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Originally Posted by Confucious is sex
For me it's the word 'wrong', which is an adjective, being used wrongly as an adverb...
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No, actually that's wrong.
Wrong is used both as an adjective and an adverb. Examples from my Websters: "Guessed wrong." "Don't get me wrong."
Just as you'd say "right" for "Words that are used right" or "You use that word right" or "you guessed right." You wouldn't say "rightly."
So my use is indeed not wrong. I did not write the name of this thread wrong.
That said, even though I'm an English major and a grammar nerd, I many times get sloppy in writing posts, so I'm basically just taking the piss, and I don't mean to put anybody here down. Come on, I LOVE youse guys, no matter how bads ya talk and write. My vitirol is aimed mainly at the media, who constantly butcher the language.