Mangled Saying Rant
Friday, November 14th, 2008 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouOkay, that's IT!! I've read it in yet another fic that I was ENJOYING and then... the author threw that saying in, mangled, and...
AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!
Dear hearts and beautiful people, for the last friggin' time, it's not, "if he thinks I'm going to go to the ball with him, then he has another THING coming." It's "he has another THINK coming."
Understand?
"Another thing coming," makes it sound like some odd little creature is going to show up to argue the point for whoever needs it. Judas Priest not withstanding, it's wrong, wrong, WRONG.
"Another think coming" implies the subject needs to sit down and think this over again carefully, which is what the saying is about in the first place.
You with me, people?
This has been another Writer's Rant by Auntie.
AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!
Dear hearts and beautiful people, for the last friggin' time, it's not, "if he thinks I'm going to go to the ball with him, then he has another THING coming." It's "he has another THINK coming."
Understand?
"Another thing coming," makes it sound like some odd little creature is going to show up to argue the point for whoever needs it. Judas Priest not withstanding, it's wrong, wrong, WRONG.
"Another think coming" implies the subject needs to sit down and think this over again carefully, which is what the saying is about in the first place.
You with me, people?
This has been another Writer's Rant by Auntie.
