Most annoying misuse of the english language

[wolves_wanderer]

I was chatting to someone on the phone earlier trying to sell me something.

Not only did they have the pacific thing that I was after but it would meet the pacific criteria (singular) that I had mentioned

This person had managed to get 2 of my 3 pet hates into a single sentence. This drives me up the wall and I can't be alone, what linguistic whoopsies most annoy the PH massive?

[off_again]

authentification?

[justayellowbadge]

Hopefully.

AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH........


and relax.

[charlescrawley]

"I brought some stuff from the shop"

[bga]

off_again said:

authentification?

I've recently been doing some security work for a French firm, authentification being the French for authentication. Cue p*ss taking from all my colleagues when I use the wrong term back in the office

[srebbe64]

wolves_wanderer said:

I was chatting to someone on the phone earlier trying to sell me something. Not only did they have the pacific thing that I was after but it would meet the pacific criteria (singular) that I had mentioned This person had managed to get 2 of my 3 pet hates into a single sentence. This drives me up the wall and I can't be alone, what linguistic whoopsies most annoy the PH massive?

You're being a bit thick there WW. The "Pacific Criteria" is a cruise ship based in Hawaii. The salesman was trying to say that you have the option to "meet it" and enjoy a free holiday if you bought his £10 product. But you declined. More fool you.

[KentishS2]

Agreeance....

It's AGREEMENT!

[M@H]

I mourn the loss of the letter T in the spoken language these days... whatever happened to diction?

Matt.

[wolves_wanderer]

srebbe64 said:

wolves_wanderer said: I was chatting to someone on the phone earlier trying to sell me something. Not only did they have the pacific thing that I was after but it would meet the pacific criteria (singular) that I had mentioned This person had managed to get 2 of my 3 pet hates into a single sentence. This drives me up the wall and I can't be alone, what linguistic whoopsies most annoy the PH massive? You're being a bit thick there WW. The "Pacific Criteria" is a cruise ship based in Hawaii. The salesman was trying to say that you have the option to "meet it" and enjoy a free holiday if you bought his £10 product. But you declined. More fool you.

I thought it was called the "Pacific Criteria's" just to get all 3 of my pet hates into one loathsome phrase

[srebbe64]

Fing is, yknow wha ar min li.

[v8thunder]

When people pronounce 'Nuclear' as 'Newkiller'. I notice a certain inept Texan does this in his speeches.

When people add an extra vowell for emphasis, so they say:

so= So-wuh
What= Wha-ott
No= No-wuh
Right= Ri-yut

And also, the Manc pronunciation of the number 20, which comes out as 'twe-i'.

[glocko]

Two come to mind...

I seen thingy last week

Borrow us a fiver

[Plotloss]

Dont aks me about ebonics...

[apache]

Starting everything with the prefix 'basickly'

[v8thunder]

"off of"

It's really irritatin and I don't know why.

[loaf]

Pronouncing the letter 'h' as 'haitch' p!sses me off

People who start sentences with 'basically...' should be beaten with knobbly sticks until they bleed. A lot.

'very unique' - unique means one of a kind, how can you have very one of a kind?

Nuclear pronounced newkular instead of newkleear

for starters...

[wolves_wanderer]

Has anyone else heard Scott Mills on Radio 1 when he refers to people as [name] off of [place they're from] as in "Here's Jeff off of Leeds." It's so far removed from english so as to be almost incomprehensible.

[maxrider]

There, their and they're being used in wrong context.

Would OF!

Here here (hear hear)

[jacobyte]

Feb-yoo-erry

Se-ke-tree

Mis-use of less common words such as "grotesque", "flout", "infer", etc.

Send 'em all to propa skool like wot I went to init.

[shadowninja]

Woteva.