Bill Burr is the worst person to listen to if you get bothered by grammar. He says "supposably", "for intensive purposes", and a few others I can't recall right now whether or not

Houshphandzadeh wrote:ooc, does it still annoy you if people say, "I couldn't care less?"

Why should it? That makes sense.

Eh, still kinda stupid and hyperbolic.

It's supposed to be hyperbolic.

Can a man be curious?

Yes?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:ooc, does it still annoy you if people say, "I couldn't care less?"

No, because that's what the statement should be.

Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be hyperbolic, but sometimes when I say it, I could literally not care less.

As I said before saying "I could care less" in a situation where you're trying to convey the message that you don't care doesn't make any sense.

The Dude wrote:Bill Burr is the worst person to listen to if you get bothered by grammar. He says "supposably", "for intensive purposes", and a few others I can't recall right now whether or not

To his credit, he readily admits that he's a total idiot and doesn't know anything.

I'm aggravated by this otherwise intelligent girl at work who uses the word "literally" in like every third sentence.

EndlessSummer wrote:
... girl at work who uses the word "literally" in like every third sentence.

EndlessSummer wrote:

The Dude wrote:Bill Burr is the worst person to listen to if you get bothered by grammar. He says "supposably", "for intensive purposes", and a few others I can't recall right now whether or not

To his credit, he readily admits that he's a total idiot and doesn't know anything.

Yeah, it's hilarious, I don't get annoyed at it at all, but I think phat's brain might explode during an episode

How do I avoid listening to Bill Burr?

It's good to keep that in mind when he starts to talk about the "truth" about 9/11...

People who use an apostrophe to make a word plural.

SK790 wrote:Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be hyperbolic, but sometimes when I say it, I could literally not care less.

As I said before saying "I could care less" in a situation where you're trying to convey the message that you don't care doesn't make any sense.

It's always bothered me too. I was having a conversation about it the other day with a coworker and I couldn't get him to understand why it should be "couldn't" and not "could". He just didn't get it.

TheDude24 wrote:People who use an apostrophe to make a word plural.

that bug's me too

Bucky wrote:

TheDude24 wrote:People who use an apostrophe to make a word plural.

that bug's me too

I see it more in these contexts:

I own a lot of CD's.
They're all from the 90's.

Incorrect, I say.

At the beginning of UFC events Mike Goldberg announces that the winner of each round gets ten points and the loser gets "nine points or less." I used to think it should be "nine points or fewer" but I've decided that "nine points or less" is correct, or at least, not wrong.

ashton wrote:At the beginning of UFC events Mike Goldberg announces that the winner of each round gets ten points and the loser gets "nine points or less." I used to think it should be "nine points or fewer" but I've decided that "nine points or less" is correct, or at least, not wrong.

I think the rule is that if the word is referring to something you can count, you use the word fewer. If you're referring to an idea or things you can't count, you use the word less. So there are fewer people at the concert but less of a crowd, for example. I know this because I once wrote an advertising campaign using the word less when it should have been fewer. But honestly, less sounded better.

Wheels the other day: "whether or not they can hit him or not"