Remember, you are unique. Just like everyone else.
Or “rare”.
Even “unusual”, perhaps “atypical”, for those for whom one syllable is never enough
(see: “use” versus “utilize”).
Actually, I’m the only person in the world who’s not unique.
Funny, I addressed this before, but somehow I didn’t put the link.
In those uses, we are treating “three apples” and “four apples” as total amounts, not groups of individual items. They are functioning as collective nouns. Same thing with “six feet” - we are emphasizing a single total item, not six separate feet.
But you can do that with anything. The express line at the store, that requires ten items or less? It’s treating ten items as a total amount.
Yes but with most revolvers as the hammer is pulled back (or double action as the the trigger) is pulled the cylinder rotates so the hammer will fall on the loaded cylinder so no extra action is required to make the gun function. with a semi you would have to rack the slide costing valuable time in a shooting save my life situation.
I’m sure the concept comes from the fact that with most squibs they don’t have the power to charge the weapon, hence with the fake ammo you would have to charge the weapon to reset the trigger and feed the round. So those without knowledge assume that’s how guns work. Plus I guess it makes for “Good Hollywood” to show the racking of the slide.
There’d have to be at least two, wouldn’t there?
Whooosh! 
I dunno, I can picture “the only one that’s not unique” as having some meaning. Imagine we have a set of five items: A large red wooden square, a small red wooden square, a large green wooden square, a large red metal square, and a large red wooden triangle. The second one is unique, in that it’s the only one that’s a different size. The third one is unique, in that it’s the only one that’s a different color. The fourth one is unique, in that it’s the only one that’s a different material. And the fifth one is unique, in that it’s the only one that’s a different shape. But the first one isn’t unique, since it has the most common version of each trait.
Yeah, “unique” is just one of those words people like being pedantic about for whatever reason. I’m fine with degrees of uniqueness, especially since things can be unique in multiple ways.
Here’s one I saw just the other day: Referring to a particular act as “a crime punishable by prosecution”. So, if I go to court and get found guilty, I’ll have to go back to court?
Similar is treating “court-martial” as a punishment, though that at least can maybe be justified by civilian ignorance of how the military works.
Well, first off there’s a straight-up grammatical error: omnia rēs should be omnēs rēs. Omnia is neuter plural, and rēs is feminine plural. The translations provided in that video are not what I would give, but bit that bugs me is that nunc concipitur/malī hominis crīmen is translated as now does the blame fall upon bad men. I’d render it more like “Now the sin of the man is understood”. But what he wants here is for ‘the man’ to actually be ‘mankind’ and I don’t recall ever seeing homō ever used in the abstract sense of ‘humankind’. Someone else may recall a case, but I don’t see this usage listed in my dictionaries either.
In the film Stir Crazy, the two main characters are convicted of committing a federal crime yet they are sent to a state prison.
Whenever somebody quotes Nixon saying “I am not a cook” when it’s “I’m not a crook.”
1970’s hairstyles on MAS*H and Happy Days.
People claiming that Hogan’s Heroes took place in a Nazi concentration camp when in fact it took place in a POW camp. (Huge difference.)
All In The Family did not change its title to Archie Bunker’s Place. All In The Family left the air in 1979 and Archie Bunker’s Place was a spinoff.
And speaking of All In The Family, Meathead was suppose to have been born and raised in Chicago yet his accent was clearly NYC.
Why does Fonzie have a northeastern accent? And why if Fonzie is an auto mechanic did he never own a car during the show’s entire run?
Claiming that early MTV didn’t show videos by black artists because of racism. In actuality, there were few black artists shown because they were a rock and roll station and most black musicians at that time were more R&B.
Referring to mass murderers and spree killers as serial killers.
“That last song was by Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.”
??? Why is this wrong? They’re doing the same thing serially, i.e., once, twice, three times, four times… That’s a series, innit? I don’t get the formal distinction.
Mass murder is killing a bunch all at once.
Spree killing is running around from location to location, essentially a mass killing across multiple locales.
Serial killing is taking one person and killing them. Then later, taking another person and killing them. Then later, taking another person and killing them.
Mass murder and spree killing don’t really have patterns associated with their targets, they are primarily targets of opportunity. The defining characteristic of serial killers is that they do have a pattern in selecting victims, whether it’s in the victims or in the means of selecting them.
That first showed up (TMBK) in a SNL sketch where someone was interviewing the former president (Aykroyd).
Well, that is not the worst sin of that show. It supposedly takes place in Wisconsin, but you see only a light dusting of snow in two or three episodes. In that time period, there should have been at least a foot of snow on the ground in half or more of the episodes, and you should have been able to see the characters’ breath outside in two-thirds of them.
Cook? In which situations has this come up, I have never, ever heard this, and if I have it was an obvious joke.
Or did you mean “I am” vs. “I’m”? In which case, play it again, Sam.
Not really an error like your example, but the show “Little Rascals” was really “Our Gang,” and acquired the former title decades later in syndication. Nowadays the original title is much less known.
Reno 911 is obviously filmed in Los Angeles as it never snows and palm trees are everywhere instead of sagebrush.
References to witches being burned at the stake in Salem or anywhere else in America. Can’t think of an example off-hand, but trust me: it’s more common than you might think.
On other historical notes, comments about people thinking the Earth was flat 500 years ago or how 40 was old in the 19th century.
Thick stock southern accents in shows about New Orleans; New Orleans has several accents of its own, none of which are of the “Ah’m sippin’ mah julep on the verander” variety and some of which sound a lot more like various parts of NYC than the surrounding southern states.
There can only be one.
Complete this famous opening phrase . . . .
Faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive; ________________
I would wager 97% of you answered:
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
. . . and you’d be wrong.
The bullet/locomotive/tall building triad was used in the opening narratives to the Adventures of Superman radio programme, the seventeen Superman cartoons put out by Fleischer/Famous studios in the 1940’s, and the Adventures of Superman television series. And the lines were identical in all three media.
As reported, Superman was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and . . .
. . . able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!
That’s right. Not “in”—“at”. Yet, for all of its prevalence, one almost never hears the phrase repeated accurately.