- Touché: anyone who uses this term needs a good licking.
- A good licking: since when did this come to mean a spanking?
- Intragal: grrrrrr, the word is integral for pete’s sake.
- Been there, done that: yeah, yeah, yeah. woop-dee-doo for you.
- At this point in time: just say “now” for crying out loud.
Something else I hate is when someone has to tell me how many words they’re about to say. “I have two words for you…” And I always find myself actually counting the words to make sure their count was right.
And personally, I love to give you the wrong number. For example:
“I have only two words for you: No.”
Drives 'em nuts.
One that always annoys me is “Old Aged Pensioner”.
Word - - - - - - - - - - - -Definition
Old -----------------------> Old
Aged ----------------------> Old
Pensioner ----------------> (Most likely) Old
Why bother saying the same thing 3 times?
Yes, the usage is similar, but here’s the problem. “Culpa” is more like the noun “fault” than the adjective “bad”. Thus, “mea culpa”, or “my fault”, makes sense - “Oops, [that was] my fault.” “Bad”, being traditionally an adjective, makes no sense. You can’t diagram it or fit it into a correct usage as I’ve done with “my fault” above. “The bad was mine?” It’s awkward. Yes, I’m aware “bad” can be used as a noun, but that doesn’t seem to be the way it’s being used in this case.
Didn’t “cool beans” come about as a result of an ad campaign by Jelly Belly jellybeans? They used the slogan “Cool beans.” I had never heard the phrase before seeing the candy ads, so I assumed the ad slogan, being simple and direct, and for a product with wide appeal, was the source for the saying.
But the one I forgot to mention is “nucular”. Argh. I was watching a TLC program on “The Widowmaker” K-19 sub, which was very informative and interesting. That is, until the narrator chimes in talking about the “nucular” reactor and “nucular” radiation. The only thing that kept me watching was the subject matter. The word is “nuclear”. One U. No letter between C and L. I don’t understand.
gus28, don’t you mean “nomesain”? The cousin of “nawmean”?
And Gomez, don’t get me started on modern euphemistic speech, and how adjectives like “old,” “fat” and “deaf” can’t be used anymore. Political correctness be damned.
Yeah, I hate when people are redundant and repetitious and verbose and repeat themselves and say the same thing over and over again.
::d & r::
“Due to the fact that…”
Sweet, merciful, Webster the word is “because.” Every time I’ve seen this phrase used it could always have been replaced with one word, with fewer than half the syllables.
It’s often seen with its companion “proceeded to.” Just say what you did. It doesn’t make you sound intelligent, it makes you sound like you watch too many daytime court shows.
“Your honor, I proceeded to sodomize him with my style book due to the fact that his speech was causing me physical pain.”
I say “Intense porpoises” instead and sit back and wait to see if I get a reaction.
I have always understood a pensioner to be a person who is receiving a pension.
So does the http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary]Merriam-Webster’s
In some cases the pension may not be age related i.e. health pension.
Or they could be a war veteran or a war widow and thus receive either a veterans pension or a war widow’s pension. In neither of these cases would I automatically assume that the person is old.
Another pension is government welfare benefits to unemployed persons, we Aussies prefer to call them Dole Bludgers but it is also a pension.
I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with people who will give you a scale with set limits (On a scale of 1 to 10 …) and then proceed to violate the limits (… she’s a 15.)
On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most annoyed possible, I’m a … eight!
Um, since forever? I don’t have a slang dictionary in front of me, but my grandmother used it, and I am over forty.
People that say ‘at my earliest convenince’ on their voicemail. Don’t ask me why it bugs me- I don’t know. For some reason that comment just sets my teeth on edge.
What’s wrong with as soon as I can?
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**3 planets in a line['b] -
I said it was a rough translation - and, by the usage, “bad” is being (ab)used as a noun.
**Matt - ** Thank you for being the ONE person in the world who knows that usage of “fell” - I gave it up as a lost cause years ago.
ick. Can we make that convenince, convenience?
WAAAAAAASSSSUUUUUUUP???
AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!! MY BRAIN!
And I use Cool Beans alot…no frickin’ clue where or when I picked it up though.
But ‘my bad’, oh man, that phrase drive me BUGSHIT.
Word up is by far the most annoying. I mean, word up? Worst when it’s followerd by a daaaawg?
My bad isn’t that bad though. It’s the “oops, my bad!” that gets on my nerves.
My brother came up with another one thoug. “Fuckshit”. When asked, he explained it was when u wanted to say “Fuck!” and “Shit” at the same time. Don’t particularly like it.
I’m from Mexico (pronounced Mejico, emphasis on the e) and have encountered many americans who speak (or write) worse than I do. A lot worse. I guess dumb people are to be found everywhere. In Mexico it is common for people to write phonetically. It drives me insane. However, one must pause and think about what propels one to seek a bat and use it to cause incomprehensible pain to a illitarate adult. What is the purpose of language? To communicate. If one communicates, then one is doing what one wants to do (the ones get on my nerves too, I promise I’ll stop). In this way, expressing ideas without the correct words is still a correct use of the language. Something else worth mentioning is that idioms have a place in all cultures and should be accepted. They are the way new words are created and languages evolve.
Hope this wasn’t too obnoxious.
Chavardz: you are sooooooooo obnoxious. So what if I wrote thoug instead of though in my last post. Everyone got the message, didn’t they?