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"They annotated their map to better orientate themselves."

 Easy E wrote:
I love the weird slang! The stranger the better.

Fit - Your style choices in clothes
Rizz - Ability to flirt
Bag 'in - Create a relationship with

It is all so good. I especially love looking at slang from the past and present and intermixing them all together.

I can’t link to any here, but Google “Raffles The Gentleman Thug”.

“I vouchsafed are you scrutinizing the aesthetic exteriority of my bird? You are, aren’t you? You’re observing her embonpoint, you dirty little fornicator”

 Easy E wrote:
I love the weird slang! The stranger the better.

Fit - Your style choices in clothes
Rizz - Ability to flirt
Bag 'in - Create a relationship with

It is all so good. I especially love looking at slang from the past and present and intermixing them all together.

My understanding is that rizz is simply a contraction of charisma...

Because I read something that annoyed me today: Calling the Irish language "Gaelic" really annoys me. It's called Irish in English, and Gaelic is the name for the language family which includes Scots Gaelic and Manx. It's like calling English Germanic.

And it's incredible, if you ever correct someone on this, you will be told you are wrong and they will insist it's called Gaelic.

Similarly, Eire is not the name for Ireland in Irish, it's the Irish word for "burden". Éire is the correct spelling. Now, I know. Your keyboard can't do the accent! Okay, so just call it Ireland. Do you go around calling Germany Deutschland in English, or Poland Polska?

No, but I’m often asked by Americans if I’m from Scotland, England.

The answer would probably be "yes, but no" (or "no, but yes").
The counter to that is worse. 'Americans' seem to hate it when you point out that everyone from The Americas are 'Americans', not just USians. Brazilians and Canadians are as American as 'Americans'.
It's the norm now, but for a long time...

 Dysartes wrote:
You might not like them, Tony, but both Orientate and Annotate are definitely real words.

You don't "orientate" a weapon, you "orient" the weapon. The problem is that the suffix on the words orientation and conversation is -ation, and therein lies the problem. People can't differentiate between the end of "deflection" and "sensation", as two examples. Just because people use the word "orientate" doesn't mean it's an actual word.

If you want to get RIGHT DOWN TO IT, "irregardless" is in pretty much every dictionary as an improper form of "regardless". Doesn't make it an actual word, though.


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 Haighus wrote:
"They annotated their map to better orientate themselves."

"orient themselves."

Can anyone explain the new fad of using apostrophed 's for plural? I don't think it used to be a thing but now I see it everywhere.

For example "many wargame's" instead of "many wargames".

That isn't new.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/apostrophe_error_with_plurals.htm

So just decided to look orientated/oriented up. Its a British/US English divide, which explains it.

Two peoples divided by a common language...

Annotate is a real word.

“The reason why” is grandfathered in by that song, “you’re gonna be the reason why, when they’re spitting in your eye, they’ll be spitting in your eye.”

Stan is a reference to that Eminem song, right? Anything that makes me thing of that Dido chorus is alright by me.


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Cyel wrote:
Can anyone explain the new fad of using apostrophed 's for plural? I don't think it used to be a thing but now I see it everywhere.

For example "many wargame's" instead of "many wargames".

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me it’s entirely an autocorrect thing, where autocorrect adds in the apostrophe to be “helpful” and sometimes I miss it before posting.

 Skinnereal wrote:
That isn't new.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/apostrophe_error_with_plurals.htm

It even has its own name, awesome!

Btw, scrolling their page I found this:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Annotate is a real word.

“The reason why” is grandfathered in by that song, “you’re gonna be the reason why, when they’re spitting in your eye, they’ll be spitting in your eye.”

Stan is a reference to that Eminem song, right? Anything that makes me thing of that Dido chorus is alright by me.


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Cyel wrote:
Can anyone explain the new fad of using apostrophed 's for plural? I don't think it used to be a thing but now I see it everywhere.

For example "many wargame's" instead of "many wargames".

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me it’s entirely an autocorrect thing, where autocorrect adds in the apostrophe to be “helpful” and sometimes I miss it before posting.

I acknowledged annotate as a real word, I just said it feels like it shouldn't be as it's awkward and can easily be replaced with note or noted.


