Accent Expert Breaks Down Language Pet Peeves | WIRED

[@jessicaashley8153]

I saw someone in the comments of his other videos call him dialect daddy. I think about that often.

[@mariahpokedawg7124]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@yagermeister123]

Father phonetics

[@EdricHsu]

Grammar Grandma

[@Malum09]

That's his official moniker now

[@cassiopeiaartco]

I mean...that person wasn’t wrong 👀

[@byoung1520]

An old boss used to tell us "mock my words..." and we all did mock them when he wasn't around

[@GatCat]

Oh this made me laugh out loud.

[@cintia5479]

YO LMAOOO

[@marleejohn3519]

Sounds like your boss was Michael Scott... 😂

[@Catmom2004]

Thanks Bryan, I truly needed a laugh tonight. LLAP

[@anonomyssymymy5115]

Maybe it was his accent...please see his other video about dialects...

[@quintas66]

"Don't take things for granite." "My sediments exactly." ~Johnny Hart (BC, The Wizard of Id)

[@rheinhartsilvento2576]

Brillant 🤣😅😆

[@katniptime4me]

Rules that are written in stone. 😎

[@rafaeterna1081]

@@katniptime4me ba dum tssss

[@joneszzy6189]

😆😆

[@MegaMagicGoat]

Oh my God I've never seen anyone reference the Wizard of Id, I read so much of it when I was younger

[@userb8a]

This is the most educated _"everybody just chill"_ I've ever seen.

[@SinakhokonkeMhlongo-n6k]

And people really should chill. I speak English as a second language and yooh... no one is the master of pronunciation

[@damondominique]

this is the linguistics class i never knew i needed

[@errorsan9]

lmao i saw you earlier in a ''what not to wear in russia'' video

[@neon6847]

omg yoooooo

[@pretzellina]

Fancy seeing you here Damon!

[@japanda1995]

oh hey there damon dominique

[@jellyfish2556]

Omg hi Damon! Love your videos!

[@JoeNotExotik]

Can we get him to talk about curse words? Origins and how people became offended by them? This would be interesting to see.

[@mortalterminus]

Vsauce did a video on that a while back kzbin.info/www/bejne/epWalYSebdpnfsU

[@sarahelizabeth2769]

Yas! Sorry, yes!

[@brookem4835]

I wrote my masters thesis on this topic! It was fascinating.

[@katybechnikova2821]

Yeah, they can't they would get demonetised. :D

[@Nicol3sChann3l]

@@brookem4835 I wrote my Bachelors thesis on the same topic :D

[@jimib3]

My sister thought it was “hammy-down” her whole life, as opposed to “hand-me-down.”

[@maiaallman4635]

Very funny!

[@cathkails]

'cause the clothes were always too big and it made her feel hammy in them? 😂

[@morganjohnson9945]

I was just coming to the comments to say the same thing! 🤣

[@-yo5hc]

ME TOO

[@Feroste]

I thought this for a while as a kid.

[@karenwagner6880]

My husband came up with a wonderful word that doesn’t exist but should. He said he was “flustrated.” I think it’s a brilliant combination of being frustrated, heightened with the embarrassment of being flustered. I nominate this for the next Merriam-Webster go round!

[@lizardas]

Your husband didn't invent that word. It's a very common mispronunciation that has been around for decades.

[@ravenlit]

That's a fun portmanteau that I may, in fact, steal.

[@cathykrueger4899]

Some people use that word because they don’t know the word “frustrated.”

[@dar2996]

Erik: "They're called eggcorns" Me: "Oh, you mean bon apple tea"

[@rebekaah]

Teeth*

[@prettyrat.]

bone*

[@Mr.Scootini]

*bomb*

[@rubyruby1043]

Bun apple teeth

[@Holly_Ho]

I love egghorns

[@stefanrhys44]

Eliza had the slickest “hii” I’ve ever heard in my life

[@jiitkha]

0:58 You're welcome

[@Angel_Billy4-30-23]

@@jiitkha Thanks. But yeah she did. Real smooth.

[@AD-wg8ik]

She sounded like Siri

[@dragonguy3725]

Fr Fr

[@sunsethughes]

yeah had to watch that a couple times not gonna lie

[@turtlenecksok]

i didn’t understand how differently vocal fry was perceived in a feminine vs. masculine voice until this demonstration. that is so interesting!

[@mattb1568]

Same! I was cracking up, the bias has never even occurred to me.

[@SalamanderMagic]

It was pretty shocking. Somehow on a female voice it sounds more bored or annoyed, while on a male voice it’s just... kinda gravelly. Weird

[@graceperkins5641]

Salamander I wonder if it has something to do with pitch? Men and women who speak with the fray and have deeper voices it doesn’t sound annoying I believe. But to me men and women who have higher voices and they fray it’s sounds annoying to me. When the guest voice coach was doing it it didn’t sound annoying at all.

[@MusicLoverInTheSky]

Same! When I heard Erik doing it, I was reminded of male actors giving speeches in movies or something like that. He sounded profound, serious, respectable... a bit attractive, even. But the woman? She sounded so bored and like she'd rather do anything else than what she was currently doing. So uninterested. The bias surprised me greatly.

[@DocKrazy]

I honestly didn't notice a difference...

[@elle6952]

The oe person who could correct almost anyones speech and he tells us to take it easy. Amazing. Love his energy.

[@philipreid2542]

*anyone's

[@nana4banana]

*Anyone's

My Spanish teacher once said that language behaves like a living organism; it spreads, evolves and also dies.

[@LindaC616]

Lol, then why can't we kill upspeak and vocal fry!?!?🤣

[@adamgillespie3393]

@@LindaC616 you can't really kill it but it dies off if people stop using it

[@STICKSAND]

its true i was the teacher

[@sirshrooma]

@@LindaC616 Because people have such intense feelings for it. The best way to kill an idea is to be indifferent, and forget.

[@idkwuzgoinon]

Best way to put it

[@paigemeredith2329]

When people say “I could care less” but should be saying “I couldn’t care less”

[@9thgalaxy778]

YES!!!!

[@alicia_grace]

that bothers me so much lol

[@randomperson2559]

Fr

[@Warkipine]

I like to think of it as a threat. "You know how much it looks like I don't care right now? Well, I could care (even) less."

[@alicia_grace]

@@Warkipine that could be reasonable, but usually it’s used in the sense that someone is trying to demonstrate how nonchalant they are about something

[@zzzechra]

"Hi Eliza" Eliza: "Hi" Me: OMG SO SMOOTH, SO HEAVENLY, THE MOST ICONIC HI I'VE EVER HEARD

[@Molly-ml1wn]

I'm glad I'm not the only the person who had this intensely specific reaction!

