Category: Let's talk
What phrases causes you to cringe?
Or
You simply find to be most annoying?
One that comes to mind is, “You know!”
When I ask someone a question
And they reply, “You know!”
No, I don’t know. If I knew, then I would not ask.
And the person replies again, “You know!”
I've gotten tired of "been there, done that." I also hate it when someone says "whatever" as a dismissive comment, as if whatever you have to say is of no importance to them.
One that gets on my nerves is, "know what 'em sayin'?"
I like can't stand when people like... say "like" between like every word.
"It's like hot out there..." Makes me want to say, in what way is it ***just like*** hot out there? As apposed to being "hot out there?"
or how about when it seems every other word is.... "ummm"
I don't say been there done that. lol a particular situation comes to mind, someone told me to go to hell and instead of saying that I said: "Yeah, I've already been there, I got the t-shirt, hacked hell's mainframe, seduced the devil, decided he was a bad fuck, dumped him, packed up and left." I customise my responses. lol
One that I've seen used on Twitter a lot is when somebody will make some statement or express some opinion and then close it with, "just sayin"" Huh? What in toasted toads do you mean you're just sayin", as opposed to what, barkin' or meowin'?
And I've said it before on other topics, but I'll post it here. Phrases like "deal with it" or "get over it" or even "get a life" are bothersome. Deal with it? OK, exactly how would you propose I do such a thing? Oh, you weren't giving me advice, you were telling me to shut up and go away? Well, fuckwit, why not just tell me to shut up and go away if that's your intent. And, I've decided "get a life" actually means, "how dare you take interest in things I don't give a damn about. This offends me, for I am special." Ugh, I loathe people sometimes. Grumph!
silly_singer, I hate that like thing too! I'm 26 and when I hear people doing it, particularly in my age group, I just want to smack them! I also dispise netspeak as in 2morrow, l8r, (I spelled with numbers if your screen reader actually read that correctly) and stupid imoticons that are supposed to represent facial expressions and the like. The same goes with using weird numbers or strange letters when writing in Greeklish (Greek with Latin letters). Unless you have a disability in your hand or serious trouble remembering long enough to string two sentences together, what's wrong with simply writing things out. It's not like we're using quills or manual typewriters. It takes a second to write *smile* or t o m o r r o w. I also hate it when people say "shut up" all the time, not meaning be quiet but meaning whatever they use it for today. Thankfully, I haven't heard much of that. As a sidenote, the teacher of my TESL (teaching English as a Second Language) course was so informal that he made me sick. Granted, I understand that it's necessary to teach students things like wanna and gonna, simply because they'll hear them out in the street. But unless the lesson is strictly on slang, for Gods sakes, don't count those kinds of words as correct! And he told me that when he asked how someone was doing and they answered "I'm doing well" he didn't like it because it sounded pretentious. What the hell are we supposed to say "I be doin good?" So I always used well when he asked me. Some people should not teach others English or teach people how to be educators in the language.
Godzilla, I agree completely. But in addition to hating people telling me to get a life, I hate it when people complain about their own lives and say they need to get a life. Nine times out of ten, the people complaining that they need to get a life have a busier and more interesting life than I do, and I always wonder what the hell they're complaining about.
Ebonics gets on my last nerve too, when it's used excessively. You'd be surprised how many people around here consider it as proper English. Makes me wonder if the speaker learned to talk by listening to rap from the cradle onwards. And it's not exclusively a black thing either.
That's truly sickening. It makes me wonder how they ever graduated elementary school let alone high school... Not even touching college! Once, when I was in college, a student said "I wanna ax you a question". The professor said "well, that's not very nice, going around axing people." I laughed so hard I had to hold my stomach. He actually had to explain it to the student, who, of course, was American-born.
