GothicRavenGoddess (3) Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 :hides: Don't ever look at my entry in the "your creations" forum then.... -.-;; I admit I am guilty of using this one. But sometimes it is appropriate. When you are making the item with a certain person in mind and crafting it to them and thinking of them while making it and hoping they will enjoy using it/wearing it, it is made with love, and you can sense it. When you are making something and you are falling more and more in love with it with every stitch and every snip, and it's just coming together like a work of magic into something more beautiful than you'd imagined...somehow I can't keep myself from using this phrase in this instance. I try to keep myself from using such cliched phrases as much as possible, but I cannot help it sometimes.. T__T no no, I mean when every entry in their store has it. Its one thing to be totally thinking of someone when you make it, and you poor your heart and soul into an item. I kind of find it hard to imagine that every single item a person makes is made with love...espicially when they don't make it for a specific person, or with them in mind ("this item reminded me of so-n-so, and I just simply fell in love with it while I was making it") I don't mind it if its in the main store page.... (and the Etsy handbook that gives advice on how to effectively sell items and be a successful seller on Etsy advises against this, along with saying that phrase anywhere in one's store) but in every single description, and having 100 items... seeing it over and over again gets kind of old lol... and depending on the person its cute, but believe me, it gets really old to see it over and over and over and.... well, you get the idea. Besides, I know you make your items with love, its obvious in your designs and your attention to detail. You make everything as if you had plans to wear it or keep it.. you always make something that you are proud of. for which I think that I can forgive you for saying that you make them with love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creatureofthenyte Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Baby momma or Baby daddy OR the MOST Annoying of all, "Baby Girl"....no wait...Mami UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darknight1 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I also dislike this phrase...even if the squish "pretty much" into the middle... .....shows they are4 to lazy or ignorant to say, "I have an eclectic taste in the musics..." Thank you! I'm one of those picky types who'd rather hear specific genres of music..."I listen to everything" makes me think they're one of those clueless idiots who just follows along with what's currently popular in music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slogo Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Thank you! I'm one of those picky types who'd rather hear specific genres of music..."I listen to everything" makes me think they're one of those clueless idiots who just follows along with what's currently popular in music. Or... I listen to everything, but rap, r&b, country, jazz, oldies, classic rock.... OK. THAT DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM USING THE WORD EVERYTHING!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slogo Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Honestly I use the word like A LOT. I have actually said as a response to something... Like, y'know, whatever. I may have just pissed off the whole board and.... As with Rev and Pomba I hate the word race but only as in a running competition. Call it what it is A two-footed match of forward motion with the intention of seeing who's faster than who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darknight1 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Or... I listen to everything, but rap, r&b, country, jazz, oldies, classic rock.... OK. THAT DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM USING THE WORD EVERYTHING!!!! Yup. It's way too vague an answer nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phee Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Comparing everyone and everything to "hitler" or "nazis" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torn asunder Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Or... I listen to everything, but rap, r&b, country, jazz, oldies, classic rock.... OK. THAT DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM USING THE WORD EVERYTHING!!!! totally disagree - when you like listening to more things than you *don't* listen to, "everything but..." is much easier than listing "everything". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev.Reverence Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Honestly I use the word like A LOT. I have actually said as a response to something... Like, y'know, whatever. I may have just pissed off the whole board and.... As with Rev and Pomba I hate the word race but only as in a running competition. Call it what it is A two-footed match of forward motion with the intention of seeing who's faster than who. ...hey, that's MY WORD...from the 80's!...now, I am mad... {I kid} HA! Comparing everyone and everything to "hitler" or "nazis" Then, quit acting like a fascist. {I kid some more.} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the eternal Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) "Thats off the hook" I prefer, "that's off the chain" myself Comparing everyone and everything to "hitler" or "nazis" I gave you a +1 for that. Someone quick, compare Obama to Hitler, so my head can explode. Then when I've put the pieces together, expect an hour long lecture about the Holocaust. Honestly, I don't mind most phrases, though I'm a bit anal about the written word. I just got a PM and I had to correct it for grammar and spelling before I responded. I didn't mind. I just couldn't respond until it was corrected BUT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND how anyone can try to make a coherint poynt withowt tihnking thant itt Mae B undermine bi their spelling. (I'm specifically talking about when someone's being condescending or trying to say something big and important, and all I'm thinking is "If you can't even say what you need to coherently, you've just lost ALL credibility for your point --------------------------- I feel requisite liberal white guilt for it, (and since I'm Jewish that gets multiplied) but I'm not a fan of ebonics. I used to be a big defender of ebonics, but I can't help but cringe now when I hear: "Wha-ha-happened was" "I needs me some (insert product they can't get)" "Can you gets me ___________" "Pacific" (instead of specific--as in "I needs me this pacific widget" ) "axe" as in "I needs to axe you something" Now here's one that sees no color, it's ebonic AND white trash--- DOUBLE NEGATIVES!!!! I HATE double negatives. "I don't need no _____" "I aint got no ______" "Everyone I knows has bad credic and I aint got no down payment but I needs me a ________ anyway Let me explain why it bugs me so--- I've noticed that a lot of you are bothered by phrases that bring up bad thoughts from work. I make very little money and although this is a minority of my clientele, (since most of my African American customers are more intelligent, make more money and have better credit than I do) the people that use the language above are almost always: the most demanding, the most defensive, the rudest, spend the most of my time, and are the hardest to get approved, therefore the least likely to make me a penny. So, once I hear "credic" "wha-ha-happened was" or a double negative, it means I will spend 7 hours with someone and make zero money, because even if you have a product that works, that's not good enough for the person. -----"Caus I aint gonna take no _____ Not that shit. Ididn't come in for that. I too high class. I needs to gets me a ________ If you can't do that, forget it!" AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! Oh, and the best part, I never get their name!!! "What's your name?" --------"Ms. Jackson" "OK, but what's your first name" --------"You can just call me Ms Jackson" REALLY? Your first name is "Ms??" I have doctors in Corvettes that say "Call me Bob" You took the bus here to see me and yet you're too much of a diva for me to know your first name. I have stuffed animals at home with more clothing on than you, but I'm not important enough to know your first name??? ----"It's a respect thing" Here's one way to get me to respect you Tell me your f*&^king name! I'm going to know your social security number in 5 minutes. We may want to break the ice before that happens. (Waits for the nasty---but professorial PM from Pomba Gira about my insensitivity and how I should know better--- afterwhich I will spiral into a guilt-ridden depression cured only by cream cheese and 3 liters of diet coke) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh here's another one--- "Blessed Be" I don't even know why it bugs me, it just does --------------------------------------------------------------------------- And another "If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place" That makes no sense! ---"Well if I didn't do it in the first place, then I wouldn't have anything to be sorry for, would I?" 100%-White-guys that say "I'm part Cherokee" At least be creative and pick something a bit obscure like "I'm a mix of Northern Cheyenne and Passamaquoddy" Then, even if you're full of it I'll respect your knowledge... Ms. Jackson Edited October 15, 2009 by the eternal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Deadcat Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Most internet slangs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slogo Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 I want eternal to make a list of Ebonic-Hebrew words. "What up doe'" "Stop pretending to be black"~George Carlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillylu29 Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 It really bugs me when I hear "What up doe" and when some of the girls I know say " I gotta get my hair did" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacohitts Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Any form of ghetto slang from white people needs to stop,(sports bar bs)GTFU!!and get a life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev.Reverence Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) Any form of ghetto slang from white people needs to stop,(sports bar bs)GTFU!!and get a life! ...I'll second that, with the addendum(s), if they ACTUALLY GREW UP IN THE GHETTO...or, they are directly quoting someone, OR, it is for absolutely comical. ...yeah, I came up in the D...