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That said, I dislike when people confuse use of “I” and “me”:
I'm pretty relaxed about most grammar and spoken conventions, but referring to anyone in the third person pronoun (so beloved of call centre workers) vis "Is the policy suitable for yourself" ought to be punishable by public flogging.
Colourway
It's just a colour or colours
Colourway is a necessary word. It doesn't describe a colour or replace the word colour, it defines the colours which make up a product (which may of course be a single colour, but may be multiple colours, or even the same colours but in a different pattern).
So the RED colourway may not be all red, and other products that are mainly red too will have a different colourway name to differentiate them.
Sorry - spot the (ex) clothing buyer.
Pain Cave is one that I won't use - it's just a garage / shed / spare room with a turbo trainer and a rusty barbell.
I make signs and vehicle graphics for a living. It’s trailing off a bit now but there was tendency for trades people to want to add “bespoke” & “solutions” to everything.
“Bespoke decorating solutions” wtf. You’re a painter and decorator!
Trying to make what you do sound like an M&S food advert!🤣
Pain Cave is one that I won’t use – it’s just a garage / shed
Wattage cottage?
Myself has replaced I and me in lots of situations and it does my head in. It just makes the person speaking or typing seem like an idiot.
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.
"Almost never" seems reasonable? Zero is an absolute* but 'close to zero' is perfectly cromulent.
(* - and pretty cold)
Get in the sea.
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
See also: "one of the only..."
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And when, in the context of television programmes, did series become season?
American jumbled up date formats, and the way they are articulated... and following on from that, british people adopting them...
It's not July four, it's the fourth of July.
And when, in the context of television programmes, did series become season?
I think thats another 'Americanism' Might be wrong but I think it's to do with a lot of actors taking a hiatus at certain points over the year, possibly something to to with the actors guild or unions or something.
So they can only produce a new series when the actors are in season. ooh err.
Love Island is a telly programme that will never be shown in our house. What a load of drivel (having accidentally seen a clip during Le tour France highlights).
Going on a journey, without leaving the room
Grrrr
Essentially..
American jumbled up date formats, and the way they are articulated… and following on from that, british people adopting them…
The Americans actually have the right idea, it's just that the year is in the wrong place. If you specified the time as min-sec-hour it's not the minutes and seconds that are the wrong way round.
(Not really a phrase though.)
It’s not July four, it’s the fourth of July.
Which is weird in itself isn't it? The US itself doesn't celebrate "July Four Day."
All football conversations where fans seem to think they own the club and have some form of right to suggest how they are run. Don’t they realise they are just cash cows to be milked by entertainment companies
'Part out' is a perfectly legitimate phrase used in agriculture. When handling/separating livestock you commonly use a parting gate (a gate parallel to the race which hinges at the rear) to direct livestock down one of a number of routes. Hence you would 'part out' a particular group of animals to be penned or processed differently.
Smash it
You smashed it
BTW
acoustic bikes
git gud (a form of mickey taking in gaming for people who aren't as good at games as others).
git gud (a form of mickey taking in gaming for people who aren’t as good at games as others).
L2P nub
Moar pew pew less QQ
"waves fist at cougar" ;-p
Over use of the word 'Sick' especially in interviews with DH racers. Just stop it!
"Does my bum look big in this". :O)
For anyone who has watched an American/Discovery channel car show ....."it's the holy grail of Mustang/Barn Find etc etc etc"
French press.
“Almost never” seems reasonable? Zero is an absolute* but ‘close to zero’ is perfectly cromulent.
Yes, they do. Through continued use i think. "Nearly impossible" is another one. There's a word for that etc etc...
'From the Get Go'.......urgh!
Over use of the word ‘Sick’ especially in interviews with DH racers. Just stop it!
Roadies do it too but with the word "super". Try listening to any TdF interview.
Yes I was super happy with the way the team performed and obviously we knew today was going to be super hard, super hot so yes we were super well prepared. And to win the stage as well - I was super surprised at that!
" I saw it with my own eyes..."
Is there another way?
Roadies do it too
TBF to both roadies and DH'ers, they're often have English as a second language, I don't think i could do justice to superlatives in French or Italian any better.
discussing your cockpit set up, when you don't have an aircraft
Customer journey
Endgame
Organic growth
Drill down
Macro level
And today I asked marketing if the new flier was ready and their reply was
"The collateral will be released next week"
I mean come on!
" Are we nearly there yet"?
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!
Unfortunately, the primary meaning of 'quite' is: 'to the utmost or most absolute extent or degree; absolutely; completely.' So there's absolutely nothing wrong with 'quite unique'.
Misuse of the reflexive pronoun however deserves a death sentence, particularly when combined with 'at all', as in 'would you like some dessert for yourself at all?'.
Before I gave up work, there was also a worrying trend for emails requesting information to end with 'please revert to myself'. I think what they meant was 'please reply to me', but how they ended up asking me to change back into someone I'd never been was beyond me.
"I have been perfectly clear" when said by Tory politicians.
How have we got this far and no-one has mentioned "perfect storm"?
(Has anyone mentioned perfect storm?)
‘please revert to myself’.
English not as a first language perhaps? It sounds a little like the Indian "please do the needful."
Unfortunately, the primary meaning of ‘quite’ is: ‘to the utmost or most absolute extent or degree; absolutely; completely.’ So there’s absolutely nothing wrong with ‘quite unique’.
But, that's not always how the word quite is being used in the phrase There is a second meaning of the word: "to a certain or fairly significant extent or degree; fairly" So there could be confusion, so don't use either.
You folks have some strange hates. I mean, "it is what it is" - Really? It's like the written equivalent of a shrug, an acceptance of a situation whose outcome is not ideal, but can't really be changed.
1. Anyone who starts a reply with the word "Listen".
No - you * off you self important *. Seems to be part of media training, hear it all the time on the radio.
2. "I am loving it"
**** off.
From the domestic realm, I give you......
Daddy....
Can you just....
It's a 2 minute job....
In these strange times
In these unprecedented times
Now, more than ever
Don't even get me started on 'space' - 6music are the worst - even a radio show is a 'space to lose yourself'
Just eff off
“Included but not limited to”
"Levelling Up"
Are we in a giant game of Mario World ?