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Phrases that like really bug us all, basically
The Telegraph ^
| 5/29/2007
| Johanna Leggatt
Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
1. "Low Hanging Fruit"
2. "Inside the box/outside the box"
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:03:55 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: LucyJo
“Ending sentences with prepositions”
Yes, that is something up with which I will not put.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:04:40 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
To: don-o
That would be a reduplication.
To: Ditter
The reason a clerk comments on what the customer is perusing is that he wants to engage the customer in a conversation. During that conversation, the customer might reveal the need she is trying to fulfil.
Nothing wrong with that.
And it's not high pressure.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:05:58 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Dick Vomer
Just read your home page Dick, if you are a real Texan you should be proud to admit you say “I’m fixin’ to’. It’s a tradition.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:07:13 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: JB in Whitefish
Heh, I had an ex who used to talk about the “puppy dog” close. “Just take it home with you for 2 days - 3 days - a week ...”
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:08:04 AM PDT
by
Rte66
To: GOP_Raider
Just as annoying as "We're a melting pot", often utterred by the same folks who say "We're a nation of immigrants!"
Really, last I checked a. we have NOT melted into "one race", nor will we ever and b. the majority of our population ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:10:19 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: driftless2
That’s a cop thing. If they use suspect, the person of interest must be Mirandized, must get an attorney, and may sue, a la Richard Jewell.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:11:18 AM PDT
by
Rte66
To: HIDEK6
I have not driven to the mall, found a parking space, made it through the thugs in the parking lot and into the store, to have a conversation with the sales clerk. If I am in a hurry I will ask for something, otherwise I will browse until I find it. “May I help you?” is enough conversation for me.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:12:18 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
Or “fittin’ to,” as some say
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:12:25 AM PDT
by
Rte66
To: GretchenM
Remember when “synergy” was the term of the moment?
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:13:34 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: bruinbirdman
“Like” this topic is so, like, amazing”, like, give me a break”!
Where does one start? The english language has always evolved via pop culture. It has always interested me to learn the root of long used slang. The “like phenominon I blame on Moon “valley girl” Zappa. Like ya know?
To: Rockhound
***Im from the Government and Im here to help.***
Or, as frequently seen on FR, “Move along now. There’s nothing to see here.”
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:16:55 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(would)
To: bruinbirdman
The one that really drives me crazy is “I seen that” instead of “I’ve seen that” or “I saw that”. My best friend uses it all the time and it takes everything in me not to correct her.
To: bruinbirdman
.”me and Julio” - it’s rude to put yourself first in the list of people and it’s also wrong to use the objective “me” as the subject of a sentence
.”awnt” for “aunt”
.”absolutely” as an answer for everything
.”go with” instead of “go with you or whomever”
.”they” to describe one person
.”T-boned” as in “the car was T-boned in the crash” - I have no idea what that means
.”busted” instead of broke - a local news anchor uses it every time - “someone busted in the door of the home”
.”left” instead of “let”
.”ditn’t”
.”anyways”
.”oh-mawj” for “homage”
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:17:40 AM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Red Boots
Learner falls flat, sounding institutionalized and dreary, as if there was nothing wonderful about the experience at all. True. My guess is that the term derives from behavioral psychology, as in stimulus/response; stimulator/learner.
Behavioral psychology dominates ed schools. It amazes and saddens me that the modern model for teaching derives from Skinner's rat experiments.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:18:43 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: andy58-in-nh
Well, Ive never been a stickler for grammatical perfection, especially since some turns of phrase are far more effective when they are just left hanging. I'm not a stickler for perfection either (I've ended sentences improperly before. ;) ), but, there are times when improper usage indicates something other than effectiveness, such as with the Spanish teacher mentioned by Red Boots in post #133.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:22:47 AM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: Strategerist
At this point in time. What's wrong with "right now?" That stilted phrase makes me almost as crazy as "viable alternative," another entry in the Dictionary of Trite and True Bureaucratese.
To: Clemenza
“Low Hanging Fruit” are the prey of the “bottom feeders,” aren’t they?
“Bottom feeders” always brings to my mind a picture of a kuhli loach in my aquarium, practically vacuuming up all the fish flakes that fall to the bottom.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:24:33 AM PDT
by
Rte66
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