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Nosu3

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FML, I like literally just went to the worst club last night. The myriad people were totally unbalanced. I mean if you even moved wrong they would be cheese and try to ****. I was walking to the bar and saw a guy dancing with a pinecorn, it was so random. Wow, just wow. The music was so money though, I legit could have danced all night but decided not to. Some other people started to dipset around the same time as me, I was like "that's so ironic". Ya know, you just can't find a good club anymore. I should of just stuck with the Classy Cat Club since it's like obviously the most legit club around here. I love it, but whatever, I'm fixin to find one more epic than that. Irregardless, you should just come club scoutin' with me one night. I mean we could find one that is totally awesome, you know what I mean?
 

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Originally Posted by Scrumhalf
"Should of" instead of "should have." Drives me crazy every time I see it.......

Are you sure they're not just saying the conjunction "should've"? Although it could be a malapropism of the conjunction.

It happens alot with commonly used, non-informational phrases that people just slur past. See "for all intensive purposes".

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Anymore, used incorrectly, always gets my goat.

"Don't you hate how everything moves so fast anymore?"

WHAT THE ****.


Gaaah! That one drives me up the wall! Although often my first reaction when I hear that is self-doubt, like I misheard an earlier part of the sentence that would make the "anymore" part make sense in context.
 

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
FML, I like literally just went to the worst club last night. The myriad people were totally unbalanced. I mean if you even moved wrong they would be cheese and try to ****. I was walking to the bar and saw a guy dancing with a pinecorn, it was so random. Wow, just wow. The music was so money though, I legit could have danced all night but decided not to. Some other people started to dipset around the same time as me, I was like "that's so ironic". Ya know, you just can't find a good club anymore. I should of just stuck with the Classy Cat Club since it's like obviously the most legit club around here. I love it, but whatever, I'm fixin to find one more epic than that. Irregardless, you should just come club scoutin' with me one night. I mean we could find one that is totally awesome, you know what I mean?

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Listen to George Carlin's routines on Euphemisms and Advertising. Required listening for writers and editors, as far as I'm concerned.

I'll add the word "war" to this list, especially in a sports context. The NY Post is the absolute worst with this. It'll run this headline -- "It's war!" -- about a Yankees-Red Sox game in the same section in which there are stories about actual wars. Zero perspective.
 

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Thanks to The Wire, I get annoyed when someone says that "people were evacuated." Relatedly, it's not correct to say that someone was "impacted" by something, unless you mean they were "backed up."
 

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Originally Posted by Scrumhalf
"Should of" instead of "should have." Drives me crazy every time I see it.......

Here's a clue, the 'h' is slient.
 

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
FML, I like literally just went to the worst club last night. The myriad people were totally unbalanced. I mean if you even moved wrong they would be cheese and try to ****. I was walking to the bar and saw a guy dancing with a pinecorn, it was so random. Wow, just wow. The music was so money though, I legit could have danced all night but decided not to. Some other people started to dipset around the same time as me, I was like "that's so ironic". Ya know, you just can't find a good club anymore. I should of just stuck with the Classy Cat Club since it's like obviously the most legit club around here. I love it, but whatever, I'm fixin to find one more epic than that. Irregardless, you should just come club scoutin' with me one night. I mean we could find one that is totally awesome, you know what I mean?

Poast of the year.
 

Superfluous Man

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Originally Posted by binge
Here's a clue, the 'h' is slient.
Except when they type it as should of instead of should have, then the H isn't so silent because it does not exist. DUCY?
 

Superfluous Man

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Originally Posted by Nosu3
FML, I like literally just went to the worst club last night. The myriad people were totally unbalanced. I mean if you even moved wrong they would be cheese and try to ****. I was walking to the bar and saw a guy dancing with a pinecorn, it was so random. Wow, just wow. The music was so money though, I legit could have danced all night but decided not to. Some other people started to dipset around the same time as me, I was like "that's so ironic". Ya know, you just can't find a good club anymore. I should of just stuck with the Classy Cat Club since it's like obviously the most legit club around here. I love it, but whatever, I'm fixin to find one more epic than that. Irregardless, you should just come club scoutin' with me one night. I mean we could find one that is totally awesome, you know what I mean?
Nice hand. Left a few out, case and point "basically". But that's a mute point.
 

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the term "Back in the day" to refer to things that happened two or three years ago.
 

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Using reflexive pronouns when not indicated. Several academics I know do this. They end up sounding like NBA players.
 

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Originally Posted by Superfluous Man
Except when they type it as should of instead of should have, then the H isn't so silent because it does not exist. DUCY?

See you next Tuesday?
 

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