Shayna – so should it be “farther” or “further?” The reason I thought it could be “farther” is because the artist was singing in terms of distance (close or near vs. far) but the “degree” part of “further” is messing me up. Couldn’t “further” be a greater degree of distance? I’M ROYALLY CONFUSED NOW. I feel like a looser. (heh)
“There’s a snake in my boot!”
Voguevixen, by my interpretation of the definition is that it should be “farther” because they’re talking about the physical distance from the sun. I think of “further” as being a distance away from something that’s abstract, like, nothing could be further from the truth (degree); or, The games started further apart than I’d thought they would (time); or No further evidence is needed to make the case (quantity). Does that make more sense?
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Driving on Alternate Route 19N between Tarpon Springs and Holliday, Florida, I saw a billboard for a condo development (imagine that). The billboard promises that, if you move into their new or recently renovated townhomes, you will experience “more lifestyle”. What is that supposed to mean? I don’t think that “lifestyle” can be referred to quantitatively. If you live in a tiny sheet-metal shack in the Ozarks and eat only that which you kill, that is your lifestyle. Similarly, if you live in a newly renovated condo in Florida, with adjacent swimming pool and tennis courts, that is your lifestyle. Is one “more” than the other? And what’s the deal with condos, anyway? You pay for, you own it, but you can’t do anything without approval from some faceless Board of Trustees, or something. I might rather have the shack, provided it had ample shelf space for my Star Wars toys.
This afternoon, I was reading a review of Man On The Moon, which stated, “Jim Carrey literally brings Andy Kaufman to life.” Er, I would hope he didn’t go that far. I mean, seeing as Kaufman died of cancer and all…
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I am not voting for any candidate who says “nucular”.
Intensive purposes… I hear this too much.
I had a manager who said FUPAR not FUBAR. I guess the P stands for past, but it did annoy me.
“Impact” as a verb still gets to me.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name too.
Wait, no it isn’t.
I wander, I wonder if I’ll get it right.Fortunately I’m lucky to literally always use the right word.
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– Sylence
I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
Great cartoon, Sylence! I try not to be too much bothered by these things, but today I saw a woman on TV who kept saying “variegations” when she simply meant “types or varieties.”
I mean why would you go to the trouble of picking up a nice word like “variegation,” then not bother to find out what it actually means? She was even pronouncing it right.
Catrandom
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck ! This makes me nuts !
Loose. Adj. The opposite of tight or secure.
Lose. V. To misplace, to be deprived of, to fail to win.
Transposition of these words puts anyone into the category of uneducated mouth-breathers in my estimation. It absolutely reeks of trailer trash to me. I have other peeves (affect/effect is irritating but excusable) and my own grammar is imperfect, but this one still makes me nutty. I work technical support and I hate getting e-mail or call records complaining that a processor is “loosing its memory”.
That lay/lie thing, I don’t get. Never have, never will.
The rules for there their they’re its it’s ensure insure all lay somewhere in the back of my brain, and sometimes I evoke them.
Arnold Winkelried, I was just wondering whether you would consider it affected (on my behalf) to ask you to clarify: is misuse of words a prententious means by which to drive you up the wall or is it, rather, the most efficient, capable means of doing so?
“If you want to drive me up the wall, it’s very affective to get “effect” and “affect”
confused. That error effects me deeply, in grammatical ways that you couldn’t begin
to understand.”
