phrases

Spelling is hard, and we see a lot of spelling fails that would make the dictionary quit. It gets harder when you hear a word or phrase a bunch of times without ever reading it, so you have to make up your own phonetic spelling. And that's how you get so many folks living in a doggy dog world. Then sometimes you get small typos that mean a lot, like when a sign suddenly turns a beach into "pubic access." Sometimes spelling fails make us question public schools.

There are a lot of reasons to hate a saying. Maybe it's used to justify a decision that you know is wrong. Maybe someone just says it a lot. It could be that it's just a saying that people use incorrectly and that's what pisses you off. There are tons of everyday phrases people absolutely hate hearing.

People think speaking in catchphrases makes them interesting and insightful, but often the people around them read it as vapid and meaningless bullshit. Something like sending your "thoughts and prayers" can easily be read as you not really caring about the situation. There are just a lot of sayings people have always hated, and sometimes we don't even know the full versions of classic sayings.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share their hot takes on those common sayings that are actually total BS. The resulting answers might come across as pretty bleak. 

When met with the question "what's the nicest way to tell someone to F off" Redditors of all stripes threw their hats into the ring. From common sayings in other cultures, to random abuse they've gotten on the street, the world is bursting with semi-polite and professional ways to tell someone that you'd rather not have to ever see their face again.

Wouldn't it be simpler to have a single word that encapsulates the concept of getting drunk in your underwear? Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to call someone an "orthopedic walking cane" out of hate? These options and many more lie waiting to be discovered in the world's many wonderful languages. For some English wins and fails, here are some incredible uses and misuses of the English language.