I'm pretty smart ya know? But also pretty dumb.

[KittyOfSteele]

It happened to me a few days ago too.

Me: Crisis... Crisis? Crisiss? Crisises... Crisea? Alright, what's the plural for Crisis?

Chat: Crises.

Me: Well, here goes another time where English is more creative than Spanish. Plural for Crisis in Spanish is also Crisis!

 

[cw5523729]

It happened to me a few days ago too.

Me: Crisis... Crisis? Crisiss? Crisises... Crisea? Alright, what's the plural for Crisis?

Chat: Crises.

Me: Well, here goes another time where English is more creative than Spanish. Plural for Crisis in Spanish is also Crisis!

A Plethora of Crisis Situations

 

[Rob_Royale]

For me it's not a word use, but wonky sentences. Some are so bad my grammar checker underlines them in orange as if to say, "Hey moron, what are you - in 3rd grade?"

 

[SimonDoom]

One of the elements of being pretty smart is the ability to know when you are being pretty dumb.

 

[onehitwanda]

One of the elements of being pretty smart is the ability to know when you are being pretty dumb.

Dumbing-Kruger?

 

[cw5523729]

One of the elements of being pretty smart is the ability to know when you are being pretty dumb.

A lot of people start a question to me with "I have a dumb question"

And yet those people never even have the dumbest question of the day. The really, really dumb questions are invariably the people that have no idea of how dumb their question is. Those are the ones that knock you speechless for a second as you try to figure out if they are just fucking with you.

 

[TheLobster]

It happened to me a few days ago too.

Me: Crisis... Crisis? Crisiss? Crisises... Crisea? Alright, what's the plural for Crisis?

Chat: Crises.

Me: Well, here goes another time where English is more creative than Spanish. Plural for Crisis in Spanish is also Crisis!

I still have PTSD after looking through the code of Python's Requests library, whose author saw it fit to pluralize "statuses" as, wait for it...

...Stati.

 

[SimonDoom]

Dumbing-Kruger?

Right. "I'm about to give an opinion on a subject about which I know nothing, but I know it's worthless, so that makes it OK."

I actually think that's not a bad attitude to have in a forum like this one.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I still have PTSD after looking through the code of Python's Requests library, whose author saw it fit to pluralize "statuses" as, wait for it...

...Stati.

Hah, what a sucker. 'Statii' would've been correct and consistent.

Roma vincit!

 

[AwkwardMD]

In the middle of writing a story, I got stuck mid-sentence because I couldn't figure out how to write impropriety as an adjective.
Impropietous? Impropitious? Unpropitious?

Then I looked it up. Oh. Its improper.

...I knew that.

Please help my fragile ego and tell me I'm not the only one who gets stuck like this.

All the damn time

 

[AlexBailey]

In the middle of writing a story, I got stuck mid-sentence because I couldn't figure out how to write impropriety as an adjective.
Impropietous? Impropitious? Unpropitious?

Then I looked it up. Oh. Its improper.

...I knew that.

Please help my fragile ego and tell me I'm not the only one who gets stuck like this.

“Impretious”

It’s perfectly cromulent.

Now I have to stop being procrastigent and get off to work.

 

[onehitwanda]

Hah, what a sucker. 'Statii' would've been correct and consistent.

Roma vincit!

Romanes eunt domus!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A lot of people start a question to me with "I have a dumb question"

And yet those people never even have the dumbest question of the day. The really, really dumb questions are invariably the people that have no idea of how dumb their question is. Those are the ones that knock you speechless for a second as you try to figure out if they are just fucking with you.

There are questions that had been going through Teresa’s head since she was a child. Indeed, the only serious questions are the ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Romanes eunt domus!

Hah, you devilish Amazons, who dwell on the snowy peaks of Mount Pythonius...

Always an enemy of Rome. Succubi, the lot of you!

I almost fukin wrote succubuses.

 

[onehitwanda]

succubuses

No, that's a RedTube thing.

 

[AlexBailey]

So many thoughts fall between the words…

 

[AwkwardlySet]

No, that's a RedTube thing.

It took me a minute to figure out that one...

You're a terrible influence.

 

[onehitwanda]

It took me a minute to figure out that one...

You're a terrible influence.

I know.

 

[stickygirl]

I struggle with UK manouevre, which is clearly some bastardised Franco and prefer the US version maneuver that still has one more vowel than necessary.... both are highlighted by Lit as being spello's.

Then there's permenant, permanent, permanant, permenent

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I struggle with UK manouevre, which is clearly some bastardised Franco and prefer the US version maneuver that still has one more vowel than necessary.... both are highlighted by Lit as being spello's.

Then there's permenant, permanent, permanant, permenent

Lieutenant is silly. Should be Leftenant.
Colonel… no but Kernel

 

[stickygirl]

Lieutenant is silly. Should be Leftenant.
Colonel… no but Kernel

Depends which country though - in the US they say Lootenant

Colonel gets worse because you pronounce 'Lieutenant Colonel' as "Kernel" - I gather it's polite. Same with Vice Admiral - they are addressed Admiral, unless they're ex-Prince Andrew when they're addressed as Cunt.

 

[onehitwanda]

Depends which country though - in the US they say Lootenant

Colonel gets worse because you pronounce 'Lieutenant Colonel' as "Kernel" - I gather it's polite. Same with Vice Admiral - they are addressed Admiral, unless they're ex-Prince Andrew when they're addressed as Cunt.

#nonce-upon-a-time

 

[UsuallyPresent]

For me it's not a word use, but wonky sentences. Some are so bad my grammar checker underlines them in orange as if to say, "Hey moron, what are you - in 3rd grade?"

Does it use crayon?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I almost fukin wrote succubuses.

I... kinda want to see a bus filled with succubi now.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I... kinda want to see a bus filled with succubi now.