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What's your most ridiculous pet peeve? (hexbear.net)

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One of mine (I have many yay neurodivergece) is when people say the phrase "a broken clock is right twice a day". The phrase is actually "a stopped clock is right twice a day." A clock that is stopped will definitely be right twice a day but a clock that is broken could be right multiple times a day or not at all depending on how it's broken. Maybe it's just a little slow running in which case it'll never be right. Maybe it's spinning wildly out of control so it'll be right a lot but still useless.

It annoys the shit outta me and it is so dumb it definitely should not. Anyway your turn.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It never stops bothering me when people say "comprised of", as opposed to just "comprises", or "composed of".
I try to remind myself that I'm witnessing the evolution of language in real-time, but it just annoys me that what causes language to evolve is just people misusing it.