Phrases that annoy you the most
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The most cringeworthy phrase ever coined by "social media hotties". Whenever I see it mentioned it makes me want to dominate the stairs and throw a can of red bull at them.
OMG now appears to be a saying as opposed to just an abbreviation for the person who is too lazy to type the saying out. That is a close second.
The most cringeworthy phrase ever coined by "social media hotties". Whenever I see it mentioned it makes me want to dominate the stairs and throw a can of red bull at them.
OMG now appears to be a saying as opposed to just an abbreviation for the person who is too lazy to type the saying out. That is a close second.
dtmpower said:
"to be fair"
I'm exhausted hearing this phrase, it's normally used just before the user intends to offend or say something controversial as a sort of pre sorry. Forget it, in a straight talking type, I don't need sugar coated pre apologies.
Most of this thread makes me think people need to let go of the little things, if everyone didn't get so apparently angry about a stranger using a particular phrase in a shop, the world would be a better place. I'm exhausted hearing this phrase, it's normally used just before the user intends to offend or say something controversial as a sort of pre sorry. Forget it, in a straight talking type, I don't need sugar coated pre apologies.
This example is one I don't understand however, here are 2 versions of the same conversation between friends:
Person 1: These airline seats are too small
Person 2: To be fair, you're a lot larger than the average person
Person 1: These airline seats are too small
dtompower: You're fat.
First reply is perceived as a reasonable explanation of the problem, the second can be perceived as an attack on the person...
Mr2Mike said:
foxbody-87 said:
Guys - could we please take this off line, or at least park it until we've dealt with the low hanging fruit - then at least we have a good news story in the making. Otherwise we'll end up with the monkey on our back,
Let's put it on the back burner for now, and we'll touch base offline at close of play. Thanks for bringing it to the table, but after running it up the flagpole and taking a helicopter view it's clear we aren't singing from the same hymn sheet.lowdrag said:
Today English as it were spoke, so to say, no longer exists. We have throwaway clichés, language I really don't understand, but if there is one expression I always react to it happened again this weekend. People who come to see me once a year, waving goodbye and shouting "see you later". But I won't see them for a year, and strangely they always want to come at Le Mans weekend; so just what is "later"? For me it used to say "be back this evening" as I went off to the pub or the cinema, not next bloody year. It really gets my goat, and I don't hesitate to say so.
So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.
I'm guilty, I'll try and mend my ways!So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.
Alex@POD said:
Most of this thread makes me think people need to let go of the little things, if everyone didn't get so apparently angry about a stranger using a particular phrase in a shop, the world would be a better place.
I don't think it would really.Alex@POD said:
This example is one I don't understand however, here are 2 versions of the same conversation between friends:
Person 1: These airline seats are too small
Person 2: To be fair, you're a lot larger than the average person
Person 1: These airline seats are too small
dtompower: You're fat.
First reply is perceived as a reasonable explanation of the problem, the second can be perceived as an attack on the person...
They're both the same, I think i'd get a bad reaction if I said either of those to someone, to the first it would be "Are you saying i'm fat?".Person 1: These airline seats are too small
Person 2: To be fair, you're a lot larger than the average person
Person 1: These airline seats are too small
dtompower: You're fat.
First reply is perceived as a reasonable explanation of the problem, the second can be perceived as an attack on the person...
Best to say nowt, not even raise an eyebrow Roger Moore style.
I can't profess to be a proper pedant when it comes to English, but there are two 'types' that irritate me. The first is business bulls
t. I see some has been mentioned above already but there's so much these days I don't know where to begin. Is it that people lack the vocabulary to say what they really mean? Part of the irritation is hearing it come from the CEOs mouth and then spend the next few weeks hearing it filter downward like some sort of plague. Perhaps it's one of the many reasons my career progress has been 'steady'!
The second category is the type of speech that makes you sound thick. I suspect half the time people don't know they do it. Pacific instead of specific. Going to Asdas. Etc. Quite often fr M educated, intelligent people too.
t. I see some has been mentioned above already but there's so much these days I don't know where to begin. Is it that people lack the vocabulary to say what they really mean? Part of the irritation is hearing it come from the CEOs mouth and then spend the next few weeks hearing it filter downward like some sort of plague. Perhaps it's one of the many reasons my career progress has been 'steady'!The second category is the type of speech that makes you sound thick. I suspect half the time people don't know they do it. Pacific instead of specific. Going to Asdas. Etc. Quite often fr M educated, intelligent people too.
PositronicRay said:
lowdrag said:
Today English as it were spoke, so to say, no longer exists. We have throwaway clichés, language I really don't understand, but if there is one expression I always react to it happened again this weekend. People who come to see me once a year, waving goodbye and shouting "see you later". But I won't see them for a year, and strangely they always want to come at Le Mans weekend; so just what is "later"? For me it used to say "be back this evening" as I went off to the pub or the cinema, not next bloody year. It really gets my goat, and I don't hesitate to say so.
So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.
I'm guilty, I'll try and mend my ways!So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.
Edited by lowdrag on Saturday 24th June 19:26
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