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Mon Nov-05-07 09:06 PM
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What word or phrase sets you off like nails on a chalk board? |
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For me it's "my bad". This just sounds so uneducated and ignorant. Just say I'm sorry, it was my fault or something. This started at the detention center I used to work at. Those kids said that all the time, and it just went all through me. What about you? Duckie
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:26 PM
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The height of glorification of illiteracy
and "Choke" - the most overused verb in the sporting lexicon, mostly because it's disrespectful to the winner.
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:29 PM
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:30 PM
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3. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" |
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Almost always implies that the person thinks there IS something wrong with it.
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:36 PM
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6. or is just a big Seinfeld fan |
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:31 PM
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:33 PM
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:37 PM
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7. "impacted" used as a verb |
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Wed Nov-07-07 02:05 AM
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30. That makes my tooth hurt |
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:41 PM
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8. What word or phrase sets you off like nails on a chalk board |
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:49 PM
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9. "I just threw up in my mouth a little" |
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:49 PM
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10. The indiscriminate use verbs as nouns |
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particularly, a book described as a "read"
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Mon Nov-05-07 09:55 PM
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:06 PM
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12. I'm sorry you feel that way |
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:-) I mean, that's the apology that sets me off!
I'd rather hear a "my bad" - at least it still roughly translates to "mea culpa" - instead of one of those evasive bs statements that puts the blame off on the person who was hurt.
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:08 PM
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:12 PM
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14. Even worse, "turned up missing" |
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Oxymoronic--you can't turn up and be missing at the same time.
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:16 AM
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:13 PM
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Including, but not limited to, "Let's interface on this", "We should talk offline about it", and the granddaddies of 'em all, "Think outside the box", "paradigm shift", and "be proactive".
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:15 PM
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as used by news anchors to segue into something else. Makes me scream, "It's 'In the meantime' morans!"
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:08 AM
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46. awful. and "oft-times" too |
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'oft-times' in the place of 'often times', which I also hate hearing.
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:49 PM
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17. It bothers me when someone |
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says, "it was so fun". It just does not sound right. To me, it should be said, "it was so much fun" or "it was a lot of fun".:shrug:
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:54 PM
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The grand canyon is awesome. That you left work an hour early isn't.
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:55 PM
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Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 12:40 AM by temeah
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Tue Nov-06-07 11:57 PM
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20. "Speak truth to power" or "hold their feet to the fire" |
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Which is all some Du'ers know how to say. I fucking swear. :banghead:
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:08 AM
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I was going to say "sammich" and "supposably," but yours are more apt to annoy me.
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:13 AM
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26. If I had a nickel for each time either phrase was used on DU, I'd get rich QUICK. |
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:D I'm also starting to hate 'keeping the powder dry'
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:09 AM
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25. I hate 'truth to power' |
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Wed Nov-07-07 01:59 AM
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27. holding the nose thing too. |
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Wed Nov-07-07 02:31 AM
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31. can i get a translation for the |
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people who respect the english language please? :P
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:44 AM
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36. Noam Chomsky said power already knows the truth. nt |
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:02 AM
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21. "I was never one to color inside the lines" |
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It's the dumbest form of self aggrandizement. It doesn't make you sound smart. It doesn't mean you are creative. It doesn't mean you are some kind of maverick. It makes you sound like some kind of fucking idiot that doesn't have the basic hand/eye coordination to color a decent picture. It also means you aren't creative enough to come up with your own phrase to declare yourself a "cut from a different cloth" maverick.
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:02 AM
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22. Ending a sentence with .... 'and such' or 'some such' |
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:09 AM
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47. or, "in accordance with prophecy" |
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Wed Nov-07-07 12:03 AM
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I don't know why, but it makes me want to smash my monitor. ;)
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Wed Nov-07-07 02:01 AM
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28. At this point in time |
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Wed Nov-07-07 02:02 AM
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oh, you mean this morning?
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:26 AM
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34. Alright! That was some cathartic stuff... |
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Usually it's whatever new, trendy bit of over-generalized, language-abuse is being used the most often at any given point in time. I hear them first from my friends who listen to talk radio.
But on DU, there's a few...
Nanny State: The ever-undefined appellate given to a law you don't like.
Woo-woo Thinking: Intolerance; a passive-aggressive venue for minimizing the beliefs and faiths of others.
Authoritarian: Used mainly by college-aged kids who get busted for speeding or misdemeanor possession and haven't learned how to "man-up to it" yet.
But my biggest antithesis of the English language is currently... "It's like..."
I can't seem to go more than an hour without some one using "it's like" as something other than its intended purpose-- the qualifier for a simile.
These days, it seems almost to be used in place of "uh".
"It's like... I hate this" WRONG! "It's like... so cool!" WRONG! "It's like a pear in shape..." Correct.
Alright! That was some cathartic stuff...
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:34 AM
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35. "At the end of the day..." That and |
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"metrics" used like a noun ("The metrics of that scenario just didn't work out.")
If you want to be a senior executive, those are about the only words you need to know.
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:45 AM
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37. "The exception that proves the rule. " Doesn't make sense and |
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it's a misquote.
stepbrother/stepsister used instead of half-brother/half-sister.
"sweet spot" Sounds pornographic. :evilgrin:
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:50 AM
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38. The overuse of the word 'basically' |
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and listening to so many young people say 'like' in between every word. Do they realize how uneducated they sound?
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Wed Nov-07-07 09:54 AM
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39. Basically, it's like, hard to, like, listen to, basically |
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:04 AM
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:thumbsup:
I had an engineer at one of my old jobs who used "basically" every other word. He used it like other people use "like."
Both are equally irritating.
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:01 AM
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The next sports-bot analyst who uses this "word" gets 40 lashes.
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:02 AM
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41. Any version of "It's your ball, run with it" |
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including, but not limited to
They dropped the ball, you run with it Pick up the ball and run with it
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:05 AM
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44. (fill in the blank) is to die for. UGH! n/t |
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Wed Nov-07-07 10:06 AM
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45. "Yes they're real, and no you can't see them." |
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