Carrie, So you say your name is pronounced the same as Kerry? Why? Wouldn't one of those names be superfluous? My diction is not the best, but logically speaking shouldn't they sound different?
So many people say Aaron and Erin the same. I don't get that.
This stuff is all funny and interesting to me but it doesn't offend me. Mean offends me. Insensitivity may offend me. Many wonderful,bright, talented people don't know how to write or spell.(at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
What expressions (or words) drive you nuts??
"Made (or make) a difference"
What kind of difference? A good difference or a bad difference?
Fleshing eating bacteria "make a difference". So does penicillin.
When I hear the phrase , I want to reach out, make a difference and give something back..
Aunt_A
Jul 12, 2009
A truly starving, sane man does not worry about how to eat the banana he was given. It is the man that has enough food that creates rules on how to eat it.
^_^
"believe you me"... you guys were on a roll yesterday
No, of course none of these are major issues, and if we were starving or freezing they wouldn't matter. But language is part of the grace of a civilized society, and for some people these errors or clichés or redundancies grate. Looks like that applies to a lot of us here - at least to those who responded to this subject line. To people who aren't bothered by them, you are fortunate that you have one less irritant resulting from living in the world!
How about one from the Oscars? 'Best Original Score'. Is there a prize for the best plagiarized one??
By the way, the best original score was Adam. ^_^
LOL! wonder what Eve thought.....
I think she didn't hate him, otherwise, we wouldn't be here to talk about it, lol
I bet he spoke properly, though! LOL - pickup lines......
Hee hee. Does this fig leaf make me look fat??
I wonder why they chose a fig leaf. Elephant ears would have been much more modest.
For Adam, he might not have been particularly 'gifted'.
perhaps he did not want a complete covering...LOL - then no pickup lines needed.
Ha Ha Victor , thought we were going to see a fig leaf
Hee hee!
Yes, me too---are we conditioned like those monkeys?
Grunt!
Well, we're about [ ] this far removed from our monkey biology. Which doesn't mean we're slaves to it, since we don't have monkey brains (most of us, anyway...can't vouch for Victor), but it certainly has an effect on our behavior.
And getting back to the original topic, the phrase that annoys me the most is, "Dr Huggins I'm really sorry but..." {fill in the blank with lame student excuse du jour}. *sigh*
Best one I ever heard was 'The hour that I normally do my hw was the hour we lost when we set the clocks ahead.'
*snort*
I once had a girl email me as to why she couldn't come to class...and she attached a picture from her phone, which showed her street under water halfway up the stop signs. (She got an excused absence.)
Sure it was her street?
LOL, Victor!!
Well, I knew she did live in a holler, and if she was going to go to that much trouble to fake an excuse, she wasn't exactly going to be a contributing member of the class, anyway.
My best excuse to miss school was the time my Dad went off for his annual week of deer hunting. My only pair of shoes were in the back of his truck...that was the best week ever!!
When rifle season starts here (which is the week of Thanksgiving), all public and most private schools close for the week--no one would ever show up, anyway.
Predator or prey??
Another annoying one is, 'You can't have your cake and eat it too.' It's supposed to be the other way around, but no one says it that way.
Victor, that one always confused me. I first heard it as a kid, and to me, having cake and eating it was the same. After all, you asked your mom "Can I have a piece of cake?" You didn't ask, "Can I eat a piece of cake?"
So I never knew what it was supposed to mean. And besides, why would someone want a piece of cake if they weren't going to eat it anyway? What else would you do with it? So if you eat it, of course you can't still have it, but so what?
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Here's an annoying new compound word: "Staycation" When you take time off for a vacation and stay at home to save money.
Everyone had some really great annoying words and sayings out there!
In CT it's Daycation---the state trying to push it's attractions on you.
good morning. I remember eons ago when I told a college professor the lamest of excuses. She let me off the hook so I walked out of her office very proud about having duped her. As I look back, I realize she simply didn't want to bother w/ my stupidity and couldn't have possibly believed what I told her. She is the wife of AL senator Richard Shelby and how I wished I could apologize for being such a nitwit. She probably doesn't even remember but I still think about this every now and then.
no way I'm telling you what I said, lol.
Oh... she tells people at cocktail parties about what you said! ^_^
Oh, come on, vossner! I want to hear what your excuse was! You can't tease us like that!
Hee hee! Me too.
Thread is getting long. I'll start a new one.