You didn't "brought" it - get it right!!!
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A few that pi55 me off,
Super, as in, it’s super hot out there today, or, he’s super funny. What happened to really or very?
Absolutely really niggles at me when used instead of yes. Especially when it’s delivered in that stupid over enthusiastic and exaggerated way! You going to the party. Abbbsolutleee
Lil instead of little, just grow up!
And when the eff did vista appear? What happened to good old views?
Super, as in, it’s super hot out there today, or, he’s super funny. What happened to really or very?
Absolutely really niggles at me when used instead of yes. Especially when it’s delivered in that stupid over enthusiastic and exaggerated way! You going to the party. Abbbsolutleee
Lil instead of little, just grow up!
And when the eff did vista appear? What happened to good old views?
enuff_zed said:Mr Tidy said:z4pilot said:
Or why not get it right and say "could have" or "should have".
Think he was being ironic, if you read his next couple of posts.
- As I'm sure z4pilot was in his post!
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About the same time a ‘flat’ became an ‘apartment’, or a shed in a back yard in London became a ‘bijou studio apartment’.Lance said:
I don’t really mind people using new/modern/slang words, I just can’t stand them using the wrong word for the context...such as accept vs except, or imply vs infer, or using a word they don’t know the meaning of at all, such gruntled (obviously the opposite of disgruntled).
Although I think I’m guilty of using one specific word in an archaic form, as when I have a good meal, or good time, I will say something is ‘fine’, but most other people think I mean ‘okay’, rather than ‘good’. You’d never say fine wine or find art we’re only okay, would you?
Caught my wife saying this last night at the end of a phone call and when I said to her she was annoyed because she doesn't like doing it and doesn't know why she started doing it.
The words were "Bye bye bye bye bye bye" until the phone was switched off.
Whats wrong with saying bye once and when did people start saying it multiple times at the end of a call?
The words were "Bye bye bye bye bye bye" until the phone was switched off.
Whats wrong with saying bye once and when did people start saying it multiple times at the end of a call?
I’ve spent about 30 years working with management consultants, who are paid huge sums to go into blue chip companies and tell them what’s going wrong (and most do provide a decent ROI).
However, whilst some are very straight talking, there are a some (e.g. McKinsey, Booz Allen) who will just spout so much consulting buzzwords and jargon when trying to make a point, that at the end of the sentence you don’t actually know what they’ve said.
E.g. instead of:
However, whilst some are very straight talking, there are a some (e.g. McKinsey, Booz Allen) who will just spout so much consulting buzzwords and jargon when trying to make a point, that at the end of the sentence you don’t actually know what they’ve said.
E.g. instead of:
they will say...
I hate the fact that social media appears to have given a platform for people to make up words and apparently everyone spits their tea out over the keyboard because of this.
An Example, twatwaffle, springs to mind. It's not funny in the slightest, yet people pretend they've excreted their cup of tea over it :lol:
An Example, twatwaffle, springs to mind. It's not funny in the slightest, yet people pretend they've excreted their cup of tea over it :lol:
