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I just saw someone use the phrase: "pitfalls loom..."
Pitfalls can't loom. They're pits. They do the exact opposite of looming. They can await, they can deepen, they can yawn... god damn it, do words mean NOTHING any more?
Well, nothing means something, so there you go.
GAH!
What if the bottom end of a pitfall opens out on the ceiling above you or nearby? Then a pitfall could loom.
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What if the bottom end of a pitfall opens out on the ceiling above you or nearby? Then a pitfall could loom.
If it opens, it's not a pit. It's a chute.
Dammit! Failed again!
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I have never even attempted a will save vs. pedantry, so having failed one puts you a step ahead of me.
I'm trying something new this year. So far, it is not going well.
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Many objects compose a single collective object.
A single collective object comprises many objects.
*eye twitch*
For example, my day comprises a series of failed Will saves vs. pedantry. A series of failed Will saves vs. pedantry composes my day.
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What if the bottom end of a pitfall opens out on the ceiling above you or nearby? Then a pitfall could loom.If it opens, it's not a pit. It's a chute.
Dammit! Failed again!
Well, shoot.
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I watch a lot of sports. In the past year, the new grating sportscaster meme is calling something good in a NON-BASEBALL sport a 'home run'.
No. He did not hit a home run. He threw a football well and the other guy caught it well. No, she did not hit a home run. She vaulted the HELL out of that vault and stuck the landing. And if a tennis player hits a home run, they're definitely doing it wrong.
Seriously, people. Are you so bereft of metaphors?!
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I watch a lot of sports. In the past year, the new grating sportscaster meme is calling something good in a NON-BASEBALL sport a 'home run'.
No. He did not hit a home run. He threw a football well and the other guy caught it well. No, she did not hit a home run. She vaulted the HELL out of that vault and stuck the landing. And if a tennis player hits a home run, they're definitely doing it wrong.
Seriously, people. Are you so bereft of metaphors?!
I'm literally besides myself with rage. That's the penultimate failure.
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GAH!
GAH!
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I'm literally besides myself with rage. That's the penultimate failure.I watch a lot of sports. In the past year, the new grating sportscaster meme is calling something good in a NON-BASEBALL sport a 'home run'.
No. He did not hit a home run. He threw a football well and the other guy caught it well. No, she did not hit a home run. She vaulted the HELL out of that vault and stuck the landing. And if a tennis player hits a home run, they're definitely doing it wrong.
Seriously, people. Are you so bereft of metaphors?!
This comment is perfect.
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I understand that colloquial definitions are not literal definitions, but every time I hear someone use the phrase "completely decimated," I die a little inside.
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I understand that colloquial definitions are not literal definitions, but every time I hear someone use the phrase "completely decimated," I die a little inside.Do you die 10% inside?
Why, in fact, I did.
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Why, in fact, I did.I understand that colloquial definitions are not literal definitions, but every time I hear someone use the phrase "completely decimated," I die a little inside.Do you die 10% inside?
Every tenth one of you was cut down by the centurion, I bet.
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Every tenth one of you was cut down by the centurion, I bet.Why, in fact, I did.I understand that colloquial definitions are not literal definitions, but every time I hear someone use the phrase "completely decimated," I die a little inside.Do you die 10% inside?
Nah, the other nine parts of me beat the tenth to death with clubs.
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This comment is perfect.I'm literally besides myself with rage. That's the penultimate failure.I watch a lot of sports. In the past year, the new grating sportscaster meme is calling something good in a NON-BASEBALL sport a 'home run'.
No. He did not hit a home run. He threw a football well and the other guy caught it well. No, she did not hit a home run. She vaulted the HELL out of that vault and stuck the landing. And if a tennis player hits a home run, they're definitely doing it wrong.
Seriously, people. Are you so bereft of metaphors?!
*Takes bow. Nods head, smiling with gratitude. Begs forgiveness from fellow pedants.*
*Takes bow. Nods head, smiling with gratitude. Begs forgiveness from fellow pedants.*
*fails Will save*
NEVER!
I’m just here for the chips.
I’m just here for the chips.
Yeeessss?
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I’m just here for the chips.Yeeessss?
That’s correct. All the kinds.
I just saw someone use the phrase: "pitfalls loom..."
Pitfalls can't loom. They're pits. They do the exact opposite of looming. They can await, they can deepen, they can yawn... g#+ d++n it, do words mean NOTHING any more?
I suppose they could loom if the pitfall is actually a mimic. Or if the pitfall had been previously bitten by a radioactive Douglas Adams.
If the pitfall was lined with giant spider webbing, then I guess that technically the spider did the looming.
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Unless your species is one of them there 'hive minds' don't be using the phrase 'group selfie'.
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Another one that's been bothering me recently: you don't "fire" an arrow, you "loose" or "shoot" an arrow. (Some exceptions apply, however.)
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I'm on a news boycott until someone tells me a journalist has said:
"Tragic news tonight as a local man unknowingly kills his father, has sex with his mother, finds out about it, and pokes out his own eyes."
