What is your least favorite word?
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"Outsourcing."
This word as it's come to be used means "firing your neighbors."
--James
This word as it's come to be used means "firing your neighbors."
--James
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Where I work, forklifts are commonly referred to as 'jeeps'... absolutely drives me nuts!
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- Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
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You wanna piece of me, punk?Doug_Tipple wrote: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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Think of it as the language evolving, as when "gay" switched from meaning "happily excited, merry, keenly alive and exuberant, having or inducing high spirits" to meaning "homosexual."Cranberry wrote:I hate when people say "That's so gay" or "That's gay" as though "gay" is an insult equivalent to "stupid."
And put me down as being opposed to "should of," "would of," and "could of."
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And in most short cognitive function tests you are required to spell it backwards. Or "earth."Cranberry wrote:"World" is so hard for non-natives to pronounce, I know a lot hate it. I only know one non-native English speaker who pronounces it correctly (the dark L after the R is tricky) and she's Dutch.
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In correct usage, this would be followed by the phrase "right quick."crookedtune wrote:This is a local/regional thing, but it drives me nuts: "might could". As in, "You might could set that tire on fire." (Pronounced, of course, "set that tar on far.")
Phonetically:
"Yew maht cood set that tar on far rot queeick."
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Thinking of words changing meaning, I do not like the way Martini has come to mean anything served in a cocktail glass (now often referred to as a Martini glass).gonzo914 wrote:Think of it as the language evolving...
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I agree wholeheartedly. There is no place in a martini for apples, cinnamon, Drambuie, butterscotch, schnapps or any of a host of candy-assed adulterants, the primary function of which is to make the drink not taste like a martini so the feeble-minded and weak of spirit can pretend they are grown-ups. I don't even like the idea of a vodka martini because it is starting to be assumed as the default in those chi-chi establishment that cater to afficionados of fruity drinks.I.D.10-t wrote:Thinking of words changing meaning, I do not like the way Martini has come to mean anything served in a cocktail glass (now often referred to as a Martini glass).gonzo914 wrote:Think of it as the language evolving...
That's why I order Gibsons on those occasions when I eschew the nectar of Scotland for a less primal potation.
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Or more precisely, "Firing your neighbors and sending the work to an Indian sweat shop staffed with sub-minimum wage workers."peeplj wrote:"Outsourcing."
This word as it's come to be used means "firing your neighbors."
--James
The EMP from a couple of well-placed Pakistani airbursts would do wonders for the employment market for American IT workers, not to mention an overall increase in customer satisfaction in all sectors.
Not that I'm advocating that, mind you.
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