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Inconceivable! And People Saying Things Wrong
In the words of Inego Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
What are some words or phrases that you hear a lot of people use without knowing what it means?
For me, I can't stand how often people use the term "third world country" to describe poorer countries. The original definition of the phrase was a nation that was not aligned with either the US and NATO (the first world) or the USSR and the Warsaw Pact (the second world) during the Cold War. Granted, many of the third world countries were impoverished, but that's certainly not the case for all of them. For example, Switzerland is a third world country because it remained neutral as always. North Korea is a second world country.
Anyway, discuss innappropriately used words and phrases.
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