PSA: "all but" means "everything EXCEPT"

Photos of Ghosts··1 votes·332 views

Why do I only see people using it the wrong way? Like, dunno, "beautiful and all but charming". ...No, no please. That means "beautiful and the opposite of charming". I'm quite sure that's not what you intended to say.

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Environmentalist2 votes

Some words in the english language can be used in a saying and mean completely different things haha. English is fucked.

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

Ok I saw the other comment, and that's... REALLY fucked. And it clearly comes from centuries of misuse due to giving up on thinking about the meaning of what one says. I mean how can you go from one meaning to the opposite. People of the past centuries, p fkin lease.

Environmentalist2 votes

Hahaha It's almost similar to saying "I could care less". I literally means you care about the topic, enough that there is room to care even less, but people say it when they don't care at all. :P

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