What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 3

I think NS might not just be for gaming!

YYSSW

I want to live in an AFZ.

Me too. I guess I should start a new thread.

all these letters could drive me crazy

hee hee

hey Jen ... CURLO

SETE

O I finally know one! The place where they keep track of the extraterrestrials. Did I win flowerjen?

SNERT seems very redundant to me.

VSC

Yes?? (Those are my initials.)

Just seeing if you were paying attention.

WMPL - wet my pants laughing!!!

I agree with all of these!!!

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

If I heard someone say chillaxin my first instinct would be to punch them in the face!

I know. Actually, it sounds like a drug to me!

Hey everyone my initials ring true CRS! I wonder how my Mother knew? LOL Ric

I find the whole edu list of words (above) worthy of banishment, but "bromance" is particularly unpleasant! Well, "sexting" is a close second.
I'm getting crabby in my middle age!

Yes you are! I might have to un-friend you! ^_^

Having said all that, when I look again at the phrase "shovel-ready" from the banished list, it does make perfect garden-sense to me! LOL

I am always edger-ready.

I'm not getting it--what is bromance made up from?

also, I was more tickled than annoyed about "prob" which is short for problem. Are we that lazy that we can't utter 2 syllable words? lol

another one--"prod" as in hair product. what happened to shampoo and conditioner? My stylist always says, do you need to get product today? In my fantasy world I reply: "no, what I need is a more articulate stylist".

but product could mean A LOT of things, not just shampoo and conditioner. mousse, gel, defrizzer, leave-in conditioner, etc. are all hair products.

I have never heard shovel-ready before, though app is totally normal to me (and yes, application is too long to say when you are saying it a lot, which can happen when you're in the software/business/IT world).

I had to look up bromance - a close, but straight, relationship between two men. What happened to friendship??

Shovel-ready was used ad nausem in discussions for the stimulus. It refers to construction projects 'ready to go.'

I'm with CCG on shovel-ready. It is a good gardening word.

No problemo CCG.

Me too.

Ha! I forgot "no problemo"! Good one, dahlianut!

I noticed the other day on TV that somebody said OMG instead of the actual words. Not only are we typing short, we are speaking short, lol

Do you wonder if people from 200 years ago had the same discussion about language shrinkage? Do you wonder if people from 200 years from now will lament speaking in letters, rather than in 1/2 words like in the good ole days?

200 years ago the privileged probably complained about the commoners having access to reading material!

200 years from now we will have come full circle and will be back to grunts. Teenagers are way ahead of their time.

Good one Victor ^_^ 200 hundred years ago I could invent the very first dictionary ^_^

Oh no! My own, 58-year-old husband was repeatedly heard describing operations at work as "epic fail".

Actually, 'app' has been around a long time so I don't get why it's included with the others. 'Killer app' was around in the 90's.

I just discovered this thread. I do have quite a few pet peeves with the spoken language.

First and foremost, an expression very dear to my wife's side of the family: "I'm just saying". That statement is usually followed by an insult. It seems you can't get mad at them when "I'm just saying" is added before the hurtful comment; like an insurance policy. Come on and just say it but you'll have to pay for it in the very near future.

Then, there's "At this point time in time". Can you be making a point in the future or the past?

Writing Xmas instead of Christmas. Are you really in that much of a hurry that you abbreviate?

Pronouncing "nucular" when nuclear is meant. I recently heard of a neighbor who is lucky to have a nucular family. Do they glow in the dark?

Pronouncing "lumenum" when talking about aluminium.

I could go on and on. Don't get me started, please.

Sylvain.

Sylvain, you reminded me of how the English say "al-u-min-i-um" sometimes for aluminum - which doesn't really bother me.

What gets me is "spe-ci-al-i-ty". Grr. It's "spe-shul-ty" for goodness sake. I cringe every time I hear that Ferraro-Rocher commercial, lol!

I don't know why one bothers me and the other doesn't...

As much as I dislike a LOT of the sayings and expressions listed above, I have to say I love the way the English language is so fluid and so willing to borrow from other languages. I think it's sad when I hear a person speaking French or Italian, etc., and there is an English word in there that has become part of their language; to me, their language is being diluted by the adoption of English words. But I love it when English does that.

I just realized I must have a split personality or something...

Digger note that in England it is generally spelled aluminium so that is how they pronounce it - over here it is mostly spelt aluminum. Apparently both spellings are correct.

And of course there are many differences in pronounciation depending on where you come from.
If you're North American you probably pronounce it speshulty BUT if you're of the Queen's English you're probably pronouncing it speci-a-lity.

( Sorry my Mom was very particular about pronounciation - if it wasn't what the Oxford Dict ( AKA Queen's English) said it was wrong!- she must be turning in her grave these days!)

Love this thread- many of my 'favorites' too!





This message was edited Jan 4, 2010 11:56 AM

Spelt?! Hee hee. ^_^

Sylvain - a few of yours did show up earlier, but they are good ones. Point in time is one of the ones that irritates me most. My current worst, though, is 'at the end of the day.'

obviously fancyvan has been hangin out with me too much (tee hee) Hi fancyvan ^_^