This message is fake! Nobody with a brain cell puts an apostrophe in a verb or thinks that the plural of "eye" needs an apostrophe. This was written by someone who didn't pay attention in school.
Dude are you kidding, TONS of regular people put a damn apostrophe before every s they see.
Many people have no clue when to use them and where they go for singular and plural. It's as common as saying step foot instead of set foot (in someplace), spitting image rather than spit and image, or for all intensive purposes.
Smart kids in grade school who know all the rules get picked on for being smartypants, goody two shoes, teacher's pet, square, nerd, dork, etc.
IMHO it's hard to decide if the rubbery attempted conversion of "spit and image" (meaning substance and appearance) into "spitten image" is more balderdash, poppycock, folderol, horsefeathers, or just garden-variety piffle.
Do images ever spit? No. There goes "spitting image." Just spit that one out of the lexicon.
Are images ever spat ("spitten")? No. They aren't ejaculated, either, as the article in its backward arching contortion of conjecture tries to suggest.
Steve Cianci wrote us to lament the use of the term, maintaining that "spit and image" is the proper phrase. "The very spit of someone is an exact likeness," he wrote. [No, it isn't: the SPIT is the substance, not the likeness. The likeness is the IMAGE. The two go together. —Ed.] "'The spit and image' or 'spit image' [a phrase used by nobody] emphasizes the exactness."
Like so many colloquialisms — beat the band, piece of cake, knock on wood — spitting image has been around for hundreds of years, so it's impossible to nail down its exact origins. But we turned to Laurence Horn, professor of linguistics at Yale University, who is widely held as an expert — if not the last word — on the topic.
Cianci is in good company with his "spit and image" theory. "For the majority of language columnists, spittin' image is a euphemistic alteration or 'corruption' of the original expression, spit and image," Horn wrote in a paper on the topic.
Noticed that, too. And they are words that sound like letters: C and I. However I agree with the fren who said they are very common mistakes. Also, the account subsequently sent a message saying typos are just typos and implied that we shouldn't make anything of them.
This message is fake! Nobody with a brain cell puts an apostrophe in a verb or thinks that the plural of "eye" needs an apostrophe. This was written by someone who didn't pay attention in school.
Let's keep it a buck though...
These mistakes are basically normalized they are so common, as depressing as that is.
Dude are you kidding, TONS of regular people put a damn apostrophe before every s they see.
Many people have no clue when to use them and where they go for singular and plural. It's as common as saying step foot instead of set foot (in someplace), spitting image rather than spit and image, or for all intensive purposes.
Smart kids in grade school who know all the rules get picked on for being smartypants, goody two shoes, teacher's pet, square, nerd, dork, etc.
Or so I hear :)
I do it almost out of habit and have to edit all the time to fix it.
Sometime's I'm too lazy. Like now.
Ha ha
I 'see what you did there
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Am.
That.
Smartypants.
Regarding spitting image: www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-xpm-2010-12-22-ct-tribu-words-work-spit-20101222-story,amp.html
Thanks!
IMHO it's hard to decide if the rubbery attempted conversion of "spit and image" (meaning substance and appearance) into "spitten image" is more balderdash, poppycock, folderol, horsefeathers, or just garden-variety piffle.
Do images ever spit? No. There goes "spitting image." Just spit that one out of the lexicon.
Are images ever spat ("spitten")? No. They aren't ejaculated, either, as the article in its backward arching contortion of conjecture tries to suggest.
No it's not fake, see my message above. This message was followed by a large drop of photos that could not be faked.
https://t.me/georgenews/947?single
Noticed that, too. And they are words that sound like letters: C and I. However I agree with the fren who said they are very common mistakes. Also, the account subsequently sent a message saying typos are just typos and implied that we shouldn't make anything of them.