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AIBU?

To be annoyed when people misuse words?

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acsec · 24/08/2013 15:46

My DH is a prime example of this. The two which annoy me most are "My thesis is..." and, usually when he is playing a computer game and dies on it "Argh! Death becomes me!"
Unless you have written a dissertation on this subject, then you mean theory and I don't think dying on a computer game makes you look especially fetching.
It winds me up so much and I have given up telling him what he actually means.

Please MN, tell me I am not suffering alone!

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saintmerryweather · 25/08/2013 17:26

snarky. there is no such word as snarky. piss off with your stupid made up words

Hissy · 25/08/2013 17:34

There was a HUGE bunfight thread on here on the phrase 'Another THINK/Thing coming'

To be clear..

It is and always WAS think btw.

Jus' sayin'

Thatsnotmychicken · 25/08/2013 17:59

Can't stand it when people mix up our and are. Also likkle is not a word!!!

Lweji · 25/08/2013 18:06

Snarky does exist.
Early 20th century, according to the Oxford dictionary, although chiefly North American.

contortionist · 25/08/2013 18:20

YANBU in general, but the use of thesis you criticise is correct, if a bit pretentious - it doesn't only mean a written argument submitted for an academic degree, although that is the primary meaning.

badbride · 25/08/2013 18:26

Mitchell and Webb did an amusing skit on this:

IslaValargeone · 25/08/2013 18:55

Well I didn't know that Hissy.
I do love learning a new fact.

VitoCorleone · 25/08/2013 19:24

I always thought it was "you've got another thing coming" that makes more sense than "you've got another think coming"

ShellyBoobs · 25/08/2013 20:17

VitoCorleone - I'm not sure how 'thing' can make any sense at all?

Hissy · 25/08/2013 20:18

Think refers to 'idea' hence 'if you think xyz, then you've got another think coming, not thing. Thing is just thing.

Trust me. It really IS think.

mrspremise · 25/08/2013 20:19

Disposable aspirin is my new favourite thing

MyNameIsSuz · 25/08/2013 20:35

I really hate when people use 'myself' instead of 'me', it doesn't make you sound fancy or proper, it just makes you sound like a dick. It's got to the point where I feel like a dick for using 'myself' completely correctly in case people think this is what I'm doing.

Willdoitinaminute · 25/08/2013 21:27

I read a poster the other day at a leisure centre asking 'perspective' members for the sub aqua club to contact the secretary for membership details.
I had an acquaintance who always used 'brought' rather than bought. Ahhhh!

LadyEnglefield · 25/08/2013 23:23

Hate the expression "tiny little" do they mean as opposed to "big little" ?

Also "I personally think" how can you thinking be anything other than personal?

poorpaws · 26/08/2013 00:14

My friend said her son TRET her to dinner. I didn't speak cos she's a bit of a know it all.

Didactylos · 26/08/2013 00:14

we have a Stationary cupboard at work

I have placed a note on the other cupboard to match it saying 'Mobile cupboard' So far nobody has noticed or commented but it makes me feel better....

CollieEye · 26/08/2013 13:40

sashh what about 'unisex'? I don't understand why it's not for one sex only...

NooothingMuma · 26/08/2013 13:56

Supposably I should listen when dh is conversating with me about something pacific.

Especially when it involves 'you can't teach pork!' Oh the irony.

I get very stabby at "she da do this , no you can't do nothing"

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 26/08/2013 15:50

what about 'unisex'?

One sex, fits all

CollieEye · 26/08/2013 19:48

Good point diseases, that works for clothes, but what about hairdressers? The one sex, fits all falls down there!

VitoCorleone · 28/08/2013 08:33

Because if i said "if you think im walking all the way to the shop you've got another thing coming" then id be meaning, dont expect that, because im doing something else, and thats what you'll be getting.

You wont get that, you'll get some thing else.

"you've got another think coming" just sounds stupid.

SarahAndFuck · 28/08/2013 08:59

One of the most heated discussions I've ever seen took place on a book forum over the expression "I couldn't care less" verses "I could care less".

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Tattva · 28/08/2013 09:01

If you think I'm walking all the way to the shop you've got another think coming.

As in 'you can think again'.

Another thing makes makes no sense. Another thing?
What thing? As in 'you can thing again?'. There is no way in which that makes sense.

MrsKoala · 28/08/2013 09:07

'Hold down the fort'

AAAAARRRGHH

kingbeat23 · 28/08/2013 09:24

I know someone who wants to "re-illiterate" a point to us minions. Makes me want to poke pins in people's eyes.

I have a bad habit of "we were stood" and have to catch myself from saying it every time. Oh, and bbc, it's hospiTal, there is no D in there!!

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