This is one of those Facebook items, passed along by Grandiloquent Word of the Day, that I loved so much, thought I’d give it its own post. (AND I’m in a river in Egypt.)
How many errors to YOU see?
One of those words Americans apparently misuse is walla. “The correct word they are looking for is ‘voila’, which loosely translates as ‘here it is’, ‘there you go’, or similar meanings.”
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I had seen the word “pwned”, assumed it meant “owned,” but never bothered to look up the derivation until Arthur had been pwned. Here’s the Urban Dictionary, again.
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20 Jokes So Terrible They’re Actually Funny; well, some of them are…
Someone tell me why there is, again, a run of graphics suggesting that Bob Denver, who died in September 2005, died recently. there was a run of these reports in 2012, as I recall, and a couple times since then.
It’s like what SNL used to say about Franco: Bob Denver is STILL dead.
Acyrologia has 6 syllables! https://www.howtopronounce.com/acyrologia/
“Post-dramatic stress disorder” may be acyrologia, but it also accurately describes a condition that some of my friends suffer regularly:
“He responded with a text, it just said ‘okay’. What do you think he means by ‘okay’?”
“Um… maybe it means ‘okay’?”
“Maybe he means he’s not interested? Or maybe too interested? Like he doesn’t want to show his feelings? Or do you think he’s angry with me?”
Post-dramatic stress disorder.