Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
I can't come up with an example of this. How do people misuse these words? (I wonder if I'm such an offender.)
Irregardless. It drives me nuts.
“He was one of the only who...”
That phrase makes no sense whatsoever. Does it mean “one of only two,” or “twenty” or “one thousand”, or how many?
Speaking of real estate terminology, this annoys me:
The term “newer” means less new than “new”.
“Bush’s fault.”
(Can I get an Amen?)
When I say “thank-you” to my teens’ friends, they respond “no problem”. I usually respond “do you mean you’re welcome”?...to which they respond, “yes you’re welcome”. I’m now getting the same “no problem” response from some adults!
Not numerically.
LOL...everytime I hear someone say this, I always tell them..."uh-oh, you've been talking to a consultant haven't you ?"
Also, I am REALLY SICK of hearing "My Bad"
Oooh, I like this topic.
“challenge the bubble” WTF does that mean. If you’ve got trouble popping a bubble, you’ve got some real issues. Why are you challenging it anyway, just leave it alone, it’ll pop in a sec.
Also “More “insert here” than you can possibly imagine”
Hmm, ok there. Lessee.
Money: I can imagine every inch of the Earth, stacked 100,000 feet high with 100 dollar bills, more than that then?
Power: I can imagine having the power on a single thought to be able to contract the universe to a singular point infinitesimally small, then reverse it in a quadrillionth of a second. More power than that?
You get the point. Now, can you imagine being able to imagine more than I can possibly imagine?
I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.
“Old adage.”
I recently had to change the password on my work computer. I keyed in "Sum(n)=n/2(A1+An)".
The system gave me a message that my proposed new password "is not unique enough."
Unique is a binary choice. Something is either unique or it's not. And what was the problem with my prospective new password? I tried several other entries, with the same response.
So I called our help desk. The helpful help desk guy explained that I needed to make my password uniquer.
;-) Hugh/Huge
LOL Hugh could be huge, but it is better to be clear.
Series/Serious
And the most tiresome of all, “No Problem.”
I’m chill..
“breaking the paradigm”
I always thought “paradigm” meant two ten-cent coins.
How about Conservative Democrat, or Liberal Republican.
If a person is a democrat he is not conservative, and if he is liberal he is not a Republican.
That went over like a lead balloon ;-).
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