I would call that not paying very close attention to detail. Using your parents as an excuse for your own misunderstandings? For shame. I suppose that's what wrong with most youth today. It's not your fault your ignorant, blame your parents!
Your lack of attention to detail (you admit your parents are ignorant and still didn't bother to double-check something you learned from them) has lead to your misunderstanding a perfectly common phrase. I never said it had anything to do with mis-reading anything. That, again, is something you inferred.
I do not see where you think I'm contradicting myself or "back peddling".
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Still avoiding the past subject are we? Fine then. 1 point for me. You're at least keeping this entertaining, good work.
Ahah! So now you say I am ignorant! But you see, 420, there is a difference between not knowing, and not understanding. You claim I was ignorant, I claim I was ignorant, so what point were you trying to get across here? That entire paragraph sounded like an easy way out, because you really didn't have any valid points to counter mine, in fact, I was expecting you to say this.
Now you're just sounding absurd. You expect me to be so perfectionistic as a child to go and flip through books or browse the internet to find out if a single phrase taught to me by my parents is correct or incorrect? I would seriously have to look up everything they taught me when it comes to speaking to see if it is right, because I wouldn't know that it was correct or incorrect. Let alone that you expect I would just get up and think anything they taught was wrong, and look in the first place. And even now, years past, after I've long since learned the thing and never once been corrected by anyone, and even heard others besides my parents use it the same, would suddenly look it up to see if it's correct or incorrect? That's as absurd of suddenly deciding to look up a simple word like "cat" to see if I always knew it correctly. If I did that, I would be essentially reading the entire dictionary. Such an absurd statement sounds even more like an easy way out, seriously.
That all looks like backpedaling to me. Falling back on things as ridiculous as that.
I agree Anheg, this should stay public, it seems to be entertaining more people than just myself, which I didn't expect. lol.