drive-by grammar nazi!

[rone]

"If/When worst comes to worst."  Worst is worst; it has already come to worst.  Worse comes to worst.

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[nothings.livejournal.com]

See, you act like you think 'worst comes to worst' is a retcon from 'worse comes to worst', but is it? Or is 'worse comes to worst' a retcon from the other, from people like you who thought 'it doesn't make any sense'? Because if the former, fuck you, language only makes sense THROUGH USAGE. Like, take the seven letters plus space "F U C K [space] Y O U". What the hell does that mean? You better not take any offense at being cursed at because it's just a bunch of meaningless syllabation.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Man, you and your dime-store nihilism. I'm not even concerned about the retconism of either phrase; i'm concerned strictly with the fact that "worst comes to worst" sounds stupid, and "worse comes to worst" makes some sort of sense.

"Language only makes sense through usage" is very true only in the most superficial sense.

But, yeah, "fuck you" doesn't make any grammatical sense, either.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

"Language only makes sense through usage" is very true only in the most superficial sense.

rone, meet "coining".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Man, don't get me started on economics... i'm not very good at that.