No, that's an ocean. They actually say, pesific. They do pronounce the E from specific but drop the s. It was not a spelling mistake.
I use 'so' as a starter a lot when writing ads. Because it's a connecting word, it's good at keeping people moving through the text. Not so much in fiction, where people are more often making an active decision to read rather than having been caught by a snappy headline.
I think it's different. What the previous poster (can't remember who said it, sorry) meant, I think, is when people (like me, admittedly) say things like: "Sooooo, who wants to go to lunch?" Totally random, no reason to use it.
"My ride or die" usually precedes the word "bitch." My sister calls her best friend my ride or die bitch on a daily basis. It's supposed to be a sign of endearment. But I despise it.
Acrost. My roomie, who is otherwise a smart man, uses "acrost" instead of "across" ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It hurts my ears. I try to steer conversations away from subjects where he might feel he needs to use acrost.
Another one is "it depends" without an explanation. "Do you want to eat Chinese or Mexican tonight?" "It depends." Aargh!
iPhones for generic smart phones, iPods for generic MP3/MP4 players, and any other i branding. Yeah, we all know you ripped off I, Robot when naming the iMac, Ken Segall, you iWanker.
"People fear what they do not understand." "People fear what they don't understand." "Men fear what they don't understand." "Mankind has always feared what they don't understand." ARGH! STOP THAT!! >:[
I agree. I understand the image of a guy with a machinegun aiming at me - what makes him want to kill me is what I don't understand. But I don't fear that, so much as the machinegun and his intent to use it.
True, only the quote is more aimed at people with the superpowers (or who generally looks freaky) as the (usually) non-superpower person explains why everyone's so afraid of them. Sometimes it's the reverse (the superpower person mocking the normal person), but it's mostly this. GAH! And taking your example, I wouldn't understand how someone can wield the powers of lightening by holding a hammer toward the sky, but that wouldn't mean I'd be afraid of that person. If that person intended to kill me with those powers then yes, yes I would be afraid of that person.
I'm more afraid of what I DO understand! I can la la la la la at what I don't understand, but once I do...yipes.
Attack. As in, "She attacked her food." I'm sorry. I know it's supposed to be humorous or something, but all I see is someone literally attacking their food, which is indeed humorous, but in all the wrong ways hahahaha
Yup. A lot of posts here begin with something like, "So, I'm starting a novel about unicorns and wizards ..."
I have an uncle who says 'chimbly' instead of 'chimney' and I've heard it from others, too. Can't believe I didn't think of this one first: 'supposably'. I heard a radio interview with a PhD. of some sort who used it multiple times.
Oh god yes but they say, "smashed" here. "I smashed down that latte" "I smashed a banana smoothie" ffs.
Self appraisal forms do seem to be particularly bad at this sort of thing. We had one where we had to mark off where we thought we were on a scale of 1 to 10. One end was labelled 'struggling', the other end was 'cruising' and the middle said 'challenged'. It was a challenge for a bunch of computer programmers to figure out where on that scale best equated to leave me alone and let me get on with my job.
