channel 7 news did a piece on our topic last night
What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 3
Yes - there was a report about annoying words. 'Whatever' topped it.
I yelled at the tv... HEY YOU STOLE VICTORS THREAD!!
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Yes - there was a report about annoying words. 'Whatever' topped it.
I agree and it's most annoying when the speaker drawls it out in a bored voice: "what-ev-er!"
It's the American version of the French shrug. But so much less elegant.
Hee hee, Allison!
Yes, Emily - especially when a teen says it!
I'm starting to get irked by 'It is what it is".
That was included on the first thread.
'Tweet' is really annoying and ridiculous.
oops.
twit (the ones who say it wrong) is worse
Yeah, re:that is what it is. There was an episode awhile ago of Extreme Home Makeover and the husband that had passed away said that all the time and they put it on a rock in the garden, Oh, like he invented that saying.
Dead is what dead does...
I heard it today. DOUBLE REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY
can somebody pls try to explain what that could possibly mean? It was on a tv show and a guy was saying his girl was using dbl R Psy on him. Was she being straightforward perchance? ugh!
Oh brother!
I hear things all the time that should go in this thread but thankfully, I forget them by the time I get here,
Double Reverse Psychology: "I'm OK, You're OK, but not really cuz I'm just saying You're OK so you think I think You're OK so that when you do something that I think is NOT OK I can call you a weinerbrain and you will change your behaviour". People who practise this have psychotic fugues alot methinks.
(Single) Reverse Psychology: I'm NOT OK, You're OK.
Straightforward Psychology: I'm NOT OK, You're NOT OK but who cares as long as we're both happy. Let's dance!
That mightbe the first use of the word fugue we've seen.
That might be the first use of the word fugue we've seen.
And the second and the third use of it...;)
dahlia, that is hilarious! thanks for the excellent explanation, lol.
Heard another one when they were reporting on the knucklehead pilots who flew past their destination by 150 miles (oopsie!). The military was on notice, until they were told to 'stand down'. What a dumb term. How does one stand down?? I tried, but I fell up.
hehe
this one is quickly becoming overused:
____ is the new ______
in fashion: brown is the new black
aging: 50 is the new 40
and some stupid others.
Yes! Dumb is the new smart!
lol, you just reminded of another "is the new" which actually promptly me to post here. It was a TV story about computer geeks and it stated that
geek was the new cool
brother!
how about "get some sleep" instead of getting a full night's worth? I hate that, and DH says it all the time. I am the new cool, the new 40 and wear the new black when I'm not wearing the old black.
lol carrie.
Well, I would like AT LEAST 8 hours, so when we're in our own bed with no infants or teenagers in crisis, I'd like to hope for that. To me, "some sleep" should be for parents of new babies and so on.
"As opposed to"
"Continued on"
(As opposed to continued off.)
Heard another:
'His situational awareness was impaired.'
Translation - his head was up his...
Who dreams up these things?!!
Corporate drones dream it up. I swear that it's a way to obfusacte what they are saying so that they feel that they sound more intelligent than they are.
I've been working in the corporate environment for halfway to forever, and have heard (and been ready to scream at):
"Let's dialog about it." - No you idiot, you HAVE a dialog when the two of you TALK about it.
"We don't want to over incentivize the paradigm." - Not sure what the paradigm is, but wouldn't it be easier to say, "we want to reward them for work, not for doing the job we hired them to do"?
"We need to qualitize the behaviors." - You need to what? How about "Encourage the workers to make better quality."?
"Best Shoring" - new one that apparently means move the service overseas but lie about it being offshored.
Geez!! Are people really saying this? Great ones, Hastur! So glad I'm not in that environment.
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Yes, yes they are. Corporate culture pays the bills most of the time, but some of the abuses to the language are a shame.
That's worse than abuse - that's obliteration.
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"Let's dialog about it." - No you idiot, you HAVE a dialog when the two of you TALK about it.
Hastur, this reminded me of another phrase that always grates on me:
"John Doe was gifted with a book" (or whatever--fill in the blank). I've even seen this phrase in newspaper reporting.
"To gift" is NOT a verb! It doesn't appear in any dictionary (yet, thank heavens.) "To give" IS a verb. Use it.
(Getting down off soapbox now.)
Oh, honey, you stay right up there on that soapbox, and make room for me too, lol! I detest the use of gift as a verb. Glad to see I'm not alone!
Oh Victor! Ignorance was bliss! I could be all self-righteous as long as I thought it wasn't in the dictionary, lol! You ruined it for me! But really, gift as a verb goes back to circa 1550??!! I beg to differ. I'd have to say it goes back to circa 1980's corporate culture...
Hee hee - sorry, dee! Didn't you hear - the 1980's was the new 1550's!!
ha ha ha, lol
Oh Merriam-Webster, you betray me!
Next, you'll be saying that "irregardless" is actually a word.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
You mean, you actually DO?
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