CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Aha, yes!The "random" thing annoys me to. When said it's usually about things that are the opposite of random. They use it like they use literal now- to refer to things not literal at all.
Are people so stupid now they confuse the two terms?!
My friend told me she was "literally" going to spend half her life in Edinburgh. She was there a week. I had no idea my friend was only two weeks old...
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vix0r was not Matthew on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:24,
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Makes your blood boil doesn't it?I'm going to start taking people who use "literally" wrongly at their word ;)
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Maladicta, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 23:52,
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