[@ruthronnieofficial]

I FELT SO GOOOOOD 🤣🤣🤣 I thought I was the only one

[@kelseyburkum3527]

My first thought was, does she narrate audiobooks?

[@dancingdoungnut]

that’s how you know you’re socially awkward, when normal conversation stands out 😂😂💀

[@RebornLegacy]

@@dancingdoungnut LMAO! TooMeIrl This happens to me all the time.

[@FrenchCruller03]

My pet peeve is when people say wreck havoc, instead of wreak. If you wreck havoc, you essentially create order, lol.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Cute! I think people are afraid to use proper language. Like it makes them look stuffy or not cool. It's like when people don't want to stand straight.

[@boxman5381]

No people just use words in different ways over time their is no true correct or wrong way of speaking the way we talk is constantly changing and that’s just how it works

[@proudanachronist9314]

@@cockeyedoptimista All I can say to that is that their values must be very different than mine!

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@boxman5381 That's true, but also people just don't want to bother learning the right use of a word so those of us who take the time become obsolete because of these inattentive folks and it's annoying.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@proudanachronist9314 Thanks for the comment.

[@Proseless]

can’t help but feel like this guy looks like a roman emperor.

[@TeamCat1128]

Or the model for David

[@SittingGC]

I think you mean Dennis Reynolds

[@peterhansen1670]

I think he pulled off the vocal fry of the Gettysburg Address because he looks a bit like Lincoln.

[@astrolillo]

A Hollywood version perhaps, Romans did not look Anglo despite of what your deficient education made you believe

[@tonatiuhcortes9968]

Yeah he literally does

[@gracejuice]

seeing “should of” instead of “should’ve” makes me wanna cry

[@NiMissNi]

Also "now and days"

[@Rohishimoto]

you shouldn't of told me your weakness

[@amwhik]

Agreed

[@sophiewells9755]

also when ppl online write about how they find smth rlly upsetting by going "i literally balled" or "i was balling so hard" like pls i'm begging u to learn how to spell bawling

[@amwhik]

@@sophiewells9755 I was bowling so hard I had a strike

[@claireb.6713]

The paint matches his eye color... they really did that.

[@hungry.nezuko3742]

Must be his house though 😂

[@anhart5100]

No it’s just a hole in his eye

[@mishtaromaniello8295]

anhart Lmfao

[@FCastle23]

anhart He’s an eye hold?

[@Octodactylpus]

Fun fact! Blue eyes are caused by a lack of the melanin pigment (or collagen deposits), and light bouncing off the Iris, "scattering" the light, and reflecting back blue tones (the same reason the sky reflects blue). So when you put someone with blue eyes in front of a blue-ish screen, often their eyes appear to match more closely because it's reflecting back the light- also why blue eyes seem to "change colours" more often depending on how much light is refllecting!

[@LK-3000]

Thank you for this video! I just now found this while looking for vocal fry info. This has been one of the most enjoyable presentations about language that I've seen/heard in a long time.

[@austinmoon6974]

Another folk etymology example: “Goodbye” used to be a contraction of “God be with ye”. Eventually people started saying “Bye” as a shorthand for “Goodbye”, turning the definition of “Goodbye” to something more similar to “Good parting”.

[@Crosshill]

when i realized that the danish farvel for goodbye just literally meant fare-well and that farewell is the same deal, iunno you feel pretty blind

[@mahraba874]

I would’ve never known this

[@airotkiv]

it's crazy because in German the equivalent to Goodbye is Auf Wiedersehen (as in a phrase for more formal settings), which literally means "May we meet/see each other again", so it'd actually be more similar to saying "see you". But in my head "Good-bye" and "Auf Wiedersehen" mean the exact same thing, because they're used in the same context. But then you have the German phrase "mach's gut", which would translate to something way closer to the literal meaning of farewell/goodbye and is way less formal, so it would be used in the same context as "see you" in english. So the literal meaning is actually completely opposite to the context the phrases are used in in each language. Does that make sense?

[@dudedude3926]

“God be with you” is how you greet people in Gaelic, too!

[@laurac86]

Wow that’s really interesting, I never knew that! Thanks for sharing 😊

[@henryst5]

I know multiple people who think the phrase is “play it by year”, when it is most definitely “play it by ear”.

[@TheDenisedrake]

Haha! I wonder if they also "fly by the seat of their aunts"?

[@juliadandy6019]

Ugh, I have a hatred of “play by ear” that to this day I don’t know why hahahahaha never heard people saying “by year” though, that’s curious

[@jamestierney1072]

I like to say it both ways. “Play it by year” still works if you take the meaning of “year” to be “time”. As it we will determine what we’re doing in due time and “play it by ear” if we’re waiting on word about the plans we’re talking about.

[@salaltschul3604]

I've always wondered if the people who say those things have ever broken it down to realise what they're saying makes no sense....

[@linesandcircles7465]

Up until I read this comment, I was completely unaware that this eggcorn existed! I play music, so "Play by ear" is the only thing that makes sense!

[@Hainero2001]

My pet peeve is when people hear "should've" and write it as "should of" not realizing that they are hearing a contraction of "should have".

[@titocristobal5573]

If that becomes an eggcorn, I would just assume people are getting dumber each year. Calm down, guys. Its just a typo.

[@Hainero2001]

@@titocristobal5573, it wouldn't be an illogical assumption.

[@titocristobal5573]

@MC King Oh my god. I haven't encountered that yet, but if I did, I think I would have a visceral reaction.

[@BigEyesSmallMouth]

Gaaahhh, I love you. Thanks for pointing this out.

[@Rai_S82]

I literally HATE that. It's way more than a peeve for me 😂

[@tammiepowell2818]

I’m watching this 4 years after it was originally “aired” and just love it. My dad, who passed a year ago today, always had some great ones…Alzheimer’s to him was old timer’s. Uber to him was Hoover. The list could go on but it all gave a great chuckle instead of being a bit sad, so a big thank you!

[@norawin]

I took a linguistic anthropology course in college and that was when I finally realized: the more you learn about language, the more you realize that breaking the "rules" is a key component of communication. It's how languages evolve.

[@blackeyedsusan727]

Agreed. But the stupid errors so many people make cannot be regarded as "evolution"

[@ismellpedo]

@@blackeyedsusan727 The languages does evolve though. Regardless of whether it's a "stupid error", if enough people do/say it then the language will change, it will grow and evolve into something different then what it was prior to that "stupid error".

[@amandawalker1196]

This should be a top comment

[@Sofiaode18]

Which is why petty people who are hung up on dictionary definitions and proper grammar are uptight fuckwads.

[@gee_emm]

Slang is the poetry of everyday speech. It’s breaking the rules, for the fun of it. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@bethwalker8072]

Two Erik videos in a week? Even WIRED know he’s carrying the whole channel.

