• @[email protected]OP
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    295 months ago

    The other day, I heard “Embrace yourself!”. Instead of “brace yourself”. I think I prefer that version

  • @waz
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    295 months ago

    Demo is used as an abbreviation for both demonstration and demolition. Usually it’s pretty obvious which one is intended, but every time I hear someone say “demo” I try to imagine what kind of chaos would result if the wrong usage was assumed.

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      “We’re having a demo in the break room in five minutes people!”

      5 min later

      Boom!

      “OMG why are there so many dead bodies? I told everyone to stay clear of the break room!”

      • @Valmond
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        35 months ago

        Now lets go to the staff meeting (bring your own staff).

  • @owenfromcanada
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    255 months ago

    Had a coworker whose first language was not English. His English was good, but some coloquialisms went over his head. At one point, I had to explain the difference between a “butt dial” and a “booty call.”

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Specific/Pacific.

    You have to be Pacific.

    You mean specific?

    Yeah, that’s what I said: Pacific.

    In my family we now call it the Specific Ocean.

    • @BonesOfTheMoon
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      35 months ago

      My coworker says pacifically where she means specifically.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      I thought specific was what I heard on TV as a child, until I came across the spelling somewhere.

  • Andrew
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    175 months ago

    These are usually eggcorns

    Anyway, there was once a joke on Friends, where - to massively paraphrase - Joey said ‘the point is moo … not even the cows care about it’. I sometimes use ‘moo’ instead of ‘moot’ just 'cos it amuses me.

    • @owenfromcanada
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      35 months ago

      My wife and I will sometimes tell each other “your point is moo” when we disagree on something, and if they insist we just start mooing at each other.

  • @alyth
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    105 months ago

    In German, my mom often says igelhaft instead of ekelhaft. She loves hedgehogs though.

  • Call me Lenny/LeniM
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    95 months ago

    My friend used to go to the store and ask the clerk if they had any cosmopolitan ice cream.

  • @[email protected]
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    95 months ago

    I had a boss one time that would say “feast or fathom” instead of “feast or famine”.

  • @orangeNgreenM
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    This might not be exactly what you’re asking, but my daughter calls marshmallows “marsh pillows.” And they will now forever be marsh pillows to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    During a cycling workout, the instructor said “our destination is breathless” as a motivator to really push hard. I thought she said “our destination is breakfast” and honestly, I prefer my version.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    My Polish mate, who’s English was pretty good but still had a noticeable Polish accent, was asking me about some weird pronunciation of a word or I corrected him in something.

    He said “Ah Potato, Tomato. Doesn’t matter”. I burst out laughing, some guy actually tried to correct him on it.

    I also like “We will burn that bridge when we get to it”.

  • @alyth
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    45 months ago

    A Wikipedia Editor Has Spent Years Removing 47,000 Incorrect Uses of ‘Comprised Of’ - Yahoo News

      • @BilboBargains
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        25 months ago

        Language is the only thing in the universe that has meaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      I had to look up what was wrong with it and still it seems like a very minor difference. But hey, I spend my time playing video games, who am I to judge what is worthy of one’s time.