Name a word or phrase you can't stand
Day 3,644, 23:39
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by mittekemuis
Reading and shaking my head at the latest hit in congress on the subject on the lack of domestic policies and therefore lack of entertainment I would like to contribute.
I love the media although it is not always easy to find something to write about. For now I would like you to contribute to the lack of entertainment asking the following question.
For example:
I really can’t stand incorrect use of the English language. It is hard enough as a non native speaker to get the grammar and spelling correct without them smartass native speakers using it wrong themselves, no matter how cool or cute it may look.
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You're / your
I don't get why people make mistakes with you're and your it is pretty straight forward. Now lay or lie for example is a whole other story.
most of the time it's not a mistake, it's just laziness. I do it all the time depending on the medium being used.
Your write, eye sea read two.
Horice 🐓
Have a good one.
ah yes! Day, beer, rest...what exactly?!...not a big fan of that either
And It is not like you are shorting anything. One 1 syllable word for another..
You spelled it wrong. "Have a good un" is a colloquialism used around where I live to mean the same as "Have a nice day.". lol
Continuance
I wonder why 🙂
"Please don't cause a scene, sir."
I'LL DO WHAT I WANT, PEASANT.
A rebel in heart and soul
A white collar worker at work, though
orientate
Dio.
But on a serious note, I don't like the words like super, ultra, ubber and words like that used to make something even more something than it already is.
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where do you find that on your keyboard?
I'm so over it.
Since they've been going on about for the last 2 hours they're clearly not 😛
their you are 😉
Feminism.
I don't get it 😛
Good for you 😉
SELFIE
Not only the word but the act as well 🙂
Political correctness ... rrrr
PS: Not as a term, but as a mentality (though the term is pretty annoying too)
They obviously contradict eachother. Politics is always subjective therefore can't be correct.
Alt-Right when they mean neo-fascist/white nationalist
Brexit
Or maybe Ulster is not part of it ?
Apparently it's not... though I hope that's not the case.
"talk to you later"
it burdens me somehow
What would you say instead?
i prefer 'goodbye' or 'see you'.
on second thought, the fact that ttyl burdens me but these two don't is strange, but it is how it is. XD
xx year anniversary
anniversary is a word that signifies a certain number of year, so you don't say it twice !!!!!!!!!!!!
eRepublik
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Aaron Mark Daniels
When I moved to England, everybody greeting you with "You alright?", just say freking "Hello" or "Hi". And the overuse of the word "please". It really irritates me for some reason when instead of just "Could you move that" people say "Could you please (they actually asked me at work why I dint say please, wtf, told them I say thank you when they do what I ask, they should be happy with that)
It's called Etiquette. Saying "Could you move that" seems rude and since the person you are directing at has no obligation to do so, they will not comply, however, when integrating the word "please" although them still not having an obligation to comply, they are more likely to comply.
I'm uh.. native (at least from the perspective of recent history) and find this a pet peeve. Generally it seems to only be a problem where a women is involved in the communication either directly or as an observer. Suspect it's power play, as those same people drop 'p's & q's'. Also of interest is that the complexity/cost of the request is inversely proportional to the probability of demand for supplementary pleasantries. Like you I think the suggestion of an element of choice is far more polite than "Please do x".
Yes, I too don't get the whole "how do you do" greeting. It would be weird in my own language We say hi and of course sometimes you also ask for someone's wellbeing but not like they do in the UK.
If you're making small talk you might ask somebody how they are after the "Hi" or whatever, and if you immediately greet with the alright there's a good chance you can skip straight to the banal small talk and get the entire ordeal over with slightly quicker.
They had freaking obligation to comply, I was their boss 😁
In my language when you ask someone is he alright is that you actually mean to talk with him about that, not just as a simple greeting..At first in England I thought everyone wants to talk with me 😁
If you want to actually ask if somebody is alright and have a talk about it in Britain, you need to do it with a concerned expression and have this look on your face as though you're either confused or genuinely thinking that the person you're speaking to could break at any moment.
It's an art form, nobody actually expresses their emotions in this great nation
Technically Rob, when we ask, we neither want nor care for the answer to be given.
oh.
Nah, it's only banter 🙂
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