(no subject)

First. I've been reading the Angel recaps at TWoP, because I haven't seen any the episodes this season, except one at home during break with my faithful watching sister. ("Wait, so why is it raining fire? Andwho is having sex there? Eeeeew. He's watching?") Anyway, so the recaps have this really annoying, persisting error of substituting the word "discrete" for "discreet." Which you may not know, but is one of my few irrational "Grrr! Evil bad die!" word/grammer/spelling triggers. Linguistics and descriptivism got rid of a lot of them, but some of them are bound in there. (Oddly, judgment is another, milder one -- the problem there is that my oh-so-annoying "judgement" actually is an accepted form. So I have absolutely no rationale there.)

Anyway, so. Discrete. Annoying. Especially when they have their stupid grammar annoyances in the same paragraph. Especially the combination of discrete and their grammar annoyance being an annoyance that annoys me. Namely: whining about the phrase "could care less."

I have never understood why people have such problems with this phrase. Like, dude! You know it means, they know what it means, people use it all the time. It's a valid idiom! Do you have this amount of trouble with all non-literal speech? Presumably you get through a day chock full of sarcasm, irony and metaphor, so I really don't see why this one example makes you get all bitchy.

Anyway. I thought I should share that.

On another note: BBC one hundred books list -- the ones I've read are in bold.

( books )