(02-29-2012, 07:20 PM)Miguel Wrote: (02-29-2012, 06:34 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote: I love the way people throw around the term "most." It's 4:30 p.m. on the West Coast, so currently, it hasn't taken half the day.
Most of a normal 8-hr workday.
Well, maybe for someone guesting on a show and only guesting. (Because if the hours that I've read about actors spending on a set -- not necessarily at work, but waiting to do their work -- is not an exaggeration, then "most of a normal 8-hr workday" is paltry.)
I'll admit that I can be pretty anal about certain things, but the truth is few people (me, perhaps, most of all) use the English language correctly or well. For a very long time, I've been attuned to how the word "most" is "mostly" (yep, I had to go there) is used incorrectly. Usually, and in the case of the post that made me point it out, I do find it amusing, albeit technically wrong.