here's one: "to tell you the truth", Why, were you considering telling me a lie??????
I use "dude" a lot, I use "I hate" a lot, I use "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" a lot.
I used to use "this is to die for" until someone here on DG shamed me into thinking about what I was saying. I stopped using it. I don't really want to die over a cute pair of shoes...
What expressions (or words) drive you nuts??
I was watching a movie about the legend of King Arthur.
They took some great liberties with history and the insertion of modern vernaculer made me wonder if this was some sort of contemporary "art" movie.
I began to count "friggin" after I realized it wasnt in use in those days and was an annoyance in the dialogue.
I counted 25 times after the annoyance factor so it was well over that.
Hee hee - some more good ones. Dude is certainly overused these days. The whole text/internet abbreviations thing is another. I have posted about that many times in the past. I never use them. The only 'shortcuts' I use regularly while posting is cramming too much into one paragraph.
I exempt myself from some distastefulnesses because I type so poorly that I gotta use some shortcuts or I'd never get there. LOL. Which means yes, I do use hideous abbreviations from time to time. I hope they are understandable.
Maria, I know exactly what you mean. I think we should reserve 'love' and 'hate' for the most extreme situations. If you 'love' your math teacher for not assigning homework and you're 'in love' with the new flavor of frappacino, what words will you are left for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, or even six months (as opposed to six weeks)?
Wassup with all this negativity?
To be honest, you dudes are basically taking this way to freakin seriously. Like, I think it's gay your trippin on how people talk, it's all good ya know.
Masochist.
Don't be hatin'!
lol
Spelling can get to me. All Right with one l for example--even in England. It is in the dictionary as a secondary spelling. Must we be secondary?
I was at the store with my brother...he has to repeat things 3 times, drove me crazy!
"I'd like a half pound of ham...ham...ham..."
So he should have ended up with a pound an a half.
hehehehe
my dad and I were picking crab apple with the lady next door one day. She slipped off the ladder and knocked the wind out of herself. Dad went rushing over to her, in a panic..."OMG, are you ok?? am I going to have to perform artificial insemination on you??"
lolololololololol!! (Threegardeners)
yup...I laughed so hard I fell out of the tree!!
Sounds like an Archie Bunker line.
carrie, I do not know how to type either, takes me forever to post. When I was a student there was no choice but to learn typing and shorthand. I thoroughly disliked it telling my teacher I am not going to be someones secretary, as a matter of fact I will be the one someday who will hire one, and I did.
Of course, today I admit that this was a very bad decision
This is a funny thread, Victor.
I had a friend from California that said "It's all good" so often that I thought it would end our friendship.
i post so slowly I miss the jokes half the time .
Fierce, awesome, wicked...
"Just sayin'"
Funny how some words and phrases are overused for a while, and then tossed, yet others, like 'cool', stay around forever.
'Bottom line' is another overused one.
Peace out.
I've got your back
money maker
junk
lady lumps
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I do not like being 'god bless you' unless my clergy is saying that to me
lady lumps? never heard that one - sounds nice though :)
I really dont like to be called Honey,Darlin,Sweetie,or dear by anyone.
Its a form of controle thats obvious.
GE, I use honey and sweetie all the time. how am I controlling? I love to call little kids sweetie, especially when my brain simply will not bring their names to the foreground.
Thanks for all the laughs I really needed it today.
Yes, I have to agree with voss on those, Jo Ann.
You beat me to that one, Bill!
Politics has provided its own list of these as well. 'Talking points', 'sound bite', etc.
sorry victor - i hit send before i knew what i was doing :)
I'm waiting for the explanation!
Great thread......no time to add my two cents now, but as a former English teacher, I have a few to add, and I'm on the record........I gave a final exam once and asked the students to write something; after they had written their theme, they then had to find the longest sentence and then diagram the sentence before they could finish the exam. My husband had a series of very frustrating English teacher experiences, so I waited until we were engaged before I confessed that I had once been an English teacher. LOL (and I know that I use that all the time, but just deal with it!! LOL)
Mom is an english major, no getting it wrong in our house!
I'm very picky about grammar, usage, style, etc. That's why these things irritate me. I tell people - especially kids - that it took thousands of years to develop the language. They should not destroy it in a few.