Phrases that annoy you the most
Discussion
psi310398 said:
RDMcG said:
<clip> There are however British usages that are strange. I have on occasion arranged to meet someone in London for instance and said " How about 4PM"?... and the answer is "Brilliant". Why do people use Brilliant in this way? I would consider Einstein to be brilliant, but a simple agreement or affirmation is not "brilliant".
I don’t know but the father of a friend always used to say “Super. Well done!” as a kind of nervous tic. I met him one day and he asked how I was. “Mustn’t grumble etc, but sadly my father died since we last met.”
“Super! Well done!”
Doofus said:
motco said:
Doofus said:
motco said:
12 o/clock in the daytime is noon; 12 o/clock in the night-time is midnight. Neither of these is 12 am nor is it 12 pm - these terms are meaningless.
They're not meaningless. AM and PM both begin at a specfic point, and that point is 12 o'clock.
They can be called midday (or noon) and midnight, but they are still 12:00pm and 12:00am.
Royal Museums Greenwich said:
What does am and pm mean?
The 12-hour clock divides the 24-hour day into two periods.
am stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday". This is the time before noon.
pm stands for post meridiem or "after midday" – the time after noon.
Noon is therefore neither 'ante' (am) nor 'post' (pm) meridiem. Midnight is also neither am nor pm.]
The 12-hour clock divides the 24-hour day into two periods.
am stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday". This is the time before noon.
pm stands for post meridiem or "after midday" – the time after noon.
Noon is therefore neither 'ante' (am) nor 'post' (pm) meridiem. Midnight is also neither am nor pm.]
They're not neither.
Now it would be pm.
If it were midnight at the exact point in time you read the word midnight. Now you read on, it is am.
Hence why I think noon should be PM and Midnight should be AM because whilst it's not, exactly, it bloody well will be for the next 11 hours 59 mins and 59 seconds. Approx.
RDMcG said:
Age old. discussions about Americanisms here , but usage develops over time. Take the word "gay" for instance, Nobody says " I had a gay old time " any more..
What's the difference between English and American-English?Try walking into an American bar and say you are planning on bumming a fag.
Stick Legs said:
What's the difference between English and American-English?
Try walking into an American bar and say you are planning on bumming a fag.
I had a very senior American colleague who was doing a presentation in Australia and she mentioned to the meeting that she had been working her fanny off to get it completed.Try walking into an American bar and say you are planning on bumming a fag.
Well understood in the US.
Stick Legs said:
What's the difference between English and American-English?
My keyboard is set to English English but still spell checker automatically turns it into American English even though I've typed it in correctly. Specialise is turned into Specialize and so on, and I have to correct the autocorrect. M4cruiser said:
The word "Scandal".
Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
Tom8 said:
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
In the same vein, using the word "Hack" for any way of doing things that is actually perfectly normal, in some cases the way you SHOULD be doing things. All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
Generally all over social media, titles such as "This one simple hack will change the way you eat oranges".
It's peeling them.
Or "I've discovered this McDonalds hack to change the way you eat burgers"
Removes the pickles.
C5_Steve said:
In the same vein, using the word "Hack" for any way of doing things that is actually perfectly normal, in some cases the way you SHOULD be doing things.
Generally all over social media, titles such as "This one simple hack will change the way you eat oranges".
It's peeling them.
Or "I've discovered this McDonalds hack to change the way you eat burgers"
Removes the pickles.
I've yet to see the word hack used in anything like the correct context. Generally all over social media, titles such as "This one simple hack will change the way you eat oranges".
It's peeling them.
Or "I've discovered this McDonalds hack to change the way you eat burgers"
Removes the pickles.
Tom8 said:
M4cruiser said:
The word "Scandal".
Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
It's always happened- see 'b
d' which no longer means child of unmarried parents!.
21st Century Man said:
Stick Legs said:
What's the difference between English and American-English?
My keyboard is set to English English but still spell checker automatically turns it into American English even though I've typed it in correctly. Specialise is turned into Specialize and so on, and I have to correct the autocorrect. The software you are using is doing the spell checking, so you need to set that to the language you want.
For example, mine:
Office:
Chrome:
mac96 said:
Tom8 said:
M4cruiser said:
The word "Scandal".
Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
It's always happened- see 'b
d' which no longer means child of unmarried parents!.
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