To think sometimes people use words without fully understanding them?

Ps I believe dictionaries have been updated to include an informal version of literally - which is used for emphasis and is defined as actually.

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Did your last thread not go how you intended? What is happening in Gaza right now meets the definition of 'genocide'."

"You are ascribing intention where there was none.

As horrifying as the apparent death toll is, it is nowhere near the horrifying toll on Jews, Romas, and other 'undesirables' in Nazi Germany or Tutsis in Rwanda, so not at the level of genocide in my opinion."

So anything under 6 million doesn't qualify as genocide in your opinion, lol.
Who's not understanding the definition now.

This has to be a wind up. So I'll skip off. I don't play like to play with trolls.

Infer Vs imply

Alternate Vs alternative

Basically anything that has a verb and a noun version, so off the top of my head: quote vs quotation, invite vs invitation, license vs licence.

Not so much words as grammar:
My husband spoke to my sister and I
The dog bit my friend and I

I think that last one may be called hyper - correction. The person saying it has heard that you shouldn't say 'My friend and me went to the shops', so they correctly say 'My friend and I...' but then apply this rule to all sentences, including those where they're the object of the verb.

Sorry. Grammar enthusiast here, not nazi though because I don't correct people. I quietly seethe, and if I'm honest, I do consider myself to be a bit superior. Just a bit.

No I'm not.

Do you mean like 'flobadob'?

They sanitised it by saying that they had no problem with Jewish people and wanted land.

But I'm not arguing the toss about Hamas.

Literally works great as an intensifier
It does now.

and it's been used in this way since literally forever.
That's literally false.

Anyone who feigns exasperation at it
I, for one, am not exasperated about it, let alone 'feigning exasperation'. Far from it. People are having a discussion.

is just looking for things to feel superior about in my opinion.
Your opinion on this is literally ridiculous. It means everyone posting on this thread, including the OP, is feigning exasperation and "just looking for things to feel superior about". This is literally the theme of the thread. Perhaps, you're exasperated at this instead.

It was changed in 2017 but you know that, right.

Literally works great as an intensifier and it's been used in this way since literally forever. Anyone who feigns exasperation at it is just looking for things to feel superior about in my opinion.

Mine are

Nonplussed
Disinterested
Infer

I know what you mean. Some of my bugbears are:

Disengenuous
Denial
Mental gymnastics
Incredulity

Nope

People muddle up mortified and horrified quite often.
They are use humbled when they mean something quite different e.g it was so humbling to win a huge away.

Self published (self edited) books are the worst!!

I'm not sure why but the one that always really annoys me is "ambivalent".

I see and hear people using it a lot when they mean "nonchalant, apathetic etc" when it doesn't mean that at all.

In a book I downloaded onto my Kindle, characters kept smiling or looking lecherously at one another.

I think the author thinks it's a fancy word for unpleasant.

I hear a lot of exasperated when people mean exacerbated. Drives me nuts. 🙃

So many of these are derived from Latin. I’m thankful for a very academic education where I studied Latin for 5 years- helps enormously with English.

Literally is literally. It's not (to be) used metaphorically. I'm not sure what the argument is here. You can say you died or died of embarrassment and that's fine - you're not saying that you're literally dead. You can say you're literally extremely embarrassed, that's fine too, but you cannot say you "literally died" or "literally died of embarrassment" (and still be literally alive).

It's a turn of phrase people have misused so much it's accepted because it's understood but it doesn't make it grammatically correct.