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- Sauwan, on 10/10/2007, -5/+51Sweet jesus, when digg has to teach us English, we're doomed.
- Davisourus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36Inconceivable!
- peterjmag, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33.002 cents / .002 dollars
- quakerorts, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Obvious omissions: then / than, there / they're / their
I used to work with someone who used rather in place of whether. Another coworker said 'RE' when he meant 'i.e.' - TheMeatball, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31She was always using the word "infer"
When she obviously meant "imply"
And I know some guys would put up with that kind of thing
But frankly, I can't imagine why. - adb44, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -5/+31boring / *****
- Conwaysb0718, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- davestar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27if they're pairing words that are commonly confused, then irony should have a partner:
irony/coincidence - sundancekid503, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22digg / maturity
- shellacked, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20In American English, Webster and I disagree with you
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/nauseous - thefirstenemy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20Ironic that I was just thinking that!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Me fail english? That's unpossible!
- wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15No confusion there...
..boobs. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13According to http://www.answers.com/convince, traditionally one would
- PERSUADE someone to do something
- CONVINCE someone of the truth of a statement
And they give the example sentence following this rule: By convincing me that no good could come of staying, he persuaded me to leave.
However, more people are now starting to accept the two words as synonyms. - MrSketch, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Gender and sex are different.
Gender = Role an individual plays in society.
Sex = Physical parts
Gender is a social construct and some societies have more than two genders ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender ).
Sex is your physical parts and we are born five possible ways, but forced into male/female by doctors at birth, often at the point of a scalpel. (above link in the section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender#Third_sex_in_biology ). - itsJALbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Did you mean .02?
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Or, perhaps, due to laziness.
- mishabear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Your / You're
- r1ptide64, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11or "supposably"
- roninhobbit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12100 my ass. You want a list? Here's a list. http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
- sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10That is actually one definition of the word. The most popular definition is however:
dec·i·mate: (děs'ə-māt') - To destroy a great number or proportion of - xstarsprinklesx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10You're right about its origin, but I think it's one of those definitions that has changed/expanded with use over time.
- Cheesemold, on 10/10/2007, -7/+16The list forgot the word decimate. Decimate means to reduce by ten percent. It has, as of late, been used to mean something more such as obliterate. Decimation was a common disciplinary act used in the Roman Empire to punish soldiers for retreating prematurely or otherwise bringing about failure in a battle. They would randomly pick one out of every ten soldiers and have them publicly killed so as to set an example for the group's behavior. If decimation meant to completely obliterate, then the Roman Empire certainly wouldn't have had enough soldiers to perpetuate their military power in ancient times. So, when you feel the urge to say "decimate" when you mean "obliterate", smack yourself upside the head and use the latter.
- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I ensure you this list will have no effect on the median digg user...
- mishabear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8hmmm....so "you're making me nauseous" means I am doing something that is making you make others sick...??? *so confused*
- Virak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8People using 'bemuse' to mean 'amuse' inspires a horrible, uncontrollable rage in me like few other things can.
- 4040, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Hey, stop being coincidental!
- 1ofMany, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10addictive / addicting
Then again, addicting isn't a word. - rhylan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Haha, I know a guy who refuses to believe that bought is a different word from 'brought' - I've stopped correcting him now; partly because it was futile and partly because it still makes me laugh
- 5m0k3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7bitchslapp / bitch's lap
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5But what does it DO to laziness? And WHY!?!?!? Poor laziness :(
- flatpick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I highly recommend this list to my company's techpubs department, which has been outsourced to India.
- pathetik, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8***** / ***** her
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hey just remember, it's only racist when you pronounce the "R".
- Obzerva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I believe it's actually:
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!" - arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Unpossible!
- xstarsprinklesx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They still are different. See above comment.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7A lot of those are dated and have been changed in the dictionary. A word's dictionary meaning comes from how people use it and not the other way around.
- emjaymj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He was trying two prevent the carbon emissions that the energy required to press an extra key wood of used. Ewe COMPLETELY ruined it.
- warragul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You may well find that the Indians use far better English (allowing for accent) than most other English speakers.
- Hosalabad, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah if you're stupid. Good grief.
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6If you go to the bottom of that page, it seems they are pushing a social bookmarking site similar to Digg and Reddit, and it's called Hot Duggity....
."If you like Reddit or Digg, give Hot Duggity a try. Similiar, but different. Designed around the most complaints heard about Digg and Reddit from the users. Very easy to setup your own page of newsfeeds and submit from there most places with just one click."
I honestly laughed when I saw it, what a total joke. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+14Flammable means inflammable? What a country!
- Dr. Nick - Treshnell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It may be the only way to get through to the youth of today. Digg up if it's an important lesson, otherwise back to my game!
- Gravey9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3no just you
- zxjams, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3**shouldst
- Thefatheroftime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Everyone confuses pedophile and pederast.
If you'd like to sex up a child you're a pedophile.
If you have, you're a pederast. - xstarsprinklesx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's mostly just a matter of the majority of people not being very well-read and therefore not seeing these words written in a variety of contexts. Instead, they just hear them spoken, end up confusing words that sound similar, and try to emulate the contexts they believe they fit into, which doesn't really work a lot of the time.
- Cloud7654, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Those aren't confusing at all.
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