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Expressions You Hate!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: optom3 on November 16, 2008, 11:51:59 am ---When I was back in England I used to hate the phrase, love as in shop assistants saying, will that be all love? I am not their love.
My kids had also started to say, like at the end of each sentence, as in you know like, always going up at the end. Grrrr.
I also hate corporate motivating phrases such as, there is no I in team, and let's make sure we are all singing from the same song sheet.!!!
Personally I really over use the word, really, and just. It was just so annoying and I really don't beleve.
Hundreds more but that will do for the time.
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Are they fans of the Aussie soap, "Neighbours", Fiona? I understand an entire generation of British kids has acquired the unfortunate Australian habit of putting an upward inflection at the end of every sentence, thanks to the popularity of "Neighbours" in the UK. :)
Lynne:
--- Quote from: Kerry on November 17, 2008, 12:38:00 am ---I'm familiar with "at the end of the day", "paradigm", "meld" and "out of the ether", but have never heard of "under the bus" and "meme". Can you give me examples of "under the bus" and "meme"? I'm curious. :)
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I looked 'meme' up awhile back because I was interested in how it came into common usage; the internet seems to be fertile ground for meme propagation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on November 17, 2008, 12:41:30 am ---Obama threw his grandmother under the bus..(he used her to deflect attention from himself)
think of a group of people traveling in a bus together...then one gets thrown off the bus and the bus runs over them...it is a betrayal, they thought they were one of you, that they were safe. It is not a good thing to do.
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I'm still not grasping exactly how that works, Jess. ::)
Can you put "under the bus" in a sentence for me, so I can see it in situ? (Don't you just hate that expression "in situ"?!)
And "meme"?
injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on November 17, 2008, 12:51:45 am ---I'm still not grasping exactly how that works, Jess. ::)
Can you put "under the bus" in a sentence for me, so I can see it in situ? (Don't you just hate that expression "in situ"?!)
And "meme"?
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I did!
"Obama threw his grandmother under the bus"
He was giving a speech about race and called her a racist...she was his grandmother and he took a cheap shot at her to save himself.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: southendmd on November 16, 2008, 07:32:13 pm ---Don't get me started! I have lots of language pet peeves. Most involve bad grammar, but I think Kerry's thread is more about annoying, trite phrases.
My latest: going forward. Can't stand it. I once heard an introductory speech by a colleague who used the phrase in every sentence. (He later resigned because of "health" problems, which turned out to be a sex scandal, but, no connection, I'm sure. ::))
I'm with Jeff about modifying "unique". Can't be done!
One more: I could care less. No! Think about it...if you could care less, you could care less. The real phrase is I couldn't care less. As in, there is nothing about which I could care less.
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Spot on, Paul! Everyone is certainly very welcome to air their pet grammar, punctuation and syntax peeves, but my main aim here was to have a bit of a giggle together about "annoying, trite phrases" that we love to hate. :D
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