A Brief PSA in the Name of Linguistic Integrity

Feb 17, 2011 10:17

Okay, people, I'm only going to say this once:

It's "Hear, hear", not "here, here".

For those of you who are actually interested, it's an abbreviated form of, "Hear him, hear him", as in, "Listen up, y'all."

You may now go back to your regularly scheduled lives.

See also: It's "bated breath", as in a-bated breath (i.e. you're so excited, you ( Read more... )

grammar rant

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_celtic_rose_ February 17 2011, 20:36:53 UTC
What if I just want my location to be known? Here here!!!

*ducks imagined blow to head*

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be_merry February 18 2011, 00:49:50 UTC
People actually wrote that? :(((((

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_celtic_rose_ February 18 2011, 02:03:53 UTC
why do I feel you should own this?

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/02/seth-kinmans-grizzly-bear-chair-seth.html

maybe cause of your dad's horny chair?

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needanap February 18 2011, 22:20:25 UTC
What makes this post hilarious is your next one details how you got wasted on shrimp.

Fair effort.

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