> > Come to think of it, I don't even get "all of a sudden" that much.
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> But it's ok, because it's an idiom (and English is FULL of them) that's been around a long time. "All the sudden" (which, I guess I'm happy to say, I've never actually seen or heard) sounds like someone stupid that didn't hear the expression right and repeated it incorrectly. I can't stomach that.
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> Same thing with "I could care less." I hate that with a deep-seated passion, too. It's a corruption of "I couldn't care less," which is an expression that makes sense and that I use myself. Again, somebody misheard it, didn't think about it, and dropped the "n't." And it caught on.
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> Idiots.

Speaking of corrupted language, one word that hits me like nails on a chalkboard is "irregardless". It's not even a word. "Regardless" itself is a negation of the sentence which it preceeds. The prefix "ir" negates as well. So, when someone says it, there actually stating a meaning that is the opposite of their intentions. They may as well not have used a word there at all. In fact, let's just not let those people speak whatsoever.

Tra "don't get me started on 'not hardly'" nio