You're saying that wrong...

Proved is the past tense of a verb, proven is an adjective.
 
Acrosst.
 
Was feeling a little salty so I picked a grammar nerd fight with an AI today to get it out of my system. 🤣

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I prefer to think of it as what there is or are none of as in there is no more cake in the break room or there are no more slices of cake left. I've never heard English as formal or informal when it comes to verb usage.
 
I sometimes enjoy a rabbit hole word or phrase.

Concertina.

The concertina wire needs repair and I wasn't sure how to spell it. Google instead shows me an accordion. Nope. Add wire. Yup, good to go now. Wait. Why did it show me an accordion? Not an accordion. Apparently the two musical instruments look alike but the concertina has buttons on both sides while the accordion only has buttons on one side.

So we call it concertina wire because it expands like a concertina. Not like an accordion. Because that would be silly.
 
DocJD said:

You're saying that wrong...​

"I could care less ." ;)
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Is that one really incorrect though? Because there are several things I could lower the bar on even further on how little I care about them. To change it up to correct and say I couldn't care less would mean I've already hit rock bottom. But I've learned this last few years I can always get a pickaxe to for a correction.
 
Okay but when you think about the circumstances when people say it, it is clear they are trying to emphasize that they don't care much, if at all. So why say "I could care less" which emphasizes a certain baseline level of caring, when the point would be more directly made by saying "I could care a lot more", which emphasizes that the amount they care is little, if any.
 
David Mary said:
Okay but when you think about the circumstances when people say it, it is clear they are trying to emphasize that they don't care. So why say "I could care less" which emphasizes a certain baseline level of caring, when the point would be more directly made by saying "I could care a lot more", which emphasizes that the amount they care is little, if any.
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True. But I'm not most people. I'm at worst two or three people. But I'm working on being MediumBob54.
 
Ah, temper it down. Nice. The greyman theory. Blend in seamlessly with the crowd because nobody notices the guy walking around with cargo pants, a backpack, two clipped folding knives, a flashlight, and a fixed blade.
 
David Mary said:
Ah, temper it down. Nice. The greyman theory. Blend in seamlessly with the crowd because nobody notices the guy walking around with cargo pants, a backpack, two clipped folding knives, a flashlight, and a fixed blade.
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So it's a light carry day then?
 
I wish I could do that 🤣
 
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