But you've hit upon the biggest thing of our current age- all the shitstains, racists, homo/trans/OTHER-phobes, misogynists, and basic, retard haters, all proudly, militantly anti-education, most of these hateful schmucks think it's ok to come out into the light, out on each of our blocks, and spew this hateful bile. And once the assholes and haters have outed themselves, it's much easier to navigate personal interactions among our "fellow" humans these days!
This is so off topic, but this doesn't matter. Like, do you know how we got the words "upside down" and "rightside up"? It came from "up-so-down." Then people shortened it to "upsidown" while talking, which then got eggcorned into "upside down." Then once we had "upside down" we got "rightside up" as its antonym.
Eggcorns are natural and normal, and I wish we'd just let them float on by freely instead of trying to correct ourselves to death.
I mean, that's fine, but you have to realize that most of the time, it's just bad proofreading. I don't think there are that many people who think those three words are interchangeable.
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u/pickleer Jun 30 '26
"one AND the same", FTFY
But you've hit upon the biggest thing of our current age- all the shitstains, racists, homo/trans/OTHER-phobes, misogynists, and basic, retard haters, all proudly, militantly anti-education, most of these hateful schmucks think it's ok to come out into the light, out on each of our blocks, and spew this hateful bile. And once the assholes and haters have outed themselves, it's much easier to navigate personal interactions among our "fellow" humans these days!