[@bethwalker8072]

LagiNaLangAko23 Oh yeah I rate her too

[@acgm046]

I miss the doctor who reviewed medical scenes in movies and series. Hopefully she's doing fine these days working in her field... [edit] There's a recent update of what she's been up to! Just as I expected, it's been beyond hectic for her dealing with both trauma patients and Covid. Dr Onishi is a warrior!

[@joshfedder5997]

Whaaaa where is the other one???

[@maggie9961]

The lawyer was also very fun!

[@ryanbrooks2434]

Him and almost impossible but idk if they r doing that anymore :(

[@OmegaSoypreme]

What I love about Erik is that he's an expert on language and uses that expertise to tell us to not get so hung up on the rules of language.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

It’s true. People that most get their knickers in a twist about language use rarely know much about the reality of language use.

[@yeah_no_whatever]

Right, because part of what he wants his audience to be aware of is that language, like anything else that makes up society and culture, is continually, albeit slowly, changing and adapting in time.

[@utsavmaheshwari859]

No real linguist is a prescriptivist.

[@deithlan]

Everyone who actually starts studying language will quickly come to realize that language prescriptivism (saying this and that is wrong and you should use such and such instead), for everyday use at least, is pretty stupid 😁

[@margaretmaynard7]

⁰

[@suz5191]

I love this video so much. I was such a stickler for "grammar rules" when I was a kid but I've since taken a genuine interest in languages and linguistics and discovered the concept of descriptive linguistics and came to favour that way more than the prescriptive variety. These two just inspire me to pursue further studies in linguistics :)

[@MarisaMunoz0507]

I can’t stand when people say “I could care less” when they mean they don’t care. It’s “I couldn’t care less” !!!

[@brianamariiee6481]

Exactly! Lol I've been trying to say this but people get so mad when you correct them. It makes no sense and changes the meaning. You're trying to say you dont care and yet you are saying "well I could care less" like...what??

[@owenkey3239]

I had to look for this because so hate it so much as well.

[@haskellbob]

YES! That drives me crazy too. If they COULD care less, then they care at least a bit. But if they couldn't care less, they don't care at all. Jeez, some people just don't think!

[@seanfogerty6075]

the way i handle it is just to convince myself they’re being sarcastic. i know it’s not true but the lie helps ease the pain a little bit....

[@RedCanyonWolf]

I came to the comments to say exactly this

[@RB-H]

“Could care less” is mine. Basically saying you still have some care available.

[@saberwing753]

But late on the reply, but I’d like to mention I’ve won an argument because the opposing party used that and I told them their opinion was moot due to the fact that they can’t even speak English properly despite it being their first language.

[@RB-H]

@@saberwing753 Haha! I see “could care less” quite often.

[@Platanov]

I've always seen that phrase as ironic, something like "I could, technically, care less, but only a little", rather than as an eggcorn of "I couldn't care less". Like it has that 90's "talk to the hand" flavor of sarcasm. Maybe that's just my brain rationalizing it though :p

[@isaknilsson71]

@@Platanov Agreed, I tend to interpret it as "I could care less, but only if I really tried" in order to feel less peeved :D

[@Urfcannon]

you mean you do care? lmao

[@cstrouts]

Most hated eggcorn: "I could of" instead of "I could've"

[@JonH611]

Could of, would of, should of.. made it a contraction with have! 🤬

[@TheDenisedrake]

Yea! Why is everyone afraid of the word "have"?

[@frigginjerk]

@@JonH611 How about "shouldn't've"? The impressive double contraction. Which makes me wonder-- are there any triples? ..."Shouldn't'ven't"? Is that a word? Like, expressing regret for failing to do something? "I shouldn't have not done that," turns into "I shouldn't'ven't done that."

[@Johnny-wv9cn]

Should be "I could of" instead of "I could have". People understand could've but sometimes people think it means "could of"instead of "could have".

[@kitty2894]

YES

[@roxanne8662]

Australians with thick accents use uptalk ALL THE TIME. I am an Aussie and you get used to distinguishing between a real question and aussie uptalk. i remember reading an article about how UK employers found people who uptalked a lot were less desirable and seen as insecure, but not if they were australian. I think it’s because we learn to uptalk while saying what we mean with confidence (because uptalk is used so commonly when not posing a question).

[@rithikuja7299]

As a fellow Aussie, I resent the use of “thick” accent. However most Australians use a rising tone at the end of sentences, regardless of accent category (including those with a non anglophone background), it is just how we speak. Alternately, I find falling tone at the end of sentences sounds completely insincere and condescending. YMMV.

[@thedolphin5428]

Rubbish. Not all Aussies. Mainly Queenslanders, ie the sunstroked morons.

[@nerdmylord]

I wish I could just absorb his cerebral juices. His intelligence is so savoury.

[@LillibitOfHere]

I am both inspired by and grossed out by the creativity of your language.

[@nerdmylord]

@@LillibitOfHere LOOOL XD

[@user-th6rh8zp3t]

wow so creepy

[@iansalinas412]

ya he sounds really smart. I think it's the way he talks

[@cassandrasmith9004]

Dude, prion diseases aren’t cool.

[@WeDontWantYourWar]

First time I was in the US, I was blown away by always being asked if I wanted a SUPER SALAD with my dinner.. It was only 7 years later I was told it was a Soup OR Salad.

[@dang2443]

"blown away"? By a salad. Mkay....

[@persephonebh4592]

🤣🤣🤣

[@strangeaslife]

@@dang2443 clearly they aren't a native English speaker so chill. I wonder how many languages you speak, much less perfectly. Pft

[@jypsych3556]

My first language was technically Spanish BUT I’m more fluent in English and let me tell you, that happens to me still😭😭 every time I’m like how does this always happen😭😭

[@cassieee42069]

I've been laughing at this comment for 20 minutes. Thanks for posting it

[@SubhalakshmiKumar]

Him: Here are these language facts My brain: His eyes match the wall behind him

[@Natalie-ox7xm]

I totally lost some of the information being presented because of that!

[@amorerobinson4140]

Now I can’t unsee it 😂

[@cjjuszczak]

he has blue eyes, and a green wall though o.O

[@hiimjohnquinones2971]

Now it's bugging me that it's not a perfect match lol

[@emdivine]

I like the way your mind works..

[@vintagetechno]

This guy just summarized my four year linguistics degree in 15 minutes!

[@pkpwnerful]

Get wrecked lmao

[@konroh2]

First, I highly doubt it. Second, nice use of exaggeration. Third, if you're serious you didn't study. Fourth, college was a waste of time for you.

[@stacksmalacks8826]

@@konroh2 wow youre such a fun dude

[@adriannelson4214]

So if "silly" used to mean "blessed", then slapping someone silly would mean approximately the same as beating the devil out of them.

