Posted By:
Todd SchultzA couple of mine that are spewed on the radio/tv.
1. "I could care less" about this or that, when the speaker actually means to say he or she couldn't care less. To say you could care less implies you care to some degree now.
2. This or that skill is a person's "forte" pronounced "fortay", when the proper pronunciation is "fort". The word is butchered so frequently that it likely will be adopted as correct some day, just as people now tend to turn any noun into a verb by adding a participle; e.g., networked, calendared, etc.
3. My favorite--"We have a plutonic relationship". Well, it may be that the two of you worship the god of the underworld, but more likely you meant to say "platonic".
I understand the comments about how language is supposed to serve as a means of communication, and that we should not feel inhibited from speaking for fear of criticism, but c'mon, taken to the extreme, maybe we should all just learn a series of grunts and groans to express ourselves. Is that evolution or devolution?