Why is it that everytime I hear the phrase "You don't have to worry about that" I pause and try to count to 10 before responding? The answer is simply that the thing others think I do not have to worry about is almost always PRECISLY the thing that I need to be worried about. That phrase has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves lately.
I am considering just giving in, and simply writing down the time and person who said not to worry, so that when it comes back that there is problem with exactly what I was worried about I can show them my note and continue to not worry about it. Of course that is not what would happen. I would still be responsible for fixing the problem, which is now a much bigger project because it was ignored in the design phase.
As long as I am at it. Please stop using these phrases as well:
Irregardless - This is NOT a word. The word you are looking for is "Regardless". Adding "Ir" in front makes a negative word a double-negative. And everyone knows from the movie "Stand By Me" that "A negative times a negative equals a positive, (again!)" Bottom line: Irregardless makes no sense. Stop using it.
All Intensive Purposes - The correct phrase is "For all intents and purposes." Stop saying it wrong.
I could care less - What does this mean? Isn't the proper usage "I COULDN'T CARE LESS?" If you can care less, then you are really saying that you care some. So again you are not really saying anything at all. Why not just tell us that you like to breathe while you are at it?
For all intensive purposes and irregardless of what you think, I could care less if you agree with me.
I need a vacation.
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Sorry to rain on your parade woolf2k, but when using " and a . the . belongs before the end quote -- commas and other punctuation too.
Example: the biggest culprits, "black leaders".
should be:
the biggest culprits, "black leaders."
ALSO: Double spaces are only used in MLA/APA/Chicago-style, when writing research papers or other essays for the classroom environment. Anything published in a book, newspaper, or online should use a SINGLE space.
--my 4 cents, jadedtlc, B.A. English Writing and Rhetoric - Pepperdine University, thankyouverymuch
But you don't have to worry about it.
21 Days Until London ( you do need a vacation )
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