I love eggcorns so much! Never heard this one before!
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Screenshotting an email about keeping company info private and sharing it online is pretty good.
I'd be worried if there was any relevant information in it.
Woof. I work in HR, and have to admit, literacy is failing everywhere, including with policy writers and readers.
At least you know they aren't using AI. Anyways, boneappletea.
The only way to outsmart AI is to use idioms incorrectly.
Until the AI figures out this little trick. Then we all just talk like weβre stupid.
You're preaching to the horse's mouth
you forgot to put in thorns
Pretty sure it's horse's choir.
In Wales, it's preaching to the horse's collar.
In *whales
"Artificial intelligence" finally makes sense. We artificially dumb down our own human output to evade AI, artificially inflating how intelligent it seems.
It's even taught in kindergarten, the famous "Head, shoulders, knee to nose" basis.
Everyone knows itβs βneedle-nose basisβ
This happens all the time to me with speak to Tex.
That's why I don't care if I make mistakes in english. It's not my native language and I make far fewer mistakes than some americans lol
Not a native speaker, what should be the original/right version?
It would be "on a need to know basis"
Iβm guessing this supposed HR person is also not a native speaker.
With how many native speakers still mess up your and you're, and especially "should of" instead of should've, I would actually wager theyre a native speaker
Also, plurals being possesified. For example, ACHs v. ACHβs.
Drives me fucking insane.
Just forget the contraction and right "should have". When pronounced correctly it sounds nothing like 'of'.
May be auto correct, or speach to text
Or they use STT instead of typing and don't proofread their emails.
The best one I heard was "Hull in a blue" but alI also like "Moo point"
"Moo point" might be an intentional eggcorn meant to reference to Friends. Joey famously calls it a "moo point" and justifies is by saying that it is "Like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter. It's moo."
And, "hull in a blue" isn't a true eggcorn because it doesn't technically make logical sense in context... but, to be fair, it makes exactly as much sense as "hullabaloo" does, so...
if the room is only flooded to your ankles and you can't smell it, then you do not need to know/be told evacuation/panic procedures yet.
I'm just waiting for lots of stuff like this to get sucked into AI training data so then AI will begin to respond like this.
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