colorway
― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
how can u be annoyed by words u made up
― clouds, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
lol
― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
I wish.
the overuse of the following has been irritating the fuck out of me lately
"phenomenal""huge""brutal"
― sexxx attic (will), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
my job involves a lot of big law fuckwits
"sammich"
― N337 (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
penalized
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
doesn't the word "earthquake" seem a little cartoonish or dramatic
― rip van wanko, Friday, 15 May 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
most earthquakes are a bit cartoonish, in that all you feel is a bit of a shiver. the big ones are, of course, not so cartoonish
― Aimless, Friday, 15 May 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
earthquakes are not cartoonishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUJ6yCURzM
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Friday, 15 May 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
quintessential is not a bad word at all, essentially, but in practise it seems to mostly be poorly used
― the mark s of juxberry rules (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
shd be reserved for alchemists
― eremitic brid (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
The word "brave" used to describe anything involving publishing a blog post, listicle, Instagram photo, etc assuming you don't live in a repressive regime.
― five six and (man alive), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
'perfectly', as used in clickbaity articles that 'perfectly sum-up the world today'
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
Guys at the office who still think it's okay to call female colleagues "adorable"
Just the word "adorable"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
it feels completely disgusting to be called adorable so thanks for the support!i mean that.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
people using "begs the question" incorrectly. When someone uses it correctly it really makes me want to weep for joy.
I've been thinking about this. I'm genuinely curious how many instances there are of someone using this expression 'correctly' outside the context of philosophy academia - unless it is just for the sake of 'correcting' the 'incorrect' usage. When I Google "beg the question", the first five pages of results consist entirely of either definitions or people discussing what the correct usage should be. It is only on the sixth page that I come across someone using the expression to describe a fallacious argument - and this is in a scholarly article in Informal Logic. Are there many actual instances of e.g. an opposition MP saying "the Honourable Minister begs the question when he argues for increased military intervention on the grounds that the Middle East has been growing more unstable since our involvement began"? For comparison, I can find several examples of "strawman". In any situation I can think of where one might use "beg the question" 'properly', it seems like it might be clearer and simpler to just say "you are assuming x without proving it".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 6 September 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
it seems like it might be clearer and simpler
I'd say it not just "might be", but it would be.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 6 September 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link