& it be slippin' now & again, YO! *throws up the Goat-Horn hand signs* (edit to add: but, I'm only mostly "white".) Edited October 15, 2009 by Rev.Reverence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bar Sinister Posted October 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 I've had a great deal of contempt for the word "coping". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillylu29 Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 aight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taysteewonderbunny Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Mispronunciations common in speech: "expresso," "pacific," "duck" (instead of duct), "fift" (instead of fifth--my mom does this), "pellow" and "melk" (my best friend does this, and though it grates a little on my ears, over the years, I've started to think it adorable, but only in her case), NU/kyoo/lur, AY/rab, EYE/taahl/ee/yun. Misspellings common on-line: "congradulations," "defiantly" (instead of definitely), "threw" (instead of through, or even 'thru,' which wouldn't bother me half so much). I understand the confusion, especially if one is typing quickly and does not take a moment to edit, for I, too, am guilty of it, between 'to' and 'too,' but when 'too' or 'to' is confused with 'two,' that's a no-no. And other sets of homophones: their/they're/there, your/you're/yore, flu/flew/flue, do/dew/doo (da/dah/d'aah). "Loose" instead of 'lose.' Nonsense words or words incorrectly employed: 'Irregardless' bothers me, even if accepted now by some dictionaries as TA pointed out, because the prefix and suffix should negate each other. To mean what people want it to mean, it should be either 'regardless' (which is the real word), or "irregardly" (which is god-awful). Anne Coulter, at least once, attempted to refute the argumentation of an opposing point of view by calling it a "syllogism." My dear Anne Coulter, a 'syllogism' is an argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion of a particular construction that ensures the conclusion is always true. If your opponent's argument is truly a syllogism, there is nothing in it to refute! The use of the word 'shrewd' to mean someone who is cold-hearted probably came from an incorrect assumption of it's use in the phrase "shrewd businessperson;" it means someone who is adept at deciphering trends and is a prudent manager of his or her affairs, not someone icy in affect or immoral in action. One former college-educated acquaintance of mine continually employed 'anymore' in sentences with no actual or implied negation; that is incorrect. Phrases that irk me include the misapplication of "slippery slope" and "begs the question." The common parlance completely misinterprets the legitimate usage in philosophical argumentation. If anyone actually cares to know more about the legitimate usage, I think I have a rant of a former professor's on the subject that is thoroughly amusing. Overuse of "out of the box," especially when hyphenated, I find particularly egregious. Things to which I am habituated and need revise in my speech: 1) overuse of "you know what I mean?" I use it as filler. Sorry. 2) "Blah, blah, blah." That's just obnoxious and I need to stop. I didn't even know I used it at all until someone dear to me pointed it out. 3) "Tuna fish." As Spook argues, what other kind of tuna could it be? Piano tuna? 'Tuna' is sufficient. 4) I keep saying "homonym" instead of 'homophone.' Oops! Yes, I know I am a jerk that I can not let these things go, but I try to keep them to myself most of the time. I don't aim to be offensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev.Reverence Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Mispronunciations common in speech: "expresso," "pacific," "duck" (instead of duct), "fift" (instead of fifth--my mom does this), "pellow" and "melk" (my best friend does this, and though it grates a little on my ears, over the years, I've started to think it adorable, but only in her case), NU/kyoo/lur, AY/rab, EYE/taahl/ee/yun. Misspellings common on-line: "congradulations," "defiantly" (instead of definitely), "threw" (instead of through, or even 'thru,' which wouldn't bother me half so much). I understand the confusion, especially if one is typing quickly and does not take a moment to edit, for I, too, am guilty of it, between 'to' and 'too,' but when 'too' or 'to' is confused with 'two,' that's a no-no. And other sets of homophones: their/they're/there, your/you're/yore, flu/flew/flue, do/dew/doo (da/dah/d'aah). "Loose" instead of 'lose.' Nonsense words or words incorrectly employed: 'Irregardless' bothers me, even if accepted now by some dictionaries as TA pointed out, because the prefix and suffix should negate each other. To mean what people want it to mean, it should be either 'regardless' (which is the real word), or "irregardly" (which is