The loss of cliché comprehension in modern text

[JackRiddler]

I'm not adverse to it!

Also, 8bit just did this one on the Bush Dying Thread:

I rarely ever hear of these guys passing this mortal recoil.

[norton ash]

There's another one, I suppose. How the fuck is Seattle pronounced SEA-ATTLE? It should be See-tle or Say-attle.

I have a meandering European beatitude to oleander you might like.

[Luther Blissett]

I'm not adverse to it!

Also, 8bit just did this one on the Bush Dying Thread:

I rarely ever hear of these guys passing this mortal recoil.

I had to stare at "isn't that guy like a 100?" for a few moments, because I always read them out when written numerically post-13. I read "a one hundred."

[JackRiddler]

You saw that "a one hundred" thing too? I didn't want to turn this into an 8bit pile-on. But he's been very valuable to this thread!

[Luther Blissett]

Oh I'm not trying to pile on. I know what he meant - it's practically just a style thing to simply change that into "isn't that guy like a hundred?"

[marycarnival]

OK, so how is the word "often" pronounced?

Back in the day, I don't remember hearing the "t" after the "f".

But now it seems to be more the rule than the exception (sorry).

I find that there are times when I pronounce the 't' (like when I want to sound articulate), and other times I glide over it, usually in casual conversation. Maybe a regional dialect thing too?

To add a couple of my faves to the list:

'waiting with baited breath'

'without further adieu'

And this is a very funny observation on the subject--

[JackRiddler]

Ah, this whole thread is just master baiting.

[marycarnival]

Ah, this whole thread is just master baiting.

[82_28]

Poor Mr. Bates. In high school we had a science teacher named Mr. Bates. Not an optimal name for a HS teacher.

[marycarnival]

Ha! I had a math teacher named Dick Large. No joke.

[JackRiddler]

Biggus Dickus? Really?

[Allegro]

I guess it’s time to throw in some oldie goldies?

Thank you. I’ll have a Bach’s Lunch.

OR

Don’t forget to bring your Chopin Liszt.
I didn’t follow my Liszt, and now I’m Baroque.

OR

What do you get when 20 violinists start playing at the
same time but play different songs?
A senseless act of violins.

That’s All, Folks!

[justdrew]

I just thought of one...

" hair brained scheme "

[redsock]

I have seen "for all intensive purposes" several times.

(And someone on another board swears he saw someone refer to a sport called "bad mitten".)

[JackRiddler]

Heard yesterday: "I wouldn't give it a second's thought" for "second thought." But it's hard to say the eggcorn is a less correct way of saying it, just more literal.