Irregardless

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Fuhgeddaboudit.

it is not a word. go back to skool, fucktard

Phrases, too.

I hate "orientated."

That's not a fucking word, either.

Let’s conversate about it, r5,

Who should be casted as you in the movie version of the conversation, R6

I don't care, as long as they're not coronated.

Can I add [italic]welcomein[/italic] to the discussion? It's another one from the lexicon of the stupid, mostly younger Gen Z types for whom (I'm sorry to say) the slow political erosion of American public education has turned into English language idiots.

The English word is [bold]welcome[/bold]. Unless you're in Germany, where the spoken word "welcomein" could easily be taken for German's [italic]willkommen[/italic], say WELCOME.

Thank you for listening. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[quote] Thank you for listening.

No worries!

Grammar is a federal psyop, I’ll never allow it to control me

^ R11 = Dee Plorable, posting while hunting down the Deep State.

[quote] No worries!

Which replaced the equally nettlesome, "No problem."

DL is still upset we have evolved from Olde English to Modern English.

When she looks it up in the Dictionary, they will find it under the letter "I."

Another abomination now acceptable, and will eventually be considered correct.

GenZ can't write (or read) cursive and now they're losing the ability to use English. They are devolving so rapidly they'll soon loose the ability to communicate at all. But it won't matter since they can't drive or talk on the phone either.

Who curates this dictionary?

[quote]it becomes a word, whether we like it or not.

People really hate to acknowledge that language is a living thing.

Selfie, Google (verb), unfriend, ghosting, and podcast are all relatively new words that few would question.

Just like napkin (an apkin), apron (a napron) nickname (an ekename), orange (a norange) and umpire (a noumpere) are normal now but they once weren't. People just kept mispronouncing them and it just stuck.

Then there's a word like artificial which means fake but once it meant well made.

One of the reasons we use Latin for medicine and law is because it doesn't change. The meaning of something isn't suddenly going to evolve into something else a decade or a century later.

*lose, r16

Lo mein

Chow mein

Welco mein

Why not

R18. True. But, unlike this word, those aren’t nonsensical and illiterate

gen z literally writes like this they dont care about punctuation or grammar and they all seem to understand each other I guess the rest of us are all fucked lol Im not shaming anyone tho because we all have are journeys

I resonate with this

One that's driven me crazy for many years is "disrespect," the (AFAIK) first of the nouns that were "verbed."

Disrespect is a [bold]noun[/bold]. You don't "disrespect" someone, you show them disrespect. Thank you.

Another "verbed" noun that comes to mind is "gifted," as in "He gifted her a ring." No, motherfucker! He [bold]gave[/bold] her a ring. It's just that simple.

And this whole making nouns into verbs thing is getting worse all the time. "Suicided" is pretty bad.

Of course, being the old woman that I am, I can't think of any others right off the top of my head. Sorry. Rant over.

How about "uncouple", R24?

R24 - I think "disrespect" probably emerged as a verb from rap culture (she dissed me on that track); I sort of remember realizing that word was now a thing (in the '90s).

Also, can you imagine if newscasters started saying, "He homicided" when talking about a convicted murderer? lol

Sorry, OP, I choose not to seem uneducated.

No it isn’t. People need to be derided for using it. Like that stupid misphrase “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”

R28 - THANK you! That one drives me crazy.

Nah, R28 & 29, I could care less about that one.

I’m very sad lately because I thought I invented the word “tragical” and would awkwardly throw it around.

But then I searched, chuckling and patting myself on the back, and it turns out it’s always been a word.

A lot of these complaints are about words whose meaning changes over time, but that has been happening since the beginning of time. Realize originally meant "to make something real". "I realized my fantasy, by building my dream house by the lake". Only much later did it acquire the present meaning, which is "to come to see clearly, or understand". That's an English change which is gradually creeping into the languages from which we borrowed the word itself (French and Italian) to the horror of language mavens from those countries.

Another source of interest and confusion are contronyms - words which can be their own opposites. For example, you pour "DUST" onto something in the form of powdered sugar or the like, when cooking, so you say "I'm dusting these cookies", but usually when you are "DUSTING", you are doing your best to get rid of dust by sweeping.

I hate that "drop" has come to mean introduce, which is the opposite of what it's supposed to mean.

I am nonplussed by all of this.

Merriam-Webster should never be considered the arbiter for anything regarding words. When I look up a word, I never use them. This is a good example of their crap.

R31 - I remember thinking whoever wrote the song "Shape of my Heart" for the Backstreet Boys invented it (simply because he needed a word to rhyme with [italic]magical[/italic]).

^^ that makes me feel better : )

thank you!

r18

[quote]a word like artificial which means fake but once it meant well made.

Well, yes and no. The germ of meaning in "artificial" is "made by artifice" (as opposed to naturally springing spontaneously into existence), and such was the respect at one time for being able to mimic Nature through artifice that, yes, there was an aura of "well made" to it; and yes, in not being natural something artificial is fake ("fake Nature" would be more accurate). But just as a well-made pot roast wouldn't ever have been called an "artificial" pot roast, neither would a fake ticket to an event ever be called an "artificial" ticket--my point being that "artificial/well-made" and "artificial/fake" aren't sets of synonyms.

[quote]Like that stupid misphrase “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”

That's an "eggcorn."

It happens when people mishear or misinterpret a word of phrase but it seems to stick but only because it kind of makes sense.

"Nip it in the bud"/"Nip it in the butt." "Escape goat"/"Scapegoat." "Peaked my interest"/"Piqued my interest" "Mute point"/"Moot point." "On accident"/"By accident." And of course, "For all intents and purposes"/"For all intensive purposes."

The difference between that happening and words evolving is that those phrases are genuinely incorrect and not a product of language growing and evolving.

[quote]Well, yes and no. The germ of meaning in "artificial" is "made by artifice" (as opposed to naturally springing spontaneously into existence),

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, that “artificial” has always meant “man-made,” not “natural,” and that the core definition hasn't changed. But what I was pointing out is the shift in tone, the connotation, not the literal dictionary definition.

Artificial did have the connotation of being cleverly crafted or refined by human skill. Now it implies that something is cheap, fake or less than. That's a semantic shift.

The positive connotations of the word have faded over time like cunning, demagogue, awful, and the legendary, "egregious." Being "pretentious" was once a positive trait. Even "artifice" was once positive and now it's negative.

I occasionally read the word “thrusted” and always feel “thrust” would suffice.

What is a sentence that properly contains “thrusted”?

[quote] Another source of interest and confusion are contronyms - words which can be their own opposites

You're absolutely right OP, but it'll never be part of my fucking vocabulary.

R39 - I think "take something for granite" (instead of granted!) falls into that category (of an eggcorn).

It's part of the dumbing down of America to stay in step with the most stupid POTUS in history.

Just found one in The Atlantic: wonderment. As in, he was filled with wonderment.

Um, why isn't "wonder" good enough?

“I love the poorly educated.”

A Trump quote for the ages.

Next up, “pacifically.” As in, “I pacifically axed you to do something.”

Aircraft is the plural of aircraft.

Software is the plural of software.