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After reading and contributing to this I've realised what a miserable, uptight, pretentious prick I have turned into.
I knew a guy who used to call everyone 'shag'...as in "All right Shag?"
Never did like that.
Still he was known as a violent man in the local area and would enjoy ending his evenings beating the crap out of someone...so I guess it could have been worse.
Describing oneself as "anal" (as in retentive, rather than a participant in online entertainment).
First, Freud was a fool and just made it all up. Second, do you really think referring to yourself as being of the anus really creates a positive mental image?
Generally just the need to overstate things.When people describe something as being 'Hilarious' when it really is nothing more than mildly amusing. The use of the word literally to describe something that didn't actually happen? "It was so hilarious I literally wet my pants".
Or as is frequently used on here: "I just spat coffee all over my keyboard"
No, no you didn't.
I knew a guy who used to call everyone 'shag'...as in "All right Shag?"
My stepdad used to say that, I assumed it was a Bradford thing.
Still he was known as a violent man in the local area and would enjoy ending his evenings beating the crap out of someone...so I guess it could have been worse.
*strokes chin in wonder* 😕
On a the subject of drink, the use of "Full-Fat Coke" in place of, well, Coke.
It almost made me smirk back in 1982, but after the five millionth time it's not all that funny.
Stop it!
Aargh, "going forward". Which of course means "I am going to ignore everything you just said"
Today i got "roger that" For f*ck sake your not in the forces or using a radio communication system!
Today i got "roger that" For f*ck sake your not in the forces or using a radio communication system!
Next time insist that he says 'over' at the end, otherwise he hasn't finished talking.
On the other hand, someone mentioned in the office today that my habit of saying "Thar she blows!" when I find the bits of a broken transaction is a bit annoying.[i] I [/i]think it's adorable.
We have a delivery driver who says that's awesome every time I sign for a package . Irritates me somewhat .
We have a delivery driver who says that's awesome every time I sign for a package . Irritates me somewhat .
reminds me of edith bowman on the radio the other morning. during some mindless chat, asking a caller what school she went to. "st.johns" (or whatever it was).
"awesome"
er.......you sure about that???
On a journey.......
Everyone is on f...... journey these days.
Man up, fess up, ride out, swap out.
Flow
"d'you know what I mean" as punctuation
My bad.
Innit.
i was chatting to the Mrs last night and she said i hate it when my Scottish mate says "ken" which means i know. also a few other scottish slang annoys me "give it a chap" means knock it.
i think that come from my hatred for a guy who i used to work with when i was in the army.
As a linguist, it has to be non-linguists saying, "What phrases do you hate?" 🙂
What does "a linguist" actually do ?
(serious question)
A colleague of mine says "to be honest" just before he then proceeds to lie. Its quite handy actually as we haven't told him that we know.
I am annoyed by
"can I get",
"it's not that I'm xxxx, but",
most annoying is SMIDSY
What does "a linguist" actually do ?
Something cunning with their tongue I believe.
"I speak as I find"
Or in other words,
"I'm rude and happy to hurt someone's feelings. Aren't I great?"
Jack of all trades, master of none.
My manager's usual 'I don't mean to be rude but...'
Other work favourites:
Do you have some bandwidth later to start 'X' for me
Key stakeholders
Could you reach out to..
Turnkey solutions
Blue sky thinking
Look at the solution as a green field opportunity
Pre-arranged
Pre-planned
and (God help us) pre-prepared.
What's wrong with arranged, planned, prepared?
Weekend worrior
I hate "totes", and TOWIE style "shut-up"
And my top hate would have to be For The Win.
****s
What's wrong with arranged, planned, prepared?
'Cos you were a losin' while you were a snoozin', that's what!
"How you Diddleing" and "Not three bad"
+1 breadcrumb 👿
@nealglover Reading the [url= http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ ]Language Log[/url] website may perk you up on boring days. Get notifications of new posts by email or like them on FB I guess. The posters are pretty much some of the top contemporary linguists in the world, posting for academic purposes, not slanted for media/money/popularity reasons. It's your language, burst the urban myths 🙂
Anyone that uses the term ‘nom nom nom’ to describe pleasure in eating is immediately demoted to the status of imbecile in my book.
"Why don't you write up the minutes" is becoming tediously regular at the moment - its not like I spent 8 hours in meetings last Thursday and then had to review my team's drawings and then incorporate them into a PowerPoint for 9am Friday morning, at which point of the next fortnight do you expect me to write up these minutes?
'Agressive' xc/dh/am/mincing/going to asda/watching towie etc.