Words you've used incorrectiably

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I know enough people who uses the word Ironic for everything that is funny.

Very true

I had a girlfriend who thought I often put up a front and didn't honestly express myself. She told me she was sick of the whole "fakaid"

 

[Josu]

BTW I used to use authentificate instead of authenticate.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I may not have been misusing the word (at least I think that's what incorrectiably means), but I only learned how to pronounce banal.

 

[Earthling]

Well you can pronounce it with a hard a, so that's a mute point Both are acceptable

And I know my dictionary is correct in spelling out all the options because the entry before banal is Banach space. That's > any other lame dictionaries. Plus internet searches seem to agree it's not a settled thing, only a preference.

I've my own story to share I guess, regarding the word transgendered. I actually thought in the past I was using the word too narrowly and just didn't like it. Well, I still see the word abused all the time and especially dislike the related word cisgendered. It turns out that I was in a way correct and the vast, vast majority of people using those words are using them incorrectly.

However, there are some people (mostly in an academic sense) who at least try to use the terms consistently. There's also the consideration that a small number of annoying situations may result from purposeful misuse of words (ie. political contexts) rather than a fault with the word itself.

So here's the deal, pretty much a rule no matter what if anything is meant to be taken seriously:

The word "sex" refers to biological sex characteristics.
"Gender" refers to social behaviors and constructs.

Anyone interchanging those two meanings for each other, alone or as part of any other terms, is wrong. Another period. Worth repeating.

So it's not acceptable to use a word like "transgendered" as many people do to apparently mean whatever the heck they want, just a name to call other people, for appearance or behavior or everything rolled together. Transsexed is also valid as a specific word. It actually is better to insist on the narrower definition of gender versus sex.

 

[Hygro]

I know enough people who uses the word Ironic for everything that is funny.

Thus making it ironic.

 

[Quackers]

I remember a story about a paediatrician who moved to Wales and after a few days he started getting graffiti on his walls exclaiming "paedophile!" and other rude slogans. I love the welsh!

 

[Arakhor]

You get morons everywhere, unfortunately, especially illiterate ones.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

You get morons everywhere, unfortunately, especially illiterate ones.

The literate morons are far more dangerous

 

[Hygro]

friend

I rofled

 

[Save_Ferris]

"Hipster" is used to describe almost everybody who likes something that most people don't.

 

[kochman]

Peruse is a pretty commonly misunderutilstood one...
People tend to think, in the US at least, that it means to skim through reading material.

 

[JollyRoger]

Apparently I have been under-using the words socialism, baby, and murder.

 

[Eat_Up_Martha]

Thus making it ironic.

I don't think it's considered ironic if the person saying the phrase doesn't intend there to be a second meaning. They're just dumb.

"Hipster" is used to describe almost everybody who likes something that most people don't.

That's one word that lost its meaning fast.

I don't know if it's entirely on the topic, but when I was a lot younger I used to think that 'oral sex' was kind of like dirty talk. I think I may have been confused by 'oral' and 'aural' sounding the same and kind of linking the two terms in my head.

 

[W|M]

I also used to be confused about the difference between Aural and Oral.

 

[cardgame]

"pronunciate" is apparently correct by google's spellcheck, but it feels wrong. The word I was looking for was pronounce.

 

[shadowplay]

"pronunciate" is apparently correct by google's spellcheck, but it feels wrong.

I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[Hygro]

I don't think it's considered ironic if the person saying the phrase doesn't intend there to be a second meaning. They're just dumb.

Almost making it more ironic. But not.

It doesn't have to be intentional to be ironic. There's more than hipster irony

 

[Mango Elephant]

People didn't correct my pronunciation of French words when I was younger, like 'depot' and 'souffle.'

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

"Ignorant" is often used as some vaguely dismissive, abusive word as opposed to describing a lack of knowledge.

 

[Eat_Up_Martha]

I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word.

It embiggens us all to know it.