Commonly Used Words That Don't Exist

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  1. BamaT

    BamaT Well-Known Member

    It really grates on me to hear someone say “I could care less.” It should be obvious how to say this.
     
  2. BamaT

    BamaT Well-Known Member

    One of Nick Saban’s favorite words! He can say it anyway he wants, LOL.
     
  3. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Let's have some fun with this one. A man tells someone something rather trivial. The listener barks out "I could care less". The first man says what do you mean"? Other guy: "It means that if I wanted to I could care less about what you just said, but I don't, so I care MORE what you said".
     
  4. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    I'm so not in to sports, movies, celebrities, music from the past 30 years and current media sensationalism; I had to look him up.

    Yup, I ignore most of the malarkey and hoo ha of the look at me society and the chaotic confusion the so called news churns out.

    :eatdrink013:
     
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  5. mrchick

    mrchick Odd, Terrible Avatar

    I cringe every time I hear someone say conversate.
     
  6. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Exactamundo

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  7. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    Whaaaat's up!! :angry019:

    :eatdrink013:
     
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  8. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    How about INvite? I think the new buzz word should be INvitate. But I agree with you on conversate.
     
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  9. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    There;s ol' Hank (Winkler)Fonzarelli, for ya.
     
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  10. Sara-s

    Sara-s This Pun for Hire

    I have refurbished things, but never furbished.
     
  11. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Makes me think of "recycling". Completely different from "cycling".
     
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  12. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    But shaving could be considered defurbishing. :rolleyes:
     
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  13. swarden43

    swarden43 "It's your shave. Enjoy it your way."©

    If I do something that causes me to tire, why would I want to retire?
     
  14. BamaT

    BamaT Well-Known Member

    Prostrate exam, or prostrate cancer. it’s prostate!! As a stage III high risk prostate cancer survivor, I especially cringe when I hear men who have had prostate cancer refer to it as prostrate.
     
  15. BamaT

    BamaT Well-Known Member

    Also, ssuppp, for what’s up.
     
  16. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    So in the UK why don't they retyre?:scared011:
     
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  17. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Those are the ones desperately trying to make people say prostrate-to get a new buzzword going. Parts of the body shouldn't have new names "just because everyone is saying them(the new names).
     
  18. swarden43

    swarden43 "It's your shave. Enjoy it your way."©

    But prostrate is a word. It means to stretch out and lie (lay?) face down on the ground. In our church, while we don't see it much, it's an act of worship.
     
  19. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Too-shay, but you have to wonder if people confuse others by saying that, instead of "prostate".
     
  20. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Well, THAT didn't go anywhere(chuk yuk yuk)
     

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