My friend uses the wrong words...

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My very good, kind and lovely friend uses the word "pacific" rather than the correct term "specific". My fellow pedants, what do I do? I have turned a blind eye (or deaf ear) to it thus far, but it drives me crazy. Another lovely friend responded to my ds saying "How do you do?" (he is 18 mths - very cute!) by saying "Very well thank you and how are you?"!

Am I going straight to hell for being so judgemental?

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I don't understand what's wrong with the second one?

Also, people who say mortified when they mean horrified annoys me every time.

And "literally petrified"

And I meant to write annoy, obviously. Otherwise it is bad grammar .

Ah, yes, literally!!!!

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The second one wouldn't bother me. She was responding nicely to his very grown-up question.

The first would drive me nuts, and I would have to say something.

I'm always having to tell dh off for saying "somethink" and "anythink" - dd is starting to copy him and it just drives me up the wall.

Don't get the second one, and literally petrified - wouldn't that just be an exaggeration (can't spell), I am sure no one means they were literally petrified. I am sure I have said when I have been very very hungry " I am literally starving", when clearly I am not... it's just one of those things.

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The response to the second should be '... and how do you do?' I think but wouldn't bother me.

Pacific/specific is very annoying, though. Can only suggest you tell her, kindly and privately.

The response to "How do you do?" is "How do you do?" It doesn't mean "how are you?" as is often assumed.
"Literally" drives me mad. I blame TV chefs!
I don't get "racialist" either. Where did that come from?

A friend of my DH says 'ipso facto' all the time, where you would usually say something like 'such is life'.
He thinks he is being smart so I haven't bothered to correct him.

Some people cannot say specific, however hard they try, eg my mum. She knows she says it wrong so she just tries to avoid using it.

BTW, my friends are lovely and I wouldn't dream of correcting them, especially "How do you do?"!
I don't really care, just having a light hearted whinge.

BLimey, "how do you do" "how do you do", that would go on forever, how do you find out how the other one does then? I take "how do you do" as either retorical (not bothering to google the spelling for that!) or "how are you". Yikes.

But who even says how do you do anymore?

And "publically".

Where has that come from?

The friend mentioned below says this in a cod foreign accent too, which I won't even get started on.

Explanation mark!!!!!!!!!!

I know someone who says slither instead of sliver (of cheese). Yuck!

My MIL told me yesterday that she had an aportant imppointment.

I laughed & said what a tongue twister... but she looked at me like & I then realised that she had been taking dh to aportant imppointments all his life.. or imppointments anyway, I'm sure they weren't all aportant.