Words/phrases I wish would go away

[RetiredAt63]

One thing that annoys me is seeing people string two words together, such as "alot", "aswell", "incase", etc.

I have a very old memory of a red slash separating a and lot in a short writing assignment in maybe third grade. I recall being surprised, since it goes 'to gether' so easily. Ohwell.

We learn so much in the early grades.  Did you know there is a rat living in separate?

Honestly, the first 'a' in separate always gave me a lot (alot?) of trouble.  Mentally I hear sep-er-ate, not sep-ah-rate.

Same here, and I see seperate a lot (not allot).  At least my spell check doesn't like it.

[nereo]

Alot of parents seperate after having kidz incase you don’t no

[Metalcat]

Alot of parents seperate after having kidz incase you don’t no

Why did I read that in a Newfie accent??

I've gotten so used to Newfies not giving a flying fuck about spelling that I think I read all sentences with phonetic spelling errors in Newfie now.

[nereo]

Alot of parents seperate after having kidz incase you don’t no

Why did I read that in a Newfie accent??

I've gotten so used to Newfies not giving a flying fuck about spelling that I think I read all sentences with phonetic spelling errors in Newfie now.

Hardest part for me when working in Newfoundland was how they use the letter “h” and “r”
Words that we pronounce the “h” in get dropped.  “help around the house” are said something like: ‘elp around the ouse”. Clear sounds more like the name Claire. They said Herb like the Brits (full H) but “Arry” and “Ope” instead of harry and hope (“I ope ‘arry doesn’t eat the poisonous Herb Voldemort gave ‘im”)

Whereas the other words they add an h to.  Anchor becomes Hancker. Idea sounds like “aye, deer”
I could never quite tell which words would pronounce the H and which wouldn’t. Or when a random R sound wou,d be added to the end of a word. 

[Raenia]

People using "exponential" to mean "big."

10x is not exponentially more than x. It's ten times more. You can't diagnose if it's linear or exponential or logarithmic until you have more than two points available.

[Metalcat]

People using "exponential" to mean "big."

10x is not exponentially more than x. It's ten times more. You can't diagnose if it's linear or exponential or logarithmic until you have more than two points available.

I just saw a spat about this in another thread.

[Metalcat]

Alot of parents seperate after having kidz incase you don’t no

Why did I read that in a Newfie accent??

I've gotten so used to Newfies not giving a flying fuck about spelling that I think I read all sentences with phonetic spelling errors in Newfie now.

Hardest part for me when working in Newfoundland was how they use the letter “h” and “r”
Words that we pronounce the “h” in get dropped.  “help around the house” are said something like: ‘elp around the ouse”. Clear sounds more like the name Claire. They said Herb like the Brits (full H) but “Arry” and “Ope” instead of harry and hope (“I ope ‘arry doesn’t eat the poisonous Herb Voldemort gave ‘im”)

Whereas the other words they add an h to.  Anchor becomes Hancker. Idea sounds like “aye, deer”
I could never quite tell which words would pronounce the H and which wouldn’t. Or when a random R sound wou,d be added to the end of a word.

Oh, I have a word I don't like.

I enjoy almost everything Newfie, but I just can't get behind calling cloud berries bakeapples. I mean, I'll do it, but I don't like it.

[Raenia]

People using "exponential" to mean "big."

10x is not exponentially more than x. It's ten times more. You can't diagnose if it's linear or exponential or logarithmic until you have more than two points available.

I just saw a spat about this in another thread.

Hah, I missed that one, but it's a nice coincidence. I just ran across it in a book I'm reading, and it's been bothering me since. A piece of published literature! There are lots of words that mean 'really big' why can't they use one of those?

[RWD]

People using "exponential" to mean "big."

10x is not exponentially more than x. It's ten times more. You can't diagnose if it's linear or exponential or logarithmic until you have more than two points available.

I just saw a spat about this in another thread.

Hah, I missed that one, but it's a nice coincidence. I just ran across it in a book I'm reading, and it's been bothering me since. A piece of published literature! There are lots of words that mean 'really big' why can't they use one of those?

For 10x specifically you can use "order of magnitude."

[twinstudy]

People using "exponential" to mean "big."

10x is not exponentially more than x. It's ten times more. You can't diagnose if it's linear or exponential or logarithmic until you have more than two points available.

I just saw a spat about this in another thread.

Hah, I missed that one, but it's a nice coincidence. I just ran across it in a book I'm reading, and it's been bothering me since. A piece of published literature! There are lots of words that mean 'really big' why can't they use one of those?

For 10x specifically you can use "order of magnitude."

I think a lot of people just think exponential means big, so they'll call a high linear growth exponential but they won't use the term to correctly refer to slow exponential growth, like with investments.

[GuitarStv]

Exponential doesn't mean growth at all.  The exponent can be negative . . .

[Morning Glory]

Alot of parents seperate after having kidz incase you don’t no

Why did I read that in a Newfie accent??

I've gotten so used to Newfies not giving a flying fuck about spelling that I think I read all sentences with phonetic spelling errors in Newfie now.

Hardest part for me when working in Newfoundland was how they use the letter “h” and “r”
Words that we pronounce the “h” in get dropped.  “help around the house” are said something like: ‘elp around the ouse”. Clear sounds more like the name Claire. They said Herb like the Brits (full H) but “Arry” and “Ope” instead of harry and hope (“I ope ‘arry doesn’t eat the poisonous Herb Voldemort gave ‘im”)

Whereas the other words they add an h to.  Anchor becomes Hancker. Idea sounds like “aye, deer”
I could never quite tell which words would pronounce the H and which wouldn’t. Or when a random R sound wou,d be added to the end of a word.

Oh, I have a word I don't like.

I enjoy almost everything Newfie, but I just can't get behind calling cloud berries bakeapples. I mean, I'll do it, but I don't like it.

Consider yourself lucky to have found an egg corn still being used in the wild!!

I looked it up because I'd seen the word in books before but just sort of assumed it was a type of sour apple. It's thought to have originated with someone mishearing the French for "what do you call this berry".