But I am fucking biased against people who don’t know the fucking difference between “bias” and “biased.”
Four fucking message boards, newsgroups, email lists . . . I see it every place I frequent. Fuck, is it ESL season again or something?
I usually don’t botther with getting annoyed over grammar gaffes, and I don’t know why this one is bugging me so much. But ffffuuuuuck. I’m almost starting to believe the kneejerkers who cry about US education going to shit.
But then, maybe I’m just bias.
Gee, andros, you seem a little upsetted.
I could care less, it’s not like a nucular war or something.
[sub]Those bother me to no end.[/sub]
You’re just saying that because you’re prejudice against me.
[sub][sup]Adjectival endings are your friends, kids.[/sub][/sup]
No, you are not bias. I know for a fact that you were not cut on the bias.
You were cut on the grain.
(Sorry, little sewing in-joke there.)
In an attempt to insert some humor—
Two men are standing at the trough in the men’s room
of Grand Central Station (in New York). The older one
looks at the younger one and says, “You’re Jewish,
aren’t you?”
Slight uncomfortable, the younger guy says, “Sure.”
The older one asks, “You’re from Brooklyn, right?”
Amazed, the younger guy says, “Sure. I can’t believe
you can tell I’m from Brooklyn.”
The older one asks another question. “Your rabbi is
Myron Fishbein, isn’t he?”
Stunned, the younger guy asked, “How did you know
that?”
The older one says, “He cuts on the bias, and you’re
PISHING in my sock!”
I stole this from a website, but the guy told it better than I could.
Don’t get your underwears in a twist, now.
(I know it’s a small thing in the grand scheme and all, but that extra “s” just makes me want to hit people.)
For some reason, when someone used “bias” instead of “biased,” I hear it in a thick Japanese “Engrish” accent. Sort of like, “You are so bias because only all your base are belong to us.”
I like calling them underwears.
Ghod, Juniper, “prejudice” is the other one.
I swear, on another board last week I actually saw someone use both in one post. Something like “you’re just bias against me, I’m really not prejudice.”
So I’m really not insane here? Y’all have noticed these particular misusages lately as well? I swear, I never used to see them, even in the early AOL days.
theirs yur problem. you visited anuther board behind cecils’ back. traitor.
oh yea? well fuk u 2, buddy!!
(I just tried your joke on a friend of mine, a Brooklyn Jew. He just graoned and jumped to the punchline. Next time I’ll try a Gentile, dammit!)
I’m just a shiksa and all, but shouldn’t that be you’re mohel cuts on the bias?
your mohel
The other day someone- an English-speaking American, I believe- posted a thread whose TITLE said something about “prejudicing” people, and nobody tore him a new one. You guys are getting lazy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
“I could care less” has been bugging me for ages now but noone else seemed to mind. It just doesn’t make sense.
Unfortunatly (as we all know) language evolves and I think we’re very likely stuck with the new uses of ‘bias’ etc. Unless we start a popular movement to take back the language (complete with parades and things). There are probably better things to worry about, I just can’t help finding it annoying.
Sigh.
I think what they’re trying to say, andros, is that you have a fat arse.
They just don’t know how to spell “bi-ass”. Oh, and they mix up the verbs “to be” and “to have” as well.
Same difference.
Irregardless, it’s annoying.
I wasn’t going to stop reading this thread for another half and hour, but I’m about too drownd in bad grammer.