Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

"That's so gay."
1 posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:20 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last
To: bruinbirdman
When people write "would of" when they should write "would've" .

Of is not a contraction of have !

83 posted on 05/29/2007 4:41:56 AM PDT by Red Boots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
Synergy ( also called TQMS )

The use of such to reorganize a company to get rid of the deadwood, usually producing the exact opposite result.

85 posted on 05/29/2007 4:45:58 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

Here’s one.

When speaking about a budget or money, someone says:

In this “physical” year, vs. the proper ‘fiscal’ year.

Bill


86 posted on 05/29/2007 4:46:52 AM PDT by njmaugbill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

“These ones”


87 posted on 05/29/2007 4:47:30 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

“24/7”

It sounded clever the first 2,500 times, but is beginning to turn stale.


89 posted on 05/29/2007 4:49:03 AM PDT by docbnj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
This thread is


90 posted on 05/29/2007 4:50:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (JOIN THE NRA: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

Another most hated phrase: “For English, press 1. Para español, numero dos.”

I feel like pressing 2 and asking for German, or some other language. This catering to one immigrant group is too much.

My revenge: press 2 and speak very bad Spanish.


91 posted on 05/29/2007 4:52:10 AM PDT by docbnj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
"core competencies"

What's left? Core INcompetencies? Ancillary competencies?

Oh, and how about "the problem being is ..."

Apparently one "to be" verb isn't enough to hoist a problem that heavy ...

92 posted on 05/29/2007 4:52:43 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
There is no such word as "heighth". The word is "height" and ends with a "t" sound, not a "th" sound!

Please do not start your story with the phrase, "So there I was..."

The word "Asked" ends with the "D" sound and "Asks" ends with the "S" sound. Neither one ends with the "K" sound, but many people pronounce it that way out of linguistic laziness. The same phenomenon occurs with words like "wasps" and "tasks". I am NOT talking about people who pronounce "ask" as "axe". That is another topic entirely.

Spigot is not pronounced "Spikot".

94 posted on 05/29/2007 4:54:44 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
"the reality of the situation..."

"He goes (instead of says or said)..."

"Less people (instead of fewer) think...."

95 posted on 05/29/2007 4:55:06 AM PDT by SC DOC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
I've noticed southerners often begin a sentence
I feel like that we should .....
98 posted on 05/29/2007 4:57:10 AM PDT by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
"Best practices"-- pretentious and awkward management buzzwords. Efficient usually suffices.

"That said"-- Yeah, you said it; I just heard you. What happened to however?

104 posted on 05/29/2007 5:10:59 AM PDT by Dysart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
"What's up?" When the speaker actually means to say, "How are you ?".

A good reply is, "the ceiling", or, "the sky".

109 posted on 05/29/2007 5:17:49 AM PDT by Red Boots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

This is slightly off topic but I hear a definite shift going on in how the soft j as in just or ginger is being pronounced. It seems to be moving forward in the mouth so that it comes our dzust and dzinger. Anyone else hearing that?


111 posted on 05/29/2007 5:18:52 AM PDT by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
Well, for me, personally, I hate redundancies.
114 posted on 05/29/2007 5:23:42 AM PDT by leadpenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman
"Learners" instead of students.

This is rife in the education bureaucracy. I recently interviewed an educrat about a new charter school starting up in our area.

She went on and on about "learners". Finally I told her, " Learner is not a word. Go look it up in the dictionary; its not there."

What is wrong with using the word student ?

115 posted on 05/29/2007 5:23:47 AM PDT by Red Boots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

‘disrespect’ and its derivatives.

Drives me nuts.
An offshoot of the ‘self-esteem’ BS.


116 posted on 05/29/2007 5:23:49 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

Ending sentences with prepositions, and misusing “then” in place of “than” in a sentence.


122 posted on 05/29/2007 5:34:02 AM PDT by LucyJo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

This is so simple; it’s not ‘Rocketry Engineering!’ ;)

(And I HATE it when my kids call me “Ma.” Sounds like calves bawling for their mother.)


123 posted on 05/29/2007 5:34:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bruinbirdman

“i”


128 posted on 05/29/2007 5:41:56 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Looking for work)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson