On accident

I kind of can’t take people seriously when they say On accident, I don’t know or care if its more or less grammatical, it sounds like a child sputtering in my mind. It should be By accident or accidentally

Tummy

Any adult has zero business saying this lol

  • candybrie@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I didn’t say your statement was pedantic. Just that you specifically called out your use of literally as not used in a figurative sense and that this thread in general is about pedantry. Those two things together made it seem not totally insufferable to point out that literal was actually being applied to figurative language.

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Fair enough. You make a good point, and again, you are a very intelligent person. At no point were my intentions to insult that