Pet Peeve
It’s a slow news week (not really) so I thought I’d take the opportunity to vent about a pet peeve.
People I admire and/or respect keep committing this sin. These people are usually well-educated. They are famous, published writers, or acclaimed public speakers. People who ought to know better do this in print, they do this on TV, they do it on social media.
They say “unconsciously” when they mean “subconsciously.”
I rarely see this mistake the other way around.
I am posting the explanation below, taken from a grammar and English usage site:
Please get it fucking right.
You’re welcome.
There is nothing approaching the importance of this matter in the news this week. That completes the “Weekly Review.”
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