“As far as” instead of “As for”.
“In terms of” instead of “As for”. (Not incorrect, just stilted)
“As for” isn’t stilted? I’ve never even heard that expression.
“You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe!”
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Drives me crazy when there is a show/film about a music conductor and he just waves his arms around.
Doesn’t even come close to finding the beat or anything else.
Just flailing away at the air.
The “Koreans” in black pyjamas? The funny helicopters shown? That on TV a 3 year war lasted 11 years?
You pick one thing to be offended by, and it’s the haircuts? 
The show didn’t depict the war as lasting 11 years. That’s not an error that the show committed.
I’m not very musical but I notice this too sometimes. I always get bogged down though wondering if it was the actor who missed the beat or whether something got lost during the film and sound editing. The sound on the stage probably didn’t match what’s in the film.
I was going to post that people working the action on their firearms bugs the hell out of me. Nearly every time, they’re in a situation where they would already have a round chambered.
Somewhere, hidden away in a box in a storage unit, I have a couple of ‘Hollywood style’ blank firing adapters for M-16s/AR-15s. These are plugs with small holes in them, that fit between the muzzle and the flash suppressor. Since blanks do not have a projectile, there’s no ‘equal and opposite reaction’ to push the bolt or slide back, nor anything to make the gas go through the gas port in gas-operated firearms. Restricting the barrel with a plug with a hole in it simulates a bullet in the cartridge. With an M-16 it’s easy. I’m guessing it’s easy with any firearm that has a flash suppressor or muzzle brake. Other guns take a little more work. For one film we modified the writer/producer/director’s Beretta 92FS to fire blanks. We bought a threaded plug from the hardware store and threaded the breech of the barrel. We drilled a hole in the plug. It turned out the hole needed to be larger than we thought, but before that we couldn’t get the pistol to cycle. We had to grind the lugs off of the locking block. Then it was a matter of widening the hole in the breech plug until pressures were brought down to a reasonable level so as not to slam the slide back. Of course this made the pistol unusable for live ammunition, and it would need a new barrel and locking block to convert it back. And of course, ‘Don’t try this at home.’
Blank-firing prop guns are available to rent. Robert Rodriguez didn’t in El Mariachi because he didn’t have the budget and he borrowed guns from the local police, so he had to work the action for every round. (He edited so that it looked like machine guns worked like machine guns.) But any TV series or just about any movie is going to have the budget to hire an armorer and blank-firing prop guns. So working the action is ‘Good Hollywood’ for people who don’t know how guns work, but :rolleyes:-inducing for people who do.
Incorrectly. “Wrong” is an adjective. To modify a verb, you need to use an adverb.
I mention this as it is a tiny error, perpetuated endlessly, that drives me insane. Did nobody pay attention in high school?
You are wrongly
I remembered listening to the director’s commentary for the cheerleading movie Bring It On, and there are several scenes where one of the actors is dancing, and the director describes how there was no music on set, and he was just yelling out “slower” or “faster” or something like that, and then music was added much later, when they had figured out what songs they had the rights to, and so forth. I’d imagine scenes of conductors might be quite similar.
I was entirely prepared to admit the error of my ways. Then, I read the page to which you linked. I’m feeling much better now. Thank You!
Tell it to the OED.
It’s extremely petty, but it’s also on the front page of the Straight Dope today:
the lyrics are “Memories LIGHT the corners of my mind” not “Memories, like the corners…”
Some select quotes:
Dictionary.com thinks you’re wrong, as well.
I’ve mentioned my pet peeve of misusing “fewer” and “less” before. It seems to be cropping up in commercials more and more lately.
Speaking of mispronunciation: a newer one I’ve started noticing in TV shows is characters mentioning “Calling in the calvary.” Or “We’re going to need the calvary.” Calvary vs. Cavalry
This is totally incorrect! The earliest usage in the OED is from 1330: clearly the 14th century!
As I mentioned a few pages back, while “fewer” is indeed restricted to countable quantities, “less” is not now, nor has it ever been, restricted to uncountables.
And a link!