OT: Hind Lick Maneuver

[Brian K. White]

Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Fairlight--said:
>>
>> Strangely, I never saw it cross the list.
>
> Not to like follow myself up or anything, but...nevermind.  I did get
> it, and in the hectic timing of the last 2 days had postponed it to
> read as a joke.  Only I didn't recognise the subject from Bob's
> changed subject line.  So I did indeed get it...and got a chuckle out
> of it.
>
> My mistake.  (As opposed to "my bad", which makes me cringe every
> time I hear it.  I still want to know who started that -really-
> annoying trend.  I wonder if I'm the only ex English major that wants
> to slit my wrists every time I hear it.)  :)

It bugs me too, only thing worse is people whos only job in the world is to
talk clearly (news reporters) saying "nucular".

Another thing, using the wrong word for simple cases where the word sounds
the same but is completely wrong in meaning is not so much annoying as just
plain makes the writer sound embarassingly ignorant.

Your not going to the store in you're car.

I have to be very selectively critical though. I expend just about 0 effort
adhering to proper spelling & grammer in any transient communication (email,
chat rooms, newsgroups). And well, it shows. So I have to make sure this
topic doesn't stray into that area if I want to stay on the right side of
the ignorant loser line :)

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