[@killbill450]

Underrated comment

[@justinlang8881]

RIP devil

[@Meatwad0]

Oh my god😂😂😂

[@dianacherry1411]

I like the way you think lol

[@katmatally]

I relate it to The Fool in the Tarot -- the Fool is blessed

[@noahstonemusic]

Can we all take a second to appreciate what a specimen of a man this guy is.

[@TheUndersized]

kinda disappointed I had to scroll down this much to find a comment like this

[@CaffeinatedCoffee15]

Yes lmao. Those arms and that chest, just choke me already 😂

[@kuzivastephaniekainga1835]

I concur. I enjoy watching his videos. I learn something new and enjoy the view 😅

[@Peace4Leisure91]

Actually, the word specimen originally has nothing to do with men who were special.

[@randomuserwitharandomname6183]

Just a second? 😍

[@corhydron111]

FUN FACT: With "literally" I've been able to observe a shift in my native Polish. Young people increasingly use two separate words for this: 1) "dosłownie", a word equivalent to "literally", which has been undergoing the same semantic shift as it does in English, now used as a non-literal intensifier 2) "literalnie", an English carbon copy neologism, used for *literally* literal things. Just an interesting way to solve this problem, I think.

[@ellax325]

That's pretty cool.

[@whateverforever9975]

Taaak!

[@TheYakusoku]

Maybe we can use "actually" more often? "I made a cloning machine last night. Look at this selfie I took. I am standing next to a clone of myself. I am ACTUALLY beside myself."

[@humphrke]

I've noticed I when I use literally my meaning depends on the tone. if I use literally in an exaggeration, it's pronounced in the standard form. I literally died. but if I say something and I mean it LITERALLY, I emphasize the literally, especially the t in literally, so its I LIT'rally got hit by a bus. the T sounds almost like a tch so its I LIT(CH)'rally

[@katysleta4285]

Thank you so much for emphasizing that the language is not static and that new or "incorrect" uses of words are a part of the language's evolution. So don't hate, embrace. (unless it's should of/should've :D)

[@echolotaliabrokenflight7279]

not me staring for 14 minutes at erik singer's bookshelf and wondering exactly what system he uses that puts GOTHAM next to Scandinavian Comfort Foods, The Swedish Christmas Table, and William Shakespeare

[@maggienbob1304]

😂😂😂 I "literally" got about halfway through your first sentence before bursting out laughing!! I was thinking the same thing! ..Almost darn near peed m' pants.

[@cr8865]

I was doing the exact same! ;)

[@sundalongpatpat]

Oh he uses the Putin-Dair Classification Sytem

[@lindariccijacobs]

someone with many varied interests

[@mjgerges]

I had the same thoughts ... an array of books with no particular order or grouping .. lol ;)

[@Krispyboy55]

My god. I have never heard anyone saying “Hi” smoother than Eliza Simpson.

[@tontonseba]

Thank you. i was thinking the same and was looking through the comments to see if anybody else got soft knees when she said „hi“...

[@chris86simon]

James May.

[@tkmiller_author]

Robert or James Welsh 😊

[@carlwilliams6977]

It was smooth, but also sounded kind of Trannie. Something I don't know?!

[@giodc8599]

Erik needs a whole show for himself. It's as simple as that.

[@___LC___]

I love Erik.

[@Linusrox123]

Something I have heard at least 7 times are younger people saying "I'm weary of..." when they mean either wary of or leery of.

[@Rentgrrrl92]

I like how when he demonstrated vocal fry, he instantly turned into Matthew McConaughey

[@wearecreatorz5688]

I found the comment I was looking for lmao I wanted someone else to notice

[@ClaudioYanes84]

Alright alright alright

[@kylefrans9529]

All I'm saying is when he did the comparison between the two, he did the vocal fry once and she did it twice

[@Egilhelmson]

@ThiagoPlaying That’s just tubular!

[@Tinymoezzy]

I heard Brad Pitt, oddly enough I don't care for his voice

[@divinecommerce3912]

As a math nerd, I always bite my tongue when people say they did a "360" when they mean 180... A full circle (360 degrees) gets you back to where you started, whereas 180 degrees is moving in the opposite direction. I don't love correcting people so I don't say anything, but I hope this helps someone LOL

[@scottjimenez653]

@@iiwi758 I see what you did there...;)

[@109eashisingh5]

@@iiwi758 🤣🤣🤣

[@rikkatheconure2395]

Thank you for not correcting them. Grammar policing is the second cringest thing you can do when talking to someone XD second only to making things out to be Sexist or racist when they aren’t

[@109eashisingh5]

@@NeevTHM it's math

[@109eashisingh5]

@@NeevTHM nope still math 🤣🤣🤣 maybe you are right but i never thought mathematics to be plural i mean its just one subject named mathematics and math is short for mathematics 😂😂 idk math sounds right somehow

[@cheungnth]

“I’m literally dying.” “Aren’t we all?”

[@jordinhocharles]

I’m a demigod I cNt die

[@Surdeigt]

Always a little by little 🙈

[@1980rlquinn]

Well, it's 2020, so, ... yeah.

[@stpidstuff]

"Literally dying" means you are actually dying, so when you say that it means you are physically dying and are about to leave this planet forever. So only say that when you are, in fact, dying.

[@Brindlebrother]

You guys are silly...i mean nice.

[@simonpryor877]

This guy is literally the smartest guy I’ve ever heard of. Really nice that he’s able to quickly diagnose all these pet peeves. Watching this video gave me a new leash on life, so now I want to have a burger with him. Hopefully the waiter doesn’t take too long to quickly table us because nice food is something I’d literally hate to have to agonisingly wait around for. Woodchuck.

[@SpiceWeazel]

I recognize your effort, and for that I respect you.

[@edumazieri]

More people should finish their arguments with Woodchuck. Woodchuck.

[@cherylkalberer1045]

Actually, this comment literally made it worth watching this video.

[@Freakazoid12345]

@@cherylkalberer1045 not figuratively?

[@Freakazoid12345]

This is the same guy who's said that he doesn't understand language or the point of words having a meaning to them. This guy might be smart, but he definitely doesn't sound that way based on what I've heard him say. He's actually argued for words to be misused.

[@MattAndImprov]

When they mentioned "to table," I thought they might bring up the miscommunication over its meaning that delayed WWII by a few weeks. British table means discuss now. American table means discuss later. Everybody wanted to discuss now but instead they fought about whether or not to table. We can't table it (we can't delay). We must table it (we can't delay). It caused a delay. Now that's ironic. Don't you think?

[@whette_fahrtz]

It all depends on where the table is.

[@sihargreaves]

The first intelligent comment on here haha

[@australianwi-fi]

🎶 IT'S LIKE RAIaaaaAAAAN ON YOUR WEEDING DAY 🎶

[@KatlynnHahn]

Just commenting to let you know I greatly appreciated this tidbit of information.

