Caught a damn cold, just like that dude on Metal Gear Solid.
The first one. The best one, before you had to worry about changing clothes every five steps and all that shit. Ugh. What a stupid game MGS III was. Everyone loves it so damn much. I don’t know why.
Same with Resident Evil 4. Why the hell can’t you move and knife at the same time? Or some, knife-and-lunge move. Once I have the knife out I’m rooted to the ground until the zombie is on top of me. I just wanna stab him, damn it! I’m sure the game is all well and good but that is a stumbling block that I literally cannot get over.
Want to know what else annoys me? The misuse of the word ‘literally’. Don’t say ‘literally’ to mean ‘extremely’. Literally means literally. “Oh and I was so embarrassed I literally DIED.”
No. You didn’t die. Literally isn’t some arbitrary sentence strengthener. So stop it.
And “electrocuted”! NOBODY USES THAT PROPERLY. EVEN ON THE NEWS.
Electrocuted is a portmanteau of “electrified” and “executed”. It means, “killed by electricity”.
KILLED. By electricity. IF YOU ARE NOT LITERALLY DEAD, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ELECTROCUTED. You have merely received an electric shock. Electrocution = death, no arguing.
Archangel | 15-Jan-08 at 4:57 pm | Permalink
yea that has bugged me ever since i was a kid. i used it like that once and my dad corrdcted me, and then it was like whenever i heard someone else use it wrong i got annoyed with them. like ‘how the hell didn’t you know that, dumbass’
i know im not your ‘friend’, but i felt compelled to share
Will | 18-Feb-08 at 7:09 pm | Permalink
You know what? It doesn’t matter.
Just as people refer to weight in kilograms rather than newtons.. it doesn’t matter.
The words serve their purpose to communicate an idea.. and for the great majority of people electrocution will suggest someone has had a really bad electric shock. In this same way, the majority of people will say that they WEIGH so many kilograms.
kritz4prez | 03-Mar-08 at 4:44 am | Permalink
oh dear i think i’ve used literally wrong alot then.
oh farts, don’t throw things at me!
and MGS gives me a heart attack anytime my cousin wants me to play.
well.. so did tekken 2. like a serious heart attack i had to go to the hospital, something about the sounds they make when they’re injured scared me shitless and i had an episode.
SpriteIsGood | 24-Oct-08 at 4:32 pm | Permalink
It’s also like people using “nauseous” wrong.
“I feel nauseous” = wrong.
“I feel nauseated” = right.