/lit/ - Literature

>mfw people drink light beer

>>4954595
>mfw people drink anything other than homebrew

>>4954593
>'Generally' when they mean 'genuinely'
Due to never being taught how to speak correctly this was something I had to struggle through when younger. I still find times when my speech lulls back into dialect.

>'clambering' when they mean 'clamouring'

>'literally' when they mean 'figuratively'

>>4954605
>mfw people drink

>>4954630
>Inb4 >mfw people

>>4954630
Drinking a little bit is good for your heart.

>tfw I drink about five units after work Monday to Thursday, twenty units on Friday and Saturday nights and ten units over Sunday

>pedal stool

>'Trout' when they mean 'trite'
W-What? People do this?

>>4954652
I have never seen this but I want to. That would give some great mental imagery.

>>4954652
>>4954679
Ninety percent of everything is trout.

>>4954683
>open bag of chips
>inside: five lonely chips on top of a huge, stinky trout

>>4954686
>go on /lit/
>one Stirner thread, the rest is threads with only pictures of trouts - OP posts one trout without comments, then 20 posts with different trouts

>defiantly instead of definitely

>>4954630
>mfw people are still being lied to by the pharmaceutical jew
Alcohol is good for you.

>>4954686
>>4954689
I don't want to kill the joke, because I like where you're going, but the idea was Sturgeons Law, 'Ninety percent of everything is crud', with a shift from 'crud' to 'trite', another shift (like >>4954679 wanted) from 'trite' to 'trout', and Theodore Sturgeon being the inspiration for Kilgore Trout.

>>4954689
>go on /trout/
>be a salmon
>there are discarded hooks everywhere
>some still have b8 on them
>get trouted
>troutg :DDDDD

>>4954692
People always cite this is a common mistake made, yet I have never seen it happen, I simply regard it as an urban myth nowadays.

>>4954712
>go on /r9k/
>one thread complaining tfw no gf
>all other threads only "kilgore was here" with that stupid face, every poster posting the same picture without comment

>>4954715
I see it all of the time.
http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=defiantly (I'd link the /lit/ archive, but it isn't working atm)

>>4954719
>go /out/
>bookstore sounds nice
>no trout there surely
>head downtown
>mfw

>'analogous'
>pronounced with the soft g from 'analogy'

>travesty when they mean tragedy

>we're on tender hooks

>>4954715
Yeah I see this everywhere. Usually from people who can't type anyway.

Malapropisms: The Thread.

I could care less.

>for all intensive purposes

>the proof is in the pudding

All of my hate.

U JUS GOT TROUTED BY ME!
:D
XD

>>4954822
You're a real pre-madonna aren't you?

>>4954833
I'm not falling for it, sir.

Saying poignant and pronouncing the "g". lol I did this once and I still laugh about it.

>>4954862
Fuuuck when I was little I used to pronounce 'ambivalent' as 'am-bee-vay-lent' fucking parents still won't let me live it down.

>>4954790
I never really use the word but I had this misconception until a couple weeks ago when someone on /lit/ shat on someone else for it

>>4954625
this correction is a million times more retarded and annoying than the "mistake" itself
>I will literally murder you
>YOU MEAN FIGURATIVELY!!!
no, you fucking moron, it's called hyperbole.
>I will figuratively kill you
>I am figuratively starving
sounds dumb

>>4954870
That doesn't sound like a very large aberration.

>>4954890
I think he means "valent" as in "covalent"
which is pretty bad

>>4954886
You are literally a faggot.

>>4954593
>Not being able to differentiate between "where" and "were" verbally
>Also "rarely" and "really"

>>4954911
>Not being able to differentiate between "where" and "were" verbally
I don't think I've ever noticed this

>>4954919
The regional accent where I'm from, don't know how rare it is anywhere else

>>4954921
Mass?

>>4954927
Lincolnshire, UK

>>4954919

Nrver heard of that. Do you guys also do the there, theyre, their verbally?

>>4955010
I'm from St. Louis, and it's always easy to tell between where and were, also we're. Whair, werr and weerr. They're, their, and there is a little harder, but there's a slight change.