god-awful). Anne Coulter, at least once, attempted to refute the argumentation of an opposing point of view by calling it a "syllogism." My dear Anne Coulter, a 'syllogism' is an argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion of a particular construction that ensures the conclusion is always true. If your opponent's argument is truly a syllogism, there is nothing in it to refute! The use of the word 'shrewd' to mean someone who is cold-hearted probably came from an incorrect assumption of it's use in the phrase "shrewd businessperson;" it means someone who is adept at deciphering trends and is a prudent manager of his or her affairs, not someone icy in affect or immoral in action. One former college-educated acquaintance of mine continually employed 'anymore' in sentences with no actual or implied negation; that is incorrect. Phrases that irk me include the misapplication of "slippery slope" and "begs the question." The common parlance completely misinterprets the legitimate usage in philosophical argumentation. If anyone actually cares to know more about the legitimate usage, I think I have a rant of a former professor's on the subject that is thoroughly amusing. Overuse of "out of the box," especially when hyphenated, I find particularly egregious. Things to which I am habituated and need revise in my speech: 1) overuse of "you know what I mean?" I use it as filler. Sorry. 2) "Blah, blah, blah." That's just obnoxious and I need to stop. I didn't even know I used it at all until someone dear to me pointed it out. 3) "Tuna fish." As Spook argues, what other kind of tuna could it be? Piano tuna? 'Tuna' is sufficient. 4) I keep saying "homonym" instead of 'homophone.' Oops! Yes, I know I am a jerk that I can not let these things go, but I try to keep them to myself most of the time. I don't aim to be offensive. ...ugh...I can not agree more...I am happy that you did include 'nukuler"...as, it has haunted me since the mid 80's...when I saw them fuck it up on the news...yup, watchin' the news, it was the 1 thing I got...'nukuler'...hahahahehe... ...& thanx fer the rest there, I needed the boost from a good semantic rant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOsakaKoneko Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I prefer, "that's off the chain" myself I gave you a +1 for that. Someone quick, compare Obama to Hitler, so my head can explode. Then when I've put the pieces together, expect an hour long lecture about the Holocaust. Honestly, I don't mind most phrases, though I'm a bit anal about the written word. I just got a PM and I had to correct it for grammar and spelling before I responded. I didn't mind. I just couldn't respond until it was corrected BUT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND how anyone can try to make a coherint poynt withowt tihnking thant itt Mae B undermine bi their spelling. (I'm specifically talking about when someone's being condescending or trying to say something big and important, and all I'm thinking is "If you can't even say what you need to coherently, you've just lost ALL credibility for your point --------------------------- I feel requisite liberal white guilt for it, (and since I'm Jewish that gets multiplied) but I'm not a fan of ebonics. I used to be a big defender of ebonics, but I can't help but cringe now when I hear: "Wha-ha-happened was" "I needs me some (insert product they can't get)" "Can you gets me ___________" "Pacific" (instead of specific--as in "I needs me this pacific widget" ) "axe" as in "I needs to axe you something" Now here's one that sees no color, it's ebonic AND white trash--- DOUBLE NEGATIVES!!!! I HATE double negatives. "I don't need no _____" "I aint got no ______" "Everyone I knows has bad credic and I aint got no down payment but I needs me a ________ anyway Let me explain why it bugs me so--- I've noticed that a lot of you are bothered by phrases that bring up bad thoughts from work. I make very little money and although this is a minority of my clientele, (since most of my African American customers are more intelligent, make more money and have better credit than I do) the people that use the language above are almost always: the most demanding, the most defensive, the rudest, spend the most of my time, and are the hardest to get approved, therefore the least likely to make me a penny. So, once I hear "credic" "wha-ha-happened was" or a double negative, it means I will spend 7 hours with someone and make zero money, because even if you have a product that works, that's not good enough for the person. -----"Caus I aint gonna take no _____ Not that shit. Ididn't come in for that. I too high class. I needs to gets me a ________ If you can't do that, forget it!" AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! Oh, and the best part, I never get their name!!! "What's your name?" --------"Ms. Jackson" "OK, but what's your first name" --------"You can just call me Ms Jackson" REALLY? Your first name is "Ms??" I have doctors in Corvettes that say "Call me Bob" You took the bus here to see me and yet you're too much of a diva for me to know your first name. I have stuffed animals at home with more clothing on than you, but I'm not