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Most annoying "spoken phrases" you hear

yojitani said:
It drives me nuts when American's pronounce silent letters in British place names. e.g. Norwich, Leicester, Bury.

Or when academic wannabes mispronounce German words. I'm sure I'm guilty of butchering French though.
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We have better things to worry about then oddly-spelled British counties and cities. 😀
 
MultiM said:
My wife and I heard this on design show on HGTV recently: " We need to artifact this room." What the hell? When did 'artifact' become a noun?? Put crap on the shelves, don't 'artifact' it!!
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I think he means 'verb'.

Any kind of 'office-speak' annoys me. Does anyone here agree that the role of a manager is to create enough work to keep himself or herself employed?

I just thought of another one: people that use the female form instead of male and female combined. Is this a protest against those that use only the male form? For example, "Does anyone here agree that the role of a manager is to keep herself employed?" Writing like that makes you sound like an elitist jerk. It should be "himself or herself"; managers can be men or women!

(I don't agree with just using the male form either, though.)
 
If you listen to my Dad talking. Within 10 seconds I will guarantee you will hear at least one of these phrases:

1. Don't get me wrong

2. I'm not being funny

3. I didn't mean it like that

At first we barely noticed. Then it was a bit annoying. Then it was hilarious listening to him as me and my brother counted the phrases as he spoke. Now we have got over it, it is just damn annoying now and I have to leave the room because he just repeats the same **** over and over but swaps the phrases around.

😡
 
cait-sith said:
I just thought of another one: people that use the female form instead of male and female combined. Is this a protest against those that use only the male form? For example, "Does anyone here agree that the role of a manager is to keep herself employed?" Writing like that makes you sound like an elitist jerk. It should be "himself or herself"; managers can be men or women!
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Yes, this annoys me, too. To me it's just a pathetic example of PC. It was always 'he'. Now it's always 'she'. It's an extra letter, so what's the point? Do PC whiners think women were offended?
 
For some unremembered reason, when asking users questions, I often prefaced it with, "Question for you........". I am not sure why I started saying it. I think I was just throwing some words out there while I was actually formulating the question for the user's level of technical understanding. Regardless of the origin, after a short while, I noticed users saying the same to me. Then I started hearing them saying it to each other. Now, it is all over the company and is driving me nuts.
 
cait-sith said:
I think he means 'verb'.

Any kind of 'office-speak' annoys me. Does anyone here agree that the role of a manager is to create enough work to keep himself or herself employed?

I just thought of another one: people that use the female form instead of male and female combined. Is this a protest against those that use only the male form? For example, "Does anyone here agree that the role of a manager is to keep herself employed?" Writing like that makes you sound like an elitist jerk. It should be "himself or herself"; managers can be men or women!

(I don't agree with just using the male form either, though.)
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I wish our idioms contained more gender-neutral words. I liked the Ms movement. Too bad it became politically associated. There are many everyday terms we use that are definitely associated with gender. Unfortunately, many are so ingrained, it is difficult to not use them (at least for me).

A British couple, and close friends, once asked me why I often said "You guys..". I had to confess I did not know. We say it all the time in the USA, often to a group of women.

I would much prefer to not use gender in speech. Perhaps the reason I do is out of laziness?
 
I hate it when men roar.
I hate it when Women simultaneously sneeze and laugh at the same time.
Children who bark and meow give me the willies.
 
Mr_Brightside_@ said:
"So how about that math?"

Holy ****. Every single day.

EDIT:
from the same person
"Going to practice tonight?"
AHGHRGDHSDH
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Hahaha, I'm likely guilty of annoying someone in this exact way. I go to a social science/economics uni, so there's this giant divide between each and when we mix, you often get situations such as this.

On behalf of ppl like that everywhere, we're sorry! 🙂

The "spoken phrase" I cannot stand is my mum's way of saying "I says/he says/she says" for absolutely everything. She seems not to know the word "said." If it was something from the past that is not still occurring or is not frequently reoccurring it should be "said", no? I really don't want to be rude and point it out but often times she'll point out when I mess up and say "[insert friend's name] and me" instead of "[insert friend's name] and I." At least I don't do it all the fricking time!

Wow...this response was scary to write up as I'm deathly afraid I've made some annoying mistake in it...
 
SMM said:
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A British couple, and close friends, once asked me why I often said "You guys..". I had to confess I did not know. We say it all the time in the USA, often to a group of women.

I would much prefer to not use gender in speech. Perhaps the reason I do is out of laziness?
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I've wondered about that for a while but shouldn't it be yous guys, anyway? 😀

Gender in speech is only important in certain western languages. Latin and Ancient Greek used gender, but why was/is it important really?
 
"babes"

I hear it especially from these obnoxious chavy "Essex girls" - going on and on throwing the word "babes" into every available slot in speech. They throw in "yeah" and "innit" occasionally but it's the babes thing that really grates on my nerves.
"You wanna cigarette, babes?" "Yeah babes, you gotta dump him babes, he's a skeeza, innit? You don't need that babes, yeah." 🙄
 
I just like going around saying "Meet me at the trow, it's going down!" Although apparently it's the "trap." 😱
 
"you get me" (meaning: "you know what i mean?")

we used that at uni years ago when it was first starting out, and now every next person is saying it.. bugs the hell out of me..

uni kids nowadays just aint got a clue (here in england anyway) 😛 need schooling 😀
 
MacboobsPro said:
If you listen to my Dad talking. Within 10 seconds I will guarantee you will hear at least one of these phrases:

1. Don't get me wrong

2. I'm not being funny

3. I didn't mean it like that

At first we barely noticed. Then it was a bit annoying. Then it was hilarious listening to him as me and my brother counted the phrases as he spoke. Now we have got over it, it is just damn annoying now and I have to leave the room because he just repeats the same **** over and over but swaps the phrases around.

😡
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Am I right in remembering/thinking your from 'Up Norf? It must be a Dad from The North thing that, my dad is excatly the same. 😀
 
Josh said:
"[insert person's name]...is a real chill person"
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Hehe
thequicksilver said:
I do something similar with "I hate you with a passion" - I just say "I hate you with a passion fruit". It really confuses people.
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You make me crack up.


What annoys me is:

Macs eh crap

Macs are crap

People using gay as an insult

My windows* is better than your mac
*Using windows as the name of there pc

Using the wrong gender of words in other languages eg.
ciao bella
to a mac/boy

chav words

macs dont run programs



-jake
 
i hate it when people compare things to sex. they'll say:

" [place noun here] " is a lot like sex."

then they try to create a realtionship between the two and they're just trying to be funny. its especially annoying when they compare it to some sport....🙄

the only thing like sex is....sex!
 
jamone80 said:
i hate it when people compare things to sex. they'll say:

" [place noun here] " is a lot like sex."

then they try to create a realtionship between the two and they're just trying to be funny. its especially annoying when they compare it to some sport....🙄

the only thing like sex is....sex!
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I dunno, having a Thomas the tank is a lot like sex... Although not actually.
 
I know this thread is old, but I keep seeing the same annoying grammar mistake on a lot of posts. I hate it when people don't know how to use mine correctly. I've seen several posts where people add an 's at the end of mine to make it possessive. Mine is already possessive and doesn't require an 's at the end.

Don't they teach proper grammar anymore in school?
 
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