Have You Ever Felt Like Throwing A Dictionary At Someone 😂?

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The way people overuse these terms like "virtue signaling"(the most latest overused ) and then ain't even using correctly 😂😂 Like damn at least look up the meaning of the words you use

Citizenkirk · Accepted Answer

My unabridged dictionary weighed in at about 27 lb. If I threw it at someone, it would have been premeditated murder. That was hardcover Masonite construction on that dust cover and spine.
If you're asking me if I got sick of being corrected for my grammar and spelling the answer is that point was moot 3 years before I was born during my mom's freshman year in high school when she discovered she was going to be a journalist someday. She is.
You can challenge Wikipedia as you want since they're always wrong anyway you could even charge or challenge Miriam Webster herself says she's rarely wrong you challenge my mom she's going to make you look pretty dumb, because she's never wrong, when it comes to the English language, so I got used to never being right when it came to grammar, definitions, spelling, formatting a paragraph, and all that good stuff.
The same pattern started to form, when she decided to learn a second language which ended up being Spanish.
That pattern got reversed pretty quick when it turned out that I picked up Cyrillic a lot faster than she ever picked up with any of the Latin languages, like Mexican Spanish, forgoing the far more challenging Castilian Spanish which I recommended to start with since it was the original but she didn't talk to people from Spain she talked to people from Mexico sometimes so she went with the Mexican Spanish.
Within a year how's fluid in Russian, Farsi, competent in Castilian Spanish thanks to one of my employers, who was born and raised in Madrid, from a wealthy family and the super snob of all Latin languages, refusing to even talk to his Mexican and Guatemalan employees which I found that a handshake and a bottle of tequila communicated everything that was needed to them, requiring me to do it for him, since he refused to acknowledge any language in Central America or Mexico as real Spanish.
Due to the near Russian occupation of Guatemala in the late 1980s, before we almost started World War 3 and Russia almost took over South America we ended up with a hybrid language of Russian chesaning some Spanish and whatever crazy dialect they were speaking in the hills of Guatemala which sounded to me more like Mandarin or even a little towards Szechuan. just picture Harrison Ford talking Street speak to a food vendor in the movie Blade Runner.
I'm proud to say I had a part to play and taking three respectable languages and mangling them into heavily slang ridden hybrid of headache and juicing Latin Cyrillic gibberish.
I guess I'm a real

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Bluemax · Accepted Answer

YES! frequently!

On GAG the most common is the use of the word "expectations." As in "have realistic expectations" or "manage your expectations."

What they really mean is "desires." This I suspect is an attempt to empower the dateless. Expectations can be managed to something realistic. Desires cannot be controlled or managed. No one can simply start or stop desiring someone by act of will. Desire demands to be felt. Or expectations is used because it makes the problem seem solvable and thus entirely the responsibility of the person feeling desire. It's a self congratulatory response that doesn't acknowledge the possibility that there may very well be no good solution.

This is why I have never told anyone to manage, lower, or have realistic expectations.

Cynicaldreamer · Accepted Answer

Noo, of course not!

A dictionary is not thick or hard enough to make an impact. I'd throw a an entire set of encyclopedias at them! A-Z, lol

But yes ma'am. Some people really need a good smack in the face... with a heavy or blunt object.

No, I'm not violent; I just have a low tolerance for stupidity, ignorance, and annoying people.

laurieluvsit · Accepted Answer

There are a whole lot of things that I have felt like throwing at someone, but I can't say that a dictionary was one of them... lol

OlderAndWiser · Answer

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Oigit · Answer

Yes I do, through a lot of times I want to throw it at the people that created the English language. Because in its written is English is a overly complicated and bloated language. We don't need several written forms of words like to. Simply because the over all context of the sentence the word to is used in, is enough to clue people into the meaning of the sentence. The same can be said about present and past tense spelling of the same word. The context a word is used in will tell people if the topic of a sentence or conversation took place in the past or present time.

