jillybean said:

Every day, legions of people misuse the word “literally.”

First off, if there is not a ‘figurative’ way of saying something, then the word ‘literally’ is not needed when explaining oneself. “I literally wanted to throw my shoe at the TV.” “Wanting to throw a shoe at the TV” isn’t a figure of speech – it means exactly that! ‘Spend the night in the doghouse’ – that’s a figure of speech. So if someone says, “I literally spent the night in the doghouse,” if they didn’t spend the night in an actual house built and meant for a dog, they’re a liar.

Also, it bugs/confuses me when people say, “You have a temperature,” when they mean, “You have a fever.” Even corpses have temperatures!

YES YES YES So (&*&(! irritating.

XxAxX said:

staycation just, bugs me.

vacation originated from the word vacate

there is no such word as staycate

I'm guessing you don't like "funemployment" any better?

ox·y·mo·ron (ks-môrn, -mr-)

n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons

A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

[Greek oxumron, from neuter of oxumros, pointedly foolish : oxus, sharp; seeoxygen + mros, foolish, dull.]

oxy·mo·ronic (-m-rnk) adj.

oxy·mo·roni·cal·ly adv.

"if it were better, it wouldn't be as good"

brendan gill

Efan said:

Saying someone has "quite a temper" always threw me. The more temper you have, the more control you'd have. At least that's the way it should be.

"Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it." - Buddy Rydell

NDRU said:

XxAxX said:

staycation just, bugs me.

vacation originated from the word vacate

there is no such word as staycate

I'm guessing you don't like "funemployment" any better?

KingBAD said:

ox·y·mo·ron (ks-môrn, -mr-)

n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons

A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

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[Greek oxumron, from neuter of oxumros, pointedly foolish : oxus, sharp; seeoxygen + mros, foolish, dull.]

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oxy·mo·ronic (-m-rnk) adj.

oxy·mo·roni·cal·ly adv.

"if it were better, it wouldn't be as good"

brendan gill

This thread is also about "weird & wrong" but oxymorons are maybe more intersting

On a related note, this is a classic:

"When I'm good, I'm very very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better"

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Others?

all your posts on prince.org?

Tremolina said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Others?

all your posts on prince.org?

yeah i go over most people's heads.

Conversate

Chester drawers

Labtop

XxAxX said:

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