I’m sure that I am the only one to have heard this…, but I used to work with a woman who would begin every conjecture with “What let’s say…,”
As in, “What let’s say that we look at this as another paradigm?”. What hell is that all about?
And I will add “paradigm”.
And “roundtable”, as in: “Let’s roundtable that idea”.
On an different note, I can’t stand when people spell “no one” as “noone”. Makes it sound like they are saying “noony” like it should mean “noon-ish”. Which brings me to the over use of adding “-ish” to everything! Where does it end?
And to digress even further…, For years I new what it meant when I heard the word “epitome” (pronounced like "Eh-PIT-toe-ME). I had no idea how it was spelled, although I was sure it wasn’t the same word that I had read for years that was pronounced “EH-pih-tome”.
I’ll admit to the misuse of “all intensive purposes” and “taking something for granite” too. Hey, at least I know better now…
I work with lots of people in their early to mid twenties, and the word “DUDE” is scattered liberally into every conversation.
Even worse is the gratuitous use of the “F” word as an adjective. Example ,“Dude, I was Fing sitting at the Fing bar having an Fing beer and this Fing dude starts F**ing saying…”
This is not an exageration I’ve counted the use of “F” and “DUDE” numbering into the hundreds in an amazingly short period of time.
All I can say is,“Dude, I don’t fucking get it!!!”
I don’t know if this exactly fits the thread, but I must always repress the killing urge when I hear someone pronounce the word moot as mute. as in “I was going to discuss my raise with the boss, but since I was fired, it’s a mute point.” Arrrrgggg.
And if anyone says “my bad” near me again, it will be their bad injuries to the face…
Dope- like cool or good (as in “Man, that is dope.”) Add tight and phat to the list.
Not quite the same because it’s probably not widely known, but my principal has a poster on the wall behind his desk that reads, “I put the PAL in Principal!” Anyone else see this in their princiPAL’s office?
A “condition”, according to my Webster’s New World Dictionary (2nd College Ed. 1980, definition 1) means “anything called for as a requirement before the performance or completion of something else.” The prefex “pre” doesn’t add anything. A condition is already something that has to occur before something else occurs; adding pre would technically mean, something that has to occur before something else has to occur before a third thing has to occur. Enough already! The word is “condition”, not “precondition”.
Ok, so since cock means rooster, we should all stop using that as a term for the penis? Or what about prick? On the female side, should we stop using the word pussy, since after all, that is not a cat down there. Or dickhead? That doesn’t mean someone’s cranial structure is the same as former President Nixon does it?
I feel if you’re going to go after one twisting of a word’s meaning, go after them all.
And ideal isn’t the same as idyll!
When I moved to CA, I noticed everybody says “Hella” or “hecka” instead of Hell of, or heck of. And they use it infront of EVERYTHING.
“It’s been hella days.”
“I got hella bad grades”
“That was hecka funny”
AHHHHHHH!!!
There are so many words in the English language that you could use as a modifier, if you must. And if you can’t find a suitable word from the English language, then by all means, choose one from another language. Anything but hella.
And another thing I hate, when I see people type like this. After every sentence!!! They include exclamation points!!! They are just to excited!!! Aren’t you???
You are supposed to use ONE exclamation point if it shows genuine excitement/fear/any big emotion. Like “The house is on fire!” “I just hate a live fish!”
not to be sassy or anything, but how about “in my humble opinion”? or even better, “IMHO”? is that humble? it’s obviously your opinion. i’m guilty of the multiple exclamation points and question marks… but the worst is the ellipses, as well… lots of those…
Yes! These people must die! Quotation marks are not used for emphasis. I was at a restaraunt a while back and on their suggestion card, it stated proudly that they tried to provide high “quality” food. Which, of course, was exactly the opposite of the message they were trying to convey.
Also, anyone else notice that the verb “to strew” can be used only with flowers? What else can one strew?
Me: “Can I have a new foobar?”
Them: “I’ll have to talk to accounts to see if we can resource that.”
Me: twitch Time passes…
Them: I need to touch base with you re the resourcing of the new foobar.
Me: twitchdrool
I suspect it’s a bastardisation of the use of source as a verb (which is also reletively new and just as annoying, albeit slightly more accepted).
