quote:The last one I can think of is using "tantamount" to mean "paramount." At some level, I knew that "tantamount" meant something else, but I didn't really think about it before using it on my web site. I had to have it pointed out to me by an engineer.
What stupid language mistakes have you made?
code:[EDIT: Jon Boy's post popped in and I had to correct the code for it, assume that whatever type of class AbovePost is has a pointer to the post above it (assuming Annie's post would have that value NULL).]//Begin code segment
Statment TaalconsStatment (AbovePost->AbovePost);
bool TaalconStatmentTrue = (TaalconStatment.checkVeracity () > 0) ? true:false;
cout << (TaalconsStatmentTrue) ? "True":"False" << endl;
//End code segment
Output:
True
quote:This is far, far better than the woman who tried to help us in the store by discribing a CD for us as "Lovely and very Urethral."
This is even worse than the time I used esoteric and ephemeral for months in places where I meant to say ethereal
quote:Don't you mean "stike"?
I still pronounce steak 'steek' (as in to rhyme with meek). I have to mentally practice in my head 'sounds like stake' to get it right
quote:It was only last year when I figured out hors d'oeuvres ('or derves') and what I pronounced as 'horz doovres' where the same thing, even though I knew that they referred to the same thing.
horz devorz
quote:All of my friends and acquaintances who use wheelchairs are really politically active. No surprise then, that not one of the chair users I know likes "invalid" applied to them, no matter how it's pronounced.
I was always offended by the thought of calling people in wheelchairs
in-VA'-lid.
quote:Not here, it's not.
Saturday Night Live is broadcast...live.
quote:WHOA! Segue is pronounced segway? AHHHHH! My life has been a lie!
Me too, Tom! I always thought "segue" was pronounced "seg," meaning that the real pronunciation was was spelled "segueway."
quote:Ah. I can now sleep a little sounder.
Etymology: Italian, there follows, from seguire to follow, from Latin sequi
quote:You sure?
My brother worked for Wal-Mart.
no, that's not the problem.