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5 phrases that make you look like an idiot

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  • DonZabuDonZabu
    He always mad.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    I was going to make a thread about #4

    That's not what the phrase means and you're missing its point as much as the people you're insulting.
  • RaddRadd
    Trisomy 21, dipshit.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Everything happens for a reason. Those reasons don't pertain to you, because nobody gives a shit about you. Your grandpa died because the world would be a better place without him. Not for you, but who gives a shit about you?
  • RaddRadd
    Though I agree with him on the whole "Exception that proves the rule" thing. That phrase is crap and must be burned accordingly.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    Read Hegel, ya moron.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    How is "Exception proves the rule" bad? It means "The exception tests the rule", "prove" used to mean "test", that why we call things bullet-proof, they've been tested against bullets and can block them.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    «That's not what the phrase means and you're missing its point as much as the people you're insulting.»
    The phrase is mistranslated from the Latin.  It's «The exception that probes the rule».  What that has to do with bullets I have no idea though.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    I was pointing out an example of "prove" meaning "test".
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2011-03-18 15:24:06
    ^^^ No.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    It's another meaning, guys.

    Learn to fucking read, pick up a copy of The Mother Tongue, it says it right in the fucking pages.
  • RaddRadd
    edited 2011-03-18 15:25:55
    No, Chagen is right. That is a meaning.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I heard that The Mother Tongue is fairly innacurate.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Really? Shit, I loved that book, I must have read it like 6 times.

    There's not many books I've read that much, the only one I can remember is The Human Brain by Issac Asimov, I've read it about 12 times.
  • RaddRadd
    edited 2011-03-18 15:30:12
    ^^There's also The Dictionary of Misinformation, so far it's been accurate for me.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    You don't have to cite The Mother Tongue to know what the original meaning of "proof" is. Hell, it even says so right on TV Tropes - look up the page for Fantasy Gun Control and read the section on blacksmiths testing armor by shooting it.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    The Mother Tongue contains a few inaccuracies, but AFAIK that isn't one of them.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    What are the particular inaccuracies in it?

    I loved that book...what a shame.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    I can't remember any specific errors, but they were mostly regarding East Asian languages.  I think the stuff about the English language itself is entirely accurate, maybe barring the odd Rule of Funny trivia.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Oh damn it, I loved the part on East Asian languages. 

    The part on Welsh was pretty funny, though.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    I can't remember, what did he say about Welsh?  Given Bryson's tendency to mock the voiceless velar fricative, I'll probably read it again and raeg.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    He just pointed out the really odd spelling.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Oh.  Going for the easy target, I see.

    It's less weird than English's spelling, really.  At least it's mostly internally consistent, and it doesn't look stranger to me than any other Celtic language.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Well, combined with its pronunciation, it can make no sense whatsoever.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Only if you don't know how each letter is supposed to be pronounced.  Otherwise it's pretty logical, as languages go.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Well, given that it's spoken by people close to Britian, you'd expect it to be similar to English in it's lexicon. Except it isn't. At all. 

    At least, that's my line of thinking.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Yeah but it's not actually very closely related to English at all, barring loanwords in both directions (English is Germanic, Welsh is Celtic).  You might expect the same of Cornish, Gaelic or Breton, but they're nothing like English, either.
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