Marvel Comics Reveals SPIDER-MAN INDIA's New ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE-Inspired Costume

@TheClunges - he just jumps out of bed with it looking that good! Doesn’t use any product!

@Origame - we call chai tea, so you just said you love tea tea . Although you are correct that Chai slapsss

@Origame - I love espresso coffee. Oops!

@RolandD - Hey, at least, you don't drink "expresso"...🙄☮

@RolandD - "Espresso is a noun that refers to a certain type of coffee. Expresso is a common misspelling based on a mispronunciation of this word."
😡 This practice is reprehensible & should not be tolerated in a civilized society!
And, as soon as I find a civilized society I will bring this to the attention of the local authorities...!☮😜

@StSteven - 😄
Now, I just wonder how many people are going to look at that, scratch their heads and say, "huh?"☮👍

@Deadinside - Uh-huh. It's a pet-peeve of mine, and even though I don't condone the ignorance involved in the use of those terms. But like @RolandD says in his post, once these things get a wide enough usage and become part of the normal vernacular it becomes a losing battle and you end up coming off like a pretentious asshole if you try to correct people.

Like, when I was in high school I was in this honors grammar class and the teacher was a real piece of work. He was this older skinny dude from Texas I think, who looked like Ichabod Crane, vocally hated one of the two major parties (probably Republicans), and was a serious grammar Nazi (he was also one of those teachers who secretly smoked (cigarettes but other things wouldn't surprise me) and partied with his former students). He also had no problem with swearing in class and making the (weaker) students cry. In fact, before you would take his class as a junior you had to first do well in his freshman version of the class, which kind of a trial by fire class. If you survived the earlier class (and only a handful of us did) you's take the later class, where he would put you on the stop and if you said something he disagreed with he'd rip you apart UNLESS you had the balls to come back at him and support your assertions. The entire semester was composed of reading two books (I remember that "The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco was one of them), and then we'd sit around and discuss them (think of a bizarro version of "The Dead Poet's Society). Then we would have to (I'm not even exaggerating) write essays on the books which had to be exactly 70 sentences long and every sentence had to be compound-complex in structure. And you would typically get an "F" or lower ("F-", "F--", etc.) (I think one girl got a "D--" once), so then you would have to go back and correct your essay. And THEN you would have to diagram every sentence in your essay, which would again generally get you some form of an "F" and again you would have to correct it. But at the end of the semester you'd usually get an "A" (or at least I did).

I laid all that down to give you an idea of how I learned proper grammar, like it's "beside" not "besides", "anyway" not "anyways", etc. I used to correct people because after having survived all that I too thought of my self as grammatically superior. But I gave up after seeing how often these technically incorrect words are used and how engrained they've become in our lexicon (just because it's in the dictionary doesn't mean it's correct, just that a certain percentage of the English speaking population uses it). These days about the only one I still correct is my wife because she's not a native English speaker (which she doesn't particularly like). But I'm doing it for her own good and NOT because I'm grammatically superior. Seriously. You believe me, right? 😉

@Deadinside - Well if I actually do correct anyone on anything (which I rarely do these days just for the reasons you mention above), I do it for a reason and make sure that I can back up my point because I hate people who talk out of their ass. And if I do it, I try to be consistent about when, where, why, and how, and not just randomly because then that can be construed as attacking someone for a personal reason. And so to that point, I will see your Emerson quote and raise you:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
-RWE

😊

@RolandD @Deadinside - Yeah, I recall the same about not ending sentences with a preposition (pretty sure my former English teacher's head would have exploded if we had), but as to actual reasons why there are none that I can think of. 😉

@RolandD - Just saying I know where you're coming from.

@RolandD - I think you know the point I'm trying to get to.