[@dustbitten]

This reminds me of this workshop I went to where we were asked to write down on a piece of paper what “feast” meant to each of us using a synonym or simple phrase. Everyone had mostly written down different things. Communication is definitely a skill beyond linguistics, such as knowing* your audience and making the effort to confirm understanding which some may foolishly think they don’t have time for. It‘s always beneficial to speak simply or plainly rather than trying to sound smart but it can be hard to turn off for some and some concepts can be difficult to simplify.

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

Everyone else: [comments about the linguistics in the video] Me, a Norwegian: omg he has so many books about Scandinavian cooking

[@ameliaberk]

i'm not norwegian but i noticed that too! love it

[@andiemorgan961]

I was drawn to the bookshelf too.😄

[@ktb183]

Swedish christmas cooking, which made me curious as well :), maybe saw that because I am Swedish.

[@meganinnes2098]

I saw the comfort food and was like “hey I have that book! “ seeing that was a total unexpected happy surprise

[@helenvolden3696]

BRUNOST

[@jiyuandong8964]

I’m gonna lose my mind if “for all intensive purposes” becomes the correct way to say the phrase

[@aos-archive]

All it takes is for some dictionary to provide a definition of it for many to start adopting it.

[@elena2125]

The phrase does not make much sense. This is annoying. Intensive is an adjective modifying purpose. This purpose is intensive, the person doing the action is doing it intensively . What??? The meaning of the phrase changes completely and when you say it , " all those intensive purposes - all the doing is intensive". I guess people are using mighty force to get what they want. It is incredible that people say it and they don't hear what they are saying.

[@james6822]

I am literally losing my mind

[@elena2125]

K

[@elena2125]

@@james6822 literally figuratively or literally you are pulling your hair out and need 911? 😰😀

[@candybabyeagle]

I'm really enjoying your videos, especially when you remind us that language changes over time and to be more comfortable with the changes. I moved to Oklahoma a few years ago and constantly cringe when people use the wrong tense of verbs when talking. "I seen him yesterday ". It just seems to be a thing here.

[@erinannelies]

“I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less” irritates me like no other.

[@juliannah5721]

Omg, me too!!! "I could care less"... So, you care, then.

[@sonokoluvr]

fr

[@Socialien]

Same!!

[@joellaverdiere]

13:25

[@ivansantillanes680]

᯽JuliannaH 5782᯽ When I hear someone say it, I usually think or say, "Really? How much less?"

[@zackreed6010]

"Sinister" originally meant "left-handed" and I just love this ridiculous, fluid language of ours.

[@thejagman22]

Because being left-handed was correctly seen as being a sign of evil.

[@akizeta]

@@thejagman22 "Correctly"?

[@CharalamposKoundourakis]

@@akizeta That's correct.

[@jordanalmond3458]

FASCINATING!!

[@gisellepaz9069]

The word for right handed being "Dexter" as in dexterous.

[@EnderHeart5911]

I was always a bit annoyed when teachers would correct students who asked, “Can I go to the restroom?” If you look at Oxford Languages’ definitions, the word “can” also means “be permitted to”, so, “May I go to the restroom?” isn’t the only way to phrase that question.

[@Nae_Ayy]

ENGLISH MODAL PARTICLES USUALLY HAVE MANY DIFFERENT MOODS THEY CAN REPRESENT

[@pcarrierorange]

I suspect that definition is a product of incorrectly using the original term, in the same way “literally” is now in some dictionaries defined as “metaphorically”. The teacher is, then, begging the question (per XKCD 2039)

[@tlpineapple1]

@@pcarrierorange The issue is, society as a whole uses "can" and "may" interchangeably. It has been in the vernacular of the people for at least 4 generations now, hence why it is in dictionaries.

[@dorcasingasha8559]

The difference is in the implied politeness no the meaning itself

[@julesverneinoz]

What Dorcas said. While you might be annoyed, in a working environment where you want to set certain 'tones' in your communications, using the wrong implication can cause acceptance or anger. It might not matter as much if you're in the 'detail' level, but someone who can communicate and also do 'detail' gets more.

[@rachelf5466]

This guy just voiced all my thoughts (as a hobby linguist) on language in a single video. I love how he talks about saying things "wrong" is just how language changes. My parents get caught up on the slang of "kids these days." "You guys give a bad meaning to everything"-- which is really the pot calling the kettle black because their generation had plenty of their own slang. The way I see it, often the purpose behind slang is to fill a need in a language that wasn't being met before, and a lot of our "accepted" words now were once considered slang. Slang is fascinating to me for that reason-- it's like watching language change right before your eyes. And also, who gets to dictate right and wrong when it comes to language? It really boils down to what the natives say. I learned Spanish in the US, so I learned lots of different kinds of Spanish all at once. I resisted saying "parquear" for "to park" for the longest time because I saw it as "wrong." However, I eventually came to realize that I had never once heard someone say the "correct" word, which was "estacionar." I realized that if the native speakers have no problem with parquear, then who was I to tell them that it was the "wrong" word? There really isn't a right or wrong.

[@amyparker9816]

The more I study linguistics, the more I let go of the stupid prejudices that I used to have....but I will never not be at least a little angry when I see someone write apart instead of a part. As in "I'm so glad I got to be apart of your special day!"

[@JacquelineUnderwood]

Wait but don’t they have different meanings? I thought apart means separated and a part means a piece of.

[@amyparker9816]

@@JacquelineUnderwood Exactly, they do have different meanings. That's why it annoys me so much when people say apart, when they meant to say a part.

[@hartmarque]

@@amyparker9816 I agree. "Everyday" is the one that does it for me.

[@danaglabeman6919]

I agree with you, because there's a huge difference between making a so-called mistake where everyone understands what you mean and people are just being sticklers, vs. your example where the mistake changes the meaning of the speech. That's just bad communication.

[@poke-champ4256]

@@hartmarque wait one second.İsnt everyday correct?i always thought its typical for english to merge words together and create a new one thats used a lot like anyone,everybody, anyhow,anywhere and all these kinda words

[@maggiepb4]

Idk who needs to hear this, but “definitely” and “defiantly” are two completely different words.

[@dallaswood4117]

ha i posted the same thing. i only ever see it typed that way though so people must be spelling definitely wrong and then auto correct kicks in?

[@thistvrighthere]

autocorrect needs to hear it

[@sierramelody3886]

The typo is usually definately tho

[@jtoatm5923]

Dallas Wood that’s defiantly true

[@eatsmylifeYT]

How about "could of" and "could have"?

[@renemccracken6319]

If my husband isn’t this understanding, calm, and accepting, I don’t want it

[@hkspowers003]

As a husband I strive to be more like this guy. What a pleasant person to be around, he really seemed so genuine and calm.

