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What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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  • Plead, pleaded, read, readed. Simple.

    • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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  • This is a good one.

    This is what is called a lonely negative. It's where we only have the negative version of a word. This could be because the original word fell out of use or we stole the negative word from another language without stealing the positive.

    "Reck" meant something like "care" - it has nothing to do with "wreck".

    Another good example is "disgust," which we got from French. Anyone familiar with French, Italian or Spanish will probably recognize the verb "gustar" (or something similar).

    • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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    • Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA says

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  • Ya, it's obviously DEI like Trump is saying.

    • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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  • So that means they're gonna put some bullshit name on it here in Canada? What the hell.

    • Pierre Poilievre Is Getting Desperate

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  • I'm sure a week of Trump hasn't helped Conservatives, either.

    • DeepSeek tech wipeout erases more than $1 trillion in market cap as AI panic grips Wall Street

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  • A friend shared his attempt earlier today -

    • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • You can install GFCI breakers, but it's not code to require them for every circuit.

    • RFK Jr is telling senate Republicans that he’s actually ‘all for’ vaccines

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  • Why can't I find a Richard Scarry worm driving an apple photoshop of RFK Jr?

    • Boss Mode

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  • Relatively consistent.

    • US news channel fires presenter after she calls Musk a Nazi

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  • And the ADL condones the salute, but condemns the jokes.

    • Let's start some fights

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  • Is it actually sucky? I think I installed that once, but I didn't use that laptop much.

    • Mexican president reacts to Trump's Gulf of America plan: 'For the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico'

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    • Sarah McBride laughs off Trump’s anti-trans executive order: ‘He just declared everyone a woman’

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  • No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

    • Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered

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    • An easy life

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  • Simpler times.

    • In Italian “ospite” means both “host” and “guest”

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  • In ancient Greek there was Xenia, which is the concept of hospitality and the rules or norms for the hosts and guests. The word Xenia has the same PIE root, as well.

    • A lot of Americans are Googling 'what is oligarchy?' after Biden's farewell speech

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  • Hey now - he was perfectly fine with the plutocracy that has ruled for hundreds of years. It's Republican legislation that led to this -- think Dodd-Frank.

    Democrat leadership is happy to skim some off the top. Republicans will strip it to the bone.

    • Someone left this review on my free Reddit client rdx for Reddit

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  • Just challenge the review because it's not about the app? If you can't do that, then just let it go.

    • A lot of Americans are Googling 'what is oligarchy?' after Biden's farewell speech

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  • Oh, the oligarchy is doing pretty good.