Freeper on local news: "FDR tried a stimulus like this and it just EXASPERATED the problem"

[FLAprogressive]

Apparently freepspeak doesn't just exist on the internet.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tangent90]

1. He couldn't think of "exaggerbated"

:rofl:

[Lorien]

10. He thinks that means jerking off. nt

[htuttle]

2. Are you casting asparagus on the poor freepers again?

[Happyhippychick]

3. He sounds really flusterated.

[ElboRuum]

4. Morans casting more asparagus strategerically.

Clearly, what he meant to say was EXCULFINATED. He just used the past perfect future participial, when he obviously meant to use the didactic onerous polynomial.

[billyoc]

5. They certainly do have a flair for the vernacular.

:rofl:

[louis-t]

20. "That ain't a vernacular, it's a doiby."

N'yuk.

[susanna]

6. I think you misunderestimate!

If you look at it really hard, what the freeper said could be construed as correct: FDR's plan did work, as the Depression got exasperated and then went away. Ouch. My head hurts. :rofl:

[malaise]

7. You're lucky the Freeper didn't suggest that we

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[Ghost in the Machine]

8. That one must have studied from the masters...

[pleah]

9. Priceless!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

11. Getting up off di floor

:rofl:

[pinto]

12. Good one.

:rofl:

[luvspeas]

13. I am speechless!

I wish they would be too!

[Mollis]

15. Great post!!!

:rofl:

[acmavm]

16. Golly, you just defined 'there' ignorance. What a visual.

Thanks.

edit: I suppose I'd better point out the 'there' is intentional.

[MasonJar]

14. Did you possibly mean exacerbated, MORAN"?

[azmouse]

17. Was he series?!!1!11!

Oh my! What would we do without freepspeak?! :rofl:

[riona]

18. and lolcats

[ReverendDeuce]

19. Um... hate to tell you, but that is actually correct usage...

Eh... I hate to be the only one who is pointing it out. It's a little unusual, but it's not incorrect.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/exasperated

ex·as·per·ate:

tr.v. ex·as·per·at·ed, ex·as·per·at·ing, ex·as·per·ates

1. To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
2. To increase the gravity or intensity of: "a scene . . . that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" Samuel Beckett.

Source 2...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exasperated

exasperated (comparative more exasperated, superlative most exasperated)

1. greatly annoyed; made furious
2. made worse or more intense

[SOS]

21. That dictionary may be confused...

The Oxford English Dictionary clearly defines both words and points out the error of confusing them:

USAGE The verbs exasperate and exacerbate are sometimes confused. Exasperate, the more common of the two, means 'irritate or annoy to an extreme degree'. Exacerbate means 'increase the bitterness or severity of'.

[tabatha]

22. Good, I am glad the problem was exasperated... and went away.