One Thing You Learned Today

[VictorianLady]

"Hopefully. This once-useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." (Strunk & White, Elements of Style, 48)

I don't even want to think about the number of times I have used "hopefully" with an incorrect meaning.

 

[amdd97]

anything is possible

it may should cheesy but it true.

 

[Benisse]

You always find what you are looking for in the last place you think of to look.

 

[Zella]

"Hopefully. This once-useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." (Strunk & White, Elements of Style, 48)

I don't even want to think about the number of times I have used "hopefully" with an incorrect meaning.

I found that out awhile ago and have been trying to break the habit of using it wrong. It's not easy!

 

[amdd97]

You always find what you are looking for in the last place you think of to look.

that is true. I found my little sister ipod in my PJ drawers after months of looking for it!

 

[Lila]

I learned that "Condesita de Mino Oro" (or something like that) means gold digger in Spanish.

 

[narnia ice cream]

what I learned to day is that you should always
carry you celphone WHEREVER YOU GO.

 

[narnia ice cream]

"Living right brings happiness."

 

[Tsukiko]

Um, some more Italian phrases and words and such. xD (is studying Italian currently)

 

[Glenburne]

That you can do a group project on critical thinking and have someone in the group want to do the project exactly by the book.

 

[narnia ice cream]

To beat the bordom of chores,sing,maybe not out loud
but in your head.

 

[MissReepicheep]

When you're mad, don't storm, stop, and yell in your room, or your mom will ask you what you're angry about and it will be embarrassing to confess that you're ranting about something extremely trivial.

 

[krupa]

It's hard to play a vidio game when it's a gloomy day

 

[Lila]

I learned that........ a little opera goes a long way!

 

[Pitchike12]

I learned about Geometery(the hradest subject ever!)

 

[Smaug]

Never play video games when you have homework due the next day...

 

[Pitchike12]

Never play video games when you have homework due the next day...

Yap...its very hectick and I get mad!mad

 

[Glenburne]

That Josephus was actually something of a Jewish traitor. I have heard people quoting him for years but never knew much about the man himself.

 

[EveningStar]

I've learned that you are destined to make the next post in this thread...

 

[Smaug]

Don't wake up half an hour after your alarm goes off....