Drabble by Kevin Fagan for November 10, 2023

“I could care less.” /smile

Don’t get me started.

That boat sailed?

I could be here all day with these. Don’t say “both” when you mean “each.” “I poured them both a cup of coffee.” Then they shared the cup of coffee. “I poured them each a cup of coffee.” Then each of them got his or her own cup. Don’t say “quite” when you mean “quiet.” I can’t tell you how many times I see mistakes like this even in books. Don’t writers have proofreaders anymore?

“Try and” when it should be “try to.”

When I hear people say “begging the question” instead of “raising the question”, I just want to scream.

“They misunderestimated me”.

If we’re talking irks, her pearls always look like they were strung with 10 gauge solid, why don’t they EVER lay flat ?

I tried watching something recently and the third time the man said “me and my wife” I had to turn it off.

Deciding to press Mom’s trigger buttons there, Norm?

The overuse of the word literally, ranks up there with awesome.

“For all intensive purposes…”

I’m not a big fan of this, either, but I think that at some point we’re going to have to accept that literally is now an auto-antonym.

Don’t say “infer” when you mean “imply,” and vice-versa.

“Mrs. Drabble, for all intensive purposes… "

Ranks up there with “irregardless”

Same as flammable and inflammable. They mean the same thing. Worse is people using the wrong spelling of a word, over and over. “It was there fault”. Save Me !!!

I believe that “irregardless” has been officially entered into Webster and other dictionaries because it’s so commonly used.

How about “really unique” or “sort of unique”, etc.

Suppose-ably !

“Think how stupid the average American is — and half of you are dumber than that.” George Carlin in a nighclub act.

Then everyone laughs, thinking he means the other guy.

Norm is such a looser. That’s one that bothers me a lot…

NO! NO! NO! Please let’s not go there. . .

People who don’t know the difference between less and fewer. Or to, too, and two.

Here in Texas, we say fixing to instead of getting ready to. I knew someone who said he was fixing to get ready to come over. Getting ready to get ready? Uh, ok…

At least she didn’t call the use of “irregardless” a “whole nother matter.” That’s the phrase that drive ME crazy!

There is literally different meanings for literally.

She should have taught her son better.

Using pacific when you mean specific.

this is literally the funniest comic ever, irregardless of what anyone might think!

Man, all the twitchy people…

I used to be one of you. Pedantic little grammar cop, that was me. I finally realized we have such a big beautiful world of people trying to communicate, with varying levels of ability and education, and if you can just let go of the words and concentrate on the idea being communicated…

Not being a pedant anymore is a wonderful feeling. I encourage everyone to try it.

Great comment…literally! (lol!)

we can be friends or i can correct your grammar

I learned very early ‘irregardless’ isn’t a real word. And the word should be ‘actually’, not ‘literally’. Any contrary opinions are welcome.

It also really really high on my list of pet peeves when people use literally metaphorically; but regardless and irregardless are both real words and have literally meant the same thing for more than a century.