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Wallah! It's the first time I've seen voilà written this way. But when I think about it, it seems like a really obvious thing to do so I wonder how common it is.
Is it a "thing" that I've just missed before now?

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@Whattheduck

I read a Facebook post yesterday where somebody had put “it fell on death ears”

Or maybe it's a new twist on an old metaphor and she intended it so?

Really what we are talking about is people showing their personality via creative use of language🙂
It might be bad spag but it's art🙃

I always see 'rediculous'. They must say it was RED not RID. At this point I assume their auto correct says 'fuck it, you do you.'

What I don't understand is when somebody has a mangled version of a saying in their head, like 'popcorn kettle black' - how on earth does that make sense to them? What do they think it means?

Christ, you'd have to be so thick.

@Florabritannica

I could really use a fat accomplice though.

You say that but for me the word accomplice conjures up a thin wiry person, someone who can climb in through small windows break in through the chimney etc Then again there must be situations where it is advantageous if one's compadre is on the portly side!

Also when people say pacific rather than specific.

Two very very different things.

@bringincrazyback

One I've spotted frequently in Amazon book reviews is 'I will defiantly be buying the sequel'... sounds like they're talking about something that's been banned.

Haha, I’ve seen that too!

Some of these are very sweet

@SecondCityShark

What I don't understand is when somebody has a mangled version of a saying in their head, like 'popcorn kettle black' - how on earth does that make sense to them? What do they think it means?

Christ, you'd have to be so thick.

Not necessarily. I say ‘don’t teach me to suck eggs’ when I’m being patronised but I have no idea what it means (as in the etymology of it.) I’m just parroting what I’ve heard.

I’m not thick, I have a degree in English and draft documents for a living. I just haven’t got around to Googling every saying I’ve heard.

But @stackemhigh “Don’t teach me how to suck eggs” at least makes sense as a sentence, and you can imagine that there must be some story behind it; popcorn kettle black, on the other hand, is completely nonsensical.

'Alot' is a lost cause these days, it's everywhere, but I've noticed 'abit' is becoming commonplace on here too. 'Aswell' is also starting to make an appearance.

Ordinarily I find it in very bad taste to mock the spelling errors of other people but I'll make an exception for this:

My friends boss at work is a pompous dick who adores using words that he thinks posh/clever people know. For example he was discussing the merits of his fox leather swivel chair as it was wipe clean Also he was loudly announcing his top five favourite fonts and declared that treebucket was the most sophisticated.
The best is from the staff room bulletin board where he posts his handwritten round ups of policy updates asking staff to always refrain from 'deffacating' on the company in view of the public.

@stackemhigh

But the example you provided is self-explanatory. It's an easy thing to do (especially if you are a 'granny' with no teeth, as the common expression goes). If somebody explained to you how to suck eggs, that would be patronising. So it makes sense, even if you've never heard it before.

But there's no self explanatory or metaphorical way to understand 'popcorn kettle black'. It's just nonsense.

deffacating
Definitely a cat? 🐈
(Wtf👀😂)

@littledidsheknow

Spent an age typing out my post above and found that you'd posted one practically identical moments before. I didn't copy you, promise

popcorn kettle black
A Variety of pigeon, surely🤷‍♀️

[quote SecondCityShark]@stackemhigh

But the example you provided is self-explanatory. It's an easy thing to do (especially if you are a 'granny' with no teeth, as the common expression goes). If somebody explained to you how to suck eggs, that would be patronising. So it makes sense, even if you've never heard it before.

But there's no self explanatory or metaphorical way to understand 'popcorn kettle black'. It's just nonsense.[/quote]
Is it self-explanatory though? Why would anyone suck eggs?

@SecondCityShark

Great minds...! 😁

@stackemhigh

Well yeah, you can deduce meaning can't you?

It baffles me that people just walk around aping sounds with no thought to what they might mean.

Oh and @stackemhigh maybe it's because you haven't heard the full version? 'Teach a granny to suck eggs?' Because Grannies don't have teeth (classically) and suck their food so you can deduce more from that.

That would make it make more sense to you maybe?

Not quite the same but my ds half-heard the old-fashioned expression “common hausfrau” in some film or other (as in “she’s nothing but a common hausfrau”). He assumed it was a bird, like a common house sparrow.

I discovered this when I found him and dd playing a game on the trampoline involving bouncing on their knees and kind of pecking and repeatedly yelling “Common hausfrau!” at each other. Which seemed pretty weird until he explained.

@SecondCityShark

Oh and *@stackemhigh* maybe it's because you haven't heard the full version? 'Teach a granny to suck eggs?' Because Grannies don't have teeth (classically) and suck their food so you can deduce more from that.

That would make it make more sense to you maybe?

I had heard the whole expression, I genuinely didn’t get it.

And sorry, I sounded like a bit of a prick in my second to last message. The second para was my mind wandering off and thinking about 'popcorn kettle black' again - not aimed at you.

with no thought to what they might mean
Especially when it takes seconds to Google it, it's not as if they have to go to the library!
Or maybe it's just not cool to be grammatically correct?