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Any sentence starting with so.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 10:45 am
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At this precise moment, waiting for my other half to stop faffing so we can go on holiday, the phrase "I just need to...." is making my urine steam.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 10:57 am
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Oh bloody hell, how long have you got? It's a long, long list, this is just a taster of what's in my head.
"Triggering"
"Oh my days!"
"medaling" as a verb
"'low it" (as in a contraction of 'allow it')
Bruv, bruh, cuz (cousin) etc
Redoubling (with regard to efforts)
Dis or dat (it's fine if that's your own cultural language, but not when misappropriated)
Aks, instead of ask (see above disclaimer, it's a Caribbean adaptation afaik)
Innit, when used as a full stop
Bear, instead of very, eg I'm bear hot, innit.
I could give a toss/s**t - surely you mean you couldn't
Any Americanism

To be honest, most youth language I find disdainful, but I'm middle-aged and grumpy, and I fully get that language evolves very quickly, otherwise we'd all be talking like Shakespeare, forsooth.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:01 am
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Not a phrase but "100%"


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:09 am
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'with all due respect' (what you mean is, I think you are a moron...just say it like it is)

'let me double check' (what you mean is, I haven't checked yet and will do so now...)


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:12 am
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In tour de france post stage interviews "full gas".


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:18 am
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otherwise we’d all be talking like Shakespeare, forsooth.

Indeed. Oft, when I'm abroad on the circumjacent champaign; I take affright and often feel that I've been a victim of an ambuscade by some errant and baseborn ner'-do well, who assaults me with some affright to the language as an assay to elicit some communicant or jest at my expense.

However. Hither we to the future! Yclepe progress! . lest we be mistook for a mazed lurdan, mayhap this will go on long after we're dead, and the trimbal of youth will sound 'ereto all


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:20 am
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Using "space" instead of "room" is quite annoying.

But sometimes i really enjoy it when Kevin McCloud goes full bullshit architect speak - "the structure is engaging in a constant dialogue within its own context" which simply means it fits into its soundings quite well.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:25 am
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Giving it 110%


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:34 am
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When my wife recounts a conversation, its all ‘he turned round and said this’ and ‘she turned round and said that’. Makes me dizzy just listening to it


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:50 am
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“New way to laptop”

I quite like that advert (linguistics aside)

But sometimes i really enjoy it when Kevin McCloud goes full bullshit architect speak – “the structure is engaging in a constant dialogue within its own context” which simply means it fits into its soundings quite well.

May also be translated as "its not a f*****g monstrosity like some of the shit I have to endure"

I may also add:

The art of the possible. 🤮 "...what I've also been up to in this space..." during any meetings. Rant. Rage.

Oh, and anything remotely related to 'Agile' especially the acronyms. In fact, all acronyms.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 11:54 am
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To tell the truth, to be honest
If that makes sense
Can I get
I'm good
He was like and I was like...


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:05 pm
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“Cash waiting…”

No shit – how else did you expect to pay for stuff, buttons perhaps!

I think this is ok. If they are saying "cash waiting" it means they have the money ready to pay you, as opposed to, they need to sell something else/arrange a loan.

Kind of like the difference in a property transaction between a cash buyer and someone in a chain.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:06 pm
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“Shit the bed”. I’m not prudish but this seems like a needlessly unpleasant expression.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:14 pm
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"Let me be clear..."

"For the avoidance of doubt"


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:28 pm
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“Shit the bed”. I’m not prudish but this seems like a needlessly unpleasant expression

I posted in the other thread before I'd seen this! 😀


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:37 pm
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Yeah, I think the best idea is not to take these things literally. I mean, I just threw something in the bin and missed and said "**** a duck" ...!


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:54 pm
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“What can I do you for?”

I always thought this was intentional. Is it not?

Is this going to be one of those threads that reveal once again that 1. Language use moves on , and 2. middle aged people don’t react well to that phenomenon?

3. passive xenophobia about those bloody colonials.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 12:57 pm
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Aks, instead of ask (see above disclaimer, it’s a Caribbean adaptation afaik)

Aks is an intersting one- it's not a recent adaption in pronunciation but actually a continuation of a very old one. You could, in fact, argue that pronouncing it 'ask' is the (relatively) new upstart worthy of derision lol

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-aks-question-proper-english%3famp


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:11 pm
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"reaching out" ...why did contacting become this?

And if we taking about Love Island, anyone proclaiming they have to be "true to themselves" 🤬


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:15 pm
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I can't be the only person who hasn't seen and will never see a single second of Love Island?? (that's not a phrase btw)


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:18 pm
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No, you are not.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:20 pm
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Them’s the breaks…

Maybe you'd like, "them's the brakes."

