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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Phrases that annoy you.
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Re: Phrases that annoy you.
"At the end of the day..."
"For all intents and purposes" (kicks to both shins if they say "intensive" instead of "intents and")
"supposively"
"could care less"
I see/hear this all the time and I want to scream "I SAW!!!" at them. I have seen or I saw. Not I seen. Gah!
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Yes! Business jargon is the worse! I would like to add: "bleeding edge," and also "bandwidth" (when used to describe the amount of time a person can devote to a project; e.g. I would love to help you out but I just don't have the bandwidth). I mean, I know that work can be dehumanizing but I'm pretty sure you're not actually a machine!
And I second the person who added "out of pocket."
And another one: when people say they have "done a complete 360." This bugs the shiit out of me and I will sometimes even say, "oh, ok, so you're right back where you started."
Yes!!! Explaining the correct phrase is too much work though so I usually just let it go.
By the same token
Ex boyfriend used to say it ALL the time.
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"God doesn't give you more than you can handle."
Really- if I was a weaker person I would not have to go through this.
After that I banished that phrase from my vocabulary and cringe when I hear it.
Yes to the ridiculous corporate jargon. "Let's white board that!" "Let's take that offline." "Let's parking lot that." I'm convinced people just make it up as they go along.
"Just sayin" makes me automatically assume that you are trash.
This is a regional thing - "Not for nothing." As in, "Not for nothin but my mom cooks way better than your mom."
This also.
"You Go Girl" makes me vomit.
YES!
It really bothers me when people refer to their baby as "the baby" or "it". Your baby is a person! ugh
And "whateves"
"close-minded"
It's closeD-minded. Bah.
Also "due diligence"
That something happened "on yesterday" or "on tomorrow". /headdesk
"I done told you" I done ignored you
"Cash money" you know, as opposed to Monopoly money.
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Courtesy of my sister who is kind of a tool:
"Totes"
"Obvs"
"For reals"
You get the idea. Kill me now.
"Think outside the box" ...may have thrown up a little just then, even typing it.
When BASIC words are mispronounced, like "FUSTRATED" (Yes, without the R) or "SUPPOSIVELY" "SUPPOSABLY"...ugh.
I also agree with the "Just saying" thing...I have a friend who loves to end almost every single FB status with this and she types it exactly like this: "Jus' sayin". Makes me want to punch her through my computer.
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Two of my favorites--"I axed you" instead of "I asked you" and "breaf-uss" instead of "breakfast".
In print, using apostrophes instead of making a word plural (bear's instead of bears), incorrect usage of two/too/to and their/there. If you don't know the correct word, look it up!
Just thought of another one.
"Let's let that marinate" when referring to a new idea, etc. Is this something widely used or just in academic environments? Either way, dumb.
The first year DH were dating, we called them "monthaversaries" bc we were sappy as ***. Kinda still are, but we do not celebrate months anymore, of course! haha
I hate :
"Let's chillax"
"Not for nothing"
"Just sayin"
And all of that crap.
My sister says, "I'm not beat for that." or "I ain't beat for that."
From context clues, I *think* it means, "I don't like that." Or "That pisses me off."
I just watched "Kissing Jessica Stein" this weekend and every time I hear them say it I cringe!
Acrossed or acrost. Unless you are writing to show dialect, these are not proper words. Across is a preposition or sometimes an adverb.
I looked acrossed the street.
I looked across the street.
I am in law enforcement and when I walk into a gas station or a store, etc and someone says to me (most of the time, it's an older man at least 60 years or older men) who say "Oh, I did it" and put out there hands for me to handcuff them. Other variations include "I didn't do it" or "Arrest him," as they point to their friend. I have heard this hundreds of times!!!
I also do not like "You go girl!"
"...and so forth"
Hearing that phrase makes me want to stab my ears with a fork.
I work with a woman in a mid-level position with a masters in english whose every third work is like.
bfp#4 3/19/2014 edd 12/1/2014 please let this be the one!
beta @ 5w0d = 12,026! u/s 4/22/14 @ 8w1d it's twins!
BFP #2 1/22/2012 ~ DS2 & DD ~ BIRTHday 9/13/2012 ~ unplanned C-section @ 38w1d
I thought of another one.
"No offense."
I'm jumping out of the lurking crowd for this one, too.
"Orientate" when speaking about new employees drives me completely batty. I hear it constantly around work this time of year.
Yeah, because if you're saying that then you are obviously aware that what you said before or after it was offensive, so you could have skipped the whole thing.
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I've actually never heard anyone use "raises the question." Pretty much everyone I know uses "begs the question."
I agree with most of the previous posts. Also, I used the phrase "Are you picking up what I'm putting down" once in front of my husband to see if he was actually listening to me and he now uses it all the time. He'd never heard it before and it made him laugh. I created my own monster!
And when people find out that I'm Canadian, they say aboot, eh, and any quote from Terrance and Phillip on South Park.