Loose and lose bother me. When I see these words used incorrectly, I become mildly irritated.
I figuratively would of had fewer of a reaction if less persons made that missed steak… literally.
When saying "Next" in reference to a time "Next" means the soonest occurrence of that. Don't skip one. If today is friday and I say "Next Saturday", that is tomorrow, not 8 days from now.
Eh, I disagree. The closest Saturday is either just "Saturday" or "this Saturday", and "next Saturday" being the one after that. Otherwise, why say "next"?
Edit: but not willing to die on that hill :)
Games with kernel level anti-cheat.
Commas don't belong in numbers, not as a thousands separator and definitely not as a decimal point.
Also ISO8601 and that dark theme should be the default
I don't care what they say, a single space after a period at the end of a sentence is NOT enough. Now get offa my lawn!
Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.
Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!
The paperclip character from Microsoft Office is called Clippit, not Clippy.
I’ve always wanted to write a bot that replies to comments that say „I have no words” with a list of random words
I have given up on "steep learning curve". A learning curve is proficiency on the Y axis against time on the X. A steep learning curve indicates something that is learned very quickly. A shallow learning curve is something that takes a long time to master. See Ebbinghaus 1885.
The way too common misuse of the personal pronoun in the objective case. There are legitimate grammatical uses for "me" and the objective case is one of them. Learn it, kids.
My pedantic hill to die on is the word "jealous". For example:
"I'm going on vacation!" "Ugh, I'm so jealous!"
No, that's envy. Jealousy is a weird way of behaving about things you already have, it's not wishing you had what someone else does! Weirdly, explaining this does not cause people to use the correct word. At this point the battle is probably lost and the meaning has officially shifted.
We should all be using the 12 numeral system instead of 10 numerals and we should use tau instead of pi.
Over cooking beef is sad, I'll make a medium or well steak if you ask me, but it hurts to do so
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