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Words which really get your back up
'Get your back up'? Whatever do you mean? Are you suggesting your back actually rises up in the air when you hear a word or phrase you don't like! Damn you and your creative use of language!
Absolutle nonsense rubbish argh noo etc etc etc etc
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anything [b]molgrips[/b] says
to *ize a word(and derivatives). A common crime of Americans
intellectualize: Definition: To make a concept too complex for an american to be able to understand.
Words which really get your back up
'Get your back up'? Whatever do you mean? Are you suggesting your back actually rises up in the air when you hear a word or phrase you don't like! Damn you and your creative use of language!Absolutle nonsense rubbish argh noo etc etc etc etc
Okay, 'words which annoy you'. I quite like 'get your back up', it always conjures up images of a seriously furious moggy in scrag-happy mode. I guess it grated on the 'very fabric of your soul' then. 'Very'? What is the point of the 'very' in that phrase eh? Tell me that? What exactly do you lose by omiting it, except maybe a bit of pomposity. Who started this thread again? Ah... 'twitspeak'.
(Don't worry, molgrips. I understood)
People saying "I aksed" instead of "I asked him"
After overhearing an Oxford Ph.D. graduate "I fink" instead of "I think" ... clearly, you do not.
'Fink' and 'wiv' are speech impediments not style choices (usually) and certainly not an indication of intelligence. I can't believe anyone would really think that.
A bloke at work cannot say his ths and it drives me f*ckin bonkers.
After overhearing an Oxford Ph.D. graduate "I fink" instead of "I think" ... clearly, you do not
it's an affectation, not a disability!
Not necessarily. The guy who does it here is the least style concious person ever. It's definitely not an affectation with him.
I can't hear the difference between things like three and free. I probably pronounce them the same as well. Listen to the context?
The guy who does it here is the least style concious person ever
even lack of style is still a style choice 🙂
I disagree...
"to socialise something" - ie to tell people about it
"super excited" - as in very excited
"walk the talk" - just, I have no idea
"collateral" - as in marketing materials
Just too many to list here, but in dealing with marketers day in day out, you kind of block out the pain. Mainly by bltching and whining about everything under the sun and ogling everything in a skirt.
And that's a quick summary of my day to day job! 🙂
Like (when used as every other word by some daft girlie who thinks she is in episode of Buffy)
Guy (bloke, matey or geezer in this country)
Can I get (instead of could I have please)
Minger or Minging (not even sure how its pronounced, we always used the word Minge for something completely different)
I've always thought that the sorts of people who whine and moan about the minutiae of life as if it's the most important thing in the world, must lead pretty sad, petty, and pointless lives.
this thread has re-enforced that. 😕
Porsche Cayenne
and ogling everything in a skirt
this is somehow wrong ??? You prefer those in trousers ?
Yunki:
I swear I have never insured you!
.Ti29er - I had you pegged for a bit of a mentalist after you furiously insured me
Next you come [u]up to London[/u], beware I don't take some premiums [i]off of[/i] ya m8!
TJ - drink tea, it's less hassle!
Nonk: don't think we hadn't noticed that one trying to get in under the radar
your wrong
In terms of the written word, not the spoken word, the one that really gets my goat's back up is LOL.
Now, if you've actually Laughed Out Loud at something, something funny, fair enough. Good for you. Tell the world.
But on Facebook and MSN, you get any number of mouth-breathing numpties who use it as a kind of caesura between sputters of verbal diarrhoea.
If these people actually laughed out loud as randomly and as often as their online outpourings suggest, they would have the drool wiped off their chin before being quietly bundled into a van by the men in white coats.
"Alan Carr Chatty Man"
F*cktards that order a coffee and say "can I [i]get[/i] a (insert name of food/drink)"
It's "can I HAVE a..." I blame Yank sitcoms.
Crikey! Still going?
"Can I get" seems to be a very unpopular phrase indeed
When I take early retirement, might just get a job in a coffee shop to say "no you ****ing can't get anything until you ask properly and politely"
Might only be a very temporary position I fear, bit of luck I won't require any references
What's the problem with "Can I get?" Is it a new thing? As a Glasgwegian it strikes me as one of several fairly standard and intelligible ways of asking for something. One notch up on the scale of politeness from "Gauny geez a..."
"Prolly".
AAARRRggggggggghhhhhh!!!!
'To be pacific'
...that will be specific then?
On behalf of my missus can I nominate
Toilet System, its actually called a Cistern
Glasto
running (eg XTR)
swap out (just swap will do, thanks)
fry up/off (just fry will do, thanks)
random
surge, spike, etc. See this very interesting [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/fighting-talk-the-new-propaganda-2006001.html ]article[/url]
issue. See this very interesting [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-newspeak-why-the-bbc-has-an-issue-with-problems-2017279.html ]article[/url]
Plebs. 🙄
'Keeping it steezy' Along with most other park related ski phrases.
Ti29er
up to London
ensured? goodness what a minefield..
Yes.. Up to London would actually be gramatically correct for me as I live very much to the South of it..
You were joking about the UP to capital cities though right? That's just some retarded yuppie concept that you overheard in an overpriced cafe bar?
"De-planed", a horrible-sounding replacement for "Disembarked".
A phrase my American colleagues use a lot is "based out of", the sheer illogic of which gets my goat.
No I am not based out of [i]xxx[/i] I am based in [i]xxx[/i].
Pikey and Fag. Anybody that uses those words just makes me wanna see them DEAD.
"you know it was literally like... the worst thing"
well was it the worst thing ever or like?
Bit late on this thread, my fave hates;
"I ain't never done nuffink"
"At the end of the day"
Really twists my sh*t.
Are you sure it doesn't grip your s**t?
No it twists mine, can't usually grip it, too loose.
So lets just "draw a line under it and move on shall we?"
Sounds like a plan.....
Oooh, another one - on public transport: "customer" (as in passenger)
"literally" is one that does get me, mainly because people use it incorrectly.
"I was literally just about to die" - well, much as I wish it were the case, you probably weren't.
simonfbarnes - Memberand ogling everything in a skirt
this is somehow wrong ??? You prefer those in trousers ?
well, not wrong, but come on, we're made to feel that it's unacceptable in civilised society! Especially when the other half works about 3m away from my desk... She's fortunately moved to Canada now, but is still known by most women here.
Modacom totaly greats my egistance
Pikey and Fag. Anybody that uses those words just makes me wanna see them DEAD.
You probably don't want to come down South then. Lots of pikeys down here, and they all smoke fags.
Off of.
AAARGH!
Mark Datz lives!!!
Had problims @ skool so culdnt use intanet but ok agane
conversate! As in ' let's conversate that with the public'