katie ta achoo said:I thought it was considered really coarse language!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloodyThe use of bloody in adult UK broadcasting aroused controversy in the 1960s and 1970s but is now unremarkable (as can be seen by the fact that in the Harry Potter movies, which are geared toward children, the character Ron says "bloody hell" many times in all three movies).
Ooh, that's a good one, but I'm guilty of that occasionally same w/ "... ya know what I mean?"katie ta achoo said:"...you know what I'm sayin?"
Ugh, that one drives me crazy too. The word is "regardless." "Irregardless" is like a double negative.IJ Reilly said:Annoying, but considered grammatically correct, irregardless.
katie ta achoo said:I thought it was considered really coarse language!!
IJ Reilly said:"I could care less" (used when the opposite is meant)
I don't mind hearing "Brits" use this expression, but it really bugs me to hear Americans use it in an attempt to "sound British".Dont Hurt Me said:One phrase thats bothered me is the Bloody this, Bloody that, the Brits use all the time...
toontra said:H pronounced "haich" - like nails down a blackboard to me!
Josh said:"Let's DO lunch. Let's DO a burger....etc"
Lunch and burgers are things you EAT and/or HAVE, not DO.
I HATE! that saying!
Listen...you can go ahead and "DO" a burger, but I don't want to be around when the authorities show up....
or, commonly heard in the office:
"Touch base with me..."
"I'm the liaison..."...First off, pronounce it right...secondly, you're not part of spoken French sentence, so never say that...ever.
"I'm so delinquent..." When someone is late. Just say "late"...surely delinquent isn't a word you should use in an attempt to sound intelligent.
Dude, I could go on forever, but it makes me mad just thinking about these things.
840quadra said:What are the most annoying phrases you commonly hear in your part of the world?....
floyde said:"bless you" or "gesundheit" ("salud" in my case). It's just Idiotic It is SOOO dark ages to think that speaking such a word after someone sneezes is going to make that person healthy. Here in Mexico it is considered to be very impolite to ommit the word when someone sneezes. I hate it
"Please cascade this information to your department"Lord Blackadder said:I agree with Josh, office-speak is some of the worst....
emw said:Anything that comes out of the mouths of my managers...
"We needed to shoot that in the head." - referring to a bad idea
"Put together a deck on that." - referring to building a presentation
"We need to deskill the process." - referring to reducing the required skillset to perform job functions