Does the appearance of this word fill anyone else with a murderous rage or is it just me? I suspect MBUK is the primary offender but it seems to pervade most publications and even retailers’ adverts and correspondence now. Grrrr

Used correctly its fine.

The same design or pattern, but with a different combination of colours.

However to describe a single colour it total balls.

Language evolves, innit.

yes… me too. I hate the fact that things like this leak into our conciousness via advertising and soon become widely used.

Annother one is the american habit of missing the “st” or “th” off of a date. As in: “Today is august sixteen”. It seems like all radio adverts do this now.

Sorry, rant over

This…

Used correctly its fine.

The same design or pattern, but with a different combination of colours.

Used all the time in my industry.

Language evolves

I wouldn’t mind if it’s an evolution, but “colour scheme” desribes exactly the same thing. It’s just nobby advertising speak

Colorway, shirley?

*Kills self for such a grammatical faux pas*

‘usage’ gets me. Don’t know why.

It still irritates me a bit but it’s a phrase that has stuck and is now widely used.

‘usage’ gets me. Don’t know why.

“Utilize” is annother one…. “use”

I mean, what’s the winningest colourway?

I actually quite like winningest….

People using ‘that’ rather than ‘than’. I seem to have a fixation with this now. I’d rather than than that when this then occurs, but its all just this and that. 😉

I mean, what’s the whingingest colourway?

An STW topic that could run and run

I quite like “automagically” too…

Yes, it annoys me.
Used by people too stupid to be able to spell colour scheme.

See also ‘swap out’.
Used by those too pretentious to say ‘replace’ or ‘exchange’.

And ‘can I get?’
No you bloody well can’t, you can ‘have’ – Friends finished years ago, mourn and move on.

Seriously, people who use these phrases should just be shot at the side of the road.

automagically is a definate fave.

Plus it realy winds IT people up when you explain that the system they are developing should just do it “automagically”!

And ‘can I get?’
No you bloody well can’t, you can ‘have’

Winds me up to hear that too. It wouldn’t be SO bad if the word please was used but I think that is being phased out of the English language 👿

it would be fine if it made any logical sense but it does not.
is it way as in direction? different colour directions?
or way as in method? different methods of colouring?

NO!

I too hate it , I also hate people referring to the cockpit when talking about bikes and “hence why” is another of my dislikes . Lots more but so little time .

Yeah it fills me with irrational rage too.

Straightaway as well.

‘usage’ gets me. Don’t know why.

I thought about that for a second and have to agree with you! I’ll make a concious(as opposed to unconscious) effort now!

Another term is ‘product’ when referring to a collection of goods instead of ‘goods’, ‘items’ or just ‘products’

I’ve never even heard the word before. Makes no sense to me. What context would you use it in?

“can you give me a for-instance?”
“what? An example?”
“Yeah… you know…. a for-instance”
“sure, an example”

Seriously, people who use these phrases should just be shot at the side of the road.

On the sidewalk ?

I guestimate that it’s like, come from US mags/fashion media.

It’s not just a choice, but a way. It’s a necessary part of being bang-on-trend.

Random? Amazeballs.

One pissboiler I’m seeing a lot at the moment is “addicting.”

Look at any game review on the Android market for an example. ‘great game, very addicting.’ ARGH!

Amazeballs.

I believe the credit for that one goes to Simon Pegg.

Cougar – Member
Amazeballs.
I believe the credit for that one goes to Simon Pegg.

Totes.

nealglover – Member

Seriously, people who use these phrases should just be shot at the side of the road.

On the sidewalk ?

Adds name to list – nealglover, 249th against the wall when the glorious pedantic revolution comes.

I quite like “amazeballs”

I’ve got two of them.

“Makes no sense to me. What context would you use it in? “

Read the first reply! Jeez.

Car salesmen have used it for years . Another favourite is when a bumper is the same colour as the car it magically becomes colour coded and not painted.
Wrong wrong wrong.

Can’t say I’m a big fan of ‘colourway’, I always thought it was another americanism creeping into the English language. What scares me is the effect Tykes are having, or is that just on my F@#$book page. I have to read some of them 3 times to figure out what they’re trying to say.

“Falmers artside work bin there since 7 they better let me go home cos am ready now lol”

“Bin anuver gud nete kotter won bingo en debs spannered on muld wine”

Car salesmen have used it for years . Another favourite is when a bumper is the same colour as the car it magically becomes colour coded and not painted.
Wrong wrong wrong.

Well, it’s quite possible for a bumper, or a mirror, to be painted, but not the same colour as the main car body. That’s just to tell people that everything is painted the same, in two words rather than several. Makes sense to me, anyway…

Seriously, people who use these phrases should just be shot at the side of the road.

FTFY
HTH