For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

    You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.

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      21 hours ago

      The same can be said about “ignorant”. Calling a person ignorant because they say something that peeves you, doesn’t make them ignorant. It makes them infuriating. Idk how often people use the word ignorant in this way, but my mother does and doesn’t get it when I call her ignorant about ignorant.