Author Topic: Words and phrases to banish from English (Read 26017 times)

stormshearon · « **Reply #90 on:** January 05, 2016, 02:06:50 PM »

Our chief engineer on the Midway absolutely hated the usage of 'right now' on the 1MC when the duty engineer would announce things to the engineering spaces. So just to help him out, we worked really hard to come up with every variation on 'right now' we could find and used those instead. He stopped complaining..

Tom · « **Reply #91 on:** January 05, 2016, 05:34:05 PM »

Actually, I know how he feels.

Chet Rugg · « **Reply #92 on:** January 05, 2016, 10:59:51 PM »

24/7
What you been doing?
Oh man I've been working 24/7 !
Nobody works 24/7. Maybe 24/2 but things get real fuzzy about 24/2.5
None of these relate to me just get tired of hearing it.
When I was young probably in my twenty's I did some 24/7 but it sure wasn't work related

guess time is running out

Triple Jim · « **Reply #93 on:** January 05, 2016, 11:06:03 PM »

That's funny Chet. Sort of like when someone says "I was literally climbing the walls."

Wildguzzi.com · « **Reply #93 on:** January 05, 2016, 11:06:03 PM »

oldbike54 · « **Reply #94 on:** January 05, 2016, 11:09:02 PM »

Quote from: Triple Jim on January 05, 2016, 11:06:03 PM

That's funny Chet. Sort of like when someone says "I was literally climbing the walls."

I am waiting to hear "literal reality"

Oh , Chet can hang

Dusty

Chet Rugg · « **Reply #95 on:** January 05, 2016, 11:16:01 PM »

rocker59 · « **Reply #96 on:** January 06, 2016, 10:34:26 AM »

Quote from: lucydad on January 04, 2016, 03:49:51 PM

Hmmm... "you know" just makes me gag with a spoon, you know?

I know! Right?

canuguzzi · « **Reply #97 on:** January 06, 2016, 10:44:28 AM »

"At the end of the day."

I don't care, I'm sleeping

"What do we know?" There is no we.

"Where do we go from here?". Elsewhere.

boatdetective · « **Reply #98 on:** January 06, 2016, 10:44:32 AM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on January 01, 2016, 05:54:40 PM

Zero credibility , they have not yet banished "artisinal"(sp)

Dusty

"Artisnal" does give me the urge to slap someone.

canuguzzi · « **Reply #99 on:** January 06, 2016, 10:59:12 AM »

"What do you mean, no?"

"We're all in this together."

Penderic · « **Reply #100 on:** January 06, 2016, 11:46:04 AM »

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trippah · « **Reply #101 on:** January 06, 2016, 01:47:45 PM »

It's too pricey! Do they mean too expensive or too costly? Since to put a price on something is to assign a value, isn't this saying the value too great - not the expense of purchase?

rocker59 · « **Reply #102 on:** January 06, 2016, 03:32:48 PM »

Quote from: trippah on January 06, 2016, 01:47:45 PM

It's too pricey! Do they mean too expensive or too costly? Since to put a price on something is to assign a value, isn't this saying the value too great - not the expense of purchase?

"Price" and "Value" are two different things.

price - "the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something."
value - "the monetary worth of something"

"It's too pricey" simply means that the "price" exceeds the "value" in the eyes of the speaker...

ITSec · « **Reply #103 on:** January 09, 2016, 10:12:05 PM »

Quote from: Tom on January 03, 2016, 01:14:37 PM

Obviously, you haven't watched the news in Hong Kong. Emoticon doesn't work on my laptop for some reason. Picture Chinese commentators with British accents. First time I saw that I had to tweak the brain. It's like seeing a black dude with a French accent or a white dude speaking Hakkah (Cantonese Chinese). I know they're out there but it's not common out here.

All you have to do to find a black dude with a French accent is visit Louisiana or the Caribbean - back yard, man!

ITSec · « **Reply #104 on:** January 09, 2016, 10:14:21 PM »

Quote from: v7john on January 04, 2016, 03:38:25 PM

"At this moment in time".

Just "now" or "at the moment" is enough.

Of course, most people don't know the difference between 'at present' and 'presently'...

ITSec · « **Reply #105 on:** January 09, 2016, 10:15:30 PM »

Quote from: Chet Rugg on January 05, 2016, 10:59:51 PM

24/7
What you been doing?
Oh man I've been working 24/7 !
Nobody works 24/7. Maybe 24/2 but things get real fuzzy about 24/2.5
None of these relate to me just get tired of hearing it.
When I was young probably in my twenty's I did some 24/7 but it sure wasn't work related guess time is running out

I've done some Ironbutt rides that were 20/3 or more...

Tom · « **Reply #106 on:** January 10, 2016, 03:29:31 PM »

Quote from: ITSec on January 09, 2016, 10:12:05 PM

All you have to do to find a black dude with a French accent is visit Louisiana or the Caribbean - back yard, man!

