The Most Annoying Thing

[takemehome]

When people--good, smart people!--write that their appetite is wetted, rather than whetted.

Comments

[greyyguy]

Maybe they meant that their appetite got damp. Or mixed a metaphor, trying to say that something rained on their desire to eat?

[takemehome]

I don't know that I've ever seen the phrase used strictly in the appetite-meaning-physical-hunger sense. Where I encountered it last was in the desire-for-greater-political-power sense.

[jihad4dummies]

for a long time, my girlfriend and i used to say 'for all intensive purposes'. then we realized that doesn't actually mean anything, and its actually 'for all intents and purposes'. woah