People who use words they don't understand

B0jangles

B0jangles wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/woman/miss-ireland-aoife-walsh-hopes-her-red-hair-will-cinch-the-miss-world-title-29555699.html

Headline:

"Miss Ireland Aoife Walsh hopes her red hair will cinch the Miss World title"


Cinch does not mean what you think it does Indo .

A typo maybe? They must have meant clinch.

Then again...The Indo...:)

bonzodog2

Some of you lot could have some fun in the Linguistics & Etymology forum. They've only 6 pages of threads altogether. Won't somebody think of the words ?


:D

pickarooney

Presently means 'just now' (or is it 'now now'?)

Daveysil15

When people use big words to sound cool, like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKpFFD7aX3c

Black_Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

Lingua Franca

jester77 wrote: »

A lot of people are ignorant of begrudgery, literally

A great many more are ignorant to the meaning of "ignorant". Not you, obviously!

I'm sick of hearing ignorant people using the word ignorant to mean rude or offensive.

"lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated."

I offer up the Irish use of the word of ignorant to define irony.

Karl Stein

Lingua Franca wrote: »

I'm sick of hearing ignorant people using the word ignorant to mean rude or offensive.

I think it's going to be one of those words that's going to be captured and re-defined by how the majority of people employ it.

Call me an ignorant bastard if you will but that's what I think.

Caonima

Lingua Franca wrote: »

A great many more are ignorant to the meaning of "ignorant". Not you, obviously!

I'm sick of hearing ignorant people using the word ignorant to mean rude or offensive.

"lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated."

I offer up the Irish use of the word of ignorant to define irony.

When I was a kid and I did something bad, my mum used to say to me "Don't be impotent". Only years later I worked out she meant "impudent". :rolleyes:

Rachiee

Ignorant to refer to someone as rude comes from trying to explain someones behaviour. Ie the person is being nasty judgemental because they are ignorant of your life (case of racism homphobia) or the are being rude because they are ignorant of how to behave in social settings. Its trying to make sense of why other people are sometimes horrible and deciding they are ignorant rather than bad.
I do think its become twisted and overused though.

Drakares

"You don't got nothin'!"

"So you're saying I have something?"

Confusion follows

Merrion

srsly78 wrote: »

For all intensive purposes it does.

aargh! For all intents and purposes.

crockholm

Hoi Polloi,often used incorrectly.

osarusan

Merrion wrote: »

aargh! For all intents and purposes.

I'm pretty sure they knew that.

Lingua Franca

Rachiee wrote: »

Ignorant to refer to someone as rude comes from trying to explain someones behaviour. Ie the person is being nasty judgemental because they are ignorant of your life (case of racism homphobia) or the are being rude because they are ignorant of how to behave in social settings. Its trying to make sense of why other people are sometimes horrible and deciding they are ignorant rather than bad.
I do think its become twisted and overused though.

That's very generous of you, but the people misusing the word and tossing it around all the time tend not to be the critical thinkers of society. They really do believe that it means rude and/or offensive.

Peregrinus

HansHolzel wrote: »

From your own 'Oxford' source:

"Both senses date back to the Middle Ages, but the second sense fell into disfavor between the 17th and 20th centuries."

Note the American spelling of disfavour in an 'Oxford' link. This is NOT a link to the OED.

Your actual Oxford English Dictionary gives "at once; forthwith; immediately; without delay; quickly" as the primary (i.e.first in time) meaning to develop, but says that it's now "regional and rare" in Britain. The earliest citation is from 1385.

"In a little while; before long" is "now the usual sense". First citation is from 1443.

The meaning of "at the present time; now" is first noted in 1425. It disappears from literary British English from the 17th to the 20th century but survives for that period in many English dialects and in Scotland. It becomes popular in the US in the mid-20th century, and is subsequently revived in standard British English (but controversially; it's "regarded by some usage writers . . . as erroneous and ambiguous").

Karl Stein

Lingua Franca wrote: »

the people misusing the word and tossing it around all the time tend not to be the critical thinkers of society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc

Gmol

the amount of people who play guitar rifts is scary

Vomit

I've actually come across more than one person who thought 'chronic' meant that something was really bad- e.g. "How did Liverpool play last night?" - "Aw, they were chronic!"

srsly78

Merrion wrote: »

aargh! For all intents and purposes.

Capitalise your aargh if it's the start of a sentence please.

HansHolzel

What is with soccer types and their ignorance of past participles? Ronnie Whelan all night, Ray Houghton every night and now even Brady is at it.

y0ssar1an22

HansHolzel wrote: »

What is with soccer types and their ignorance of past participles? Ronnie Whelan all night, Ray Houghton every night and now even Brady is at it.

whats a passed participle?

HansHolzel

Do you see anything wrong with this sentence?

"He done what he should have did."

y0ssar1an22

He did what he should have done?

nomdeboardie

Americans love to say "rate of speed"

y0ssar1an22

I was leaning again the wall :mad:

HansHolzel

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

He did what he should have done?

Using language like that, you'll never make it as George Hamilton's sidekick ;-)

y0ssar1an22

HansHolzel wrote: »

Using language like that, you'll never make it as George Hamilton's sidekick ;-)

He done something bad?

HansHolzel

Trap did. They all did.

y0ssar1an22

Trap made a boo boo?

Love2love

Caonima wrote: »

When I was a kid and I did something bad, my mum used to say to me "Don't be impotent". Only years later I worked out she meant "impudent". :rolleyes:

Or when you hear someone say the child is bold for badly behaved.

Awful = terrible, awful means full of awe, no?

Massive = beautiful