When I lived in Florida there were a couple teenagers who imitated black speak so well that I being both Blind and from the Pacific Northwest was completely and totally fooled. I referred to them once to the neighbor as "those two black kids that hang around." She didn't know who I was talking about till later she rather politely told me over the fence, "Well, not that it matters, but ... they're, not black." I have to say the characterization or impression they gave was pretty complete, at least to a northern-bred neophite. Black people I know out here don't sound like that, it's the ones I saw down there the kids were imitating.
the one that gets me is none other that "you know what?" of course i dont know. cause you haven't tell me, nor do i really want to know. it is such a stupid phrase but people use it all the time.
those that know me know exactly which ones i'm going to come up with.
the 2 that annoy the hell out of me are:
1. as 1 door closes, another one opens.
2. you'll be okay, or some other variation of it.
3. guess what?
4. i all ready know!
5. i'm sorry
6. did you just see that?
I completely forgot about ax!
oh and here's another one.
i'm fine.
when you clearly know there not fine anyway
"Just do it"...just saw it on a t shirt yesterday is one, and "Go for it" another, unless I have an idea what is being pursued. Ebonics, if I'm working around black people doesn't really bother me, but I cringed when CA legislation made it a legitimate language, as did much of Tampa's black community..."Spongebob, you know if a young man goes to a job interview and greets the interviewer with 'hey old man waddup'? he's not getting the job, what's that about?".
I should sincerely hope he doesn't get the job! I think blacks who purposefully speak like that, those who know better not those who were honestly raised in a ghetto, don't deserve my respect, unless they're in the entertainment industry. This is doubly so for whites. You can't have it both ways, be treated as an equal and then mock society and blame it on culture. If they want to really get in touch with their African heritage, they should learn a real language from Africa or at least Swahili, which is spoken in several countries there, not ruin English. And since when did having heritage that's well over a century or more old automatically make you an (insert culture) American? Many people have immigrants in their families who came here in the early part of the 20th century or even in the 19th, but most simply refer to themselves as American, and those who don't usually don't make a big fuss that everyone from their ethnicity must be called as anything else. Then, you've got the oddballs, like me, who are born here and consider themselves part of another culture from which they don't have blood, in my case, Greek. Anyway, sorry for getting off the language topic. Just had to rant.
To return to language, I forgot to add this. I think that those blacks who speak that way only hold their peers down. Yes, this is like saying that if I, as a blind person, wear mismatched clothing an stick my fingers in my eyes, I'm making it more difficult for other blind people and I realise that's wrong to say. But there are far more blacks and the odds of a nonblack meeting a black person is far more than that of them meeting a blind person regardless of the colour of our skin.
Yeah. The "you'll be okay" phrase annoys me too. I mean, of course I will be, at some point, but if I'm asking for a shoulder to lean on, I want them to listen, not tell me I'll be okay. I'm sure they have the best intentions, but could you imagine telling someone a family member or a friend died, only to be met with a response of, "You'll be okay".
"I'm sorry" generally means well, but it is really overused, and yes, I'll admit, I am guilty of overusing it myself.
"I love you" is another one that is really overused, in my opinion. In high school, I must have heard that phrase at least ten times a day in the halls. I'm all for love. Don't get me wrong, but "love" really is a strong word, and I don't think it was intended to just be shouted out at just anyone.
another one that anoys me is
i don't care.
what's the point in that one
I hate "whatever" as has already been said by another user. I agree about the word love. I use it alot but only with people whom I truly love. Otherwise, the word never leaves my lips. I also find "and how" and "well, I never" to be a bit strange.
Re ebonics I will never understand the attraction of the ghetto, which is why I don't understand blacks' identification with the late Tupac Shakur. The stage name "Tupac Shakur" came from the Aztecs in Peru, specifically the Aztec who revolted against Spanish rule there, which sort of tells me he didn't really identify with the people who were his fans, at least in most cases. Also, the neighborhoods he sang about...now he probably would have been a fine actor had he lived but his music was the pitts...anyway he never lived in those neighborhoods, the "ghettos". In fact he had opportunities, like dance lessons, that few denizens of the ghettos have.