important enough to know your first name??? ----"It's a respect thing" Here's one way to get me to respect you Tell me your f*&^king name! I'm going to know your social security number in 5 minutes. We may want to break the ice before that happens. (Waits for the nasty---but professorial PM from Pomba Gira about my insensitivity and how I should know better--- afterwhich I will spiral into a guilt-ridden depression cured only by cream cheese and 3 liters of diet coke) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh here's another one--- "Blessed Be" I don't even know why it bugs me, it just does --------------------------------------------------------------------------- And another "If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place" That makes no sense! ---"Well if I didn't do it in the first place, then I wouldn't have anything to be sorry for, would I?" 100%-White-guys that say "I'm part Cherokee" At least be creative and pick something a bit obscure like "I'm a mix of Northern Cheyenne and Passamaquoddy" Then, even if you're full of it I'll respect your knowledge... Ms. Jackson Awesome post - I agree with most of these, albeit to a slightly less rabid extent. But the highlighted one...indeed. It actually doesn't bother me so much in this format, but on a related note, my least favorite: "Have a bless day." Not a blessed day, a bless day. This is not spoken word, but typed in emails and letters. By professionals. Say what? DXDX What does that even MEAN??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOsakaKoneko Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 (edited) Mispronunciations common in speech: "expresso," "pacific," "duck" (instead of duct), "fift" (instead of fifth--my mom does this), "pellow" and "melk" (my best friend does this, and though it grates a little on my ears, over the years, I've started to think it adorable, but only in her case), NU/kyoo/lur, AY/rab, EYE/taahl/ee/yun. Misspellings common on-line: "congradulations," "defiantly" (instead of definitely), "threw" (instead of through, or even 'thru,' which wouldn't bother me half so much). I understand the confusion, especially if one is typing quickly and does not take a moment to edit, for I, too, am guilty of it, between 'to' and 'too,' but when 'too' or 'to' is confused with 'two,' that's a no-no. And other sets of homophones: their/they're/there, your/you're/yore, flu/flew/flue, do/dew/doo (da/dah/d'aah). "Loose" instead of 'lose.' Nonsense words or words incorrectly employed: 'Irregardless' bothers me, even if accepted now by some dictionaries as TA pointed out, because the prefix and suffix should negate each other. To mean what people want it to mean, it should be either 'regardless' (which is the real word), or "irregardly" (which is god-awful). Anne Coulter, at least once, attempted to refute the argumentation of an opposing point of view by calling it a "syllogism." My dear Anne Coulter, a 'syllogism' is an argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion of a particular construction that ensures the conclusion is always true. If your opponent's argument is truly a syllogism, there is nothing in it to refute! The use of the word 'shrewd' to mean someone who is cold-hearted probably came from an incorrect assumption of it's use in the phrase "shrewd businessperson;" it means someone who is adept at deciphering trends and is a prudent manager of his or her affairs, not someone icy in affect or immoral in action. One former college-educated acquaintance of mine continually employed 'anymore' in sentences with no actual or implied negation; that is incorrect. Phrases that irk me include the misapplication of "slippery slope" and "begs the question." The common parlance completely misinterprets the legitimate usage in philosophical argumentation. If anyone actually cares to know more about the legitimate usage, I think I have a rant of a former professor's on the subject that is thoroughly amusing. Overuse of "out of the box," especially when hyphenated, I find particularly egregious. Things to which I am habituated and need revise in my speech: 1) overuse of "you know what I mean?" I use it as filler. Sorry. 2) "Blah, blah, blah." That's just obnoxious and I need to stop. I didn't even know I used it at all until someone dear to me pointed it out. 3) "Tuna fish." As Spook argues, what other kind of tuna could it be? Piano tuna? 'Tuna' is sufficient. 4) I keep saying "homonym" instead of 'homophone.' Oops! Yes, I know I am a jerk that I can not let these things go, but I try to keep them to myself most of the time. I don't aim to be offensive. Another brilliant post - I like many of these. As for mispronunciations, I cannot censure others for this as I am almost always guilty of it myself, oftentimes despite my best efforts to avoid it... I have difficulty forming the correct sound for "fifth", for example, though sometimes I can if I am not tired. I think there's a difference between things like "fifth" and even "duct tape" (since the Ts blend) and things like "pacific"..the first is simply a lazy tongue, while the latter indicates an actually incorrect word. Milk vs melk is just dialect much of the time...I say both depending on how