To think sometimes people use words without fully understanding them?

[Oodiks]

There were a few examples in my previous AIBU thread. Including, but not limited to:

Genocide
Antisemitism
Zionism
Ethnic Cleansing

These are strong trigger words for many people, myself included, but I think they are often misused and/or misunderstood.

Thoughts?

I know, it’s an abomination that ignoramuses have this power over the dictionary, but I’m afraid it’s true.

"I literally died!"

Is a figure of speech.
They literally don't mean literally @InfoSecInTheCity

Oodiks
Oh yes you are!!

No I'm not.

Like literally! 😂

You're

Contrafibularities

Yeah, I see that one thrown around all the time 😁

Great word btw, keeping that for a special occasion.

Sorry for causing you such a pericombobulation.

Disinterested when they mean uninterested
Incredibly when they mean very
Empathy when they mean sympathy

Can you be a bit more pacific?

Ignorant when they mean rude

Interfrastically.

I had a colleague who did everything "vicariously" without a clue what it meant. The most common one was "don't mind me while I vicariously dig into this <whatever food she had>".
She also overdid it exercising vicariously at the gym, and so on... 😂

Well take the current hurricane Milton

someone might say
“the situation in Florida was exasperated by the storm surge.”

when they should say

“the situation in Florida was exacerbated by the storm surge.”

😮. What!! Crazy I tell ya!

There's when there are is needed. It's everywhere.

I blame Levi's ads of the early 80s when I first noticed this:

There's rivets and there's Levi's rivets.

The utter utter bastards.

ect instead of etc

that’s another one where a knowledge of Latin would help! 🙄
because etc is short for ‘et cetera’’
meaning ‘and the rest’.

this is such a sneaky thread about a thread. Should be taken down.