JCC i just realized ive been using mercurial to mean capricious and capricious to mean mercurial

for some time.

does this happen to you? give fun examples itt

for instance i described a woman i met as mercurial when really she's more capricious and the mods on here as given to caprice when really they're more mercurial

 

Until just like a month ago, I thought flora and fauna were both plants.

 

that sketch show is way better than it has any rigth to be coming from two madtv alums

KIIIIIIiiDDDDDDSSSS YOU CAN ACTUALLY FFFFFLLLLYYYYYY

 

stalagmites and stalactites

 

C'mon man, everyone knows that stalactites hang tightly to the ceiling.

Sheesh.

 

Stalagmites might hang from the ceiling. But they don't.

Also, Key & Peele were on an episode of Scott Aukerman's podcast, Comedy Bang Bang a month or so ago. One of the funniest episodes of that show ever (not to feature Jessica St. Clair). Man, it was riotously funny.

 

I've actually never seen this program outside the tail end of the one episode where this skit played. If it's representative of the rest, I am inclined to do more.

 

The 'faun' part didn't tip you off? Don't you know your mythical woodland creatures/latin roots?

 

Mike thread.

 

I'M SMART I'M SMART I'M SMART

 

They can both mean "erratic", so I think they could be used interchangeably.

 

"mercurial" has more of an explosive, negative flavour whereas "capricious" is more about simply being given to whimsy (a more neutral flavor)... i had been using them exactly the other way around. being a descriptivist in principal, i started noticing that my usage didnt match up with examples around me and then i looked it up and the prescriptivists over at webster seem to agree that i was "wrong"

again, bad moderators can be "mercurial", manic pixie women-archetypes are merely "capricious". that's the difference

agreed

 

Yes, it tipped me off. After thirty years.

 

as the philosopher immanuel kant famously said: "pobody's nerfect!"

 

I learned the difference from Master Miller while crawling in a vent in Metal Gear Solid.

 

Did Kant like Star Wars?

 

yes but in germany they call it "DER TOHTENKRIEGGENSTERNSTURM"

 

Those Germans have words for everything.