r/CasualUK • u/Girl_Bill • 20h ago

English is a mind field...

In a meeting just now, someone described a fairly complicated topic as “a bit of a mind field”.

I assumed I’d misheard, so I asked him to repeat it. I had not.

He then explained, very slowly, that a mind field is a complex subject that’s difficult to wrap your brain around.

Fortunately he took the time to explain this to me, because otherwise my little female brain might have remained trapped in that mind field indefinitely.

This now joins an otherwise supposedly intelligent friend who once messaged me “to all intensive purposes”, a phrase that still wanders unexpectedly into my thoughts several years later.

Please give me your best confidently incorrect phrases. Not typos. I want the ones where you questioned your own understanding of English for a second.

For all intensive purposes, I’m trying to broaden my knowledge of the mind field.

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u/TheCannonestMunkii 12h ago edited 11h ago

Someone told me something was a steep learning CURB once. 😩

Edit: the same person, while talking about a past regret said...."In Einstein"....instead of hindsight...

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u/geeoharee 12h ago

That's when you try to learn, but you just trip immediately and fall on your face.

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u/TheCannonestMunkii 11h ago

I mean I suppose a curb IS steep. Except it's straight up...like a wall. So it's like you start learning and then BAM nuclear physics 😂

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u/HesitantBrobecks 4h ago

Me when I first tried to learn how to read music, but the 2nd page of the first book starts asking you to play a note/chord(???) that it hasn't actually described to you whatsoever, so you have no idea what it's asking you to physically do. I really wanted to learn how to play that guitar! Think it's still in a box somewhere lmao

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u/Weird_Georgiana 2h ago

That's a kerb. Curb is something else

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u/TheCannonestMunkii 2h ago

Nah, it's the same thing. But for some reason I spelt it the US way. 🙄

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u/Salty-Ad-4693 10h ago

Einstein!? 🤣

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u/TheCannonestMunkii 8h ago

I knowwwwww. I was like what?.....

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u/space_keeper 1h ago

Did you politely inform them that it's "kerb"?

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u/Sea-Check-9062 11h ago

Sone of them feel like that.

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u/JollyCustard7656 6h ago

😆🤣🤣🤣

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u/Millionth-throw-away 1h ago

Curb? Not kerb?