[Closed] 'I fell pregnant' or turns of phrase that I have known and loathed.

Webinar - Isn't that a seminar conducted over a telephone and live internet link? So, yes a seminar, but without necessarily being in the same building, town or country?

Anyway, I digress. I find my boss and colleagues using "incentivise" far too much at the moment, the problem is I can't find a word to replace it. The whole sentence/statement needs rephrasing to use avoid the use of the word. Get's on my nerves that does.

"Pen stick", used to refer to a pen [i]drive[/i] or [i]memory[/i] stick. The fact that the speaker blythely leaves out the operative word gets right on my nipples.

I love the fact that the vast majority of posts on this thread contain errors of punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Glass houses and all that.

Has anyone mentioned pacifically yet?

I find my boss and colleagues using "incentivise" far too much at the moment, the problem is I can't find a word to replace it.

Encourage? Promote?

"can I ask you a question?"

Evidently. Would you like to ask another?

quite unique, almost unique.

Well, it's not.

The current overuse of the word journey to describe an emotional experience.

"Get out of my garden!"

Hate that.

quite unique

That's the slightly older use of the word 'quite' as an emphatic.

....is "under the doctor" I hate that saying 👿

and the facebook favourite "me thinks" 🙄

I use loads of these. 😳

Lush, Literally, Random, Actually. Chillax is so 2010 though.

"Almost exactly" gets right on my tits its wrong and the last time I heard it was in a news article relating to education.

[i]"Off of"[/i] as favoured by Scott Mills, as in [i]"so-and-so off of that band"[/i]. The C0ck.

[i]"Guestimate"[/i], especially when used as a technical term by people who really ought to know better. Its "GUESS" or "ESTIMATE". Not both!!!!

However I do like "Gnarcore to the power of Rad"

I want to slap Scott Mills round the face for "actual whoever off of actual whatever".
The annoying thing is, I think he started it trying to be ironic but its stuck now.

Blimey you lot. Language is a fluid and evolving thing. There have always been slang, colloquialisms and trends. While I must admit to being annoyed by bad use of grammar and unwittingly misused words, I actually really like a lot of new use of language, new words and new phrases. Boils my piss is a recent fave picked up off here.

"It's six of one and a dozen of the other" - so, completely different, then?

Personally I find 'innit' very annoying, l can't believe I'm the first to mention it.

Oh, and people who say "cheap at half the price", surely it should be [b]twice[/b] the price.

Oh, and people who say "cheap at half the price", surely it should be twice the price.

What about proper? As in "i was proper drunk last night"

I quite like playing cliche bingo at work and try to get as many clches in as possible during a meeting.

Back to pregnancy...

"She got hereself pregnant"

When someone says 'to be perfectly honest with you' I just can't help wondering how honest they are the rest of the time...

And I have seen lost of folk doing the 'quotation marks with fingers' and saying 'lol'. 😕

'what's occurring'

Where the **** has this sprung up from, as there's about 10 people in my office who use it at every possible opportunity (in place of hello, what are you doing, or just for the ****ing sake of saying it)

what's occurring'

anyone from anywhere but the island of ireland talking about "the craic" particularly

having the craic
having a bit of the craic

or worst of all

the crack

and telesales people who call me "Si" again mainly an southern english thing but generally prompts me to realise it's time to hang up

what's occurring'

Got popular from Gavin and Tracey
I quite like it.

or even Gavin and stacey!

I don't much like "hive mind" - have never come across it apart from here

yeah, yeah, alright. 😉

"close of play" - even worse when abbreviated to "COP"

Well I'm glad you consider work to be play but personally I don't find much time to play whilst sitting at this desk all day. What's wrong with "the end of the day" or "close of business" if you must.

"Not being funny, but..."

Chapeau.

"on a daily basis"......f*"k me....that's every day or just daily.

Please stop it!!

"It's a big ask."

It isn't. It maybe a task, test or trial, but it certainly isn't an 'ask'.

You people really listen to yourselves.

You really are against creative use of language.

molgrips - aren't most people on here objecting to the increasing repetition of certain phrases as opposed to the creative use of language ?

"If you're going downstairs....."

Which is the Mrs way of saying "I'd like a cup of tea"

+1 for "aks" too, I almost fly into a nerd rage when I hear that banded around by wannabe hoodrats.

Edit: Oh and "ghetto" too - in any context ie 'ghetto tubeless' (sorry, but your cut up innertubes are in no way related to a slum area often populated by those who society has deemed 'undesirable') or 'my ghetto' you're from a middle class, suburban breeding ground, not ****ing Compton!

molgrips - aren't most people on here objecting to the increasing repetition of certain phrases as opposed to the creative use of language ?

