by DevinIZJesus | Apr 14, 2024 | Beliefs, Conspiracy, Language, Social Norms
There’s a massive push for authenticity in the modern world. Just be yourself, we’re told. But this phrase is not helpful to people who have a weak sense of identify or believe unpleasant things. It’s not for everyone. The fact is that what people...
by DevinIZJesus | Apr 7, 2024 | Beliefs, Health, Rants, Social Norms
When people ghost, they disappear. In the age of online connections, especially in a larger city, people can block each other and disappear entirely from one another, in a digital sense. But exactly why? Who knows. Most seem to agree that ghosting is lousy, but many...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 31, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language
Are you happy for your friend or acquaintance for in a metric that doesn’t meet your personal standards? We’ve all been there. That’s why you should embrace the phrase Love that for you! to express satisfaction and discontentment simultaneously. You...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 24, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language, Rants
When it’s a number of things that are counted, use greater or fewer. When it’s an amount or quantity of things measured, it’s more or less. This should be pretty simple and I believe all English speakers know it somewhere deep down, but most use more...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 17, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language, Rants, Social Norms
By all means. By any means. By no means. It seems that millennials are particularly attracted to verbal use of these phrases. They are spoken often, but rarely written. There’s an air of pretense + pseudo-formality + fake politeness in there. People should stop...
by DevinIZJesus | Mar 10, 2024 | Beliefs, Health, Humor, Language, Rants, Social Norms
I have too much on my plate. How can I keep all these plates spinning? Their world is on a platter. Step up to the plate. Is that gold-plated? Clear your plate. Can I take some of that off your plate? US society is obsessed with colloquial sayings and the plate seems...
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