What is your least favorite word?
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Bedad! No! Think . . . dictionary.Cranberry wrote:Aren't all words homemade?mutepointe wrote:there is this homemade word i've heard a few folks around here use:
flustered + frustrated = flustrated
I'm surprised you did not know this. What did you do with that link I gave you, anyway?
Probably tumped it right out into the wastebasket. Tsk.
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My least favourite expression: "Oh, one more thing...".
My customers have a nasty habit of phoning up with an innocuous question. I've learned not to let my guard down. After the original question has been settled, there's "Oh, one more thing.." and it is something gawd-awful that it would take a combination of Machiavelli, Feynman and Gandalf to sort out. One in particular used to lay half a dozen "one more thing"s on me, and always at ten to five.
My customers have a nasty habit of phoning up with an innocuous question. I've learned not to let my guard down. After the original question has been settled, there's "Oh, one more thing.." and it is something gawd-awful that it would take a combination of Machiavelli, Feynman and Gandalf to sort out. One in particular used to lay half a dozen "one more thing"s on me, and always at ten to five.
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I get a chuckle out of people who append the phrase 'over here' and 'over there' to nearly every sentence.
I have heard people say things such as... "I'm feelin' good today over here. How you doin' over there? Is that a new shirt over there? I had to buy new shoes over here. When's the next time you are comin' over here over there?"
Sometimes though, it goes on to the point I stop chuckling...
I have heard people say things such as... "I'm feelin' good today over here. How you doin' over there? Is that a new shirt over there? I had to buy new shoes over here. When's the next time you are comin' over here over there?"
Sometimes though, it goes on to the point I stop chuckling...
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Devolve, which can imply evolution is running backwards. Things can get worse from an anthropomorphic standpoint, but evolution goes forward in time, so it can't rewind to a previous state. The word just strikes me as so pseudo-intellectual.
As far as phrases go, I hate revenue enhancement, because it is just a buzzword for overcharging people, often by charging for unneeded incidentals. I remember on NPR news the reporter suggested that sort of behavior is immoral. The person representing the hospital responded that its ethical, that "It's for the share holders!" The other favorite excuse is that everyone else does it. Everyone, including shareholders, who takes more than their fair share is depriving the rest of the economy, especially the customer, of that money. It's like voting for a weaker economy, and you can vote early and often.
As far as phrases go, I hate revenue enhancement, because it is just a buzzword for overcharging people, often by charging for unneeded incidentals. I remember on NPR news the reporter suggested that sort of behavior is immoral. The person representing the hospital responded that its ethical, that "It's for the share holders!" The other favorite excuse is that everyone else does it. Everyone, including shareholders, who takes more than their fair share is depriving the rest of the economy, especially the customer, of that money. It's like voting for a weaker economy, and you can vote early and often.
Any business buzzword that comes out of a C-level mouth just makes me cringe. Do they have any idea how vacuous and sheep-like they sound?
The other word that makes me cringe is the contraction "there's" when the words should be "there are". I absolutely hate that.
The other word that makes me cringe is the contraction "there's" when the words should be "there are". I absolutely hate that.
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The first definition of "piece" in my dictionary is: "a part of a whole". So, you might hear me say "piece" when I really meant "part", just like the school administrators. However, when the administrators say that half of the high school seniors are carrying a piece to school, that is when I would run the other direction and call for help. You definately do have to be careful how you use the word "piece", though. In most social contexts it isn't OK to say that you would like a "piece of that" unless you are certain that everyone knows with certainty that you are referring to the cake and not the cupcake beside it. You can get by with the expression, "That was a piece of cake".WyoBadger wrote:Lately I've gotten tired of school administrators saying "piece" when they mean "part."
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