You covered my current least favorite, “could of.” People seem to literally believe that’s correct. In fact, it just took me three tries to beat autocorrect to get it to do that.
It's not entirely a new phenomenon. In "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses", Mark Twain chides the author of "The Deerslayer" for his failure to use "the right word, not its second cousin".
You made up for it with a wonderful metaphor so all is forgiven: “I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.”
Eye can’t weight for the next won!
Was one of the worse paragraphs I ever red.
My eyes are bleeding, so thanks for that.
You covered my current least favorite, “could of.” People seem to literally believe that’s correct. In fact, it just took me three tries to beat autocorrect to get it to do that.
That was an uncomfortable read, like watching a needle approach an eyeball.
Unfortunately, we are rewarded more by the speed of a response than the correctness of a term.
It's not entirely a new phenomenon. In "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses", Mark Twain chides the author of "The Deerslayer" for his failure to use "the right word, not its second cousin".
Agree with the title. Looking forward to seeing you in Rome.
You too!
I’d like to offer a similar take on linguistic stupidity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theveridical/p/the-cost-of-skinning-a-cat-12-trillion?r=3n8zeo&utm_medium=ios
Gads!!! That was horrid!! It hurt me to read it, it must have been painful to write.
I hope you hated reading it as much as I hated writing it
You made up for it with a wonderful metaphor so all is forgiven: “I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.”