A more average young man who felt the need to patronize the ghetto worked with me some years ago. This young man really was a Tiger Woods sort of black man, really more east Indian and French than black, mom I believe was from Martinique, dad mixed race American military personnel. Mark was a classy young man who attended university, dressed well, and worked full time, and yet sought the approval of ghetto black women who parented solo and had limited economic potential. One openly dispised him and argued with him, and there were plenty of other than black people, myself included, who liked him. I will never understand the ghetto culture when older blacks fought for people to get out of there and integrate into society.
I think I had one of those oddball citizens born here but identifying w another culture as a professor. This lady was of Lithuanian descent from the states but was a ballerina all of her life, earning degrees in dance & French and teaching both subjects at a small private college. She changed, I guess legally since she never married, her name to a totally French name. What can I say? It did no one any harm, and she's one of those oddballs I reminisce on & hope she is alive with her cats and well.
Glad to know I'm not the only one out there like that. *smile* I could understand interest in different classes of people, in wanting to know how they do things, how they escape from poverty etc. I guess that's the anthropologist in me speaking. But I can't understand wanting to actually be them to the degree that you completely change yourself or start acting in a way that's unnatural to you simply to gain their favour. If there's a white person, or even a middle class black one, who truly feels connected to the ghetto in some way, that's one thing. But just to be cool? I don't get it.
While I'm at it before I forget some years ago my FL hometown had a black chief of police. Fine, but one interview he gave regarding a missing child who later turned up alive & unharmed he kept referring to her as "the missing kid", until finally my ex said, "Baaaaaa....what were they looking for a baby goat?!" 'Kid' as slang is one thing, but doesn't the Chief of Police usually have more education than the average officer, at least to say "child" in a publicly broadcasted interview?
Another word that gets me...when did the word "cop" become mainstream, as in news coverage, to describe police officers? These men and women completed training I never could and have people oriented personalities and temperaments many lack. They got specific training to do a dangerous job, and they are referred to by major newspapers as "cops"? Also firefighters as "jakes"...what's that about? "Jake" is getting to be a common name, and firefighters are anything but common. How many people can complete rigorous training in full gear in 90+ degree heat and carry an average sized adult out of a burning building? "Jakes"?
Oh my Gods. I really wish that this were a nightmare and when I wokeup, this post didn't exist. People in public is one thing, but newspapers and police chiefs talking like that? What next? "Yo, come read da news from us. It be good today!" I think I have a headache.
Now, I'm sure I've fallen into this trap myself, but one overused phrase or reference is "the world," as in making some generalization like "the world is a scary place." Oh, really? So you've been all over every square inch of the planet and things are just as bad in the most obscure far-flung isolated place on Earth as they are in your own city? Seems a bit silly if you pick it apart.
I hate what ev. What? You can't tack on one more syllable. I hate politically correct phrases in general. Handicapped (thank god it's not used that much. Physically challenged, and special. I hate the word but at the end of a sentence or conversation.
Politically correct phrases were really ridiculous when they were new in the '90's. A popular news magazine in the early '90's said you couldn't say "handicapped" or "crippled" any more, it was "differently abled."
I told the man who introduced me to the ex in my previous post of this new phrase. This man became a quadriplegic in an accident off the autobahn while stationed at Ramstein Air Force Base. He told me, "Spongebob, Jesus healed the crippled, not the 'differently abled'."
One that perplexes me is "issues". I still say "problems". When did "issue" substitute for "problem"? Issue? Is it a troublesome situation or a magazine?
Yeah, issues is a funnyh one. Sounds like something counsellors would say or something, sort of like, "thank you for sharing" and other touchy-feely fluffy-bunny terms.
So, I hear a lot of complain about politically correct language. Didn't know hte stuff still existed and was used in all total seriousness in this year of 2010. Thought it was tried, failed, and made fun of by the Nineties or something. I understand certain words ahve negative connotations, but that's not the fault of the words, it's people's reactions and things. I can't say I've ever met an average person who peppered their casual speech with such things. Guess it's only good for use in papers or newscasts I suppose.
Hey, by the way, when did forest fires become wildfires?
