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| Annoying word usages; What gets up your nose? | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 18 2012, 12:05 AM (932 Views) | |
| heatseeker | Oct 18 2012, 12:05 AM Post #1 |
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This one isn't particularly new, but I find it annoying. Way too many news reports, in print, or broadcast, describe stuff as being "sold off." What's wrong with just "sold"? And I deplore the increasing euphemisms about death. No one dies anymore. They "pass". Arrghh. What words are bugging you? |
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| FuzzyO | Oct 18 2012, 12:17 AM Post #2 |
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I dont like the verb to grow being applied to things non-organic, e.g. "We will grow our business by 20%". Signage is another word I don't care for, why not just the signs instead of the signage? |
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| heatseeker | Oct 18 2012, 12:22 AM Post #3 |
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Agree with you about verbs. They are being tortured by barbarians! The increase in signage could be measure in poundage, if not tonnage. Edited by heatseeker, Oct 18 2012, 12:23 AM.
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| FuzzyO | Oct 18 2012, 12:25 AM Post #4 |
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As far as death goes, I think to say that "she passed'' is actually very old-fashioned. Now it's ''she passed away''. If you die in hospital you ''expire peacefully''. |
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| heatseeker | Oct 18 2012, 12:28 AM Post #5 |
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That's interesting, Fuzzyo. I mainly see "passed" these days, and used to see a lot more "passed away." But maybe it's just me.... |
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| FuzzyO | Oct 18 2012, 12:58 AM Post #6 |
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To me "passed'' conjures up little old ladies over tea, or little old ladies at a seance. |
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| Bitsy | Oct 18 2012, 01:26 AM Post #7 |
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When my youngest grandson was about 4 or 5, he was present when someone mentioned that a friend had lost her husband. I responded with sympathy and later my grandson asked why people didn’t offer to help her find her lost husband. |
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| heatseeker | Oct 18 2012, 01:36 AM Post #8 |
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Kids are so smart sometimes. |
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| wildie | Oct 18 2012, 04:47 AM Post #9 |
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If they expired, does that mean that they had a DUE date? |
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| Darcie | Oct 18 2012, 04:55 AM Post #10 |
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:rules: Maybe it should be a rule that our expiry date is stamped on our forehead. I also have heard they 'went' or they are 'gone'. As a child I always wondered where. |
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| angora | Oct 18 2012, 05:24 AM Post #11 |
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I never hear someone say, I lost my mother (dad- whatever) that I dont think, "How careless" Its just a reflex. |
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| Dana | Oct 18 2012, 08:33 AM Post #12 |
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I hate when people make up their own pronunciations for plant names rather than look them up and THEN insist that they are right. I leave them alone with it now, considering them too stupid to learn. Google makes it so easy to get it right! egs(Pronunciation Pi-er-is.) becomes pieries. Cuphea - (koopheya) became cup hea in this friend's mouth. Does she also say p heasant? P haedra? :cow-IthinkIamgoingmad: p haeton p hantom?????? :sigh: An English speaker who grew up in Montreal and can speak neither language well, apparently. One who loves that I can say her foreign name properly but she can't/won't? return the favour..... One who does not take direction well either, so, I have given up and am glad to get this off here, where she will never see it. Also, when people begin a sentence with 'I'm sorry,' when you know they are not one little bit sorry at all for having a different opinion. Why should they be sorry for that? And the old standby - irregardless when regardless is meant. That one makes me think people are trying to find important sounding words. Edited by Dana, Oct 18 2012, 08:42 AM.
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| margrace | Oct 18 2012, 08:42 AM Post #13 |
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How about one like this, we were talking about Urns for Funeral ashes and when we walked by the antique store my sister said look theres one of those uranals, maybe I can't spell it either doesn't look right, well google says its right, broke us right up. |
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| Dana | Oct 18 2012, 08:43 AM Post #14 |
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Odd but true? laugh123 |
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| heatseeker | Oct 18 2012, 08:50 AM Post #15 |
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"Irregardless" seems to have fallen out of favour. The other annoying tic that is creeping into speech is beginning responses with "So..." You hear it on the radio a lot from talking heads. |
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