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"My Bad" and other lazy expressions
JimVT
| 02/10/03
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Posted on 02/10/2003 2:15:36 PM PST by JimVT
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To: JimVT
My hatred for:
"At this point in time"
knows no bounds (It means exactly the same thing as "at this time")
For whatever reason it is impossible for any law enforcement, search and rescue, EMT, emergency medical, etc. person to give any sort of interview or briefing WITHOUT using "at this point in time." I wonder how THAT started?
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:34:01 PM PST
by
John H K
To: JimVT
Go ahead and flame me and I promise I'll start on "route" and "rout" next! Not a bad post.
But how about one on "your" and "you're"?
To: cinFLA
Far out.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:34:06 PM PST
by
GOPyouth
To: jojomatic
Fa shizzle dizzle.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:34:35 PM PST
by
GOPyouth
To: All
Whoopsie dazy, i've just posted to the wrong thread.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:36:20 PM PST
by
widgysoft
(< Woo and Yay! >)
To: JimVT
Don't worry "it's all good"
To: JimVT
My problem is trying to understand all of the acronyms the military uses. Someone will typed four or five paragraphs and they can't type a couple more words to explain themselves.
To: showme_the_Glory
This thread is off the hook.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:36:59 PM PST
by
GOPyouth
To: John H K
how bout "the foreseeable future"?
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:37:33 PM PST
by
Temple Drake
(When men were men, and women were women -- a darn good arrangement!)
To: GOPyouth
I had one once, but the wheels fell off.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:38:05 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
(Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
To: JimVT
I was going to write a long response.
But yada, yada, yada. This is my post.
To: JimVT
And what not.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:38:19 PM PST
by
ncdrumr
To: JimVT
I think your right. We're seeing a paradigm shift of meaningless words and bad grammar. It is very unique. For sure.
To: JimVT
When you hear 'the truth of the matter is...' you are being offered one version of the truth, and not a good one.
Listen for it, it is uncanny, especially on political shows.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:40:02 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Riley
I wonder what he thinks about the alleged word 'doable'.
I heard Rush say it about 10 years ago. He brain farted and couldn't come up with the word 'possible' and he blurted out 'doable'. It seems as if I heard it everywhere after that. You know what I'm saying?
To: JimVT
We're talking majorly irritating!
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:40:26 PM PST
by
SerpentDove
(Shave the whales)
To: JimVT
that hella sucks
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:40:43 PM PST
by
GoreIsLove
(don't blame me, i voted for kodos)
To: JimVT
I wonder if these toxic little phrases come from television shows -- sitcoms, maybe? I don't watch them, but through osmosis figured out that the annoying 'yada, yada, yada' came from Seinfeld.
Another dumb ubiquitous phrase is 'lose it,' which I guess means to have an emotional breakdown. Don't know where that came from.
The mother of all stupid phrases is, for me, 'affirmative action.' (Of course it differs from sitcom expressions in that it was created to be obfuscatory, rather than just cute.)
I was in Europe for a couple of years in the early '70s, and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting 'affirmative action, affirmative action.' I had no idea what they were talking about.
To: JimVT
I always thought "my bad" was started by Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode One.
Michael
To: coloradan
It is very series. Anyone who uses it is a real looser.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:41:32 PM PST
by
ladtx
(Hey, what's this line for?)
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