most commonly misused words

[Anonymous No.21308423]

What are the most commonly misused words? I know multiple dudes who use “prolific” to mean “profound” or “really good”.

[Anonymous No.21308429]

>>21308423
Have you corrected them? If not, you’re a fag like them.

[Anonymous No.21308435]

conscience vs consciousness
empathetic vs emphatic

Those are reliable indicators of whether you're talking to an NPC.

[Anonymous No.21308818]

>>21308429
"Well, ackshaully, prolific means..."

God you're gonna kill 5-15 people at your school or workplace one day if you don't stop being such a sperg.

[Anonymous No.21308840]

misnomer

[Anonymous No.21308854]

>>21308423
Zoomies and social media retards use "iconic" to mean something they like. It's the most retarded thing I've seen. Iconic is something like the Eiffel Tower, Mickey Mouse, or Spider-Man. Some stupid slut on twitter is not iconic.

[Anonymous No.21308856]

>THOUGH

[Anonymous No.21308879]

>>21308423
Have you corrected them? If not, you’re a fag like them.

[Anonymous No.21308892]

My girlfriend constantly uses "infamous" when she means famous. I pointed out the difference and she still gets it wrong

[Anonymous No.21308901]

>>21308892
Is Hitler famous or infamous?

[Anonymous No.21308923]

“Of” instead of “have”. See it on 4chan all the time.

>>21308423
>>21308435
Ok, but these are obscure and tells me that you’ve noticed either one person, or possibly a couple of weirdos, misuse them. Which isn’t “most commonly misused words”. Insentient retards.

>>21308854
It’s basically turned into a new word, like “based” has. It is annoying, although I’m not sure you could really say that people are misusing it, as such.

[Anonymous No.21309013]

>>21308423
Enormity
Tortuous

[Anonymous No.21309017]

>>21308923
>although I’m not sure you could really say that people are misusing it, as such.
If they don't refer to a relevant icon, they're misusing it.

[Anonymous No.21309319]

>>21309017
It’s slang, not misuse. There’s a difference. It arose by being a hyperbolic term and continued to be used in this way. People who use it know that it’s not the “proper use” of the word (as in, they wouldn’t use it in an essay, for example).

[Anonymous No.21309360]

>>21308901
infamous

[Anonymous No.21310224]

I used to think “derivative” meant “goes off on a lot of tangents”.
Now I know it means “unoriginal”.

[Anonymous No.21310227]

>>21309319
>People who use it know that it’s not the “proper use” of the word
You're giving them way too much credit. They're obviously misusing it.

[Anonymous No.21310280]

>>21308901
both but more so the latter. infamous has a moral character to it

[Anonymous No.21310285]

>>21309013
how do people misuse tortuous? it's obviously derived from torture, and it's not a commonly used word anyhow

[Anonymous No.21310291]

>>21310280
>infamous has a moral character to it
It's Hitler, buddy.

[Anonymous No.21310294]

>>21310291
exactly. infamous correlates with terms like "repugnant"

[Anonymous No.21310302]

"apart" when they mean "a part"
immediately dismisses a person as a terminal retard

[Anonymous No.21310335]

>>21310294
Correct, and he fits the bill perfectly. He's burning in hell.

[Anonymous No.21310336]

>>21310302
I requently put two separate words together
like alot
or eachother
sometimes even alittle

[Anonymous No.21310351]

>>21310335
>burning in hell
not for me to say, as I am neither God nor Satan. Morality has this curious attribute of depending on the subject.

[Anonymous No.21310357]

>>21310336
"apart is a word", the ones you used are not though they may be common mistakes

[Anonymous No.21310360]

>>21310351
Unless he repented of his sins, he's in hell.

[Anonymous No.21310369]

Not a word exactly, but pluralizing word's with 's is so fucking common and I swear that this did not used to be the case. Fucking retard's.

[Anonymous No.21310374]

>>21310360
if you say so

[Anonymous No.21310375]

>>21308423
“Comprise” and its variants. It’s not that difficult to get the hang of, so I’m not sure why it’s such a persistent error. Even professional writers make this error.

“Travesty.”

Confusing “that” and “which,” though in some cases I actually prefer the broader use of “which.”

“Whom.” Also not that difficult to get the hang of, but I guess primary school teachers don’t bother teaching kids English anymore.

[Anonymous No.21310380]

>>21310285
Torturous vs tortuous

[Anonymous No.21310383]

>>21308423
in the court transcript Im typing now the fucking idiotic 90iq brown piece of shit defence lawyer kept saying he "finagled" a solution to some technical difficulties, probably extrapolating from "finicky"

[Anonymous No.21310385]

>>21310369
Autocorrect on phone keyboards does this a lot and unless I'm typing somewhere public I never correct it because who gives a shit if someone misspells a word in a private message.

[Anonymous No.21310387]

>>21310380
oh I see, thx for the clarification. I thought of tortuous as similar to arduous

[Anonymous No.21310389]

>>21308892
>>21308901
https://youtu.be/3GufF8jux-I

[Anonymous No.21310418]

>>21310380
>>21310387
The two words are cognates though, so people using them interchangeably aren’t that incorrect. You “torture” by twisting limbs, etc.

[Anonymous No.21310435]

>>21308423
misusing effect/affect
saying "should of" or "would of"
any variant of ebonics is a misuse of the English language.

[Anonymous No.21310560]

>>21310227
You don’t understand what’s going on.

[Anonymous No.21310576]

>>21308423
Lay and lie are continually misused in English owing to confusion over past tenses.

Niggardly is effectively banished from the English language because it was always wrongly inderstood rather than wrongly used.ytrad

[Anonymous No.21310589]

>centers around
Quickest way to make an English professor cringe. Either say "centers on" or "revolves around."

