yesterday afternoon i had the following status on gchat:
"go ahead and marinade on that for a bit"
a phrase that for a very long time has been one of my favorites.
[i started saying it a few years back upon becoming obsessed with a certain outkast song called spottieottiedopalicious. <-- you should listen to it if you never have, it's awesome.]
so the status was up for a few hours to not much fanfare when i get a chat from my sissy saying the following:
sissy: leah wants you to know this.... "tell alexa it's "marinate". lol. "marinade" is a noun"
WHAT?
how have i never known this seemingly simple grammar rule?
i've been typing "go ahead and marinade on that" for YEARS and no one has ever corrected me.
i guess it took leah, a very good family friend who has her masters in writing to call me out.
i'm actually embarrassed that i didn't realize that i should have been typing, "go ahead and marinate on that for a bit"
apparently you marinate(verb) the chicken with the marinade(noun).
duh.
i mean i've always been aware of the other commonly misused words like
-affect/effect
-allusion/illusion
-capital/capitol
-stationary/stationery
-principle/principal (remember the princiPAL is your friend)
but marinade/marinate? nope, no clue - did you know better?
the shame, THE SHAME.
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i want to wish happy birthday to my newly employed love MAXIE who knows all the spelling rules.
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31 comments:
Sadly, when I saw what you wrote, I was like I should let her know it's Marinate with a 't'.
I'm glad your family friend corrected you!!
Another catch phrase you may want to start saying is "I see what you're stepping in."
Marinade is nowhere near important enough to merit a verb AND noun.
Semantically speaking it’s technically slang to use “marinate” to refer to anything other than food preparation.
I usually wouldn't correct people either...but since your post is all on grammar...it's actually fanfare. I'm kinda a grammar and spelling nerd. I blame my mother.
idea - you should have told me too! haha.
ben - AGREED. marinade is just being greedy now.
maiden - you have a point. does that mean i can call it anything i want now?
megan - I KNEW IT LOOKED WEIRD! thanks for letting me know, consider it fixed.
I did know the difference. But, if it makes you feel any better, when I read that status update, I read it as MARINATE anyway, so no harm done in my world. =)
Heee. My inner grammar nerd has been giggling for 10 minutes about this.
That cracks me up! BF says "I'll marinade it." And I always thought, "hmm.. i'm pretty sure it's marinate.." but I never said anything. And now you reveal that i'm CORRECT! :) WOO HOO!
I'll marinat/de you all day.
P.S. YOU'RE NEXT re: DC!!!!!!!
woooooah- i actually knew the marinad/te one... but at 23 i still cannot figure out when to use effect/affect. typically i just say feck it and find a new word.
I would have said something, but I never see your gchat status, since we're not buddies. YET.
It's pretty funny though.
I can honestly say that I would have noticed, but I most likely wouldn't have said anything. The phrase that got me?
For the longest time I said "for all intensive purposes." Who knew it was "intents and purposes"?
Same difference, I say.
i saw that. but i said nothing. that makes me part of the problem. i have let you down.
I'm willing to EXCEPT your grammar errors as long as YOUR still nice to me in real life. I don't want to LOOSE you as a friend. ;)
glad I could help...glad I could help. ;)
I want you to know that had I ever seen you write "marinade" prior to this, I would have corrected you. That's what friends do! Ha ha ha.
Never heard of that phrase... I like it though :)
I think you have poetic license, you already don't capitalize.
Why don't you capitalize on that!
How's that for a catch phrase?
Easy misuse. We'll forgive you this time. And when I say "we," I mean the English majors of the world. But don't let it happen again.
i'm pretty sure i would have made the same mistake, even as an english minor i have horrible grammar.
Well you know your Mama would have let you know by text had I read this earlier, like many a times before...ha. You usually are pretty good most of the time. XO
Amazingly, I think I did know that. Dad is a big griller and marinator.
I make typing mistakes too from time to time. Somehow I always hide in the excuse of "english isn't my first language!!!" Lol
But then I find I do something like that a few times too in Indonesian. Argh.
I'm sure worse sins have been committed. Ah ha. Although, when I see a typo in a comment that I've left, I feel the need to leave another comment pointing out my error so the person won't think I'm an idiot. And yes...I know that was a run on sentence. See? So, I get it. : )
Hey for all intensive purposes, it sounds right.
I'll give you a minute on that one.
I wouldn't have caught that. The worst is when you put up a Facebook status (which I rarely do, so it's like, a treat), and come back hours later and see a obvious spelling mistake that I just completely missed before. Awesome.
I hate those type of words. Make me slip up and look stupid a lot of the time.
heh, i did know that one. i'm sort of a lexicon nazi though..
LOL you're too funny!
I don't think I've ever paid close enough attention to that phrase, so I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought.
Oh! Don't forget council/counsel!
I don't use affect or effect because I DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. seriously.
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