Issues? When the oxygene tank on the Apollo 13 spacecraft exploded you can bet Jim Lovell did not say "Uh Houston, we've had an issue." Not only does it bring to mind magazines but it might also bring to mind offspring. And I agree completely that political correctness is complete and total bullshit. Visually Handicapped? Nonsighted? What the hell's wrong with just plain blind? Besides, Visually Handicapped or Visually Impaired would imply that the person has at least some usable sight, even if not much. But as for other phrases that get on my nerves I really hate Netspeak with a passion. That's probably why there's that Altar of Literacy in Kingdom of Loathing. But I fail to understand why people can't just write out later, tomorrow, before and whatnot. 2morrow? L8R? B4? I'll use LOL, BTW and WTF? but those are absolutely as far as I'll go with that. But the rest of it really sets my teeth on edge. My x girlfriend Angel was really bad about that. This from someone supposedly in school to work on computers and type...well program would be more accurate. But still. It depresses me to think how many supposedly educated people resort to that. I won't even use it when I'm texting on my phone because I'd rather be understood.
I will admit, I thought net speak was dumb too until I started texting. It just takes less time!! I know that's kind of a lame excuse, but when you're only allowed a certain amount of carachaters, it works sometimes. What I really hate is intentionally mispelling a word: Snop Dogg, Dawg, EZ, Ur, Pnk, ETC. Hate to say it, but hip hop artists are the worst about that. I hate it when white kids from the sticks act black or another race. Please people!! Oh gosh, that really gets on my nerves. Nothing against blacks, it just seems ridiculous to me.
If anyone remembers the whole Don Imis "nappy-headed hoe" controversy, I remember reading some article during that kerfuffle that claimed that the largest audience for rap music was suburban white kids. What the hell? Sorry, I don't have any fantasies of being part of some street gang. I'm also told that the people who manage and groom these rappers tell them to play up the gangster bits because that's what makes the money. I tell ya, I'm an old fart who was around back in the Eighties when rap first started, and even then I felt it was somebody else's music, it wasn't about anything that interested me or that I could relate to, it had nothing to do with my life. Besides, I preferred stuff which was more about instrumentals than vocals, sung or spoken.
the one thing I hate the most, is when someone says you are... and instead of saying the word blind, they go in to this big thing to keep from saying the word. goodness, just say blind! it's not going to kill you, you are not going to be blind just by saying the word!
I couldn't agree more. I've had a few girlfriends in the past who did that. But still think Netspeak irritates me even more than that. If I'm only allowed a certain number of characters per text I'll find a way to say what I want using whole words. I guess I'm old-fashioned enough even only at thirty that I just don't understand any of that and nor do I care to.
I'm 26 and feel the same. It's a rare and wonderful club to which we belong my friend. *smile* I also hate when people are afraid to say the word blind. It's very annoying.
You know which one really annoys me?
People call and leave a message on your voicemail that begins with: "Hi, it's me". Oh really? I thought it was someone else.
I used to have an issue with blind, when I was like 6. Last year somebody referred to me as sight-impaired. I was thinking "Sight-impaired? Are you high?"
One thing I really hate is when people intentionally use million-dollar words you can't possibly understand, just to make themselves look more educated than you are.
I hope I don't do that in my posts. Hey, I write the way I write, what can I say. On Twitter I use the occasional abbreviation but I thankfully haven't gotten into the practice of using numbers to replace words like 2 or 4 or such, and I'm a grouchy old bear at 45, so there. Hahahaha!
I tend to agree with lots of this. The shorter space to write should make us state what we need or want more clearly, not come up with shorthand so we can persist in rambling. Oh and lest anyone think I'm pointing fingers, I am: at me, I am not the most concise writer on here or anywhere else.
Nor am I, but that sort of thing still really sets my teeth on edge. Next on my list is the whole not sing the word Blind thing. It's like I said earlier. Visually impaired or sight impaired implies that the person has some usable sight. As far as I'm concerned light perception, which is the only vision I have, isn't really what you can call usable.