>>4955016
>Whair, werr and weerr.
NY (Long Island) here, same.

>They're, their, and there is a little harder, but there's a slight change.
Maybe a very slight difference for "they're" depending on cadence for I can't even conceive of a difference between "their" and "there"

>>4954593
>ITT: Literal autism

>>4955016 >>4955022

Michigan, they're is sort of drawn out, then their is in a different tone? A bit higher?

>>4955032
Vocaroo this shit so I don't have to repeat words to myself with slightly intonations like a crazy person

>>4954635

>mfw people

>per say

>trite when they mean tripe

ITT: pedants
you people are a diamond dozen

>>4954715
Every tried reading fanfiction? Yea, never again.

>>4956124
A grasp of the finer points of grammer is one of the French benefits of a partition education.

>>4956166
That's a mute point when we speak English

>>4954715
it's because people butcher the spelling so bad spellcheckers correct it to "defiantly"

>>4954593
Dribble is a suitable substitute for drivel, if what you mean to say is dribble, it works.
Similarly with tripe instead of trite. Yes one is pig intestines. Did you mean pig intestines? Oh, well then...
I've never heard of trout for trite

Replacing generally for genuinely? Two really different concepts

>>4954738

>>4954593
I also use rap culture and rape culture interchangeably

>>4960866
probably the funniest thing you've ever said
still fuck you kill yourself

>6th grade history class
>Old world history so the word "sacred" comes up in the textbook more times than you can count
>We do popcorn reading with the whole class
>Every time people hit "sacred" they either say "scared" or just wait for the teacher to help them
>6th graders

>Geometry class
>People say "Oc-ta-GON-al" or "hex-a-GON-al"
>It's "Oc-TA-go-nal" for fucks sake
>"Mr. Teacher, isn't it pronounced with the accent on /that/ syllable?
>"Hmm, I don't know. Never was good with language arts stuff."
>Teacher mispronounces it too

It's not the first mistake I hate, only human, but it's the fact that after a correction they still say it the wrong way and don't really care.

>pronouncing "medieval" as "med-evil" instead of "med-ih-evil"

>pronouncing "poem" as "pome" instead of "poim"

>pronouncing "comfortable" as "comf-ter-ble" instead of "com-fer-ta-ble"

Top pleb

>celt with a soft c

>>4961064
>po-I'm
Die in a fire

>not pronouncing the "h" in "who", "whom" and "whose"

>>4961078
FUCKING spell-checker!!

>>4961081
> being an asspirate

>>4954897
>>4954886
>>4954625
Wasn't the official definition updated quite a few years ago to accommodate the modern usage anyways?

>pronouncing "new" with the same vowel as "true"

>>4961090

>"alumni" to refer to an individual

>plural of octopus as "octopi" instead of "octopodes"

>>4960909
lol, what the fuck is going on in that painting?

>eye-RAN
>eye-RACK
>eye-TAL-ee-un

>>4954630
>Not being a depressive alcoholic

And this is why /lit/ will never be great writers.

Is it just me or are most of the additions to the dictionary from negro culture? I hate progress when it happens to me.

>>4962323
We have depressive alcoholics in /lit/. They usually post to say that they are depressive alcoholics, and then we never hear from them again.

>>4960945
Wait until they try to pronounce 'organism'

this shouldn't concern you

language adapts and changes, the lazy ways prevail, to ignore all the millenia of past language reforms, changes, additions, absorptions and declare the current english method as standard is idiotic

>>4962334
Why are you even talking right now, retard? You must understand how fucking stupid your post is. No one cares if you're a fat shut in and never get invited out so you impotently bitch on 4chan. Shut up.

>>4954593
I used to say Generally instead of Genuinely. I live a shameful life.

>>4954886
Yeah I always saw it as hyperbole

>>4960945
It's ocTAGonal faggit

>>4954886
No you fucking moron, literally is not a hyperbole.

Why not try to not be idiot next time you correct someone?

>>4954647
>damp squid

>>4963134
You're a fool.

ingenuous instead of ingenious