[@DavidDavid-jb1cy]

I don't think "he" would want to be called "it."

[@9009matorres]

hkspowers003 as a husband, please stfu forever.

[@mordecai8707]

David David relax softie

[@mordecai8707]

Senor Diego you’d be surprised at how easy it is to pickup on characteristics and qualities of people just by observing them. Not saying you should completely believe what you see on the outside as some people can put up a front but generally, it’s easy to understand a person, try people watching sometime 😭 a lot of women are good at it too

[@done.6191]

"For all intensive purposes, dialect coach Erik Singer is literally an expert when it comes to language. " This sentence nearly broke me.

[@alexismann2069]

When people write “apart” instead of “a part.” (e.g. I’m so glad to be apart of this organization). They’re *literally* saying the exact opposite of what they mean.

[@Smsbulgaria]

Isn't it funny that "apart" is spelled together and "a part" separately? Really makes you think...

[@thejetstarjump]

I love your literal accentuation

[@alexismann2069]

Guy Flies haha thanks ;)

[@wafimarzouqmohammad8054]

Maybe and may be too.

[@Shrooblord]

@@wafimarzouqmohammad8054 that's horrid, thanks

[@BettyHaiduoWang]

“Uptalk can make you sound less intelligent, less trustworthy, less competent, less educated, even less attractive...” He just insulted a whole nation of Australians.

[@MlgChickenSauce]

is he wrong tho

[@GenieGin13]

He said it's been said of those things, that those are some people's perceptions of vocal fry and uptalk not that it actually does

[@Markle2k]

It's the valley girl accent that gets most people riled. The valley male accent is different.

[@m_winewood]

I think this is specific to American english because ive noticed that uptalk is a natural part of the flow of a sentence in other places and languages. in america its only naturally used for questions so it just makes you sound stupid when you use if for the majority of your statements.

[@BettyHaiduoWang]

Matthew Dorry haha touché

[@CZfromtheNorth]

I feel like Matthew McConaughey's career has thrived off of his vocal fry speaking tendency.

[@carbine090909]

And it annoys me when he does it too.

[@charlescrowe2249]

That's the east Texas accent

[@l.dorado5729]

Yeah, because it wasn't the chiseled Jaw perfect hair or six pack.... He's eye candy and a terrible actor

[@cooljhags7356]

L. David Roberts But he’s won an Oscar so that statement is kind of false

[@CZfromtheNorth]

​@@l.dorado5729 You're making some solid points, my man.

[@Olga_Efremov]

These are such enriching topics to talk about! I really enjoy them. Not to mention, that they also broaden the perspective on things in life. 😊

[@Anthony-yu6ib]

My pet peeve is when people say “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less.”

[@cjscarff6453]

Yes me too

[@lulumanona]

Drives me nuts

[@reservoirfrog1]

Is that an American thing? I hear a lot of Americans say “I/he/she/they could care less” when someone doesn’t care. Not in the UK. We always say “COUNDN’T care less”

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

I hate when they do that and when did the saying 'my bad' enter the English language?

[@sublimesense7761]

Same

[@Sam_Perman]

A good family friend of mine though it was “Gorilla Cheese” for 35 years until she saw it written on a menu and didn’t know what a “grilled cheese” was.

[@ancali]

😂🤣😂

[@Sam_Perman]

Katie W. Still not as bad as THIRTY FIVE YEARS

[@bganonimouse2754]

Holy smokes my toes even curled while hearing this, just ugh.

[@StarryNightt.]

@@katiew. Lmfaoo me too! Till I was like 8

[@elena2125]

People are just funny.😂

[@liduinaliduina11]

Okay but what about the people that say “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”

[@acharich]

Ironically I once saw someone write a rant about the second statement on FB.. 💀

[@micheal2458]

@@acharich about the correct one? what was their issue with it?

[@jaxxiet5851]

@@acharich lolll

[@marcusnichols5595]

Hi Emma, David Mitchel has something to say about that; kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ6agGODe9Cgptk

[@crewe99]

I was looking for this comment! Infuriating 🤬

[@elizabethfortino8867]

I appreciated this talk emensly! I enjoy etymology and this taught me not to take myself too seriously. The evolution of language is fluid, and we should remember this and remain as such.

[@eigengrau7283]

'of' -- "should of", "would of".. totally throws me off.

[@jacobnunthuk6377]

Delet dis

[@putrijoyceirawati2638]

Makes me want to punch my screen when someone does that.

[@sophiamura9484]

I mean, agree if someone deliberately types out the words “should of”, because that’s just not correct. But when you say “should’ve” out loud, that’s exactly what it sounds like lol

[@StellaPlayss]

Sophia Mura that’s what I was thinking.

[@sayven]

It makes it so much harder to read as well

[@moumita_sen]

"I'm literally dying.." Yes, yes you are, all of us are, literally dying at all times until we're literally dead.

[@oliviah.4741]

Exactly

[@zbdmo4914]

Except that 'literally' has been used as an intensifier for, *literally*, centuries. It's ok to use literally when you actually mean figuratively. www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally

[@NootNoooooot]

@@zbdmo4914 except when people who use it don't actually know how to use it because they *literally* don't understand the word they're saying.

[@crunchie83]

This is a favorite phrase of reality show contestants.

[@jtoatm5923]

SilentNeutral they don’t understand that it’s used as an intensifier?

[@TMWriting]

My biggest pet peeve with language is when people say ‘I could care less’, because it means the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you’re trying to say!

[@MasqueradeCrew]

I could care less but that would take too much effort.

[@KindredBrujah]

Unquestionably wrong, that one. 'Hold down the fort' is another one. In fact, just watch David Mitchell rant about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ6agGODe9Cgptk

[@kevinbooth-]

Ugh..Y'know what sucks? Having known and used the proper form since childhood but being surrounded by so many 'stupids' who use the improper form and then finding yourself in a conversation with someone 'on your level' and accidentally using the improper form due to the unconscious adaptation to in group behaviours.....

[@jakemayer2113]

@@kevinbooth- its only improper because youre mad about it. words dont have meanings, they have uses.

[@iau]

I've rationalized it as "I could care less, but I don't even care enough to care less about it". It's my way of coping whenever I hear it 😵

[@minners19]

I find it FACINATING that in some languages, the tone of how you say something completely changes a word.

[@melonie_peppers]

This is very common in African languages especially Bantu languages. We sometimes just have 1 word used 7 times just depending on how you pronounce it will change meaning

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... fascinating* ...

[@otheirony618]

“I could care less” I get irrationally angry over this one.

[@mariocastro6895]

I could care less

[@joefelice5062]

Pronouncing exspresso, exspecially, and should of... all make me justifiably angry.

