To point out that the word is “faze” and not “phase” in this context?

[Anyotherdude]

I’ve been reading so many threads where someone writes about being “phased” or “not phased” about something.
it was bothering me so much that I checked to see if it was me that was getting it wrong.
I didn’t.
To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step, so you can be phased into a role, but if you’re not bothered by something, it doesn’t faze you!

I feel like posters on MN are happy to correct/be corrected about all sorts of things, but when spelling is corrected people are absolutely horrified and I don’t understand why it’s so much more of a big deal than anything else.

It bugs me too, but it's now pretty ubiquitous and not just on forums. It's creeping into books as well.

Not that I ever say anything (except in this thread) but I do silently judge.

There is also no such word as ‘unfazed’. An English teacher once corrected me on this so I’ll always remember that!

Can someone help me out please with quash/squash. Is it not "quash a rumour" ? I've heard so many celebs and TV shows where they say "squash the rumour" I don't know why but it really annoys me when u hear it. Maybe I'm too old for the young ones vocab 🤣

"it's time to rest your wary eyes," either spoken or spelt in that manner really gets me 🤣 It's WEARY.

Is it a prerequisite of becoming an estate agent that you must be a 22 year old man in overly tight trousers and pointy shoes

Do they all wear blue suits with brown shoes, or is it just our local ones?

Totally, totally agree.

Affect can be a noun! See my earlier comment.

I haven’t come across this use of affect as a noun, but I’m not doubting what you say.

The thing is, these errors are not victimless crimes. Each time I read, ‘would of’, a minute is shaved off my life expectancy.

The worst mistake I ever saw was written on a card up in a shop window. A person was trying to sell a glass bowel! I assumed it was actually a glass bowl.
Surely everyone knows the difference between bowel and bowl!

Agree. I'm not ashamed to be a pedant.

Can we move on to nouns that are both singular and plural?
Goods and Services. A term used in economics by serious people.
Recently on radio talk of a 'good' and a service. I shouted at the radio.

Not remotely unreasonable. It's so irritating!

Was it on MN or on Twitter where women were talking about loving the smell of their man's colon (cologne)? That has to be up there with the best.

Put the breaks on! Pendant's corner is that way ->

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The word triggered triggers me because it reminds me that everyone is either in therapy or using therapy speak.

Spag is annoying OP bit prefer to take the Marcus Aurelius approach where you don't correct them but instead use the word correctly yourself to model it.

Agree with this.

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I love the FB ad I saw this morning.

Chester Draws.

Pedant’s Corner is that way

Nothing wrong with saying you’re unfazed by something.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/unfazed_adj?tl=true#:~:text=unfazed%2C%20adj.,and%20more%20%7C%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary

Yet poor punctuation clearly doesn't bother you. Or the last remaining vestige of the subjunctive. Or relative pronouns. Or tense and verb cohesion in a text ("I didn't" referring back to your original verb of "was getting")

Interesting, isn't it.

Your English teacher was wrong. It's an "informal" word, though; you should probably have written undaunted or unconcerned.

What you should definitely NOT have written was "nonplussed"! Nonplussed means but is often misused as its opposite.

A receptionist at my previous role was asked to pen a Christmas message to clients and send it out.
She included "Mary Christmas" on it and sent it out. She was so embarrassed when pulled on it by Management 😳