Comments on: The Passion of the Wordist https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/ And I'm getting madder. Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Suspended https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2747003 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:52:58 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2747003 Nonplussed – Always used in the opposite way to what the word means. It’s driving me mad.

]]> By: Pocketsound https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2746872 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:50:45 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2746872 And “oy” spoken from gentiles !!!

]]> By: David Duff https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2746843 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:10:03 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2746843 “Words, words, words”, as that gloomy Dane was wont to say.

]]> By: Romeo https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2746838 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:23:24 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2746838 “Old people, did you know that the expression ‘Ugh!’ now means something positive?”

Godfuckingdammit no.

]]> By: Pocketsound https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2746837 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:43:24 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2746837 How do we even define words these days as the Merriam-Webster does include conversate. It classifies it as a verb. Does sheer misuse just make it so? What is the authority on grammar?

]]> By: Bevitron https://godammit.com/the-passion-of-the-wordist/comment-page-1/#comment-2746835 Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:47:12 +0000 https://godammit.com/?p=12757#comment-2746835 Did you ever hear back from Ari? I heard him say parsimonious, too! I was alarmed at first, but then, because I never trust myself, I wondered if they’d gone and changed the meaning of parsimonious, and I’m just clueless.

It drives me crazy when people use ‘tact’ when they mean ‘tack,’ like you might take a different one of. Ugh. Oh, wait….

I do love your list!

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