What are your unpopular opinions?

[DoctorX]

DoubleD said:

julianm said:

Can someone explain how the name Top Gear (2 words) has become topgear with a strange pronunciation emphasis? See also Glaxo Smith Kline = glaxosmithkline with an emphasis on the smith. You may start your explanation with the word 'So'.

I will start it with

Whocares

So, I’m rather familiar, let’s say, with GSK I’ve never heard anyone emphasise the Smith in the way you suggest.

[davhill]

AFAIK, there's nothing new about making a portmanteau word out of two or more words.
For example, Cadburyschweppes.

However, pronunciation seems to vary according to no particular rule.

I always wonder why, whenever The Detroit Spinners get airplay on the radio, they become
The Deetriot Spinners.

[anonymous-user]

That bands and artists that spell their names distinctly but oddly ie

P!nk instead of Pink
$uicideboy$ instead of Suicide boys

Bugger up voice recognition on your smart speakers

[bristolracer]

techiedave said:

That bands and artists that spell their names distinctly but oddly ie

P!nk instead of Pink
$uicideboy$ instead of Suicide boys

Bugger up voice recognition on your smart speakers

And for people searching on Spotify. Took me ages to find !!! (pronounced chk chk chk )
Still if they dont want any royalties..........

[singlecoil]

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

[Dr Jekyll]

..and people shouldn't say 'begging the question' when they mean someone is leaving a question unanswered as opposed to assuming what they are trying to prove.

[singlecoil]

...and anyone who uses the word 'gutted', especially if on behalf of someone else (gutted for you M8), should actually be gutted, on live TV.

[Flibble]

singlecoil said:

...and anyone who uses the word 'gutted', especially if on behalf of someone else (gutted for you M8), should actually be gutted, on live TV.

Not going to happen. Gutted for you mate.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

Originally, if a food was Moorish, it was spicy, as in the food of the Moors, from N. Africa. People wrongly thought it meant you have some, and you want more. Hence the word moreish now exists.

[gregs656]

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

That would be a better opinion if you hadn't listed two groups of synonyms.

[amusingduck]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Originally, if a food was Moorish, it was spicy, as in the food of the Moors, from N. Africa. People wrongly thought it meant you have some, and you want more. Hence the word moreish now exists.

Today, I learned . Thanks!

I'll offer up "shoo-in", as opposed to "shoe in".

urbandictionary said:

The correct spelling is shoo-in, usually with a hyphen. It has been known in that spelling and with the meaning of a certain winner from the 1930s. It came from horse racing, where a shoo-in was the winner of a rigged race.

In turn that seems to have come from the verb shoo, meaning to drive a person or an animal in a given direction by making noises or gestures

As a child, I could never understand why pipe cleaners were so much smaller than kitchen/bathroom pipes

[singlecoil]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

It may be acceptable to you, but it isn't to me.

[DoubleD]

singlecoil said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

It may be acceptable to you, but it isn't to me.

I bet that you use words and phrases that would annoy an older person as well. Languages do move on, sometimes you have to accept this......as long as its not "stock" of course.

[singlecoil]

DoubleD said:

singlecoil said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

It may be acceptable to you, but it isn't to me.

I bet that you use words and phrases that would annoy an older person as well. Languages do move on, sometimes you have to accept this......as long as its not "stock" of course.

You've misunderstood the 'unpopular opinion' aspect of the thread title. It's not about what I do or don't have to accept.

[deeen]

It's my opinion that is we removed all speed bumps from urban areas, we would reduce pollution from vehicles in those areas.

[DoubleD]

singlecoil said:

DoubleD said:

singlecoil said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

It may be acceptable to you, but it isn't to me.

I bet that you use words and phrases that would annoy an older person as well. Languages do move on, sometimes you have to accept this......as long as its not "stock" of course.

You've misunderstood the 'unpopular opinion' aspect of the thread title. It's not about what I do or don't have to accept.

No I havent.

[singlecoil]

DoubleD said:

No I havent.

Contradiction is boring.

[Flibble]

DoubleD said:

singlecoil said:

DoubleD said:

singlecoil said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

singlecoil said:

In my opinion people shouldn't use the word 'decimated' if what they actually mean is 'destroyed' or 'devastated' etc. Similarly they should not use the word 'incredibly' when they actually mean 'very' or 'extremely'.

Lots of words, used incorrectly, become correct over time due to usage. That's the way a language evolves. So whilst decimate means to destroy 10% of, it's now acceptable to use it to mean destroy almost completely.

It may be acceptable to you, but it isn't to me.

I bet that you use words and phrases that would annoy an older person as well. Languages do move on, sometimes you have to accept this......as long as its not "stock" of course.

You've misunderstood the 'unpopular opinion' aspect of the thread title. It's not about what I do or don't have to accept.

No I havent.

[DoubleD]

singlecoil said:

DoubleD said:

No I havent.

Contradiction is boring.

Yawn

[Shakermaker]

Today's unpopular opinion..

One size does not fit all when it comes to judging the poor behaviour of one celebrity against another/against a member of the public.

Ant McPartlin's drink driving is just as bad as anyone else doing drink driving, but it should not preclude him from continuing his work on TV. I consider that he acknowledged his mistake, and took the correct course of action having been publically exposed in the way he was, by accepting his failings and going off to get treatment.

The fact he has 25-ish years of "good" behaviour prior to this goes a long way to redemption also, whereby his entire public persona has never, as far as I am aware, been called much into question over any antics/gossip/naughtiness, probably because it isn't there to any degree worth reporting.