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For all intensive purposes you could grammar cop that until you're blue in the face, anon. Irregardless, people will still say "I could care less." ;p
Believe it or not, Merriam-Webster (once an authority on words) actually lists "I could care less" as acceptable. Why? BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE SAY IT WRONG, IT'S NOW OK.
Same with "libary" and "Febuary." They list those as acceptable pronunciations. I shit you not. It's like the editors were all sitting around getting stoned listening to Don McLean's American Pie, and one suddenly blurted out "OK guise! 'Febuary' is in! It's LITERARY!!" LOL
How long can it be until "ain't" receives their official blessing? God help us.
/wordnerd
A frennly reminder: Although phonetically they sound similar, the idiom is actually "for all intents and purposes" ;)
I argue with dictionaries. I still fight about the pronunciation of “taupe”. Thanks for meeting others here who fight the good fight.
I think you mean "For all intents and purposes"
LOL thank you but I think in this case you mean to go back and check the context for other intentional errors I planted to reinforce the original point about "could care less" :)
Lately, I see a lot of people write “apart” instead of “a part.”
For example: “I’m so glad to be apart of this team.”
So they’re saying the exact opposite of what they intend to say.
Yeah, that's a good one.
That reminds me of the famous joke about apartments. Why are they called apartments when they're all together?
And, why is it called a building when it's already built? Instead of an apartment building, it should be called a togetherment built! :)
I'm not saying that I am especially proficient at English but it does bother me that basic mistakes are so common.
It'll be interesting to see how the current and upcoming school children will end up given the deterioration of the education system and of course how reliant people are becoming on spell checking services.
Your comment says otherwise :) It's great, even if 'schoolchildren' and 'spellchecking' are now usually written as single compound words—about as minor as it gets. You're certainly not slowing readers down with your English, anon :)
...which are so often ridiculously wrong, it's laughable
Thanks! I seem to have had a decent grasp on the patterns through observation but I never really learned all the rules through schooling.
You are kicking ass