[@wordsculpt]

Well, sometimes I actually could manage to care a little bit less. Not usually, but occasionally!

[@isitstupidtoaskquestions]

I could care less

[@sylviacarlson3561]

@@mariocastro6895 why?

[@lakritz8732]

The male vs female vocal fry comparison was eye opening

[@prince-rk7nl]

I think its less male v female and more high vs low pitch. I find everything more annoying in higher pitches

[@D3monB4dger8]

@@prince-rk7nl I think you’re onto something. For me, I think the user’s accent might also have something to do with it? I’d have to listen to a wider sample though.

[@mycroftdonnell]

I definitely heard it more clearly with the higher pitched voice

[@nerdycreole4518]

@@prince-rk7nl Women usually have higher pitched voices lol 😂

[@DanielWitch]

I felt like the guy was genuine, but the girl was almost preaching to me. Maybe I've seen too many feminists freakout videos.

[@isaiahsanchevy9252]

I had a professor who was a lot like this guy. She made advanced grammar really interesting and fun.

[@terintiaflavius3349]

I just love magnificent teachers.

[@zacharydavis4398]

❤️ Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🤙🏾

[@cufflink44]

My fav eggcorn: "Grading on a curb." I have this picture in my mind of a professor sitting on the curb of a busy street, red pen in hand, papers flying, as the traffic whizzes by.

[@kraka2oanIner]

Wow... I've NEVER heard that one. Amazing!

[@beadingbusily]

Grading on a curve is a thing. I've never heard of grading on a curb.

[@harrywang9375]

Doggy dog world is my fave

[@ryandickerson9699]

How about grating a hunk of cheese on a curb hoping that the cheese will fall onto the plate sitting on the street that you then bring back inside the restaurant to serve to the customer ?

[@emmavt24]

Or "play it by year" rather than play it by ear

[@niemand262]

There's an old adage, "Never laugh at someone for mispronouncing a word. They likely learned the word by reading". I suppose there is an inverse adage, "Always laugh at someone for committing an Eggcorn, it means they learned a word by not reading".

[@FionaA17]

😂

[@minstrelcat1951]

😂😂😂😂

[@DasObscure]

I learned my English by watching TV starting at age 5, once I had learned my second language well enough to read the subtitles through which I understood the English spoken, and by age 7 I was more or less fluent in conversational English. So, the problem wasn't "not reading", I just mostly read in my 2 first languages that I was more surrounded by. I'd like to know how many languages these "spelling shamers" knew at the age of 5-7.

[@Beluchy59]

@@DasObscure I knew 3. I still get pet peeves in all of my languages. It’s one of the benefits of being fluent in more than one language lmfao

[@sottosopravoce]

But eggcorns are often mishearings of cliches writers are trying to avoid.

[@MT-od1xi]

Or when Americans say “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”. If you could care less then you do care?

[@alexandria3583]

i was just about to comment this

[@syreetacunningham899]

I'm guilty of that

[@georgiacollins2025]

This annoys me so much!!

[@rafaelloroza9619]

Im impressed of how I've been saying this right no been a English native!! 🇧🇷

[@gojosatoru__]

i couldn’t care less because i don’t care at all.

[@DJTrek83]

When people say, "mute point", instead of, "moot point". Also, "On accident", instead of "by accident"

[@essentialrenee]

i wasn't prepared for eliza's sultry "hi".

[@jdavi6241]

@@koolmaaan the linguistic tonal style of that "hi" would be recognized as sounding sultry by most folks with an understanding of tonality. However, I don't think it was intentional on her part. You don't need to be attracted to someone to recognize and identify cultural associations of "sultriness" in the inflections of someone's voice.

[@dressyrbrunte100]

i reacted to it too omg

[@essentialrenee]

@@koolmaaan i wasn't looking at the video. just listening. her "hi" made me look. good job reaching though...

[@essentialrenee]

@@jdavi6241 thank you

[@QuantEdgeHub]

huuh omg right

[@katiaeconomou5812]

I'm convinced this man isn't actually American. He's just doing an accent

[@alaneekonomou]

Haha omg our last names!! How weird!!

[@camerontaylor7471]

I’m convinced Alexa is AI...

[@akinae3567]

If he is, it’s impressive. I accidentally picked up an American/European accent when I was younger and now many people think I’m an immigrant...until they hear the rest of my family. Lol

[@acharich]

@@alaneekonomou whoa, the irony.. 😅

[@LABoyce]

Pretty sure he’s an American trying to sound posh. It’s a Transatlantic accent that was popular in early American films

[@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea]

My mom (a native Spanish speaker) works with a lot of young people who always say, “I’m like....” She thought they were saying, “I’m Mike.” She thought it was an American phrase. 🤣

[@lalalovinlifelala]

that’s so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

[@maxryder9321]

I saw a TikTok saying this and I agree, literally doesn’t have a “new” meaning, e.g. “Im literally going to kill you” when someone is being annoying is just hyperbole, not a new meaning, just as you could equally say “I’m going to kill you” without changing the meaning of the word kill. Now I see that the first sentence is somewhat breaking the 4th wall by using the word “literally” without precisely meaning it, but it’s still the same phenomenon overall.

[@arpc0027]

LOL. The best I've heard is "she's going to order the Seizure salad".

[@Logic-km7ui]

My favorite: "The ship was lisping."

[@ericparker163]

Meg Ryan ordered one in When Harry Met Sally

[@Mad30266]

XD I couldn't stop laughing at this, imagining a vibrating bowl of leaves

[@xyu1uyx]

Could somebody explain the joke to non-native speaker please?

[@Its_Shazar]

@@xyu1uyx It's supposed to be "Caesar salad" not "seizure", which is a medical condition.

[@damned0wl]

As a russian, I find the ability to "verb" nouns one of the most attractive features of the English language.

[@Seeker0fTruth]

Interesting!

[@maddox1050]

you just did it there!

[@bjhale]

Yeah, as an American, trying to guess the verb equivalents of nouns in Russian is nowhere near as easy. Like, throw in -овать or maybe a -нуть and add a random prefix...and maybe you'll be right. And don't even get me started on trying to determine what the perfective or imperfective aspect would be.

[@caswanden454]

Less widely known but no less exciting is the English ability to adjective nouns. In my final year of high school my classmates decided that "ruckus" was an adjective meaning wild, fun and cool - as in, "that was a ruckus party last night." Despite my initial protests that that wasn't how words worked, I eventually had to admit that it nicely filled a gap in the language.

[@zevo9314]

i like that they can come and go as a fad and you can get creative with them

[@octopusonrye7335]

I hate when people say: “I could care less”. If you could care less why don’t you? It’s: “I couldn’t care less”. It’s couldn’t, not could!

