Most annoying English phrase? 1

[LNBruno]

I'd like to lead off with one (of thousands) of my favorite(s):

...at the end of the day...

To which I always want to add something like:

...another one will start!

Okay, Word Police! Let's hear 'em!

< M!ke >
I am not a hamster and life is not a wheel.

 

[mjldba]

Apparently, when someone is struggling with the correct name of an object, they will say something like "Why did you buy these ones? You know I like those ones better.

 

[RegistrationMark]

at this point in time"

not one of my favorites

 

[2ffat]

My bad!"

What does that mean?


James P. Cottingham
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[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[ESquared]

crap.

As in "I've got to get some of this crap off my desk." [out of my wallet/pocket/house etc.]

My response: "Oh that's disgusting! You have crap on your desk? Aoooe

http://wwww."

You can say some quite funny things with proper lead-in crap lines. "There's too much crap in here!" can be met with "And exactly how much crap would be exactly right, in your opinion?" - raised eyebrow, tilted head, quizzical expression.

[COLOR=#aa88aa black]Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.[/color]

 

[dgillz]

My bad" means "my mistake". That drives me nuts too.

Software Sales, Training, Implementation and Support for Macola, eSynergy, and Crystal Reports

http://www.gainfocus.biz

"If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word"
--Dave Barry

 

[MeGustaXL]

I used to work with a bloke who had two annoying speech traits:

"In terms of..." and "Actually, physically..."

In meetings with suppliers he would slip these in frequently, in much the same way as some people use swear words as a form of verbal punctuation.

A typical sentence might be:

So in terms of building it, how are you actually, physically going to provide us with the actual, physical product?"

My fellow attendees and I would mark the top of a notebook page 'ITO' and 'AP', then make tally marks for each expression. His record was 38 ITO's and 47 AP's in one 4-hour meeting!

It was made especially annoying to me, because he is Scottish, and actually, physically says "In tairms of..." But he can't help that quirk, even though it drives me up the wall!

Chris

Don't count the days, make the days count

Muhammad Ali

 

[Thadeus]

'Basically' as in 'Basically you want to open the application and then basically just hit the button in the upper right corner which will basically launch the filter.

That one's fresh from one of my employees... my response is usually along the lines of: So basically what you are basically trying to tell me is that starting the filter is basically an easy task? Basically?


A co-wroker from a few years ago would kill me with "Not for nothing, but..." It seems that phrase can start just about any sentence. Not in my present universe mind you, but in that alternate hell I was in at the time.

~Thadeus

 

[MeGustaXL]

Y'know" as in:

What we, Y'know are trying to Y'know, like, do is simply, Y'know to give the kids, Y'know something, Y'know more productive to, Y'know do with their, Y'know educational wossnames, Y'know, errrmmm qualifications, Y'know?

Oh yes, and 'like' as in the above quote -

Chris

Don't count the days, make the days count

Muhammad Ali

 

[MeGustaXL]

Hey, this is the same as Ladyazh's thread1256-1329979

Take a look, it's even got some of the same answers as here!

Chris

Don't count the days, make the days count

Muhammad Ali

 

[LNBruno]

Hmmm, did a search on "annoying" and didn't get a hit, but didn't think to enter my thesaurus...

Hey, admin! Is there a "merge" function in TT? ;-)

< M!ke >
I am not a hamster and life is not a wheel.

 

[TheRambler]

Did you try "pet peeve"?

 

[Bandenjamin]

Star for MeGustaXL on that Ya know thing....ya know, it just ya know like totally ya know drives me ya know nuts and stuff.



--Dan
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

 

[Turkbear]

whatever...



To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[flapeyre]

Issues". Newspapers and magazines have "issues"; to me, everything else is a problem.

Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.

 

[Welshbird]

Flapeyre: One of my favourite BBC Radio shows has a section called the Uxbridge English Dictionary and has new meanings for known words.

My recent favourite has been
Scar Tissue: A problem between the DVD and the television.

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[SantaMufasa]

I don't know if Matt Lauer's interview with Prices William and Harry aired in the UK, but here in the US, we were heavily bombarded during the interview with the Royal "So-tuv"...

My bruthu and I so-tuv created this consut so-tuv to honuh our muthuh, so-tuv to let the people pahticipate so-tuv in so-tuv a special event to so-tuv honuh her.

Their over use of "so-tuv" so-tuv made it so-tuv impossible to so-tuv pay so-tuv attention to so-tuv anything that they so-tuv said.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[notadba]

'Winningest!!!!
Sports commentators in the US have a lot to answer for.

 

[MeGustaXL]

Thanks for the star, Dan

I heard those very words (I think) in a radio interview with the Minister For Education! The over-use of Y'know meant I didn't concentrate on the speaker's message, just counted all forty-eight 'Y'know's!

Chris

Don't count the days, make the days count

Muhammad Ali

 

[grande]

It's really bothering me how much "thru" is becomming common.

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Call me barely Impressive Captain.

 

[IknowMe]

I don't know how widespread it use is, but I knew a gentleman who often said "so on, so forth, that type of thing". Has anyone else ever heard this?

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.