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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: sauropod
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posted on
05/29/2007 4:41:08 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
To: bruinbirdman
Phrases I hate -
"Blood for oil."
"Bush is Hitler."
82
posted on
05/29/2007 4:41:46 AM PDT
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: bruinbirdman
When people write "would of" when they should write "would've" .
Of is not a contraction of have !
To: gitmo
Someone ACTUALLY typed all that stuff in. They ACTUALLY collected all these silly phrases. .
ACTUALLY, I'm ACTUALLY in 100% agreement with you.
I ACTUALLY think the use of the word ACTUALLY,...
ACTUALLY bugs me. I mean REALLY.
84
posted on
05/29/2007 4:45:35 AM PDT
by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
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.)
To: bruinbirdman
Here’s one.
When speaking about a budget or money, someone says:
In this “physical” year, vs. the proper ‘fiscal’ year.
Bill
To: bruinbirdman
To: don-o
Wish someone had come up with that game while I was still in the work force. We’d have heard “BS!” in every meeting.
To: bruinbirdman
“24/7”
It sounded clever the first 2,500 times, but is beginning to turn stale.
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posted on
05/29/2007 4:49:03 AM PDT
by
docbnj
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)
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
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
(=)
To: Mopp4
Here's a
handy list of objectionable words and phrases. I think consultants get paid by the number of times they use them.
93
posted on
05/29/2007 4:54:35 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
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".
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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))
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
To: IronJack
In the 80’s, Thomas Sowell wrote that “’competency’ is ‘competence’ as described by the incomptent.”
96
posted on
05/29/2007 4:55:39 AM PDT
by
saveliberty
(Prayer blizzard for Tony and Jill Snow and their family.)
To: gitmo
Using the pronoun I where me is appropriate.That's one that grate on me. When we're very young, we might say, "It's me;" or "Me and him did ..." We're taught that the proper way is "It's I;" or "He and I ..." Somehow, that morphs into the misconception that the nominative case is to be used in all situations. Even people supposedly educated in language, such as news anchors, will do this.
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
To: gitmo
But they think it makes them sound SOOOOOOOOOOO
intelligent.
99
posted on
05/29/2007 4:57:25 AM PDT
by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: gitmo
Actually:
I love to watch HGTV and one of my favorite shows is Design on a Dime. They have a new crew this year who, at the end of the show when they are describing what they have done to the room, use actually in EVERY sentence. They really should review their tapes and try to get out of that habit. It is very annoying.
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