Not usable, but still some vision. I wish I had it.
Well as far as I'm concerned it still doesn't warrant "sight impaired" or whatever. Another one I've heard is nonsighted. How about just blind?
the new word out there seems to be hunty instead of saying honey. drives me insane. it's like people saying warsh instead of wash. there's no r in wash and there's no t in the word honey.
Um, what? Hunty? Warsh? I've never heard these.
I have, and yes, it drives me mad!
The ocasional typing error is excusable. Short hand, on the other hand, drives me crazy, as does constant mistakes. I really hope you don't expect employees to consider your resume and cover letter before someone else's if you fail to do some simple editing before you submit it.
lol No Godzilla I wasn't talking about you. Actually wasn't thinking of anyone on here. And, I thought warsh was just an accented version of wash. I know I've seen that before, don't know which accent it comes from though. I've never ever seen hunty, wtf?
Here's one I've never been able to understand. Hard of hearing. It doesn't annoy me, but it doesn't make sense to me either. You never see, "hard," in reference to any other physical difference. I can understand hearing impaired, although this one does annoy me. But just like with blind, people are ghastly afraid of saying deaf.
Somethink... Anythink... Does anyone else get those?
Well as for the Warsh thing I think it has to do with regional accents, sort of like hearing an R sound on words ending with an A when speaking to someone with an English or even Australian accent, at least when the word isn't at the end of the sentence. So instead of hearing I saw it it sounds like I sar it. Warsh is a similar thing, although I don't recall exactly in which regions of the US this is most prominent. There are several as I recall. But I don't get hard of hearing either since they never say hard of seeing or hard of learning. At the risk of offending some people it makes as little sense to me as saying passed away or passed on instead of died. Although those make much more sense and are perhaps far less offensive than a less common one I've heard, took sick.
Stevo, yes, I have a good friend who sounds as if she is adding a k to the end of any word that ends in i n g. I've never asked her about it because I don't want to hurt her feelings. I'm not sure if it's regional or what.
The warsh thing seems to be a Western/Midwestern thing. I hate that one as well.
How about this one? When someone says, "You've got another think coming." I've heard this from so many people, in real life and on TV that I almost looked up the spelling because I had no clue if it was thing or think.
I've never had problems understanding that one and always knew it was thing. I think it's just the way in which the words blend together that confused you.
I think most of these phrases have been used so often that they're almost cliche.
Worsh is a dialectal thing, Pacific Northwest US, I think.
Somethink and anythink are also dialect-specific, Mid-atlantic US, around New York, PA, etc.
Bolth, when "both" is meant, another peculiarity of the Mid-Atlantic, drives me nuts.
Since Ebonics is a legitimate dialect with proven West African roots, a consistent grammar and pronunciation set, etc. it interests me and doesn't get on my nerves very often.
Sight-impaired just makes me laugh.
Yeah. And like I said it's misleading since that would imply that the person has some usable sight. And yet people use it with totally blind people. Or non sighted which makes more sense perhaps but it's not as though Blind is a taboo word with us. So why should it be with everyone else. Or have you heard that movie? instead of seen.
As I recall, my mom used to say warsh and she lived in a small town in Washington state growing up. Now, my fiancee lived in Seattle all her life and says it as wash.
As for all the assorted replacement words and phrases for blind, it both amuses me and makes me feel a bit sorry for these people. Blindness to them must be such a totally frightening concept, just in principle, that they dare not speak the word. It's like cancer to them I suppose. Yeah, if you confront them the claim is they want to avoid offending you, but that's always a cover. Euphamisms are used for the comfort of the speaker, not the person spoken to.
Another phrase that gets on my last nerve is paraphrased from the Christian Bible: "Who are you to judge?" also the concept of "judging" and "judgemental". ?! What human being doesn't make judgements of some sort? Who doesn't form impressions of other people, than respond accordingly, with either like, dislike, or hey I would (or would not) like to get to know more? Perhaps "condemn" is a more appropriate word than "judge"?