[Anonymous No.21310594]

>>21310383
Hmm... not sure about that. I can see him using finagle more or less properly in such a situation. Not the classic definition but it can probably be stretched for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.21310605]

>>21310418
Have you looked at the definitions?

[Anonymous No.21310613]

>>21308423
Maybe it’s a new slang? kind of like “epic” or “sick” don’t exactly mean now what they originally meant

[Anonymous No.21310616]

Using “number” and “amount” interchangeably hurts my soul.

[Anonymous No.21310625]

>>21308423
Sentient / sapient

[Anonymous No.21310645]

>>21310605
Do you know what cognate words are?

[Anonymous No.21310652]

>>21310645
Cognate doesn’t mean they have similar definitions. They are entirely different words and meanings.

[Anonymous No.21310660]

>>21310645
“False cognate” is coincidentally probably the most misused term I hear with any regularity. To be fair, “false friend” sounds retarded.

[Anonymous No.21310725]

>>21310652
What I was pointing out is that the definitions aren’t as far off from one another as you’d think. When words sound similar there’s usually a reason for it. Tortuous and torturous don’t sound similar because some grammarian wanted to confuse a bunch of people, but I get that this is 4chan and people love arguing about things they don’t understand.

Torqueo (Latin, “I twist) becomes “torture,” because you torture people by twisting and snapping their limbs, which then becomes “torturous” (of or pertaining to torture). Similarly, tortuous, as you know, means “full of twists or twisting,” like how torture is full of twisting.

[Anonymous No.21310767]

Daily reminder that Americans can't read.

[Anonymous No.21310812]

>>21310767
what do those bars represent

[Anonymous No.21310824]

>>21310335
Hitler was right.

[Anonymous No.21310827]

>>21308423
Literally

[Anonymous No.21310831]

>>21310824
Might makes right. Hitler lost. Get over it.

[Anonymous No.21310848]

>>21308423
For some reason, even in published news articles, I see a lot of affect when it’s effect and effect when it’s affect. It’s a simple rule to remember as well..

[Anonymous No.21310857]

>>21310831
Just because he lost doesn't him wrong. Death to Jews!

[Anonymous No.21310880]

To this day, I still don't know what 'dialectic' means.

[Anonymous No.21310898]

>>21310812
U.S. GDP. The Anon who posted it is likely from some poor, shitty country and wanted to draw attention to some perceived deficiency on the part of Americans to make himself feel better about his place in the world. It’s sort of how like people will point out someone who is marginally dumber than them while ignoring that the person in question is more successful. This is always entertaining to see. If that person you’re pointing out is an idiot and is one of your betters, what does that make you?

[Anonymous No.21310919]

>>21308423
been seeing a lot of confusion around wary vs. weary recently

[Anonymous No.21310924]

>>21310560
>You don’t understand what’s going on.
You sound like a conspiracist.

[Anonymous No.21310925]

>>21310857
Germans have done more damage to Europe than the Jews ever did.

[Anonymous No.21310930]

>>21310880
That's understandable, there's a number of definitions implying rather varying contents depending on what type of framework one operates with (i.e. Kantian, Hegelian, Marxist and so on). However, all possible definitions of the word all reference back to its most elementary form, the Socratic form where it refers to reasoning through a process relating to dialogue, as one might infer from the construction of the word itself.

[Anonymous No.21310956]

>>21310725
I don’t want to nitpick either so yes we’ll agree that in some cases torturous and tortuous can be used interchangeably. A tortuous road can also be torturous.

But torture does not anymore (even if it did originally) imply any kind of twisting.

Certainly nobody would immediately imagine a person being twisted in any way if they heard the word torture.
.

[Anonymous No.21310986]

>>21308423
I’m going out on a limb and saying this is a you problem. Those are similar adjectives if you compare, and if the subject being discussed is something that could be both things, how would you even know without inquiring further?

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY/Ar.iI No.21310994]

«BIZARRE», AND «WEIRD», BOTH USED AS SYNONYMS FOR «STRANGE», WHEN THEY ACTUALLY MEAN «GALLANT»/«GALLIARD»/«DASHING».

[Anonymous No.21311006]

>>21310919
they use wary on dating shows a lot
>t. have wife

[Anonymous No.21311017]

Antisocial. Holy fuck it makes me want to scream when people say it means shy or introverted

[Anonymous No.21311025]

Words mean however they're used.

[Anonymous No.21311026]

could have / could've / could of

[Anonymous No.21311028]

>>21310994
this might just be the saddest post I've ever seen you make, and I almost think that it's satire but I honestly don't know. screenshotted just in case

[Anonymous No.21311029]

>>21311025
Based descriptivist chad

[Anonymous No.21311033]

“Gay” is misused quite a bit. Gay means faggot, queer, fruit cake, a flamer, a homosexual, someone who engages sexually with the same sex. Yet often we hear people say “that’s so gay”, “yeah man, it was really gay” or “OP is gay”, where gay is synonymous with ‘lame’. But this is no different than saying “that was faggoty” or “OP is a faggot”.

[Anonymous No.21311045]

>>21308423
>literally

[Anonymous No.21311062]

>>21311033
GAY MEANS HAPPY. I'M GAY (I'M HAPPY) - LIL B

[Anonymous No.21311064]

>>21310925
And to the world?

[Anonymous No.21311067]

>>21311064
Anglos.

[Anonymous No.21311073]

>>21311033
I got made to sit in the corner in catholic primary school for saying "I'm happy and gay". Looking back I think the teacher was probably not very literate.

[Anonymous No.21311078]

Ascribe is commonly misused to mean subscribe

[Anonymous No.21311085]

>>21311033
That's just slang, you gay faggot

[Anonymous No.21311236]

literally
decimated
amazing
psychopath

[Anonymous No.21311896]

penultimate