What cliche that you hear people misstate drives you bonkers....

The one that drives me bonkers is:

I could care less.


The phrase is "I COULDN'T care less".

It makes me grind my teeth.

That really bugs me.

instead of moot! Drives me crazy and they insist they're right.

But it is usually a moot point to try to argue with them.

I hate that one as well.

A moo point is like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter.

Please spell these appropriately--they are:

"Hear, hear!"

"Toe the line."

Thank you.

:silly:

SO many people here say "here, here!" and it drives me batty EVERY GODDAMN TIME!

It's "champ" everybody!

Champ. Horses champ.

some people say "dahmp" for "damp" and "stahmp" for "stamp"...

And wrong. It's a real hot button with me for some reason.

;)

http://home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/id123.htm

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/70.html

Looks like it really is 'chomping.'

It’s a little vigil I’m holding folks, nothing to see here. Move along.

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I maintain my pissiness.

From yourdictionary.com:

Don't Say:......Do Say:
chomp at the bit...champ at the bit

"Chomp" has probably replaced "champ" in the U.S. but we thought you might like to be reminded that the vowel should be 'æ' not 'o'.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

for it to be considered an error. Ergo, I assess either as completely acceptable.



It’s a little vigil I’m holding folks, nothing to see here. Move along.

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I've been on a personal mission to correct those who insist that they "could care less."

I'm glad I'm not alone.

-MR

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"We shouldn't take things for granite." I mean, sheesh, this guy had a PhD!

I had a geology instructor in college that used to say that.

Ethnic cleansing = driving people out of their homes or region based on race.
Genocide = destroying or killing those people.

It's possible to ethnically cleanse a region without killing a single person.

involved in an experiment in inter species communication.

But it is not likely.

Just because people that commit genocide are not able to kill every single person and some of them are able to flee with their lives does
mean it is not genocide.

There will be no more response to you unless you are able to show you are being misunderstood or admit you are being either sarcastic, satrical, disengenous or comical.

Otherwise would you care to show what percentage of people have to be murdered from a town of say a thousand genocide victims before it no qualifys as a genocide ?

Cheer up you 501 refugees that escaped being slaughtered and your town being turned to rubble you are not a victims of genocide you are merely ethnically cleansed so quit your whining about the U.N. being mandated to come to your aid.

Genocide: The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group

Ethnic Cleansing: The systematic elimination of an ethnic group or groups from a region or society, as by deportation, forced emigration, or genocide.

There IS a difference between the terms, and it's not just semantics. What the Nazi's did to the Jews was genocide, because they had a plan to eradicate all of the Jews on Earth simply because they were Jewish. Their goal was to eliminate an entire people from existence. What the Hutu's did in Rwanda by trying to exterminate the Tutsi's qualifies as genocide.

In contrast, what the Serbs did in Bosnia is ethnic cleansing. The Serbs weren't trying to exterminate the Muslims, they just wanted them out of "Serbian" lands. They had no plans on destroying the race or religion, they simply wanted to remove them from a specific geographic area. That is what ethnic cleansing is all about.

Now, I'll agree that the terms are often used improperly in the media and that the difference isn't always understood or clear, and even that the terms can overlap (for example, the eradication of the Warsaw Jews was an ethnic cleansing as part of a greater genocide), but that doesn't make the Ethnic Cleansing term any less valid (or the charges that can be brought from it any less valid).

I guess I'm a little confused as to why you dislike the term so much.

Also the fact that you did not post any numbers that are widely accepted as the number of murders at which a specific group of people
are no longer being ethnically cleansed and are in fact the victims of a genocide.

Instead you offer a vague unlinked definition to the terms of which BTW, "ethnic cleansing" is totally rejected as far as moof is concerned.

It is indeed a matter of semantics. As was suggested in the last part of the previous post the U.N. seems to have a mandate that states that they will never again allow a genocide to take place and just stand by and watch it happen.

That is why the bogus term " ethnic cleansing " exists, it is so the
so called world community can refuse to get involved in stopping a genocide and still convince people apparently like you that these leaders sleep well at night knowing their charter has been spit on.

But you have to mean the first ironically. I think even James Kilpatrick has given up on that one. Plus, some things are mangled just for the halibut. :D

I always hate hearing my kids say "I did it on accident."

ON purpose, BY accident (or accidentally)

it was originally "Buck Naked" and was said and written that way throughout recent history. Very recently people started saying "Butt Naked" for some odd reason.

LOL

for "duct" tape. I think I'm just gonna have to get over that one.

but since duct tape has been brought up my favorite cliche "if you can't duct it fuck it"

I always wondered if it was just for ducks or good for any water fowl...

is referred to as "Good sleepin' weather" (local pronunciation added). I've lived in the Midwest for ten years and I still don't get that.

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No no no, it's "whet" as in sharpen, as with a whetstone on a blade.

When someone is talking about what someone else said, and they say it like this: "And so Joe said quote unquote 'blah blah blah'."

No. You should say
"and so Joe said quote 'blah blah blah' unquote."

What if I wanted to indicate that I'm ALMOST at the point where I couldn't care less... I haven't reached that point yet... but I'm fast approaching it.

Therefore, I *could* care less. Right? :hi:

-- Allen



I dislike when people preface a sentence with "Having said that...."

It's totally unnecessary since we probably just heard what you said and we're likely to be intelligent enough to detect for ourselves that the speaker is starting a new subject or that they are willfully contradicting themselves by making an exception of some sort.

gel is a noun!

'Jell' is the verb that they are looking for.

Ok, so you can use 'gel' as a verb, but only as it relates to something which becomes a gel!



I second the 'intensive purposes' annoyance. Some people don't think about what they are saying/writing.

Loosers! :)

:-) That one annoys me so much, but I tend to see it online more than anywhere else.

as asked for in the original post. :)

But, having said that....(Ha, I know people hate that)I'd like to mention "Marshall Law" or "court marshall" just because it drives me nuts. :)

MARTIAL

:-)

Similar to loose and lose...I see it EVERYwhere online and it drives me crazy.

edited to add: I know it's not a cliche but it bothers me SO MUCH...I had to post it.

An unfortunate misquoting of "Music hath power to sooth the savage breast."

Poor translation. It should be "hand to hand." Mano is the Italian word for hand.

I say Row. Am I wrong?

You don't hoe roads. It's a farming reference that dates back to slavery days.

Not only is it wrong, it's also creepy. I don't like the idea of people having skin on their teeth.:scared:

:P

instead of School of Hard Knocks

Those newbies are so ... so ... 'new'

Irks the heck out of me.

You're either "Footing the bill", or looking at something that "Fits the billing". The only thing that fits the bill is the envelope it came in.

couch the lie they are fixin' to say, in response to the lie just said by their opponent, with

"the fact of the matter is...."

:grr:

and, please, no one mention "fixin'". thank you.

:-)

For dog-eat-dog. Hear it all the time in New England at least.

Technically, "moment in time" would be more appropriate -- and the "in time" part would actually be redundant.

One friend of mine gets very irate when she hears "have your cake and eat it too" -- she claims that "eat your cake and have it too" gets the point across much more clearly.

the Latin actually translates to "the exception that tests the rule".

Morans.