Not in my backyard.

Bill N · « **Reply #107 on:** January 10, 2016, 04:09:25 PM »

I've noticed in the last few years questions are answered with the first word being "So"

EX: Why did the house burn down? So, it was found there was a gas leak. It's everywhere on TV from professionals to dweebs.
Bill

Tom · « **Reply #108 on:** January 10, 2016, 04:44:58 PM »

So.......

cruzziguzzi · « **Reply #109 on:** January 11, 2016, 03:11:31 PM »

Quote from: Bill N on January 10, 2016, 04:09:25 PM

I've noticed in the last few years questions are answered with the first word being "So"

EX: Why did the house burn down? So, it was found there was a gas leak. It's everywhere on TV from professionals to dweebs.
Bill

My nephew startred using this mechanism on towards the beginning of his Doctorate studies. Over the years, I have watched it empoison, pollute, contaminate or otherwise infect the communications of the rest of his immediate family.

Now, I find myself stifling the odd opportunity to begin a sentence with "So"... Not unlike the past when, even if the word "like" worked, I feared "hip-speak" so - that I would refuse to begin a sentence with: "Like..." in place of "about" or perhaps "around".

Todd.

donn · « **Reply #110 on:** January 11, 2016, 04:07:43 PM »

Quote from: v7john on January 04, 2016, 11:38:38 AM

I hat it when people answer "very much so". Just say "yes" or "definitely".

I'm trying to catch myself from saying "definitely" when another word would do. It's used so much that it's losing any meaning.

Quote from: pikipiki on January 02, 2016, 02:47:07 PM

Broil (definition)
early 15c., "to quarrel, brawl," also "mix up, present in disorder," from Anglo-French broiller "mix up, confuse," Old French brooillier "to mix, mingle," figuratively "to have sexual intercourse" (13c., Modern French brouiller), perhaps from breu, bro "stock, broth, brew," from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old High German brod "broth") akin to broth (see brew (v.)); also compare imbroglio.

That's funny, the miniature Oxford that comes with the computer says it comes from Old French bruler, to burn, via Middle English. Funk & Wagnall agrees but spells it bruiller, (a later form of the same word?), and then supplies a distinct broil² with the above derivation

Orange Guzzi · « **Reply #111 on:** January 11, 2016, 05:21:33 PM »

Station Wagon.

And Payphone is going to be gone soon.

And please explain where the phrase "stay at home Mom" came from. Because she sure stays gone all the time chasing kids around.

ITSec · « **Reply #112 on:** January 12, 2016, 06:42:30 PM »

Quote from: Orange Guzzi on January 11, 2016, 05:21:33 PM

And please explain where the phrase "stay at home Mom" came from. Because she sure stays gone all the time chasing kids around.

That phrase came from the time when Mom (June Cleaver, methinks!) could stay at home, because the schools were close enough and the neighborhood safe enough that she didn't need to take the station wagon and pick the kids up!

canuguzzi · « **Reply #113 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:50:45 PM »

Quote from: Orange Guzzi on January 11, 2016, 05:21:33 PM

Station Wagon.

And Payphone is going to be gone soon.

And please explain where the phrase "stay at home Mom" came from. Because she sure stays gone all the time chasing kids around.

The payphone isn't going anywhere, you just carry it around with you now. You don't need to feed it change, it takes the money directly from your bank account. Not only that, but instead of paying to make a call, now you also pay to get one. To top it off, you probably pay even if you don't make any calls or get any. It has become exactly what it says it is.

Tom · « **Reply #114 on:** January 15, 2016, 04:52:45 PM »

Quote from: ITSec on January 12, 2016, 06:42:30 PM

that she didn't need to take the station wagon and pick the kids up!

You mean she was allowed to drive!

Rox · « **Reply #115 on:** January 15, 2016, 06:33:59 PM »

BAE Some of you guys that are older than dirt might not know this word but I assure you it is truly F*CKING ANNOYING ... And for those who say it need a whack in the ole berry bush.....

Some use it as a short word for "Baby" which I don't get because you're knocking a word down from 4 letters to 3 and displaying a Dutch word for " Shit".... Nuff said..

cruzziguzzi · « **Reply #116 on:** January 15, 2016, 07:11:26 PM »

Didn't see this one yet - apologies otherwise:

Oh....

Maiiiy....

Gaaaawd!

Whether the relentless "oh my God" in TV/Movies or the OMG on the blathernet... Time to retire it as an effused oral or written ejaculation.

Todd.

Tom · « **Reply #117 on:** January 15, 2016, 10:53:35 PM »

"'Nuff said".

Penderic · « **Reply #118 on:** January 16, 2016, 04:09:08 AM »

"Don't enumerate your pullets before the ova have been completely incubated."

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Author Topic: Words and phrases to banish from English (Read 26017 times)

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