Also not being Christian I generally have to ask questions of people I know who are. One acquaintance told me the oft cited quotation from the New Testament referred to judgements based on superficial criteria, like "So and so drinks wine, or eats meat" or some other such criteria, and was never meant to excuse bad behavior.
I think it's different when people have a real dialect, or are learning a dialect for whatever reason. It's when it's totally fake that it bothers me.
Well much of my family is from the Miwest, Wisconsin, Minnesota and places like that. And they have an interesting dialect down there, often adding a slight A sound to the end of certain words. Let's goa! The cartoon Bobby's World sort of parodied that with Bobby's mom always saying don't cha know? Doan't cha knowa?
A friend and I were talking a few weeks ago about things our parents used to say. How many of you have heard phrases like these when you were kids?
Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about.
This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.
Don't make that face or your face will get stuck in that expression.
Wipe that smirk off your face or I'll wipe it off for you.
I've heard most of those. LOL.
Well, lets see.
You is....
text chat spoken E.g. Lol, Jk, OMg, roflcopter, and stuff like that.
No nothing or any double negative.
axk. seriously what's wrong with saying ask? I don't really want to be axked....
PLZ really gets on my nerves as well, that and PPL. What's wrong with writing Please or People? Of course that goes right back to text chat.
yes, those two really get on my nerves. or when people write words like gr8 and 2morrow, replacing letters with numbers. I understand saving character space on twitter, but come on ...
Yeah. The double negative kind of gets on my nerves as well. You don't know nothing.
You know what else gets on my nerves, probably more than all of the other common gramatical errors? I seen this, or I seen that. What's wrong with saying "I saw this", or "I saw that"? If you mean "I have seen", or "I've seen" for short, that's a different story.
Oh yeah. That too. Or Aks instead of ask.
The whole, "You're visually impaired" thing annoys me, too. I was recently at a conference teaching blind and VI high school students about JAWS and university life, and had to use the words "visually impaired", for fear of offence.
from my understanding, "visually impaired" are meant more for people who have some sort of vision as they are not exactly blind in a sense, and "blind" are most probably refers to people that have no vision at all.
noun that anoy me is "babe". since "babe" have 4 letters, and "baby" also have 4 letters, why dont they right "baby" instead of "babe". it sound retarded. and the same goes with "hun". better of with "dear" or "honey" instead of "hun"... just make me cold!!!
maybe is jaws' fault. but if i heard someone call me "babe" in real life, he or she will get a slap from me. lol
I agree about the visually imapired thing. I just think there's too much possibility for confusion. Blind makes more sense for talking about someone with no vision. I suppose I might be considered visualy impaired since I do have a little light perception but I always say blind since as far as I'm concerned light perception isn't really what you can call useful.
Plz! Plz! I just love that one. OK, OK. I get it. Like, because it's not pronounced pleasse? When that became popular you'd be surprised how clever they thought that was. My response? Thank you for shitting on simple 2nd grade phonetics. Thank you so much! Thank you with a capital R!
ummm, I'm assuming the last poster meant "thank you with a capital t"? lol.
No, he meant Thank you with a capital R. As in, why write the word "please" with a Z in it when there's no Z in the word?
Conglaturation! One of you got it. To have to explain that one is just... sad.
Conglaturation? Omg! Just....hahahaha! and to think that was actually in a video game.
sad? not really.
the reason I said that was cause people spell things like that all the time. for instance, eyes as e y e z..sometimes it's just to be interesting/different...just sayin'.
One phrase I hear that is both annoying and amusing at the same time is when people talk about supposedly lazy people who "are sitting on their asses, doing nothing." First of all, isn't saying one is sitting on one's ass a bit redundant, as it's the only body part designed for sitting. Then, doing nothing? When I think of somebody doing nothing, I think of somebody sitting absolutely still. I understand when people say "doing nothing" they mean doing nothing that they are paid for or that is productive or meaningful or whatever is significant to the speaker, but still, it's worth a snicker.
