This topic was inspired by a post on these boards that includes "for all intensive purposes" and "absorbent (they meant exorbitant) salaries." Both in the same post!

My own personal favorite malapropism was in a musicians-wanted post I found on the SF Craigslist (http://craigslist.org) a long time ago. The guy who posted looking for bandmates said he didn't want "any Pre-Madonnas" to apply.

What are your faves?

I admit to this one (it was me). I think a lot of these come from folks (like myself) who use the internet as a casual place for the exchange of ideas and conversation. Also, I think this comes from trying to translate conversational speech into words. I will be the first to say I ain't no Einstein when it comes to absolute proper use of the English language. All in all, meeh, so what?

"The quake was caused by teutonic plates shifting."

stewie wrote:"The quake was caused by teutonic plates shifting."

"Die erde vill shake und you vill be braucht to your knees, und you vill zubmit to zee vill of die erde!!!"

cprlcoffee wrote:All in all, meeh, so what?

The problem is that bad English makes you sound laxadaisical.

When I see posts that use bad English, I usually assume that the poster went out drinking that night and got totally obliviated.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

cprlcoffee wrote:All in all, meeh, so what?

The problem is that bad English makes you sound laxadaisical.

And spelling?


Or were you giving this thread some malaprops BRW?



Faiz

Motherfucker. I was gonna post a thread about malapropisms on here today, I thought of it last night just after I turned the computer off.

Now I cant think of the example I had.

cprlcoffee wrote:
All in all, meeh, so what?

The problem is that bad English makes you sound laxadaisical.

When I see posts that use bad English, I usually assume that the poster went out drinking that night and got totally obliviated.

While that might be true, I didn't think that I was being graded or that this board was some kind of axis of multiple dimensions that the improper use of grammar would cause the known universe to collapse. Additionally, while I may type my ideas in a care not attitude, what happens on this board has no bearing in my everyday life or outside endeavors. Just because I type like a lazy gimp gives you no right to assume I am.

P.S. Thank God for Spellcheck

kerble wrote:Or were you giving this thread some malaprops BRW?

I actually heard people use the non-words "laxadaisical" and "obliviated" in Chicago last weekend.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

kerble wrote:Or were you giving this thread some malaprops BRW?

I actually heard people use the non-words "laxadaisical" and "obliviated" in Chicago last weekend.

"He does what he can."