Comments | cuddyclothes: Writer's Block: Are you incentivized?

cuddyclothes

Writer's Block: Are you incentivized?

Apr 26, 2010 10:35

Comments 17

_slytherin_girl April 26 2010, 16:47:17 UTC

I had a teacher in high school that said guesstimate all the time. lol!

To go along with this, I hate the death of the hyphen. I know the dictionary has changed it so that cooperate is a correct spelling, except that anyone that actually knows the english language would know that would be read as 'coop-erate' as if there were a chicken coop involved. CO-OPERATE PEOPLE! CO-OPERATE!

cuddyclothes April 27 2010, 02:46:30 UTC

I am with you. Hyphens are our friend.

_slytherin_girl April 27 2010, 03:13:20 UTC

It's good to know I'm not the only sane person left in the world then! :D

misdreya April 26 2010, 19:15:07 UTC

DEAR HUSBAND OF MINE. "ON PURPOSELY". YOU'RE SAYING IT WRONG.

cuddyclothes April 27 2010, 02:46:55 UTC

You know he does it just to piss you off, heh heh.

topaz_eyes April 26 2010, 20:23:34 UTC

Using "gift" as a verb. There is a perfectly good verb to use, called "give."

Also, "alright." My eye twitches at that one. It just doesn't look all right. (Pun only half-intended.)

cuddyclothes April 27 2010, 02:50:07 UTC

A fairly recent real estate term is to call townhouses "town homes", or to generally replace the word house with home. A home is not hte same as a house!

I adore your icon and want to take it to bed with me and hug it like a pillow while it reprimands me.

roberts_muse April 27 2010, 02:26:21 UTC

I hate redundancies--phrases like "exact same" or "completely dead" or "final destination". If something is the same, it is exactly like the other item. There are no degrees of death--you are either dead or alive. All destinations are final--that's what a destination is! As for catch phrases that are annoying, "it is what it is" immediately comes to mind.

cuddyclothes April 27 2010, 02:48:44 UTC

I confess to using "it is what it is" because I learned it from "House." I like "completely dead." It is unutterably stupid. Or maybe utterably stupid, because you can say it out loud. Oh, god, I'm getting tangled in my own syntax!

roberts_muse April 27 2010, 03:20:32 UTC

I've even heard people say "killed him/her dead". Um...if you killed someone, I'm pretty sure they're dead. I don't think you can kill a person alive--at least not in the world that I live in. LOL!

roberts_muse April 27 2010, 03:28:16 UTC

"So, I was conversating the other day about my uncomfortability and my friend was, like, 'how you be?,' and I was like,..." I certainly hope no-one actually thinks I normally speak/write in this manner. I think I'd have to be "killed dead." LOL!!! :)

cuddyclothes April 27 2010, 15:27:52 UTC

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You sound like half the people is my neighborhood! "Where's he up at?"

The favorite phrase sneered at me while I was growing up: "You're a walking dictionary!"

roberts_muse April 27 2010, 17:15:27 UTC

LOL--people have made comments about my "reading the entire dictionary". I'm right here with you on this!