Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
When I say, “Thank you, and told, “That’s okay.” That is a pet peeve.
“That’s okay” is never an appropriate or correct response to “Thank you.” The correct response is, “You’re welcome.” Or, “You’re very welcome,” or “quite welcome,” or, “It’s my pleasure.”
But not, “That’s okay.” Unless you want to sound like a 15-year-old.
“Look Outside Of The Box”
Using the pronoun “I” where “me” is appropriate.
“He sent an email to Joe and I”. It should read “... to Joe and me.”
Google Juice
Wow Factor
Negotiated
Think Outside the Box
Optimization
Customer Facing Performance
Knowledge Transfer
Game Plan
Real-Time
Customer Oriented
Win-win
Tailwind[s]
Off the Shelf
Bottom up
Workshop
On The Same Page
Go Public
Team Building
Monetize
Heads up
Reach out
Benchmark
Braindump
I could go on and on with this.
How about spelling / usage? (Your / you're)
“Something bigger than yourself”
Including that Bingo game in a movie sequence could be very funny if it were done so the audience understood what was happening and the right character was playing the game / standing up and shouting.
“I could care less” when they really mean “I couldn’t care less.”
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Not to mention, “supposablee” for supposedly
and....”irregardless” a joint mangling of irrespective and regardless
Paradigm shift.
“refer back to”
Utilize instead of use.
“prolly” as a substitute for “probably”
“In my past experience ... .”
Yech!
surge
Okay, so what does “yitbos” mean?
“You know” inserted liberally in conversation (It’s a disease).
> When I say, “Thank you, and told, “That’s okay.” That is a pet peeve.
I first encountered this when I emigrated to New Zealand. In Canada, “you’re welcome” was the only correct and polite response to “thankyou” and was always expected. “That’s alright” or “that’s ok” would have been the correct response to “excuse me” or “I’m sorry”.
It felt really weird expressing gratitude and getting a resonse for having done something wrong...
Even today, 14 years on, it still grates!
It’s = it is It’s a girl!
Its = It possesses something (used in the same way one would use “his” or “hers”) This is its final exposure to warm air.
Let’s = let us
Lets = real estate term; also, a verb: Jane lets us work here.
There is a very annoying trend among the young whereby the speaker almost spits out the last letter of any word ending in “t”.
“What” has become “wha-tihhhh”
You hear this constantly on any youth-targeted TV show.
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