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urpletastic ([info]urpletastic) wrote in [info]fandom_rant,
@ 2009-02-28 06:15:00
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Dear fandom -

defuse: remove fuse from (explosive); (fig.) reduce likelihood of trouble arising from  (crisis etc.)

diffuse: disperse or be dispersed from a centre; (be) spread widely

When it's anger, you might just get away with it; when it's a bomb, not so much.

Please to be learning the difference.

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[info]persona
2009-02-28 07:50 am UTC (link)
I was just thinking about this earlier when I was reading some fiction. It's bizarrely common.

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[info]urpletastic
2009-02-28 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Yep, it turned up in a fanzine and it was so glaringly wrong it made my teeth hurt. Grrrr!

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[info]cjk
2009-02-28 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes.

Also, can we teach some authors that both "millennia" and "phenomena" are plural? That's my pet peeve; those errors show up with distressing regularity in Doctor Who fanfiction.

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[info]urpletastic
2009-02-28 03:39 pm UTC (link)
And 'honoraria'! My sister used to keep telling me she was expecting 'an honoraria' and it annoyed the hell out of me.

OTOH it was one of the least annoying things she did ...

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[info]magnolia_mama
2009-02-28 05:18 pm UTC (link)
Add "data" and "media" to the list too.

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-02-28 10:58 pm UTC (link)
To drag in one from another language entirely: seraphim.

Though someone once tried to convince me seraphim can be singular in English, so maybe I should lighten up. I still haven't seen anything backing that up though.

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[info]cjk
2009-02-28 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Singular? But -im and -ot are plural endings not that I know more Hebrew than to order a sandwich with.

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-03-01 07:13 am UTC (link)
I'm not exactly the Hebrew expert either, but people take serious exception to it when they say "a seraphim" and I correct them.

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[info]cjk
2009-03-01 12:40 pm UTC (link)
I actually went and looked it up. Seraphim is, indeed, the plural of seraph, but it had a fairly convoluted development so my idea about endings does not apply.

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-03-01 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Well, it did originate with Hebrew so I think it still applies.

And apparently "seraphims" is used in some places in the King James Bible, so maybe that's part of what confuses people.

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[info]kernelm
2009-02-28 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Not necessarily fandom related but online I see people use "nonplussed" to mean calm or unfazed so often it drives me crazy. I think it's misused at least two or three times as often as it's used correctly.

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[info]mcity
2009-02-28 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Um.

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[info]kernelm
2009-02-28 11:47 pm UTC (link)
Just because everybody does it doesn't mean I have to like it! :-P

*grumpyoldman*

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[info]urpletastic
2009-03-01 07:50 am UTC (link)
But then again - 'not yet accepted as standard usage' also means that not everybody is doing it, although I'm afraid they probably will in the end. Sigh.

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[info]khym_chanur
2009-02-28 06:30 pm UTC (link)
My pet peeve is fainted/feinted, as in "He feinted from the shock". People in stores faint a lot more often than they feint, so why are things confused in that direction? I never see "He fainted to the left, then struck to the right".

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[info]magnolia_mama
2009-02-28 09:17 pm UTC (link)
"He fainted to the left, then struck to the right".
Dammit, now I've got "The Time Warp" running through my head.

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[info]white_serpent
2009-02-28 06:45 pm UTC (link)
"Phase" and "faze" are my personal pet peeve.

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[info]cleolinda
2009-02-28 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Oh my God, that one drives me out of my mind.

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[info]frenzy
2009-03-01 01:59 am UTC (link)
I have made a total of one lj post devoted to ranting about grammar. What was it about? Phase and faze. Seriously, I hardly even see them used correctly anymore.

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[info]dwib
2009-02-28 07:12 pm UTC (link)
I see that all the time. Also:

'Flaunt' and 'flout'. They are not the same!

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[info]cleolinda
2009-02-28 07:29 pm UTC (link)
For some reason, confusion between "rein" and "reign" (particularly when people say someone has "free reign") sends me into a frothing rage.

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[info]wrenlet
2009-02-28 09:26 pm UTC (link)
"Taut" and "taunt." Whhhyyyyyyy?

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[info]persona
2009-03-01 12:23 am UTC (link)
Also, 'taught' gets mixed up in there, and boggles me endlessly.

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[info]urpletastic
2009-03-01 07:46 am UTC (link)
One of my favourite examples ever was 'taught sacks' for 'taut sacs'.

Against which level of stupidity, no amount of protest is possible.

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[info]lyricalsoul
2009-03-01 08:15 am UTC (link)
I'll see your "taught sacks", and raise you an "egg yokes" and a "morris code". See also "add hock committee".

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[info]lyricalsoul
2009-03-01 08:14 am UTC (link)
discreet/discrete - after all these years, writers are still not getting it right.

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[info]urpletastic
2009-03-01 11:46 am UTC (link)
Also one of my (least) favourites.

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[info]coyotegirl
2009-03-01 07:34 pm UTC (link)
AMEN. The bot in the IRC channel I hang out in has a timebomb script. It includes instructions on how to "diffuse" the timebomb. I twitch every single time.

Simple/simplistic. NOT THE SAME, PEOPLE.

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