I'm quoting an old post, I know, but I've only just spotted the thread.
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Originally Posted by slayda
I once tried to catalog all the words that were used to mean "good", e.g. neat, cool, good, & bad were some of the words on that list.
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Sick seems to have recently become a popular word to mean good.
If I tell a someone the joke they just told was sick I mean it was revolting, not that I liked it.
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
My personal crusade is to save the adverbs! I even wrote a company because of the text on their cereal box: "Why eat organic?".
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Writing "
a company because of the text on their cereal box: "Why eat organic?" " wouldn't really help very much, where did you write it?
I think what you meant was you "wrote
to a company ...". Another example of American laziness destroying our mother tongue.
Another phrase which annoys me is statements like "That bag needs emptied" - no, it "needs emptying" or "needs to be emptied", but I can't put the blame for that one on the Americans, it's my other half who uses it
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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I wasn't aware of the correct usage of "begs the question" ... oops, my bad!
