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here's #16, which I had forgotten (see list):
16. use of juxtaposed to mean something more than placed side by side (i.e., transposed)
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I wasn't around when this took off, but here are a couple that grate on me:
Kudos used as a plural. (I know, dictionaries are starting to knuckle under, but it's still awful.)
Sentences like this: Give it to whomever wants it.
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Give it to whomever wants it.Love it. I shall inarguably use it often ...  Would you have been happier if they said "Give it to whomsoever wanteth it."?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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A wise teacher once advised me: Be very careful how you use who and whom. And if you ever have the urge to use whomever in a sentence, stifle it. Whomsoever? Oy!
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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why can't the Yiddish experts (major assumption there) standardize their Orthography? Oi!
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Oi gevald!
Mea culpa, already!
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why can't the Yiddish experts standardize their Orthography?
Duh! It's transliteration. Yiddish is wrote in Hebrew characters. There's different conventions. You got the Hepburn, the PinYin, the Imperial and the Farnsworth. You're lucky nobody uses the Farnsworth anymore or you'd be seeing things like oai yebhalth.
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You got the Hepburn, the PinYin, the Imperial and the Farnsworth.
I'm sorry, is this Arguments? I thought is was Pet Peeves.
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I thought is was Pet Peeves.
No, you didn't.
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