Some of them are new ways to express existing ideas, and are therefore creative use of language. You could argue that the catch phrase mechanism itself is part of the forefront of linguistic evolution.

'my ghetto' you're from a middle class, suburban breeding ground

This is called irony or sarcasm.

Some of them are new ways to express existing ideas, and are therefore creative use of language

You could argue that the catch phrase mechanism itself is part of the forefront of linguistic evolution.

I would say it's creative to use different words to say the same thing. Regardless of where those words were originally coined.

If you are simply parrotting things then that's not too clever, but if you are enjoying playing with a neologism and using it for comic effect, that's fine.

Innit.

but if you are enjoying playing with a neologism and using it for comic effect, that's fine

If you're repeating a neologism for comic effect, aren't you implying that you and your audience are superior to those that might use it in good faith? (and yes, that [u]is[/u] the subject of this whole thread)

I like people using language... if we all spoke like the bbc broadcasters of yesteryear it would be a jolly poor show..

I'm orf out t'garden to be ghetto fabulous.. coz like..

I was chattin wiv va missus earlier and I wiz like.. mate I am [i]sooo[/i] startin smokin again..
and she went.. naaaa.. literally..?
an I wiz like.. yeah you effin knows it blud..
I'm garspin..

she wiz like.. naa don' even bovva and stuff..
an so I went.. yeah.. well iffin 'ese pillocks on STW get any more effin anally reten'ive I'ma havta blaze up a [i]fattie[/i] to even gie moi effin brain arf a chance at comprehendin the nature of they ridiculous shizzle..
oh my days.. she goes.. fair do's
seen I go's
seen she giggled back..
then we high fived..
such is life in the yunki household..

'my ghetto' you're from a middle class, suburban breeding ground
This is called irony or sarcasm.

Not in the context I was referring to. ie the youth of today. Actually, that's another phrase I'm not overly keen on

I can't say I'm a fan of...'years of age', as in, "since Bob was 12 years of age"
That makes me wince each time I hear it.

Use of specific words or phrases already in fairly widespread use hasn't been funny in itself since bum & boobies before I left junior schoo

Unless taken out of context... Isn't that one of the mainstays of humour?

If you're repeating a neologism for comic effect, aren't you implying that you and your audience are superior to those that might use it in good faith?

Quite possibly. It depends what it is.

I can't say I'm a fan of...'years of age', as in, "since Bob was 12 years of age"
That makes me wince each time I hear it

Not that different to saying '12 years old' is it, logically speaking?

molgrips - I didn't think logic was in question here, it was about dislike of certain phrases

Logic is everything.

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Live long and prosper.

"we are pregnant"

****, that's annoying!!

At the moment its Masterchef speak from normal folk

Urgh - "I want to take my cooking to the next level" WHat the hell does that mean?

Unless you're Queen Victoria, presumably.

DrJ - Member
Urgh - "I want to take my cooking to the next level" WHat the hell does that mean?

A cook expressing his/her earnest desire to move out of a basement flat.

At the moment its Masterchef speak from normal folk

quick thread hi-jack but Mrs yunki goes gooey at the merest hint of Greg Wallace..

Last night I feared that I may lose her forever.. after the amiable rotund geezer literally oinked with delight when he heard the menu that was being prepared..

anyone else suffering a similar fate should take note..
Just remind her that at the same time as Greg is oinking.. she shouldn't forget that his little Mauricio from 'Shallow Hal' tail is probably going ten to the dozen too..

infatuation completely cured..

WHat the hell does that mean?

It means I want to get a lot better. Did you really not understand? Or are you just being needlessly annoying to make yourself feel important? Are you struggling against a tide of change and uncertainty and you can only cling to the driftwood of your own sense of rectitude? 😉

[b]by and large[/b] some of you need to be [b]tret[/b] with a [b]chill pill like innit[/b] ....................................grrrrrrrrrrrrr

'Who knew' that's a fist clenching one for me.

Also the word 'brifters'. Ergos or STI's not brifters, when something has a name why call it something else?

Heard some wonderful ones on the train home last night. A bunch of braying City boys who'd clearly been on some sort of a Business Bullshit Seminar were nauseating at each other to a quite staggering degree.

"I've been literally working 24/365"

"we need to upthink the sales strategy"

"shall I reflect back [i]my[/i] key learnings?"

I couldn't help s****ing at their self-important cobblers, but I can forgive them all of that for one priceless gag. One of them mentioned that they were moving some processing work to Dresden. I'm sure it was a well-worn joke in their office, but I'd never heard the term 'Krautsourcing' before.....