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What are your pet peeves re English usage?

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Albuquerque
 
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Reply Mon 28 Dec, 2020 08:49 am
@ailsagirl,
The only way to stop a global living language to not get trashed is to avoid it turning Global...I guess it is to late for English now. If you are interested on how Languages evolve you should know this.
glitterbag
 
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Reply Fri 1 Jan, 2021 01:39 am
@Albuquerque,
I remember how annoyed Charles de Gaulle was over 'americanized' terms creeping into proper French. I think we all get a little weary of over-used phrases and things that sometime sound careless to our ears.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 1 Jan, 2021 02:06 am
@glitterbag,
https://i.imgur.com/T5Nu59e.jpg

Wink
glitterbag
 
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Reply Fri 1 Jan, 2021 02:15 am
@Walter Hinteler,
I can imagine what a glorious slow burn De Gaulle would pull if he heard George Bush say the French don't have a word for entrepreneur.
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nacredambition
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jan, 2021 01:19 am
Dirth, plutonic, and "A typical" sic.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Sun 2 Jul, 2023 04:27 am

https://iili.io/HiEAl6l.jpg
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Sun 2 Jul, 2023 06:40 am
@Region Philbis,
I get what you're saying, but I don't know what you mean.
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Sun 2 Jul, 2023 09:09 am
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:

I get what you're saying, but I don't know what you mean.


I think Reeg mighta posted that here rather than in the bad jokes thread.
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Sun 2 Jul, 2023 09:33 pm
@Frank Apisa,
Ath least he puts up fewer clinkers than I do.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2023 11:34 am
In March 2004, Ailsagirl wrote:

Quote:
Excessive use of "awesome," "dude," and "cool." The Grand Canyon is awesome, only we can't use that word to describe it anymore.


Not so the word, "awesome". I want to scream every time that I see or hear that word. It is used so much, that nothing has any value anymore. How can you describe your friend's new shoes with the same fervor as The Grand Canyon? But it is being done all the time. Our young people are not learning taste and discernment when they hear THAT WORD describing anything and everything. Mad
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2023 02:58 pm
@Phoenix32890,
"You guys ..." As in you guys want Pan Sauce wit yore Chateau Brion?
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2023 02:59 pm
@Phoenix32890,
Everything is awesome these days, even iced tea from an urn.
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fobvius
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2023 07:50 pm
Quote:
What are your pet peeves re English usage?


Re.

People who can't differentiate ontology from oncology are a metastasis on metaphysics.
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2023 03:58 am
@Phoenix32890,
Phoenix32890 wrote:

In March 2004, Ailsagirl wrote:

Quote:
Excessive use of "awesome," "dude," and "cool." The Grand Canyon is awesome, only we can't use that word to describe it anymore.


Not so the word, "awesome". I want to scream every time that I see or hear that word. It is used so much, that nothing has any value anymore. How can you describe your friend's new shoes with the same fervor as The Grand Canyon? But it is being done all the time. Our young people are not learning taste and discernment when they hear THAT WORD describing anything and everything. Mad




I agree!

Mayim Bialik seems to use "awesome" as her go-to response to almost all of those small contestant interviews the host does during the first half of JEOPARDY!. She does it so often that it has become a major turn-off for me. I think she was the wrong person for that job when Alex Trebek died, but that habit of hers has solidified my personal rejection of her as host.
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2023 09:17 am
@fobvius,
Clever boy.
fobvius
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2023 02:15 am
@bobsal u1553115,
Quote:
Clever boy.


Too clever by half, and many other hackneyed, idiomatic platitudes, are deserving of a guernsey in pet peeves.

Ultimately, it's a bit bitchy to challenge the cogency of communication on the basis of prescriptivism vs descriptivism.

I enjoy your posts too.

Just riffing off Regis' meme.





Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2023 02:34 am
@fobvius,
fobvius wrote:

Quote:
Clever boy.


Too clever by half, and many other hackneyed, idiomatic platitudes, are deserving of a guernsey in pet peeves.

Ultimately, it's a bit bitchy to challenge the cogency of communication on the basis of prescriptivism vs descriptivism.

I enjoy your posts too.

Just riffing off Regis' meme.



Whoa!

Now I gotta ask (as was asked earlier)...what was the name you used when you were here earlier?
fobvius
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2023 03:22 am
@Frank Apisa,
Quote:
Whoa!


That's a lot to unpack on a pet peeves sleeve; jeeves, before 2010 or last thursday fortnight?

Where was that question aksed earlier, I aks you?

Let's get our diastolic pressure shooting our age on the Hg scale.

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fobvius
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2023 03:56 am
Coquettish.

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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2023 07:10 am
@Frank Apisa,
Seems familiar to me, also. Can almost catch it.
 

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