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Ordinaryaverageguy
Dec '21
IndigoShirtProd

If we're allowed to bring in phrases, I'd like to nominate "could care less". The correct phrase is "couldn't care less", of course, because the sentiment is that one hasn't even the slightest interest or concern about something.

How about, "pure as the wind-driven snow"? New fallen snow can be rather pure but when the wind drives it over the landscape, as one of my characters said, "Wind driven snow isn’t pure, it gets all mixed up with dirt and leaf bits and dead grass and dog poop and gosh knows what all else." Some people use "pure as the wind-driven snow" sarcastically but it's become common to hear it used synonymously with "pure as new-fallen snow".

AnonymousHouseCat
Dec '21

So as @Ordinaryaverageguy pointed out, this probably fits into the category of something that's meaning changed over time, but "apocalypse" technically doesn't mean "end of the world." If you say "apocalypse." everyone will understand what you mean, so it's fine to use it that way in everyday conversation. But, in a theological/biblical sense, apocalypse just means divine revelation. I think what happened is that people mostly think of the apocalypse of John (another name for Revelation), which talks about the end of the world. The correct term for end of the world is "eschaton."

Ordinaryaverageguy
Dec '21

Can I toss in another item, one that you all have no doubt seen over & over?
"should of"
As in, "I should of told you sooner."
The correct wording is, of course, "should've" - a contraction of "should have".

TheLemmaLlama
Dec '21

'Entitled'.

Wanting things is not entitled. Asking for things isn't entitled. Even if the thing is something outrageous.

Only when you won't take 'no' for an answer, ONLY THEN are you being entitled.

fleurravenbooks
Dec '21
TheLemmaLlama

i saw tiktok video (can't remember who the creator was since i only watch sometimes so i don't have acc ) where mom showed how she welcomes her daughter ( little kid around maybe 7) when she comes home from school, mom would wait at the door and hug HER CHILD, some comments said that child is entitled and that she will grow up spoiled ,etc.... How is parent hugging their own child spoiling them?

TheLemmaLlama
Dec '21
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Wow, that's so damn sad. I hope she doesn't see that comment and grow up to be afraid to express any desires for affection or other things ...

(edit because I feel like I'm clogging up the thread lmao: @Kann I feel like people who were made to feel entitled in their childhood would be more likely to not want to not make others to feel that way. It's the people who feel inconvenienced by those in their lives wanting things that are trigger-happy with entitlement accusations imo)

Kann
Dec '21
fleurravenbooks

How dare those parents show their kids they love them, am I right? xD

Seriously, though. If kid being hugged by their parents is entitled according to some people, then I can't help but feel a little sorry for such people. How did their childhood look like to make them think being hugged is entitlement?

Lensing
Dec '21

persecution / oppression

I read this a lot and I also read some really disrespectful holocaust comparisons
in the last 2 years

surenlicious
Dec '21

Cancel culture. It sickens me how especially non-black people have twisted that shit around to something it's entirely not.

ar-ninetysix
Dec '21

...what?

Non-black people?? Twisted meaning??? I wasn't aware that this phrase had its roots in black culture :frowning: And that's been one of my favorite phrases I've been using this year.. like "ahhh twitter's gonna cancel you" or whatever.

So, what did it originally mean then?

Breezy
Dec '21

I know someone already talked about mental health, but I would just like to generalize this to overuse and misuse of all neurological diseases. Words like "OCD", "autistic", "Alzheimer's", "migraine", "psychopath", "Tourette's", and other terms are often used to describe individuals who do not have those conditions.

Misdiagnosis is, unfortunately, a common occurrence even in real life. Physicians who have spent eight years of their lives in school, working 80+ hours a week to learn how to diagnose neurological disorders are subject to misdiagnosis. Unfortunately, misdiagnosis and misinformation has perpetuated stigmas surrounding these disorders and caused real harm to real people who have them. If we, as authors, allow our media to be filled with even more misrepresentation, we are perpetuating those harmful stereotypes.

OCD doesn't mean someone who is clean.
Autistic doesn't mean someone who is socially awkward.
Alzheimer's doesn't mean any elderly person with memory impairment.
Tourette's doesn't mean someone who curses a lot.
Psychopath doesn't mean a mass murderer.
And, most close to my heart because of my career choices, migraine doesn't mean a bad headache.

Thanks for reading my rant. :smile:

fleurravenbooks
Dec '21
TheLemmaLlama

i was shocked, if i had acc i would of said something, good thing is that majority didn't agree with commenter

@DiegoPalacios same, i can't imagine what is going on in someone's head to say that child getting hugs is spoiling them

@Kann i think that they just don't want to show affection, if they weren't hugged as a child they should know it makes child sad

fleurravenbooks
Dec '21
Breezy

100% agree with you, saying that ocd (for example) is just being clean and/or grammar freak is making fun of people that suffer with ocd every single day

DesiredUsernameTaken
Dec '21
darthmongoose

I'ma be honest. Never thought about the root word in it but now it makes so much sense. :joy: As for speed paint, that's a really good point!

Hmm... For me, if something is taken "with a grain of salt", it sounds a lot like "doubt this a little bit, but not a whole lot, because it's only a grain of salt". But if someone says "biggest grain of salt", while it's a bit of an oxymoron (?) as a grain cannot be bigger than it is, it sounds a lot more like "Take this with a lot of doubt, not just a little bit. It's basically just a rumor." However, at that point it does sound like one should just reword it. :slight_smile:

I never knew this, how interesting!

This I always found confusing. Maybe I don't understand the use of the word that well, but it always felt as though when someone is criticizing how someone is being "entitled", rather than saying, "They are so entitled" it sounds like it should be "They have such a sense of entitlement" or "They have a false sense of entitlement". If someone is entitled, then...doesn't that technically mean they're actually entitled to something, and that is something that they are due? :confused: It always seemed like that to me, but that it's been boiled down to one word because of our tendency to shorten everything so it takes less words to say.

@Breezy This is a big one. There's many who will jokingly say something they've done is their "OCD" or something along those lines. And it's really weird, because it seems like one has to have some idea of how these things are serious, because it's only through using those terms to be dramatic or to exaggerate is what makes it "funny". At the same time, it belittles the problems, for one second of amusement.

TheLemmaLlama
Dec '21

Haha yeah, people do use that word in those different senses! From what I understand, if you specify the thing a person is entitled to (e.g. "[person] is entitled to X"), it means the person actually has the right to have X, whereas if they say "[person] feels entitled to X", then it's just commenting on the person's sense of entitlement. And "[person] is entitled" (without specifying any object of entitlement) is shorthand for the latter, or a comment on the person's character trait of having a sense of entitlement towards too many things o_o