Common errors in the English language...
All intensive purposes-wrong
For all intents and purposes- right
I could care less -wrong
I couldn't care less - right
When I hear people say I could care less the brat inside of me wants to respond, "Ok, then care less"
Don't worry I too have been a victim of hear say (hear something then saying it)
When I was growing up we had this piece of furniture called an OKINET (pronounced o key net). You know that big wood thing that holds the TV/stereo/videos/the basket with the flower arrangement courtesy of homemaking/a picture of two? Yeah that thing. So about a year and a half ago I suggested to John that we buy a new okinet. the convo went something like this...
L: I think we should get a new okinet
J: A what?
L: An okinet.
J: What is an okinet?
L: You know...like an entertainment center, an okinet.
J: I've never heard of an okinet before?
L: My family has an okinet.
J: Is it maybe an oak unit?
L: Hmmm, that probably makes more sense seeing as how it is a unit made of oak.
My mom had been saying OAK UNIT all this time while I was hearing okinet.
Yes I went through 24 years of my life referring to entertainment centers as okinets. My family is still laughing at me.
All intensive purposes-wrong
For all intents and purposes- right
I could care less -wrong
I couldn't care less - right
When I hear people say I could care less the brat inside of me wants to respond, "Ok, then care less"
Don't worry I too have been a victim of hear say (hear something then saying it)
When I was growing up we had this piece of furniture called an OKINET (pronounced o key net). You know that big wood thing that holds the TV/stereo/videos/the basket with the flower arrangement courtesy of homemaking/a picture of two? Yeah that thing. So about a year and a half ago I suggested to John that we buy a new okinet. the convo went something like this...
L: I think we should get a new okinet
J: A what?
L: An okinet.
J: What is an okinet?
L: You know...like an entertainment center, an okinet.
J: I've never heard of an okinet before?
L: My family has an okinet.
J: Is it maybe an oak unit?
L: Hmmm, that probably makes more sense seeing as how it is a unit made of oak.
My mom had been saying OAK UNIT all this time while I was hearing okinet.
Yes I went through 24 years of my life referring to entertainment centers as okinets. My family is still laughing at me.
a picture of our okinet taken during Thanksgiving
3 comments:
awesome. seriously awesome.
The OKINET (oak unit) was the first piece of NEW furniture we bought as a couple. I have always talked very fast. Clearly I need to enunciate more.
Awesome set up!! You should help me decorate my house. But seriously I can't stop looking at the mirror on the far right. I think its 2cm lower than the other two. AHHHH!!!!
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