I hate when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I could not care less"
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Replying to @macterra @ssica3003
I hate when people say "literally" when they mean "figuratively"
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Replying to @macterra @ssica3003
I hate when people mix up "infer" and "imply"
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Replying to @macterra @ssica3003
I hate when people say "begs the question" when they mean "raises the question". I know... losing battle.
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Replying to @macterra
is "begs the question" really that common? It seems kinda archaic to me and I woulnd't have thought many people would be randomly saying it in meetings etc.
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Replying to @ssica3003
I hear it all the time, most recently from Sean Carroll on his Mindscape podcast with Dan Dennett.
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Replying to @macterra
So tell me what the difference is between begs the question and raises the question
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Replying to @ssica3003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question … vs. something causing a question to be raised.
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Replying to @macterra @ssica3003
I hate when people use "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence, just to indicate "nowadays" when it really only works properly in a specifically negative sense. If this doesn't make sense, somebody please ask me to clarify. :-)
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Replying to @GregDember @ssica3003
I only learned last month that this is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore …
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Replying to @ssica3003 @macterra
Holy shit that it has a wikipedia entry!
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