For all you people who bitch about being "corrected". This is for you. (Mild)

[Zsofia]

@flight

This is a great example of why we should correct people more often, particularly those in power. One general decides that cache is pronounced cachet and now the whole damn military pronounces it wrong. It is infectious.

So is it the generals or the news media who are responsible for this asinine “troop = soldier” thing? “Three troops dead in Afghanistan today” - wow, that’s like dozens of dudes, right? Oh, I forgot, the words soldier, sailor, Marine, and airman are unfashionable or something.

[Malacandra]

@Snowboarder_Bo

My girlfriend said we’d have less arguments if I’d just stop correcting her. Fewer arguments, I told her.

That’d be like the time Mrs M told me my pedanticness was really annoying.

[Lare]

@Snowboarder_Bo

My girlfriend said we’d have less arguments if I’d just stop correcting her. Fewer arguments, I told her.

Maybe she thought you’d have just as many, but with less intensity?

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Lare

Maybe she thought you’d have just as many, but with less intensity?

Those would be lesser arguments. But only if you’re an L2 speaker of English, because no native speaker would phrase things that awkwardly.

[Lare]

While that’s true, I didn’t find it funny at all.