What is up with everything being “whatever as Hell?” I heard someone say today, “I’m bloated as Hell.” Hell is bloated? In what way? Overstuffed with souls? Heat buildup?
But that’s not all - “mad as Hell,” “crowded as Hell,” or, my favorite oxymoron, “cold as Hell.” I’m sure you’ve heard more examples.
I would think that the only thing acceptable “as Hell” would be “hot.”
And another thing - shouldn’t the correct phrase be, “I couldn’t care less?” To say, “I could care less” implies that the specific thing to which your care level is so low is not at the absolute bottom of your list of things to care about, so I would think that by saying you couldn’t care less states unequivocably that it is, indeed, the very last item on said list.
Little grammatical things that bug me - next time on Geraldo!
I surmise that it came about from people saying “hot as hell”, and once that phrase became commonplace, the “…as hell” part got reused. That seems to happen a lot in American English.
Related question? How did the F-Word get to be commonly used as an intensifier (example, “it’s F#@&ing hot in here” would presumably be hotter than “it’s hot in here”)?
If you say it, mean it. If you mean it, do it.
If you do it, live it. If you live it, say it.
All right, I can understand why you would have a problem with “(x) as hell” in most cases. But your examples? “Crowded as hell” doesn’t seem to inappropriate to me…
Originally posted by Esprix:
“I couldn’t care less?” [is correct, not] “I could care less”
Little grammatical things that bug me…
Esprix ME TOO! THANX! I CAN"T BELIEVE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO GRAMMA SOME PEOPLES COULD CARE LESS! heheh, no that always bugs me, too.
It is irritating to hear someone use ‘going’ in place of ‘saying, or said’
Then Beastie goes, ‘oh, shoot girl, you know?’
and I ‘go’ back at Beastie, ‘beastie, like, I really, like, you know, get all excited, um, uh, you know, like, yeah’ AHHHHHHH!!!
I know grammar isn’t taught much anymore, but people SAY things, they don’t ‘go’ them.
And, can the overabundance of ‘you knows’ and ‘like’. Like ya’know??
Judy
“Um, according to who? Nothing more than a high brow troll, though occasionally the bi polar personality swung in a constructive direction on innocuous topics.” Omniscient
[ul][li]People who post in bolded, italicized all caps[/li][li]People who spell “thanks” as “THANX”[/li][li]People who can’t spell “grammar” (and I wonder how your “Gramma” is doing these days)[/li][li]People who use a quotation instead of an apostrophe in their contractions[/li][li]People who say “peoples” when they mean “people”[/li][li]People who can’t capitalize the first word in a sentence[/ul][/li]
Oh, and did I mention people who start “ask me” threads with no intention of answering questions just to see their name printed on a computer screen? :rolleyes:
As far as “literally” goes, my Danish-English dictionary gives this example of how to use it: “Her eyes literally popped out of her head.”
I thought it was funny as hell.
