by DevinIZJesus | Mar 31, 2024 | Beliefs, Humor, Language
Are you happy for your friend or acquaintance 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 can...
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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