France Is Bacon

[SuperBacon]

In an online meeting and someone trying to recollect has just said "it's just on the tip of my brain" which is funny, but also I quite like it. It makes sense.

[Mr_Danger]

27 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

In an online meeting and someone trying to recollect has just said "it's just on the tip of my brain" which is funny, but also I quite like it. It makes sense.

I use that, fully aware of its incorrectness but in my jumbled up brain it’s the best way to articulate it.

[CharlesTuckerTheThird]

Probably already mentioned, but I, like many millions of others, misheard the lyrics to Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix as "Scuse me while I kiss this guy".

Edited November 15, 2023 by CharlesTuckerTheThird

[SuperBacon]

Never thought Peter Kay would end up on the forum. Wild.

[Keith Houchen]

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

Never thought Peter Kay would end up on the forum. Wild.

You’ll summon Mab. 

[Chest Rockwell]

Let's not go down this route please.. In factI'm going to go ahead and make a rule of no misheard lyrics here thanks. 

[SuperBacon]

Is it "here, here" or "hear, hear"?

I've always thought the latter, but just read of the former that it's "Here is someone who agrees"

What are we saying? 

[deathrey]

The correct term is, “hear, hear!” It is an abbreviation for 'hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!' 

[SuperBacon]

14 minutes ago, deathrey said:

The correct term is, “hear, hear!” It is an abbreviation for 'hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!' 

Yeah that's what I always thought. It's interesting that people* think there's another way.

 

 

*idiots.

[deathrey]

I had a calender that had lots of these little facts on it. Each day was a common mis-said/spelled/heard phrase and it's origins

[Carbomb]

This is probably more a case of language change, simply because what people now say does make sense, but it was originally "to set foot" and not "to step foot". 

 

[SuperBacon]

10 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

This is probably more a case of language change, simply because what people now say does make sense, but it was originally "to set foot" and not "to step foot". 

 

I've always used the former. As in "I wouldn't set foot in that place" right?

In fact, this is the first time I've seen "step foot" I think. 

[Carbomb]

1 minute ago, SuperBacon said:

I've always used the former. As in "I wouldn't set foot in that place" right?

In fact, this is the first time I've seen "step foot" I think. 

That's interesting - I've seen it used quite a lot on here and on social.

[Sergio Mendacious]

There was the Step Foot Wives, I think that's where it came from.

[JLM]

Social media is a wasteland of misunderstood idioms and abysmal written English. 
I thought “I could care less” was infuriating enough, but someone from my work posted “I can careless who makes more money than me, as long as I make mine I’m fine.” 

“I can careless”.  Ugh. 
 

My cousin is a goldmine for these incidents also. He is a very bright, articulate and well educated man but he has the most bizarre “have you been living under a rock?” gaps in knowledge. 

A couple he has never lived down are:

“What the hell is MINE STROWN soup?” And “I’ll have the Cajooooon chicken”. 

I have never pronounced “Cajun” correctly since. I love cajoon too much. 
 

My other favourite was when I said “I won’t bring up the elephant in the room” and he almost yelled “What the FUCK are you talking about? The elephant?!??!?” 
 

He’s the best. 
 

Lastly I have one of my own that still haunts me. I got lucky with “Hyperbole” that I heard someone say it before I made that mistake out loud. However, I remember saying to my ultra-nerdy older friend when I was about 11 “yeah this game has persuade-o 3D graphics”. It was pseudo-3D. He called me an idiot. It still hurts. 

 

Edited January 25, 2024 by JLM