Ah, and here's another one. When people get outraged at somebody's behavior, they tend to ask, "Who do you think you are?" What? I didn't know we were having a philosophical discussion here. OK, I tell you what. Tell me who I have to think I am in order for you to approve of me doing whatever the hell I'm doing. Oh, and for the record, the voices tell me I'm Napoleon today. What do your voices tell you who you are? LOL!
Mine tell me I'm that squeaky voiced kid from The Simpsons. LOL. As for post 74 I completely agree. It always grates on my nerves when I read an Email or something and I hear plz. I've always made a point of avoiding that because it always seemed lazy to me.
A lot of short hand is kind of annoying, but I don't mind it, until I get messages like this:
hi how r u i was just looking at ur profile and u seem cool can we talk more
Here's one of the phrases I hate the most: "Don't go there." This is usually said by someone when a valid point is being made and it's so very ghetto. I'll go wherever I want to go!
Here's a phrase I hate, which thankfully I don't hear that often.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Um, really? So we're not living in the dark ages anymore?
I also totally agree about Net Speak. I use lol, wtf and that's about it. As for the emoticons, Jaws doesn't read them half the time, so I don't want to deal with them. Also, has anyone ever noticed that if you make the heart sign and post it on Facebook, Jaws reads it like a question mark? What the hell is that about?
To Post 82, the speak you're referring to comes from what I refer to as lmfao-textin' fools.
To Post 84, the synthesizer may be reading it like a question mark because it's an unrecognized unicode character at that point. Facebook's main site will convert some of the symbols for emoticons into single-character representation so you don't see the left angle bracket or less than followed by the 3 but you see a little heart there.
It's not a Unicode character recognized under normal circumstances is probably why it's sounding like a question mark.
As far as ebonics is concerned, I don't mind if people use it at home or in social settings if they feel they must. However, I really have a short fuse for it in any sort of professional/academic setting, or, when somebody working at any sort of establishment talks to me, the paying customer, without using proper English. Surely you can turn that off for a little while. It's not like these kids, and young adults, and adults at this point, had no education, even if they just got their G E D and left it at that. The substitution of ask with aks really annoys me too. Finally, like, oh my god, like, why like, umm, like do so many people like say, like, a billion times in like, every sentence? That drives me up the freaking wall! Where I live, and have lived now for a bit over a year at this point, there are a lot of middle class and upper middle class under grad and grad students, mostly rich white and asian kids. (The majority of which are totally irresponsible and abnoxious, guys and girls alike.) I made the mistake of thinking that by moving to a place with many academic institutions in close proximity, that it would be some sort of haven for intelligent conversation and other such things. Boy was I mistaken, sorry to say. I've heard more people talking like absolute idiots here than I have anywhere else I've lived thus far. It's quite depressing. The worst thing is that I almost get the feeling that they are doing it on purpose.
I agree with each and every one of you, Especially on VI. Visually impared is a clinical definition for someone who isn't legally blind but for whatever reason cannot see 20-40 as isthe norm for driving. Legally blind is 20-200 or equivalent and totally blind is light perseption shadows or nothing at all, yet people don't use the right definition to be politically correct. But the one of late that truly enfuriates me is "not a problem" after one says thank you. Whatever happened to your wellcome.
people saying, "every since", instead of "ever since" really gets on my nerves.
Ah yes. Every since? Like there's more than one? As for COnglatulations, I remember the video game. It was the ending message from the very horrible, abominable piece of crap NES version of the first GHostbusters. Conglatulations. You've completed a great game! Uhm, excuse me? I think not, especially in view of that typo right at the end and that the game was near impossible to complete to begin with.
i don't know if these have been mentioned but here goes
at the end of the day
it is what it is
push them under the bus
kick 'em to the curb
hey dude, 'xcuse me but I am female
i'm just so stressed about......
i don't know how to say this but my daughter had a boy friend at one time who everything was a "syndrome" he had a digestive syndrme, a learning syndrome, a knee syndrome, and frankly in my opinion astupid sick so and so marinating in misery syndrome