the way the business community uses grow — they are going to grow the business — hearing it or reading it enrages me for some reason
two that aren’t mine… but I like repeating
hungry/starving when used in commercials for junk food… I have a friend who screams back at the television during the snickers commercials “You spoiled little brats have never known hunger… you’re barely even peckish!!!”
so unique there was a Shell commercial talking about their gasoline formulations and how they were “so unique”… my ex used to hit the roof every time the advertisement came on…
How do you do that, exactly? Are you sending them money, cans of food, ammunition? Or is that just something meaningless you say when a microphone is placed in your face or a phrase with which you decorate your bumper sticker?
I support your decision.
You may agree with my decision or accept it meekly, but if you support it I expect a check in the mail from you or some other type of favor. Is it just me or did the word support once mean something?
The kinds of people telling pollsters they support the troops should be given that followup; how? FedExed ambient light gear? Ballistic plates for their vests? I think the usual answer would be; prayers and wishing them godspeed for their safe return. Wouldn’t you prefer prayers over body armour any day?
my bugbear = “actually” as in “if you actually do/say sthg” Why not just use the plain "if you do/say sthg? How can you ‘notactually’ do/say sthg anyway. Isnt actually do a tautology? Crappy lazy uneducated use of English for emphasis -AAARGGHH
Though tautological, wouldn’t it be seen as a legitimate emphatic - as in “it is possible to do/say something, but if you actually do/say something…”. On a similar note, I have that problem with “basically”. In a 30-minute business meeting last year I kept a “basically” score card: two of the speakers tallied about 15 "basically"s, but one guy said it 26 times, and he had obviously so overused it that it had mutated to something that sounded like “basally”.
BTW, and welcome to the SDMB, Ellis Aponte Jr. and Headspace!
I don’t mind the word fiance as a word, but I really, truly, thoroughly despise it when “my fiance” takes the place of someone’s name. I’ve had a few friends who, when they were just dating, the boyfriend had a name. It was Jack said this, Tony did that, etc., never my boyfriend did this, or my boyfriend said that. Slap a ring on that finger, though, and it’s always my fiance got me…, my fiance says…, my fiance this that and the other till I finally congratulated a couple of them on their name changes.
Introducing someone as “my fiance, [fill in name]” is perfectly fine. Permanently replacing someone’s name with their relationship to you, that’s just gross.
I’m not doubting you, but “homophobe” as a word annoys me, simply because of the dodgy etymology. I’ve always thought that there should be an “ism” with the same meaning. Racism, sexism, homophobia? Nah.