And apostrophes take second place only to the comma as the most abused/misused punctuation mark...

Note and Annotate are different things to my mind.

Note is “this is the relevant bit of the text I intend to quote/rely on”

Annotate is “this isn’t quite correct, so here is my short hand clarification for future reference and update”

 Just Tony wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Annotate is a real word.

“The reason why” is grandfathered in by that song, “you’re gonna be the reason why, when they’re spitting in your eye, they’ll be spitting in your eye.”

Stan is a reference to that Eminem song, right? Anything that makes me thing of that Dido chorus is alright by me.


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Cyel wrote:
Can anyone explain the new fad of using apostrophed 's for plural? I don't think it used to be a thing but now I see it everywhere.

For example "many wargame's" instead of "many wargames".

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me it’s entirely an autocorrect thing, where autocorrect adds in the apostrophe to be “helpful” and sometimes I miss it before posting.

I acknowledged annotate as a real word, I just said it feels like it shouldn't be as it's awkward and can easily be replaced with note or noted.


And apostrophes take second place only to the comma as the most abused/misused punctuation mark...

The Oxford Comma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

And my favorite punctuation story: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/us/dairy-drivers-oxford-comma-case-settlement-trnd/index.html

Big fan of the Oxford comma myself. Reduces ambiguity.

Oxford comma is solid for writing conversationally.

And is punctuation not at least partially there to offer tone?

 Just Tony wrote:

If you want to get RIGHT DOWN TO IT, "irregardless" is in pretty much every dictionary as an improper form of "regardless". Doesn't make it an actual word, though.

I feel like this really comes down to how you're defining an 'actual word'... it's been in use since at least the 1920, is in the dictionary, and is widespread enough that everyone knows what it means even though it's not considered 'correct' usage, so it definitely seems like an 'actual word'... at worst, it puts it in the same category as any widely used slang or colloquialism.


Having said that, I hate it with a passion and the people who use it should watch their backs, come the revolution...

My biggest pet peeve is people who use the word 'literally' figuratively.

Thanks to an internet interaction I now have another one to add to the list: neuro spicy.

Does anyone else ever hear people call turrets "turrents"? On a few occasions from different sources and I don't know where the phantom 'n' is coming from. Maybe it is just an awkward pronunciation, but still, very odd to me.

I don't believe I've heard it irl, but online in gaming where a game has a turret of some sort I hear it being called that.

 Ahtman wrote:
Does anyone else ever hear people call turrets "turrents"? On a few occasions from different sources and I don't know where the phantom 'n' is coming from. Maybe it is just an awkward pronunciation, but still, very odd to me.

I don't believe I've heard it irl, but online in gaming where a game has a turret of some sort I hear it being called that.

I know a couple of people who say “turrents” in real life. And one of them says “Bobba Fett” no matter how hard he tries to stop. It’s like the Simpsons “coffee? Beer?” meme.

Yeah, 'turrents' is a thing. I'm not sure if it's people genuinely not knowing the proper word, or just having difficulty pronouncing it.

"Military Grade"

That does not mean what you think it does.

 dracpanzer wrote:
"Military Grade"

That does not mean what you think it does.

What people imagine *rugged, tough, durable, made to the highest quality suitable for any harsh outdoor evironment*

Reality *made as cheaply as we could with the cheapest most easily replaced parts. Probably works ok for a while, but will break.*

Can't remember if I mentioned it previously, but in a similar vein to the "turrents" thing, people using "tenants" when they meant "tenets"...

Have we gone over the entirety of Weird Al's "Word Crimes" lyrics' list of crimes against language yet?

"It's a mute point."


I cannot expressed the festering hatred.I feel when someone says this or types it.

 Just Tony wrote:


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Just because people use the word "orientate" doesn't mean it's an actual word.

"

I am pretty sure that is in fact how language works

Young British Oiks referring to the Police as “The Feds”.

That’s enough hip hop for you young man. Go to your room, and don’t come out until you remember we’ve many, many, many of our own slang words for the Police. Some positive, but mostly negative. Even a few neutral (Rozzers, Peelers)