much I'm paying attention. (Also saying "duck tape" can actually be correct if you mean that specific (pacific?) brand. ) "Loose" has always been one of my biggest pet peeves, especially since you see if with growing frequency these days in official printed documents, not only by individuals online. This makes me weep. Same with irregardless...I hate this "word"!!! It just Does Not Make Sense. I think I have a tendency to say "tuna fish" when I mean canned tuna, and "tuna" when I mean maguro - a piece of tuna, whether raw for sushi/sashimi or cooked as a "tuna steak" (well, I don't know if I've ever actually had this, but I think I would call it tuna XD). I think I picked that up from 1, growing up saying "tuna fish" (and the only thing we usually eat in the States is the canned stuff) and 2, in Japanese they use the word "tuna" for canned cooked tuna and "maguro" for the red raw sushi type, so I differentiate the same way. Still, strange. Edited November 23, 2009 by TheOsakaKoneko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Bene.Placito Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 For me, it's when people run around saying the Japanese word 'kawaii'. Whether they're saying it wrong or not, it's very... very irritating. Especially when you run into the crazed fangirls who scream it in your face. *facepalms* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Deadcat Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Words and phrases that make me cringe: product dude pwned teh issues(pop-psychobabble term) "just saying..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmieLamie Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Mispronunciations common in speech: "expresso," "pacific," "duck" (instead of duct), "fift" (instead of fifth--my mom does this), "pellow" and "melk" (my best friend does this, and though it grates a little on my ears, over the years, I've started to think it adorable, but only in her case), NU/kyoo/lur, AY/rab, EYE/taahl/ee/yun. Misspellings common on-line: "congradulations," "defiantly" (instead of definitely), "threw" (instead of through, or even 'thru,' which wouldn't bother me half so much). I understand the confusion, especially if one is typing quickly and does not take a moment to edit, for I, too, am guilty of it, between 'to' and 'too,' but when 'too' or 'to' is confused with 'two,' that's a no-no. And other sets of homophones: their/they're/there, your/you're/yore, flu/flew/flue, do/dew/doo (da/dah/d'aah). "Loose" instead of 'lose.' Nonsense words or words incorrectly employed: 'Irregardless' bothers me, even if accepted now by some dictionaries as TA pointed out, because the prefix and suffix should negate each other. To mean what people want it to mean, it should be either 'regardless' (which is the real word), or "irregardly" (which is god-awful). Anne Coulter, at least once, attempted to refute the argumentation of an opposing point of view by calling it a "syllogism." My dear Anne Coulter, a 'syllogism' is an argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion of a particular construction that ensures the conclusion is always true. If your opponent's argument is truly a syllogism, there is nothing in it to refute! The use of the word 'shrewd' to mean someone who is cold-hearted probably came from an incorrect assumption of it's use in the phrase "shrewd businessperson;" it means someone who is adept at deciphering trends and is a prudent manager of his or her affairs, not someone icy in affect or immoral in action. One former college-educated acquaintance of mine continually employed 'anymore' in sentences with no actual or implied negation; that is incorrect. Phrases that irk me include the misapplication of "slippery slope" and "begs the question." The common parlance completely misinterprets the legitimate usage in philosophical argumentation. If anyone actually cares to know more about the legitimate usage, I think I have a rant of a former professor's on the subject that is thoroughly amusing. Overuse of "out of the box," especially when hyphenated, I find particularly egregious. Things to which I am habituated and need revise in my speech: 1) overuse of "you know what I mean?" I use it as filler. Sorry. 2) "Blah, blah, blah." That's just obnoxious and I need to stop. I didn't even know I used it at all until someone dear to me pointed it out. 3) "Tuna fish." As Spook argues, what other kind of tuna could it be? Piano tuna? 'Tuna' is sufficient. 4) I keep saying "homonym" instead of 'homophone.' Oops! Yes, I know I am a jerk that I can not let these things go, but I try to keep them to myself most of the time. I don't aim to be offensive. OMFG. My dad says "melk" and "pellow" ALL THE TIME. I cannot stand it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmieLamie Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 HOLY CRAP! I get this at least once a day. "Swagger", or any variation used to describe someone's style in a positive light. Has anybody ACTUALLY looked it up? Its not a good thing, when you think about it. Really. ..so that's what swagger and swag means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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