What jargon from your field gets used wrong in a way that bothers you, or pulls you out of something you're reading/watching? For instance: Circa means "approximately." It's a good guess. It doesn't just mean "I'm about to say a date in the past."
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Like... we know where the cases came from. We warned you they would happen. This is not a small change happening suddenly, this is a huge and obvious change happening while being continuously commented upon.https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1377338678935056386?s=20 …
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Oh, fuck, if we're gonna have "using tools wrong" we'll be here all night. A personal bugaboo - seeing modern horse tack (including stirrups) on anything set in Europe before the ~700s. Vikings, Romans, whatever.https://twitter.com/kingnewbs/status/1378568200959500288?s=20 …
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That's the equivalent of driving a Sherman tank through a civil war battlefield, y'all.
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Y'all, if you're gonna make arguments about descriptivism vs. prescriptivisim, consider as descriptivists that it's impossible to use words "wrong" as long as you're understood, and the entire premise of the conversation is invalid, And walk away happily correct without posting.
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Yeah that one annoys me a great deal
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This is all Scott Bakula’s fault
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I thought it was Ziggy's fault?
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But doesn’t it refer to a jump in something with no interim position? The particle is in one place, then another.
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Yes, that'd be a fair interpretation, but is rarely the metaphor being used. The Covid cases in Chicago, for instance, most recently - this isn't "no interim position," it's just an entirely predictable delayed result.https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1377338678935056386?s=20 …
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