Someone I like doesn’t have to know me for a very long time before he or she is likely to get called by some little term of endearment. It’s a habit of mine and I don’t think too much about it, really. Gender doesn’t matter, age doesn’t matter much, though I’m unlikely to call a […]
Windows file systems note: “Barcelona – Please don’t Go” is not the same thing as “Barcelona – Please Don’t Go”. When I make a typo in a file name, then copy it to a storage partition that has to be Windows-accessible (i.e. accessible by an OS too useless to recognise anything but its own company’s […]
CNN…where journalism goes to die. Seriously, Mairi, “than/then”? Have you ever taken an English class above third grade level? I guess I could understand (though not forgive) it if…you know…if writing wasn’t your job. When they give you a byline, there’s almost an expectation that you at least mostly know what the fuck you’re doing…
You have got to be kidding me. “…but I am yet to try it…” Oh, are you? I’m so very pleased to make your acquaintance, Yet To Try It. A most interesting name…you’re not from this area, are you? I’ve heard a lot of eggcorns and malapropisms (hell, we had the ruling Monarch of Malapropisms […]
“Nice closeup work with a P&S.” I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be flattered or insulted; what a backhanded fucking compliment! Why didn’t he just say what he meant? “You did okay for having such rubbish equipment.” Unless he’s calling me later today to give me his credit card number and PIN, I guess […]
Heroine. Christ. Just past ten in the morning and it’s already 29-fucking-degrees, which makes me short-tempered at best. Illiterate idiots. I hate you all. I’m gonna go fix the wireless on my laptop, since Windows decided I no longer have a wireless connection yesterday…right in the middle of a video conference with J., which was […]
Heroine: Here–have another: Heroine addicts: Heroin: (Note that there is no goddamned “e” at the end!) Heroin addict. For the love of…whatever it is that you love, learn the difference! You can say them the same if you like, but they are two different words and if you ever picked up a fucking book, you’d […]
Regardless means “without regard to; in spite of (something).” Irrespective means “heedless; characterised by disregard.” Practically interchangeable, but you get to choose only one of these two words…you can’t use bits from both. I don’t care what some web site says about “non-standard use”; that is simply a polite way to say “illiterate use”, and […]
This was in my “Highlights” (or whatever the thingie on the right is called). I fucking hate-hate-hate this. There simply aren’t words for the utter contempt I feel every time someone makes a stupid grade-school level mistake like this. This woman is an excellent artist, has a TV show (though I’ve never actually watched it), […]
I like Facebook. Not, “I can’t live without checking my Facebook every day,” but I don’t dislike it as much as I thought I would…except for one thing. Whatever genius designed it offers three options for those friends who have nothing to fucking do all day but take stupid quizzes which then automatically post on […]