I’m sorry you can’t stand it be so, but that’s literally how language works.
I think you wooshed on my joke about the definition of "literally".
the incredibly petty baby inside me upon reading your initial comment wanted to invent a dish called Sheperds Pie (spelling intentional because I’m a jerk) with steak to fuck with prescriptivists.
I'm all for that! The difference is you know you're doing it wrong and are choosing to do that, rather than just saying the wrong thing.
Yeah I have no problem with it being a common term, I just feel the need to point out it's wrong hah. People say wrong things all the time colloquially, but they know it's wrong.
Calling a cottage pie a shepherd's pie is worse though, along with calling a wind turbine a windmill.
Definitely, though it depends on the type of accident. She was hit from behind, so if it was a relatively slow speed collision near a traffic light or junction or something you'd probably be right.
Fair enough, I'm still highly skeptical of this study. I haven't read the full paper, but if they're replacing salt weight for weight I don't think it's much good replacing it with 2/3 NaCl.
Really, we need to ween people off added salt altogether. We don't need any extra salt, food has enough of it already, and having it in processed food is more about marketing and exploiting addiction than anything else.
Almost all of them extend from an action that still holds true:
I'll throw in another one:
Some of these terms stem from marketing people, who are only a couple steps down from estate agents in terms of the evil they bring into the world. This should not be celebrated.
Many of these can be considered acceptable, even in the ways that they're wrong, but it's still acknowledged that they are wrong. With biscuits, people think they're right.
Biscuits are established because people were wrong. That doesn't mean people today are right.
Your example of plumb and level doesn't work, because plumb is still considered the correct term for vertical alignment. People will generally know what you mean when you say level, but the other term is still considered more correct.
"Biscuits" are nice, but they're not really biscuits, they're savoury scones. Meanwhile, most store bought long shelf life cookies are biscuits, in spite of being sweet, while fresh cookies are generally not. Similarly, tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables.
You can say it the wrong way all you want, but when it goes against the core definition it can never truly be right. I literally can't stand it being so.
Sure, high insurance prices are because of people with serious injuries, it's got nothing to do with insurers being profiteering bastards.
She also went to the doctors after the Christmas tree throwing. It's quite possible that the tree throwing aggrevated the injury and left her in a genuinely disabled state.
The etymology of the word comes from French and Latin, literally meaning "twice cooked".
I come from the Channel Islands, I can tell you from experience that it's not exactly a place of high education. I can also easily see them giving a two fingered salute to the French, as well as to the English on occassion.
Exactly. Supermarkets sell both.
Although strictly speaking the supermarket cottage pie is more likely to be horse than beef.
I'm not lol I actually support Palestinian people. My criticisms purely lie with the tone of this article - it isn't news journalism, but an activist's blog piece.
But given that you seem to want to scarecrow me I doubt you have the intellectual capacity to understand any sort of nuance.
I've called out plenty of Ukrainian articles myself also, and with Israeli articles it's like shooting fish in a barrel. I dig my heels in the sand and call out bullshit wherever I see it, just like I'm calling you out right now.
I'm all for that. Make the cheese look like solar panels for added effect.