To be used whilst driving one's automobile, immediately after performing an emergency stop.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:24 pm
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@nickc
That's bear jokes fam.

See this, for much mirth & merriment.

Edit - "the trimbal of youth" is my phrase for the day.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:33 pm
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“Where we’re at”


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:45 pm
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Maybe you’d like, “them’s the brakes.”

To be used whilst

Losing your premier-ship due to one's inability to not lie, to function like a reasonable adult, or not break the laws you implemented yourself


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:49 pm
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“part out”

Is that not a mishearing of parse? (either by the originator, or yourself)


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:53 pm
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"Going forward". Entirely unnecessary unless they've found a way to change things that have already happened.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 1:59 pm
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“reaching out”

I think it's meant to make it look like they tried harder than simply sending a short and easily ignored email. I still can't stand it though.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:01 pm
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That’s bear jokes fam.

word, innit.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:02 pm
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Mindful when what they actual mean is considered, thought about, or be aware of


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:03 pm
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How have we got to this stage without:
"Makes the trails come alive"???????

I will not "touch your base" no matter how you put it.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:03 pm
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"You do you"
"Living my/their best life"
Using "floor" instead of "ground"


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:04 pm
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Super this, Super that as per the Super thread
My bad
Can I get?
And a new one I have just learnt from someone else's post "Bear hot" WTF is that about?


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:05 pm
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"My bad..." = First punch

"Mitigation Strategy.." = Second punch 🙂


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:06 pm
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I can’t be the only person who hasn’t seen and will never see a single second of Love Island??

100% no (flame me now 😋). I'm with you there. (Another flaming???)


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:28 pm
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“Boots on the ground.”

What, are you going to fly over in a helicopter and throw footwear at the enemy? I think you mean, “Soldiers on the ground.”

Ah, but that's a perfect example of a synecdoche. A "figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa". I love 'em me.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 2:56 pm
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“Going forward”. Entirely unnecessary unless they’ve found a way to change things that have already happened.

"Go ahead and..."

I was watching a training video last week. "So I'm just going to go ahead and do this, then you can go ahead and do that, and while I'm waiting for you to finish I'm going to go ahead and..." What, other directions are available? 'I'm going to turn left and download the installer, then third exit off the roundabout just past the Rose & Crown I'll click Setup and then proceed in a direction I believe to be North...'

Verbal 'filler' tics in language generally. I'm probably as guilty as anyone, but OBVIOUSLY it's far more annoying when someone else does it. 😁


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 4:57 pm
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“Boots on the ground.”

What, are you going to fly over in a helicopter and throw footwear at the enemy? I think you mean, “Soldiers on the ground.”

Ah, but that’s a perfect example of a synecdoche. A “figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa”. I love ’em me.

It's not incorrect though, is it. The soldiers aren't on the ground, the soles of their boots are.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 4:58 pm
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Qualifying the word 'unique', as in 'my bike is quite unique'. It's either unique or it isn't, there's no in-between stage!

I can’t be the only person who hasn’t seen and will never see a single second of Love Island??

Me either although the ITV Hub keeps trying to foist it on me whenever I open it to watch the TdF highlights.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:05 pm
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Qualifying the word ‘unique’,

Weirdly, my wife, who's a professor of English at a Russel Group university, doesn't mind qualifiers on absolute adjectives "almost never" "most delicious " etc etc. But then she is Canadian, so you know; I'll reserve judgement.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:13 pm
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"don't be a dick" and "rule 1" I dislike as both equate to "do what appears reasonable to me".


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:21 pm
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my wife, who’s a professor of English at a Russel Group university

Boom!

doesn’t mind qualifiers on absolute adjectives “almost never” “most delicious

As in language is about communication more than nitpicking that gets in the way of communication?

That said, I dislike when people confuse use of "I" and "me": "me and my wife went to town". I hear this as "me... went to town". Attractively caveperson I guess.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:25 pm
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"We won" or "We lost"

When referring to a football team when they did not participate in the match.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:27 pm
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Weirdly, my wife, who’s a professor of English at a Russel Group university, doesn’t mind qualifiers on absolute adjectives “almost never” “most delicious ” etc etc.

Haha owned. And the examples you've put above don't bother me at all, so no clue why the one I mentioned winds me up.

As in language is about communication more than nitpicking that gets in the way of communication?

Lies.


 
Posted : 11/07/2022 5:31 pm
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