Annoying Words

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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Quality Mince » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:37 pm

Reading some of the psots in this discussion reminded me of the great Stanley Baxter…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVD5-IK ... re=related
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby viceroy » Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:46 pm

BrigitDoon wrote:Hmm, I wonder what happened to the old walnuts...

Anyway, what's pissing me off at the moment is "there's an app for that..."



Yes, that advert really makes me cringe.

Also, the phrase "studies have shown, that....." is guaranteed to get me going.
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Bridie » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:22 pm

"lessons will be learned"
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Shardonnay » Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:08 pm

When yir brolly is dripping and yir clearly soaked to the skin some idiot always has to ask " Is it raining ? " :roll:
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby ninatoo » Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:30 pm

Gaining popularity is the phrase "One of the only...." as in such gems as "She is one of the only people who can run that fast"or "He is one of the only actors who could play that part."

Should it not be "One of a few"? or even "One of only a few" if you HAVE to use the word ONLY.

Last time I had grammar lessons, the word 'only' referred to the singular. So saying 'one of the only' makes no sense whatever and it gets on my nerves.
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby lordsleek » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:02 am

Yeah and did you know some people are "quite unique"

gaaah You're either unique or fucking not, there is no grey area! :x
eeeeeewwwww whats that!
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby DickyHart » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:15 am

you misplace something! then someone chucks in ...

"where did you lose it?" without any irony

makes me want to commit a murder that does.
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Lone Groover » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:56 pm

DickyHart wrote:you misplace something! then someone chucks in ...

"where did you lose it?" without any irony

makes me want to commit a murder that does.


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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Doorstop » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:45 am

Would that be a "bad murder" by any chance?
I like him ... He says "Okie Dokie!"
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Peetabix » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:17 pm

Nosh
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby sunnysider » Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:19 pm

That woman who did the voice for the M&S food adverts -

Thiesss is neott jassst feooood ... thiess iess Ammm and Easssss feooood

has spawned a whole new voiceover culture. Tortured, strangled vowels are everywhere.

Talk normally - it's talking, not sex. Just stop it. Now.
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby BrigitDoon » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:07 am

Split infinitives nearly kept me awake last night :shock: because I've heard them on the BBC too often lately and they should know better. The construction "to adverb verb" does my swede. :evil:

I admire the French for their determination not to have* their language polluted by creeping Americanisation**.

Just imagine it: "to boldly go": all-audacieusement-er :shock:

*to not have is another butchering of the infinitive that annoys me.
**Americanization, peut-être?

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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:51 am

BrigitDoon wrote:I admire the French for their determination not to have* their language polluted by creeping Americanisation**.



To be more precise L'Académie française is determined but most French people will still be enjoying le weekend

However, the Académie française's directives are not always considered very appropriate; for instance, online chat is supposed to be called causette or parlotte, which are old-fashioned words for chat that nobody ever uses. (Note that in Quebec a different solution has been found to translate online chat. The word clavardage is increasingly common. This neologism is a portmanteau word coined from the words clavier (English keyboard) and bavardage (English chat).)


Note, some words were borrowed from English into French centuries ago, such as clown (pronounced "kloon") and spleen (in French the latter means "melancholy", and not the "spleen" organ). These are not anglicisms, but rather are considered perfectly good French words fully accepted by the Académie française. Perhaps the only difference between an anglicism and a full-fledged French word is the test of time.


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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Knightmare » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:52 am

Annoying Word: Synergy :roll:

Plebs at work use this word to sound smart but they don't, they just sound like plebs.

Example Meaning.....basically when two or more forces come together to ensure more force than would have been created individually.

Pleb use of the word: "Eh i think if we all work in Synergy we'll be able to build the bridge out of straws and sellotape".
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Re: Annoying Words

Postby Dot » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:24 am

When I hear that word it makes me think of one of those annoying L'Oreal adverts though I think the face cream is spelt Synergie.

Here in N.I. you hear people saying things like when they were reared as though they were a pig down on the farm.
Think it has come from the country as don't imagine it is used by people brought up in the cities.

Another one they say is that they are going to speak till someone instead of to someone.
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