A question for the BLU peeps

[kikix12]

The wikipedia entry originally linked literally says, verbatim, "you can't fit a square peg in a round hole."

No, it does not...That does appear once, in a quote. The idiom itself is just square peg in a round hole, as that very same article says. Not to mention, every single dictionary.

If you want to argue that all of society is using the metaphor incorrectly, that's a whole other can of worms, but the original poster in this thread was using it correctly, as stated in the article they linked.

I'm arguing that Gemina used it incorrectly and that there are people that use it incorrectly because they interpret it on their own, rather than look at its source. And people seem to be really allergic to dictionaries, arguing that "language is a living thing", calling those that use them "grammar nazis" (which is, also, incorrect, on so many levels) or ignoring them...just like you did.

You can use the metaphor of "can't fit a square peg in a round hole", but that's no longer that idiom. This is the problem.

Also, please stop double+ posting. If you want to respond to multiple posts with quotes then just copy the quotes into one response. Multi-posting is against forum rules on basically every site due to its interference in the flow of discussion.