it came to be used incorrectly in everyday language.

Yes. We use it as 'irrelevant' on a daily basis in my line of work. Say they cancel or delete something in a paper...then we say their arguments regarding those issues are 'moot'.

But I think that might be "mute" note moot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But I think that might be "mute" note moot

No, "moot" is definitely the correct word for something irrelevant. I just checked Merriam Webster, and I see one definition of moot as "debatable," but I don't think I've ever actually heard it used that way. Indeed, the example M-W gives all relate to the irrelevant definition, rather than the debatable definition:

The court ruled that the issue is now moot because the people involved in the dispute have died.

I think they were wrong, but the point is moot. Their decision has been made and it can't be changed now.

Among the many advantages of legislation requiring a label was that it allowed the industry to insist—in court if necessary—that claims against the companies for negligence and deception were now moot. Every smoker would be repeatedly warned that “smoking may be hazardous to your health.” —Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century, 2007

And the question of delight shouldn't be moot. —Edward Hoagland, Harper's, June 2007

… a genuine Atlantic political culture might be the result—rendering the fears expressed in this article largely moot. —John O'Sullivan, National Review, 6 Dec. 1999