#petpeeves
Repeat after me
- Good, better, best.
- Bad, worse, worst.
- The best of all possible worlds.
- In the worst case.
- His own worst enemy.
- For better or for worse.
“Worse” and “worst” ARE NOT SYNONYMS. You are using “worse” when you mean “worst”. You know who you are.
For fuck’s sake, we’ve already been saddled with the ludicrous situation where “literally” has become its own antonym. (Merriam-Webster, for one, officially gave up the fight on that one.) Now, when you use the word "literally", nobody knows any more whether you actually MEAN "literally" or "figuratively" or "ironically" or "absolutely not at all". The endgame of using just whatever word comes to hand to mean whatever the fuck you want it to mean right then, is that nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about because the words coming out of your mouth make no sense except to yourself.
Languages WORK because we agree on what words mean what things. When we just spew arbitrary word-salad, communication breaks down.
You know another pet -peeve- hate of mine? Snobs.
In the olden days, I very very much remember the SCSI snobs. If you used IDE drives, you were… a muggle (if HP had existed, they’d have used that term). A mundane. A luser.
Only (fuckin’ expensive) SCSI drives you were someone to be taken seriously. If you used IDE, you didn’t know what you were doing (because everyone has money to burn, right?)
These days? Oh, so much shit. Currently… if you look for reviews of HW, namely mainboards, these days, assume they look at boards with (extreme) overclocking in mind. “Those VRMs are bad”? Assume they aren’t if you’re not overclocking. Which is of course implied and never explicitly stated.
I HATE it.
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