Honestly I will spend hours working on thermodynamics equations before writing anything. Simply because thermodynamics makes more damn scene then writing anything in English.

caring__1 · Answer

I'm not sure it would make any difference. Dictionaries tend to adjust to people's misuse of words. A common one that is like fingernails across a blackboard to me is "flustrated." Commonly, I hear people combine frustrated and flustered together to make this word. Some dictionaries are starting to actually list it now. Another one is "forte," not the musical word but the one that implies a strong talent. Originally, it was pronounced fort, but people have been mispronouncing it for so long that dictionaries now say either fort or fortay is acceptable.

Andres77 · Answer

My Mom always made me look up the meaning of words instead of just answering my questions.
Yes, it aggravates me when people use words incorrectly. I love the etymology of words.
I've found and purchased the oldest dictionaries I could afford just to be able to see how words change over time. But now... fuck!
Political correctness is changing words and their meanings. Webster's organization used to update words in January. Now they're doing it throughout the year, almost in the middle of debates.
George Orwell warned us of this shit.
My 200 yeard old dictionary is going to be burned one day by these extremists.

TheLittleInnocent · Answer

Yes a dictionary would make an excellent murder weapon. Even better it's disposable. Burn it and scatter the ashes across state lines as a forensic counter measure. How to get away with murder 101 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

JosyJosy · Answer

On the daily when on GAG. I'll give you two examples

1) "Am I fat?" Usually the people posting this, the picture you'll see... the opposite, more bones than fat even. That deserves a dictionary to the face
2) What does it mean when he says...(insert some basic message)? "I love you" like what you never heard of those words? BOOK TO THE FACE!

bolverk · Answer

Every day when I was working for a social landlord in the UK, I'd be working in a satellite office doing 12 hour nightshifts, when we had visits from the home office you could guarantee with new training videos for us to watch about the latest woke fad, I got so pissed off with them I ended up nuking the DVD's holding each new video in the office microwave and complained the videos were duds.

Massageman · Answer

Many times. I'm not the "grammar gestapo", but my heavens, people should at least know the difference among their, there and they're.

Righters can all ways go too www.grammarly.com and ruin a copy of there writing threw four free two Czech four any miss steaks.

(yes, it was deliberate) Moral- - - do NOT depend only on spell checkers.

JackSmy · Answer

Not the Dictionary, per se, but maybe some 'Cliff's Notes' on Homonyms!!
You're not going to understand why your nerves cringle, when they're saying things in their way, about something. There is no point in trying to correct their horrific abuse, and lack of knowledge, with their posts, because they're just going to post back, "What" and maybe get that wrong!
Gods forbid, you have to respond to a pair of Chefs, in a kitchen, about using a paring knife, on a pear!! LOL!!

Jjpayne · Answer

My roommate takes pride and without hesitation, to correct my grammar every single time I make a mistake, especially if it's me saying someone's name wrong, he will keep saying the correct name like a broken record

Lliam · Answer

Virtue signaling: "the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue."
How is it misused?

Knighted2170 · Answer

When I worked in a jail and prison I felt like doing that a lot. At least put some effort into trying to look smart. Or better yet, research and learn the topic. That way you are actually smart.

Bananaman177 · Answer

If you can only speak with precise rectitude, you can't talk to everybody.

It's better to be able to understand bad English as well as perfect English, rather than be limited to perfect English which 90% of English speakers don't speak.

In the British Navy they used to talk about how there was Quarterdeck English and Midship English and a captain who wasn't fluent in both was severely handicapped.

spartan55 · Answer

People who drop buzzwords have zero credibility with me. They sat at the same table as the one-upper, the humble- bragger and the "all guys think I'm hot" chick at your cousins wedding reception...

hahahmm · Answer

Would make a good anime. Book throwing ninja. To be fair, connotation is a thing.

StephenCF · Answer

They need to be thrown at liberals until they know that a racist means “someone who assumes/judges someone by the colour of their skin”, NOT “someone who argues facts against them” 🤦🏻‍♂️

mk200195 · Answer

Ofcourse everytime I am on this damn site.

FictionalCharacter · Answer

If I did, I wouldn’t know what word to educate them on. I don’t like making people feel like they’re stupid.

