What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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To defend myself, I'm not a native speaker and we only have a single word for both conceps. So to me these are synonyms because my language doesn't differentiate between the two.
Even after looking up some definitions they pretty synonymous to me.
English is pretty fluid and acceptable words and definitions morph with time. So in current use, they are pretty much interchangeable, but that still pisses me off. It's a loss of nuance. It's like we are actively dumbing down the language as if Newspeak is a good thing.
Let me take out my cane and say,"Back in my day..."
Envy: You wish you had something someone else does.
Jealousy: You worry about losing something you have.
Example: I jealously protect what I have, probably to an unhealthy degree. At the same time, I sure envy that person for having something I wish I had.