It’s like that joke about the guy calling into 911 that his girlfriend is hurt on the street, at the corner of Eucalyptus and Main. The 911 operator asks him to spell the street name, and he takes a long time responding…“I’ll just drag her over to Oak Street.”
Ya’ll, not y’all. Note the misspelling.
I’m going to create a line of legal audio books titled “res ipsa loquitor”
Isn’t that Latin for “Commercials make me vomit?”
People who use Latin for no reason are pretentious assholes.
Only if combined with a Japanese school-girl avatar.
And now the OP shall insist it is impossible to misspell y’all, since it is not a “real” word. We wouldn’t have these problems if y’all had let me keep the flail.
My nomination for the most misused logic term – and it’s even in English – is “begging the question.” Although I admit that the phrase doesn’t describe the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise very well.
Oh, well, Illegitimi non carborundum.
I used to be with you on begging the question, but I’ve loosened up a tad. Using that term to mean that an assertion naturally causes those who hear it to be curious for specific additional information seems to naturally flow from the literal meanings of beg and question. I’d call that usage a non-idiomatic meaning, while the “proper” meaning in logic is quite idiomatic and far from intuitive.
Tah dah!
Cave canius!
Yeah, well…
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad.
like caps lock is cruise control for cool, italicized Latin is cruise control for smart.
That’s why you should instead use petītiō prīncipiī.
Beware, greyish-man?
I don’t speak Latin, but I do wipe with a communal sponge on the end of a stick and brush my teeth with the urine of Lusitanian virgins, so can I still get some cred here?
I’ve always preferred argmentum ad marjoram myself.
The spice rack agrees with me, so there!
You might find your sarcasm falling flat. It’s ad nauseam.
As originally spelled, it referred to a very unpopular vacation spot.
“Sic transit gloria.”
“I didn’t know Gloria was sick!”
And on the bus, no less!