MotherEarth2020 · Answer

Guess who I would throw one at. And that's because its the biggest book in the house and I know that bitch is gonna hurt

magiusX26 · Answer

wtf is virtue signaling? never heard of that till this question. without your mention of its overuse i could already figure its some sort of buzz word like "alternative facts"

SpiderManFan2002 · Answer

I’m pretty sure I literally did that when I was 12 lmao😂😂😂

jshm2 · Answer

No.

Thrown dictionaries hurt, and can land you in court on assault charges.

Well crafted insults, decimate, but land you in better stead with better minds.

If you think you are "better" than the person, show it, don't get pissy about it, like some Trump supporter

Puppystarfish23 · Answer

I have dyslexia so im sure many people would love to do that to me. 😂

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

I would love to throw my dictionary at a few hot girls.

SunnySri · Answer

A lot of times mam, when I tell people I teach English they start talking in English and 'kill' English metaphorically. 😂😂😂

Lynx122 · Answer

Nah :) I'll just listen to people who know what they're talking about.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

I'll throw the guiness book on miss brains forehead cause it's heavier than a dictionary, so she faints and i drag her by her hair to my cave 😈 Wilmaaaaaaaaaaaa 🧔🏻

Shark_61695 · Answer

I prefer "Humptulip's seminal work How to Kille Insects. All 2,000 pages of it." (yet another discworld quote)

andreasderjuengere · Answer

That will not work. It's better to throw a 'link'

Givemore · Answer

It's been a long day and eyes closing please feel free to chuck a dictionary at me x

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Yes at someone who doesn't know simple things in life 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

humanearth · Answer

yeah, I need one thrown at me a lot. I'm a rotten speller

TacosRAwesome · Answer

Yes one of those thick hardbound ones so I knock them out till next year.

call_me_scar · Answer

Yep at just about everyone who refuses to wear a mask

The_Outlaw · Answer

Yes. And then the sink. A brick. Cinder block. Rock. Boulder. House. Everything.

monkeynutts · Answer

No. I don’t get overly emotional about how well people communicate.

blondfrog · Answer

I mean if I feel the word is simple enough if not I will let it slide.

mrkdvsn · Answer

Maybe throwing a dictionary printed prior to the 1980's.

msc545 · Answer

Often, but I respect books too much to risk damaging them

red_knight · Answer

To all those indian dudes with terrible English who keep harassing people to see their penises lol

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Not really but i felt like throwing empirical facts of someone.

J2ohhhhh · Answer

Language is a dynamic thing whether or not we like it it is changing. https://youtu. be/JTslqcXsFd4

QuietRunner · Answer

Book 'em

mrgspoter · Answer

No I can put chips into the mind and make them learn now it's amazing, can be crazy though

Anonymous · Answer

I don’t see what’s wrong with the te virtue signaling. Is you doing a dumb rn?

Anonymous · Answer

Most of all I get angry with those who wrote the words wrong.

Yads_Is_Back · Answer

Yeah. And definitely a bio textbook at times!

cherryblossomXD · Answer

Yeah some peeps on here. No hard feelings.

AndrewMG · Answer

Anyone who uses "literally" incorrectly.

Ninafrances3 · Answer

Imma throw my whole library at them lol

douride2 · Answer

What you talking about here? LOL

LonewolfMeme · Answer

Yes I have a whole set of encyclopedias at home

Redstang88 · Answer

Yeah, maybe with a brick tucked inside it too

Gentlemanlover100 · Answer

Its in bad taste to always correct someone. Everyone miss type's or misspells word's sometimes.

Wise4myage · Answer

No, Id probably miss and break something, lol.

LEADFOOTboi · Answer

not particularly... as i'm not the best linguist

opinionhated · Answer

Don't start a sentence with like, when you're, like, I dunno, kinda, bitching about how people, like, use words and stuff.

Southpaw505 · Answer

no cuz i don't judge people about that kind of shit. i hate grammar nazis and people that think they above everyone because of the way the talk.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I would prefer a pocket knife. A lot more fashionable

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