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Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
In American English:
I left them know
I'm just leaving you know
No, no, a thousand times no!
You LET them know. You're just LETTING me know.
Also, they were driving and hit the breaks. Their car needed new break pads.
Just letting y'all know, it's BRAKES that stop a vehicle.
If the vehicle breaks, it'll stop, but that's not the system built into the car that makes it stop on purpose at the press of a pedal.
I don't do it that much anymore as I learned to enjoy the freedom of using language, but I recently watched a miniminuteman video where he says pause for concern. which kinda makes sense so it's an eggcorn: something that would cause concern would hopefully also make one pause for a moment.
apparently this is a commonly misheard phrase though this was the first time I heard someone say it.
Can someone explain DEI and Affirmative action? 99% sure the right is using it wrong, but I live in a red state.
DEI is a catch-all term. It could be part of a marketing strategy, or it could be part of company culture. It's generally bullshit virtue signalling in the case of retailers like Target. It's good to have feedback and ideas from different cultures especially in a global marketplace. It includes both people of different races and culture like LGBTQ.
Affirmative action was policies of hiring a certain percentage of poc or women and ignoring white candidates with higher qualifications. It was an attempt to make up for systemic oppression. Places like colleges still try to balance student numbers by race, even limiting races like Asians because they would be over represented.
i feel like we should be able to beat the living shit out of people intentionally spreading political misinformation.
Like im sorry, this may not meet instance rules, or whatever, but like, holy fuck, the amount of shit you can just lie about, without people asking question, kneecaps should've happened years ago, what the fuck are we doing bro.
"per say" vs "per se"
Also, the way most people use "per se" and "it begs the question" drives me crazy.
"Seen".
Holy fuck, "seen".
I honestly think that using this word incorrectly has gotten worse over the last few years. Hearing someone say, "yeah, I seen her yesterday" just makes me want to punch the wall.
I guess people forget that it needs a "helping verb". Just having "have seen" in that sentence would fix it.
I'm still confused that reckless driving causes wrecks.
This is a good one.
This is what is called a lonely negative. It's where we only have the negative version of a word. This could be because the original word fell out of use or we stole the negative word from another language without stealing the positive.
"Reck" meant something like "care" - it has nothing to do with "wreck".
Another good example is "disgust," which we got from French. Anyone familiar with French, Italian or Spanish will probably recognize the verb "gustar" (or something similar).
Idk if this counts as a phrase, but on the internet, people talk about their pets crossing the rainbow bridge when they die. That's not how the rainbow bridge poem goes. Pets go to a magnificent field when they die. They are healed of all injury and illness. When you die, they find you in the field and you cross the bridge together. It's much sweeter the way it was written than the way people use it.
On the US one thing is different from another, not than. One thing differs from another. It's different from the other thing.
Although in the UK it's "different to" for some reason.
I always thought it was "this differs from that" and "it's different than that".
Even outside the US, I think from is more common.