[@jamersbazuka8055]

It's couldn't, could not! 😉

[@LucySoo1]

I think it’s a very American thing to say ‘I could care less’. Gets on my nerves!

[@helpthehippiehottie]

it makes sense though. the fact theyre even engaging with the matter to the extent that they would provide this remark means they really think it's not worth their time to care at all, but they care enough to reply.

[@swtlikecndy4119]

Isak A. Maybe they weren’t asking to be part of the matter in the first place, but I think “I couldn’t care less” makes sense bc it means they didn’t care at all to begin with, so they actually can’t care any less

[@tenshimoon]

SAME. One of my slight linguistic pet peeves

[@LauraRomano-w4b]

I had a friend who had quite a few of her own eggcorns. My favorite was her description of an article of clothing saying it had an umpire waist. :)

[@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701]

“Vocal fry can damage your voice” *California has left the chat*

[@reubenshiflet]

It doesnt really, singers (especially low singers) use it all the time.

[@pr9081]

@@reubenshiflet you missed @wouldn't you like to know 's funny joke (winky eye emoji here).

[@maryphillips8069]

@@reubenshiflet ^ this I didn't realize people dislike it lol

[@yootooberkev15]

Poor Matthew mcconaughey

[@chrismartinez144]

Wait what? The vocal fry register isn't sung in very often. Even by low voiced people

[@Kayizcray]

It's funny that most of this video is talking about letting language evolve, but the comments are full of people complaining about their own pet peeves 😂

[@pappanalab]

Ironic, no?

[@pappanalab]

Timothy Wright No need to be So rude. You obviously care enough to leave a comment .

[@pappanalab]

Timothy Wright Oh! Ok. Sorry about that

[@dabeage]

it's the difference between evolving and devolving....

[@pphead8224]

@@dabeage so where in the English language is devolving

[@luke6350]

The biggest one for me is “I could care less”. It should be “I couldn’t care less”

[@Dawnstreem5]

I've always heard "I could care less about blank" so I thought it was just a strange saying but it makes total sense that the original would be "I couldnt care less". I was actually thinking about that a while ago when I used the phrase and thought why's it like that bc really i couldnt care less is more accurate

[@dayshawna]

it’s weird but i find it kind of funny to say i could care less about something i already don’t care about.

[@cassandrajr7871]

less or fewer 🤔

[@danielgoncalves7986]

That's an irony 😊

[@IceDragon978]

Not necessarily. It could mean, "I could care less, but I don't care enough to do that."

[@fractode]

This is one of the best videos I've seen in a while. (I'm speaking, of course, for all intensive porpoises...)

[@MikeCollar]

My favourite language change is 'awful'. It literally meant "awe-full" or "full of awe"... so not only were things like floods and war awful, but also sunsets and cathedrals. Then, when that shifted to only pertain to bad things, we had to come up with 'awesome' to fill the linguistic void.

[@kckazcoll1]

I hated when awesome became an expression that never went away...meaning awe-inspiring, originally

[@ratamacue0320]

Terrific.

[@michelg3811]

When people use “loose” instead of “lose” I die a little inside.

[@spacep0d]

Same. I absolutely despise this one. To/Too is a close second. This is a quick way to make me stop reading someone.

[@parissinclair6513]

It happens shockingly often!!

[@melissak8892]

Why is this so common??

[@uniquechannelnames]

@@melissak8892 because of words like choose/booze which are pronounced like lose, so people assume thats how it's spelled. I definitely recoil when i see a loose in the wild used wrong lol.

[@sianais]

Quite for quiet, principle for principal and then for than are some of my least favourite mix ups.

[@nathanhaimson]

As a barista, it bugs me a little when people pronounce espresso as "expresso", but I wouldn't correct them. I know what they meant, so it doesn't really matter.

[@Hanna-nv3du]

Lydia because it’s simply wrong I guess, it kind of bugs me too just because I know how to pronounce it and they’re not doing it the right way😂

[@brandeeisbomb]

I feel the same! Also when people say axe instead of ask

[@rafaeterna1081]

@sika no fvcking way haha, no one pronounce pizza as pixa right? right?

[@babygoatsmum4122]

@@rafaeterna1081 unfortunately some do..

[@xime321]

I mean spresso is an italian word, so i guess you can choose how to say it. Because espresso means pressed out, in spanish we translated it to it's literal meaning as expreso. So what you are getting is the same word with the same meaning but with the pronunciation in spanish and in italian.

[@buzbuz33-99]

Very entertaining and informative. For eggcorns, how about "Duck tape" (a tape created with duck fabric) evolving into "Duct tape" (even though the tape is not good at taping ducts, especially heating ducts).

[@thatlucidguy]

My favorite verbing of a noun: "Beer me!" - Andy Bernard

[@TheDenisedrake]

Excellent! I'm gonna try that only with a cracking, up-talking voice "Wine meeeee!"

[@2204-m3l]

THE FIRE'S SHOOTING AT US

[@Nick_Lavigne]

Beer me, is much older than that, it was on the Simpsons in the early 90s, back when the show was well written.

[@NotSure109]

Lord beer me strength...

[@ArkadianDream]

I don't know why anyone would consider the verbing of nouns a peeve. It's probably what I like most about english as a non native speaker, it makes it so fun and flexible

[@stephenb8353]

I think because more often than not, in my experience, its used in corporate jargon - to action, to sunset, to interface, to dogfood...

[@miso306]

It mostly just sounds really cheesy to me. Like they're trying to be quirky or creative, but it's so overdone that it's lame.

[@kryw10]

Someone told me once that English was hard to learn, but worth it because of it's flexibility, too. I think that's interesting.

[@bsgamesca8891]

Verbing really weirds the language, but that also makes it more efficient.

[@ExiledStardust]

Because it's hugely overdone, especially by marketers and creative writers trying to imitate Hemingway by paring down their sentences as much as possible by forcing nouns to do excessively heavy lifting.

[@peteblack50]

Alanis Morissette writing a song called Ironic containing no examples of irony is in fact irony. The woman is a genius!

[@danekeating5224]

She admitted later that she did not know the meaning of ironic, and has fully acknowledged this. So many ignorant people think that ironic means either coincidence or bad luck. If you don't know what a word means, ask or consult a dictionary.

[@fadetoblond]

You seriously need to go back to the dictionary and read the meaning of "ironic" then. Bwahaha!

[@niamhdee9487]

The most ironic thing about that song is that it was written by someone who doesn’t know what irony is. Isn’t that ironic, don’t ya think?

[@niamhdee9487]

There is a comedian called Ed Byrne who has a whole set on this sing and it is honestly hilarious

[@rumblefish9]

@@personneici2595 but none of the things that happen in the song counts as irony. Unfortunate, sure. But not irony.

[@GehamArakelyan]

The thing that got me was when he said "coexist together" at the end