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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 23:58:05 GMT
News report: "and the victims were taken to local hospitals." Well, of course the hospitals were local. They're not gonna take them to hospitals 2,000 miles away.
[Player x] has officially signed with the team. As opposed to, you know, unofficially signing.
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Post by someguy on Aug 20, 2018 0:48:50 GMT
Utilize. What can you say with "utilize" that you can't say with "use"?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 0:51:57 GMT
Depending on context: "Actually", "personally", "really", and "basically".
Words I use all the time. I have a bad habit of watering down my sentences with them.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Aug 20, 2018 1:01:55 GMT
Very.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 20, 2018 1:32:02 GMT
"It's a very real problem." How can you get more real than "real'? Is "very real" more real than "real"?
ATM machine
PIN number
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Aug 20, 2018 1:36:25 GMT
Utilize. What can you say with "utilize" that you can't say with "use"? Here's a case...... You don't tell the truth. Utilize. |
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 20, 2018 1:40:12 GMT
"Literally." Even worse when said by British speakers, who pronounce it as "lih-trully." And they seem to say it in virtually
(not lih-trully) every conversation. It's almost always used incorrectly.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 20, 2018 1:42:58 GMT
Inflammable
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Post by someguy on Aug 20, 2018 1:55:47 GMT
"Literally." Even worse when said by British speakers, who pronounce it as "lih-trully." And they seem to say it in virtually (not lih-trully) every conversation. It's almost always used incorrectly. You're right, people use the word "literally" incorrectly very often and it figuratively gets on my nerves. |
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Aug 20, 2018 3:05:34 GMT
You don't need the word dollars if you already have the corresponding currency symbol in place.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 20, 2018 3:14:38 GMT
The honest truth
The true facts
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 20, 2018 3:20:29 GMT
"Literally." Even worse when said by British speakers, who pronounce it as "lih-trully." And they seem to say it in virtually (not lih-trully) every conversation. It's almost always used incorrectly. Probably the second most misused word after ironic(ally) |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 20, 2018 3:23:02 GMT
slightly pregnant or very pregnant -
there's no degrees of pregnancy … either pregnant or not pregnant !
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 20, 2018 3:29:25 GMT
slightly pregnant or very pregnant - there's no degrees of pregnancy … either pregnant or not pregnant ! Thomas Jefferson, his own self, has been criticized for just that sort of thing in his dream of "a more perfect union." |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 20, 2018 3:43:25 GMT
very dead
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Post by Sulla on Aug 20, 2018 7:29:40 GMT
I didn't realize I was doing that until I started using message boards and read what I type before posting. Sometimes I wonder if U.S. Southerners do it more than in other regions. All The Pretty Horses has Lucas Black using the phrase "...killed him graveyard dead."
As Firesign Theater used to say, "brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 20, 2018 11:27:09 GMT
… using message boards and read what I type before posting.
you're supposed to do that ? 
I kinda like "graveyard dead". It's literary-ish !
reminds me of: As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
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Post by hardball on Aug 20, 2018 11:44:57 GMT
Well
"Well, are you going to call her?"
"Well, I suppose I should."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 20, 2018 12:15:27 GMT
NOW
Used here by local newscasters at the start of every "story" segment.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 20, 2018 12:19:12 GMT
News report: "and the victims were taken to local hospitals." Well, of course the hospitals were local. They're not gonna take them to hospitals 2,000 miles away. [Player x] has officially signed with the team. As opposed to, you know, unofficially signing. Maybe they want to make sure that you don't think they were taken to local fast food restaurants. |
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