Or some variant thereupon.
Tragic != sad, horrible, disastrous, deadly...
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In all fairness, I presume, since Aristotle complains about that sort of thing in the Poetics and how some of the writers in Athens were letting tragedy down, that it might be an age-old problem.
*Glances at title of thread.* *Looks worriedly at her roll and double-checks her Will modifier.* XD
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Unless your species is one of them there 'hive minds' don't be using the phrase 'group selfie'.One might argue that the definition of a 'selfie' is that you take it yourself of yourself with a handheld device, not that it must contain only yourself as a singular subject. So 'group selfie' is merely a convenient way of saying that one 'took a picture of oneself with a handheld device with onself as subject + (other subjects)'.
One might... except the British have thoughtfully coined the phrase "ussie" to refer to that exact situation. There WAS a solution, people chose not to use it. WILL SAVE FAILED!
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Back in the days of photography, if you took a picture of a group of people; it wasn’t called a “themsie”.
I concede both points and withdraw my pedantic objection.
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Probably less pedantry and more just me being wrong, but this bugged me: I need to clean out my sock drawer and refresh my hosiery, so I started browsing online for something fun, only to be met with, among other things, "solid sheer" tights.
Now, I understand that what they're getting at is "unpatterned, but including more exciting colours than flesh tones and black," but given the range of skin tones, let alone the desired diaphanous effect once one puts the damn things on, *I* would think anything sheer introduces too much variation in effect for "solid" to be quite the right word.
If I wanted a solid colour, I would get opaque tights, and if I just wanted a particular hue, I would get a monochrome pair, I think? Or just "colourful" rather than "patterned." (:
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Perhaps they meant the thermodynamic phase? Like, you wouldn't want liquid tights as they would eventually slide off and it's hard to imagine a gas being sufficiently tight to qualify as 'tights' (although I'm sure there must be some corner case of compound + pressure that would work).
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Probably less pedantry and more just me being wrong, but this bugged me: I need to clean out my sock drawer and refresh my hosiery, so I started browsing online for something fun, only to be met with, among other things, "solid sheer" tights.
Now, I understand that what they're getting at is "unpatterned, but including more exciting colours than flesh tones and black," but given the range of skin tones, let alone the desired diaphanous effect once one puts the damn things on, *I* would think anything sheer introduces too much variation in effect for "solid" to be quite the right word.
If I wanted a solid colour, I would get opaque tights, and if I just wanted a particular hue, I would get a monochrome pair, I think? Or just "colourful" rather than "patterned." (:
I have seen online acquaintances raving about possibly similar "sheer" tights. Apparently the tights look sheer in person but are actually opaque because they are fleece-lined. Which works wonders for those in chilly climes. This misuse/linguistic drift of "sheer" bugs me too.
...Though not to the irrational extent of one YouTuber's continued use of "transclearent." Dude. "Transparent" and "translucent" are both right there! They're both perfectly cromulent words! Embiggen your vocabulary! And in recent months, I've started seeing transclearent in the wild on a related message board. Makes me wish I had a flamethrower to go full MacReady on the spreading infection.
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"Transclearent"? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin.
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Probably less pedantry and more just me being wrong, but this bugged me: I need to clean out my sock drawer and refresh my hosiery, so I started browsing online for something fun, only to be met with, among other things, "solid sheer" tights.
Now, I understand that what they're getting at is "unpatterned, but including more exciting colours than flesh tones and black," but given the range of skin tones, let alone the desired diaphanous effect once one puts the damn things on, *I* would think anything sheer introduces too much variation in effect for "solid" to be quite the right word.
If I wanted a solid colour, I would get opaque tights, and if I just wanted a particular hue, I would get a monochrome pair, I think? Or just "colourful" rather than "patterned." (:
I have seen online acquaintances raving about possibly similar "sheer" tights. Apparently the tights look sheer in person but are actually opaque because they are fleece-lined. Which works wonders for those in chilly climes. This misuse/linguistic drift of "sheer" bugs me too.
...Though not to the irrational extent of one YouTuber's continued use of "transclearent." Dude. "Transparent" and "translucent" are both right there! They're both perfectly cromulent words! Embiggen your vocabulary! And in recent months, I've started seeing transclearent in the wild on a related message board. Makes me wish I had a flamethrower to go full MacReady on the spreading infection.
"Youtuber Vocabulary" is my absolute bane as of late. I'm so tired of hearing/reading "unalived" instead of "dead/killed", "shiii" and "ahh" instead of the actual swears they're clearly censored versions of, and a handful of other recent substitutions meant to dodge the Youtube censor-bots.
It's like an even stupider version of Newspeak.
I get why it has to be in the videos, even if it irritates me, but it's been leaking into common vernacular. There's no reason to say "dumb-ahh" in actual non-video conversation! Just say dumbass! ARGH!
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people with brain allergies have hived minds...
ohhh... *nevermind*