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Hey /Lit/
What common fuck-ups gets your noggin' noggin'?

>people claiming Nietzsche was nihilist.
>people using utopia in the wrong way (Utopia = the land that cannot exist, talking about building a utopia is therefore brainlet trash)

>> No.10672713

the word "flammable"

>> No.10672726

>>10672713
What do you mean?

>> No.10672728

>>10672672
The utopia one is not a misconception

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>>10672728
How so? It builds on faulty understanding of the concept of Utopia

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>>10672672
Heracles wasn’t bisexual

>> No.10672772

>>10672726
the root of the word flammable does not exist. "flam" is not a word or concept, and "flame" is a noun, not a verb.

The proper term is "inflammable" which has the root "inflame," or "enflame." This was the term for many years, until brainlets kept getting confused by seeing the "in-" prefix and assuming it meant "non-flame-able"

The US government decided to go with flammable - which was essentially a glorified typo - on placards and official warning signs and such, leading to the word becoming ubiquitous. But I try not to use it if I can avoid it. It's a mess of a word.

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>>10672772
hot damn

>> No.10672783

>>10672672
Interesting

>> No.10672904

>>10672672
I saw Mad Men too anon.

>> No.10674033

>>10672672
>>10672739
Words change meaning over time, dumbass. That's like saying whenever someone uses the word bachelor in any other context than to refer to a young knight, they're using it wrongly.

>> No.10674577

>>10672672
People thinking language is prescriptive or that there are “God-Tier” and “shit-Tier” languages.

>> No.10674599

>>10674577
pleb retard

>> No.10674634

>>10672672
>people thinking that Derrida was actually a legitimate philosopher
>not realizing that he had an actual mental issue that prevented him from visualizing platonic forms, hence his misguided belief that most humans only think in words, which of course, without the images behind them, would have no meaning at all beyond binary oppositions

>> No.10674721

>>10674577
English is too shit to express how retarded you are