Most annoying "spoken phrases" you hear

[XNine]

I've seen a lot of wookies - naked, mind you - in Star Wars, and not ONCE was there an inkling that being hung like said wookie would be advantageous in any way.

Well, they do have a LOT of fur hiding things. I mean, you can't see nipples either, but they're there!

edit: and no, I'm not as hairy as a wookie if that was your next question.

 

[xsedrinam]

Anything from the mouths of "wiggers", starting from the bottom of the bottom feeders' list with enemaM, and working up.

 

[pknz]

"...the old cliche" or any use of the word cliche.
"...it was like..." any incorrect use of the word like.
"...we bate them 3-nil" we beat them perhaps?
"i hate yous" use or yous or you's or youse
"sheeps"

Also the problem with that we don't have enough words that change into the first two letters:
Dice turns into Di
But Fish don't turn into Fi! I mean cmon!

On a side note, the fact that aswell and alot are still not words.

 

[thequicksilver]

and anything with this: "I hate/love _______ with a passion." TaKe your poetic passion and go **** yourself. It makes you sounD OH SO DEEP when you say that partIcular phrase, that it makes me want to kill your entire Family, 100 kittens, and open the valves on an oil rig right into the ocean.

Let's not Forget, thE phRasE "HuNg like a horse." Yeah, like There's a whole lot of women out there that would have fun with something that big.
However, I like my phrase "Hung like a wookie." NO ONE EXPECTS IT!

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.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

To be fair Jaffa, I think liquids can be ice-cold without freezing, especially alcoholic drinks. Ever put vodka in the freezer?

Granted, I know really it's just a term to describe something that's heavily chilled, and shouldn't be taken literally, but it's just one of those things that niggles because it just doesn't sound right to me. To take your example, in my mind at least vodka should only considered to be ice cold when it reaches the temperature that vodka will freeze at. But like I said in my earlier post, I'm just too pedantic for my own good sometimes.

And thanks for the science, yippy!

 

[Stampyhead]

Goes well with my co-worker's "supposively"

Or "supposibly"

 

[yenko]

To which noun in the statement, "Think Different" is different referring? Different describes how to think, and therefore should be the adverbial form: differently.

Think : Different

 

[whocares]

Airport talk

I'll quote George Carlin on this:

'Bording process' ? Why make everything sound so complicated?
'Pre-boarding process' ?? if they're pre-boarding somebody, well, they're already boarding...
'Near miss' No, it's a near hit. When 2 planes collide, it's a near miss: whow, they almost missed each other...
'Pls wait till the plane comes to complete halt' It ain't a halt if it ain't complete.
'We would like to welcome you to [insert airport name here]...' They weren't there before you, so how can they welcome you?
...
...

 

[Doctor Q]

I'll quote George Carlin on this:...

And telling you 'the local time is...' as if there were any other time that mattered. Thanks, George.

I used to be bugged by people "going" instead of "saying", but after a while I decided that it wasn't that everybody had gone crazy, but just another case of language changing over time and people (especially kids) wanting to find a new way to say something and not being worried about stuffy rules of correctness.

Perhaps the proper way for a parent to scold a kid is by saying "If I've gone once, I've gone a hundred times!"

 

[Chundles]

The phrase is "Should've, Would've, Could've" at least that's the way we Aussies say it

We also say "Have a good one" (another Aussie phrase) meaning have a good day, afternoon, evening depending on the time of day.

I hate:-

"Whateva.."

"Sick man.."

"You go girlfriend"

"That's what I'm talkin' 'bout"

and "WOoT"

Yes, I know the way the phrase is said here in Australia. However, I was not referring to the phrase. This is the reason each example appears in its OWN set of quotation marks.

 

[kasei]

I was just in a meeting and I heard someone misuse "come" and "go" It also drives me crazy when people don't know how to use "bring" and "take".

And one last one. Whenever I hear this one it makes me crazy. People who pronounce the word sword and say the "w".

 

[neut]

Mispronouncing: boot, root, and creek as buut, ruut, and crick

... or maybe im mispronouncing them.


peace | neut

 

[Stampyhead]

It drives me mad when people say "pronounciation" instead of "pronunciation."
Speaking of which, I can't stand it when people misspell words to match their bad pronunciation. I once saw a hand-written For Sale sign that read "fer sell." Hey, I'm impressed that he could actually write the letters...

 

[Macaddicttt]

Anyone else wondering about the ad at the bottom of this thread? I can't seem to make the connection...

Are sticklers for language overdue for sex?

 

[katie ta achoo]

Oooh! I just remembered one!
When people don't use adverbs when they should.
"How did you do on your chair test?"
"I did GOOD."
AGGHHH!



and:

Anyone else wondering about the ad at the bottom of this thread? I can't seem to make the connection...

Are sticklers for language overdue for sex?

I think it's the small number of Mac nerd grammar freaks. We're a small market, but they know what we want!! HAHA!

 

[slimflem]

It just drives me f'in crazy when people begin or end a sentence with "so".

"So the other day I was...."
"I'll be doing that this weekend, so...."

ARG!!!! I hate that! It seems like its a trendy thing to say, but I think it is very irritating. It makes the person look stupid.

 

[w_parietti22]

"Your good at computers" - (answer: I just use Macs, It can make anyone "good at computers" )

"Wes, get over hear, my stupid PC is messed up" (answer: Ummmm... yeah, I dunno no how to fix that.)

Wes, Wes, Wes, Wes, please help me with more hw, your good at computers which means your smart.

 

[EJBasile]

anything said in ebonics including "you donno me"

"by the way" makes no sense
as in "by the way, how was your weekend"

 

[solvs]

"We need to shift the paradigm...think outside the box...be more pro-active."

I did that already, but I guess it's a moot point. And it is moot. No mute. Not moo (like a cow). Moot.

Oh, and I just remembered a good one. When someone says "no offense, but..." and then says something offensive.

 

[rickvanr]

I hate this one;

"You know what I'm saying?"

Where I reply, "No, I don't"

 

[Whyren]

Mispronouncing: boot, root, and creek as buut, ruut, and crick

... or maybe im mispronouncing them.


peace | neut

Ah, root/ruut...a constant source of criticism for some people in my first year music theory classes.

 

[Nermal]

It also drives me crazy when people don't know how to use "bring" and "take".

I brung my computer to school once

An all-too-common non-word is "chairperson". The word is "chairman". The "man" means "human", not "male". You don't need to gender-correct it.

Side note: This is probably the most quote mark-filled post I've ever made

 

[Lacero]

When confronted, someone says "I didn't do nothing."

 

[ham_man]

"You need to try harder"

 

[MontyZ]

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