Phrases that annoy you the most

[Strangely Brown]

LunarOne said:

Strangely Brown said:

smithyithy said:

Ah that old debate again

My view is - if it's a brand / company name, then fine, it's pronounced however the creator says it is..

But creating an acronym from a series of normal words doesn't mean you can decide how it's pronounced

Yup.

I don't care how the format creator chooses to say it (he's wrong), it's an acronym and the word of the first letter has a hard G. So the acronym has a hard G. That's just how it works.

No, You're wrong. The G in GB is pronounced "Djee" despite standing for "Great". The H in NHS is pronounced "aitch" And the S is pronounced "Ess" despite it standing for "Health" and Service. Have you ever heard anyone say "Na Haytch Seh". Likewise, the G in GIF is pronounced after the letter, not after the word it stands for. If we had it your way, People would pronounce VHS as "Vooohhs" just like the FoneJacker guy.

GB is not an acronym. It's an initialism and each letter is said separately. G - gee, B - bee.
Same thing for NHS.
Same for VHS.
An acronym, like GIF is read as a word and it has a hard G. If you read each letter separately then, and only then, is the G soft.

So, not wrong.

[vetrof]

LunarOne said:

No, You're wrong. The G in GB is pronounced "Djee" despite standing for "Great". The H in NHS is pronounced "aitch" And the S is pronounced "Ess" despite it standing for "Health" and Service. Have you ever heard anyone say "Na Haytch Seh". Likewise, the G in GIF is pronounced after the letter, not after the word it stands for. If we had it your way, People would pronounce VHS as "Vooohhs" just like the FoneJacker guy.

So the correct pronunciation is Gee Eye Eff?

[snuffy]

Strangely Brown said:

Person finds something they have lost after a long and frustrating search.

"Why is it always in the last place you look?"

Duh! Because you stop looking when you find it, moron.

That's why you carry on looking even after you have found it. Then you avoid that issue !!

[Jonquil]

I understood that the GIF creator wanted it pronounced JIF. When I saw this, I thought, "What a jit."

[Biker's Nemesis]

Doofus said:

Johnspex said:

Doofus said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Don't know if these 2 have been mentioned... "licence plate and title/clean title".

These are both perfectly valid American terms.

If you're American and speaking in America. In this country using expressions like that make you sound like you are an enormous storer of toupees. You know, a great wig banker.

I've never heard anyone in the UK use those terms.

Lots of UK YouTubers use those terms now as well as "swapped out".

[bongtom]

Unalived, or as we know it dead.

Used a lot now so people don't get upset.

Really?

[LunarOne]

vetrof said:

LunarOne said:

No, You're wrong. The G in GB is pronounced "Djee" despite standing for "Great". The H in NHS is pronounced "aitch" And the S is pronounced "Ess" despite it standing for "Health" and Service. Have you ever heard anyone say "Na Haytch Seh". Likewise, the G in GIF is pronounced after the letter, not after the word it stands for. If we had it your way, People would pronounce VHS as "Vooohhs" just like the FoneJacker guy.

So the correct pronunciation is Gee Eye Eff?

Back in the late 1980s when nobody outside the small world of computer graphics knew the term, everyone referred to it as "Djiff". There was no argument about it. I was taught about it at school. I was so into CGI that I used to do Ray Tracing on my Amiga. One scene would take several days to render. At age 16 I won Panasonic's Young Videomaker 1990 award for computer-generated animation. I still have the trophy on my windowsill. I spent a week's work experience that same year at a company in Newbury called Quantel, which made incredibly high-end graphics workstations for TV, film and print. My entire life up to the age of 20 was taken up by three things - computer graphics, cars and flying. Nobody EVER said "ghiff" back then. The term was used for years in the internet age and there was no argument about it. But then suddenly in the mid 2000s, the dawn of the animated meme was upon us, and the kids who were creating them started calling them "ghiff" because they hadn't heard them spoken about - they'd only seen it written on internet message boards. But nobody who was creating graphics in early versions of Deluxe Paint or Photoshop in the 1980s ever said "ghiff". Those of us who were active in the graphics scene when the format was invented, all call it "Djiff". We got together in real life and discussed techniques, because almost nobody had internet access back then. So we all learned how to pronounce it from the guy who invented it. It's very easy to tell who only discovered the word from the internet later on, because they say it wrong.

[bongtom]

Nerds - Djiff
Everyone else - Ghiff



I was so happy when they changed Dgif to Sif.

Edited by bongtom on Friday 5th May 03:55

[Blown2CV]

bongtom said:

Unalived, or as we know it dead.

Used a lot now so people don't get upset.

Really?

i think it is more to avoid being flagged for moderation in social media

[snuffy]

Hidden Gem.

Normally on sites like Trip Advisor, where the writer seems to be under the impression that they are the first person to ever use said term.

[Fane]

snuffy said:

Hidden Gem.

Normally on sites like Trip Advisor, where the writer seems to be under the impression that they are the first person to ever use said term.

Similarly, on Trip Advisor, "melt in the mouth"

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Fane said:

Similarly, on Trip Advisor, "melt in the mouth"

Yes! 'Melt in the mouth' and 'to die for' make me want to go on killing spree. Feckin' idiots.

[Bandit110]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Fane said:

Similarly, on Trip Advisor, "melt in the mouth"

Yes! 'Melt in the mouth' and 'to die for' make me want to go on killing spree. Feckin' idiots.

Brings us on to "mouth-watering" ughh

[PiesAreGreat]

freddytin said:

It really gets my goat.......What goat is this exactly ?

Referring to another thread... the link posted by Magnum 475: a Somalian man was forced to marry a goat he "found attractive" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.st...

Some say what their wife says, there is at least one person in this crazy world who has to refer to his goat!!!

[LunarOne]

"You're joking me". Although in their heads I'm sure they're leaving out the apostrophe. I've heard it a few times recently, but where has it come from? For once, I don't think it's an Americanism.

[Europa Jon]

Have we had 'so fun' yet? Or the strange way that lots of people start a sentence with 'So,'?

[DavieW]

Europa Jon said:

Or the strange way that lots of people start a sentence with 'So,'?

I was listening to a brainbox uni type being interviewed on the radio the other day. As well as starting every answer with "so", she also (nearly every time) ended the sentence with "so, yeah".

[snuffy]

DavieW said:

I was listening to a brainbox uni type being interviewed on the radio the other day. As well as starting every answer with "so", she also (nearly every time) ended the sentence with "so, yeah".

Or "so, yeah,no".

"My name is Frogmella, and I'm a sales assistant from Bristol, so, yeah,no."

I think the "so, yeah" means you're supposed to conclude that being a sales assistant from Bristol is amazing. And the "no" is then an attempt at modesty as they try and play down how marvellous being a sales assistant from Bristol is.

[loskie]

she'll be reaching out to whomever for the senior assistant job going forward. Yeah no?

Edited by loskie on Sunday 7th May 08:46

[snuffy]

loskie said:

she'll be reaching out to whomever for the senior assistant job going forward. Yeah no?

You have missed the "so" off before the "yeah" !!

And it's even worse if Frogmella is over 40, because at her age she should know better.