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I'm with molgrips.
Poor flashy's been misunderstood again too.
The words which stir the stomach to shout soup;
I get wound up by sentences which aren't really sentences. Liberal use of the semi-colon should be avoided by the inexperienced. 🙂
Hm. Well my point still stands 🙂
I suppose I was thinking that if something had to happen on a continuous basis then it'd have to execute quickly enough to not run up a backlog.
Angela, we seem to work in the same office
classic today was being asked how to spell 'pilot'
then one of the main bosses saying, 'one of the things what it does be what is different is'
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit... sounds like a lot of youse lot would hate my lazy colloquialism..
I find it hard to dislike any words really apart from some obvious ones that are used to express prejudice which I won't use here.. I think this comes from a love of the english language and all of it's enchanting diversities.
I used to distrust that terribly well annunciated and stiff brand of english though.. It seemed very harsh and rude and dishonest..
Then I pulled my head out of my arse and tried to stop being so shallow and xenophobic..
iDave...I work in a school ffs...that's how the other teachers speak!!!! 🙄
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I think this comes from a love of the english language and all of it's enchanting diversities
Abso-frigging-lutely. Right on.
Free when they mean three. One is without cost, the other is a number.
etc.etc.etc. One is enough. Adding more doesn't mean more of more.
Youse (pronounced as Use). Try "You people", it sounds much better.
"You've got to do the math", I can tolerate it from our American cousins, no excuse over here though.
Saying "Oh" instead of zero. O is a letter zero is a number, you wouldn't spell zoo "zed zero zero".
'touch base', 'hook up', SOD OFF!
Offov
As in "Oi you! Get offov my land!"
or The Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud"
"6am in the morning". It's either 6am, or 6 in the morning.
Free when they mean three
LOL.. my other half is very well spoken but has buck teeth(?) so cannot pronounce a 'th' sound having to use an 'f' instead.. a constant source of amusement to myself.. an habitual exponent of the 'ih dunt mah'er duzzit' school of linguistics..
YA' KNOW, and repeatedly saying LIKE
Conservative.
Choice.
Patriot.
splirrit wirrus (would you share your curry with me old bean)
+1 Monksie
My boss tells me to 'chillaxe' ....hhmmmmmm
enough already
every thing that is spoken in the BB house
the word 'legend' when applied to footballers under the age of 30, popstars who've had 2 singles released and film stars from romcoms and the like.
across the piece - I can barely tolerate any BS business speak
Actually.
It never fails to grate when I'm listening to people who use it as a sentence filler. Mainly London folk. As in;
"I actually think that you actually don't believe what you're actually sayin' bruv"
****s.
nonk's example is almost Yorkshire Dialect. Nowt up wi that, lad.
oh and 'apparently'
it just means you're about to be lied to.....
I hate "and stuff" after (seemingly) every sentence. What stuff? Do you mean some knd of singular to stuffing as in the substance used to plump up cushions?
I'm going to bed before I really start ranting.
S'funny, the other thread was about words you like the sound of. End of. This thread has evolved to describe words you dislike the misuse of, or the connotations of.
I dislike words that I've only ever seen written down, that I don't actually know the sound of. Words I make an arse of myself with when I try to slip them into conversation. Foreign words, mostly. Pince-nez. Laissez-faire. Zeitgeist. Tange. Bontrager. That kind of thing.
White101 beat me to it. But...
Chillax
...makes me sad.
Absolutely, but pronounced Ab-so-lutely.
You'll know exactly what I mean the next time you hear it. makes me f&&king boil..
[i]icon[/i] as used to describe anything or anyone in the news
more personal but it really gets me [i]ap[/i] as in application or is it apple application? i'm pretty sure it will morph into more general use and i look forward to buying a fridge with [i]iconic lifestyle aps[/i]
'incentivise'
usually used by his bloody toniness - the git. what's wrong with 'encourage' or 'motivate'?
'synergy' - although this word is also usefull, if you hear someone use it you know you can stop listening to them, safe in the knowledge that they're idiots.
and if i'm allowed to complain about phrases as well as words:
'was like'
as in; 'i was like XXXXX, and he was like XXXXX'
i've reached the end of my patience with people who use this, and now repeat the word 'like' everytime they use it as above, they quickly stop.
"good times" or on the other hand "bad times" !
Colourway
Makes me grind my teeth every time I see it. Grrrr.
Whatever
Lessons have been learnt.
'Oh my days!'
This little expression seems to be the exclusive preserve of slack jawed wiggers and the permatanned communal sperm receptacles who love them.
Reality Star
[b]Your[/b] - when they meant [b]you're[/b]
There - when they meant their
to - when they meant too
[b]Gunna[/b]}
[b]Gonna[/b]} Say “No” to Americanisms! These are not English words.
Sentences that start, "Basically..." Shoot them on the spot! Don't hesitate - they are idiots and should not be allowed to exist (despot that I am!).
The verb To Sit is always (or so it seems) conjugated incorrectly:
"I was sat by the car..." wrong.
"I was sitting by the car..." correct.
Innit ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Hero - when used to describe to££ers who kick a football - or such like. Send them all to Helmand & let's see some genuine heroism.
simples
Transportation
Rad
Sweet ,as in it will be a sweet ride (a favourite of the bloke in Bad Ass Bikes)
Totally stoked (Like a steam engine?)
Ball park figures
Blue sky thinking
more personal but it really gets me ap as in application or is it apple application?
App was in use many many years before iPhones came out.
Some right pathetic losers on this thread. Get a grip!
Americanisms for me - especially in MTBing. We don't have fire roads in this country. A switchback goes up and down - it is not a series of hairpins.
In use all the time on here and just wrong.
The "Charlie Nicholas"
A grammatical solecism which may or may not be peculiar to Scottish football pundits is the omission of the letters "l" and "y" from the end of their limited repertoire of adverbs.
Some examples:
"Aye, the boy's played brilliant today."
"He's ran in there quick and boof! ball in the back of the net!"
In use all the time on here and just wrong.
Says who?
Totally stoked (Like a steam engine?)
Another frigging metaphor you thick sod.
don't really make me cross, but noticeable and much overused
words & phrases off of here:
hive-mind
darkside
boils my piss (although "... and when I piss, it stings .." always made me smile)
Politics (mostly):
refute (does not mean deny)
everyday life:
simples, bovvered - because theyre kack catch-phrases from the telly
(most other "bruv" type crap, I give the benefit of the doubt & assume it's tongue in cheek)
(oh, yeh - "off of". Admit it, you were already composing a reply)
Uni
Molgrips, I realise realtime has a technical basis and used in that context it's fine. What grates is the characters asking for real time update. My point being, when you're chasing terrorists, who's going to give you updates 30 minutes after the event? Everyone in that situation would know that you need the information as it happens.
"I need real time updates"
"really? Because I was just going to sit on the intel while I went to lunch. I thought 'one hour after' time would be good enough."
The collective that is the English speaking world will always keep an open mind to new words, phrases and uses thereof, and will chew on each if them for a few years. Most get spat out and disappear into obscurity. Some, however will remain to annoy pedants the world over.
I love splitting infinitives. I like to occasionally finish sentences with a preposition. All these things were frowned upon once. 🙂
Lush . Even typing it makes me mad!
Gorge' ( as in gorgeous not the geographical term)
And anything that's written or spoken in txt spk.
Molgrips - a fire road is a track built into the forest to allow fire engines to get in in case of forest fires - its something they have in north America and not here
We have forestry roads or estate roads or whatever. We don't have fire roads and a switchback is correct English usage for a road that goes up and down not hairpins. Google switchback road bearsden for an example
Check your dictionary or encyclopedia