leschirons Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 [quote name='Froggy' timestamp='1427359083' post='2729218'] I'll hold my hand up and admit to being a grammar nazi, a spelling nazi, and an apostrophe nazi. [/quote] [quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1427369424' post='2729388'] Don't you think sometimes it might be down to a poor education ? Or sometimes typos or predictive text... [/quote] Or maybe, he is actually a Nazi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dincz Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) [quote name='fatwull' timestamp='1427517316' post='2731373'] [size=5][sub]When somebody does that inverted commas thing with there hands[/sub][/size] [/quote] Them there hands? Edited March 28, 2015 by dincz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatwull Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 [quote name='dincz' timestamp='1427532365' post='2731437'] Them there hands? [/quote] ????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I think he mean's "those they're hands" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 There, their, they're, don't worry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Here hands, there hands, every bleedin' where hands. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumnote Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 [quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1427283472' post='2728198'] I "Oh my God" shrieked at high volume by most females under 25 or worse, actually shouting "OMG" [/quote] There are certain circumstances where I might find that more than acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurhenry Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Unnecessary use of the present participle of verbs: "I'm loving your bass", "I'm liking this book" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadofsix Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 [quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1427530824' post='2731417'] www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/by-hook-or-by-crook.html My English teacher told us it was the first one. But us pupils were a bunch of peasants anyway. [/quote] Thanks. That was quite interesting. So the person who used it to me was using it correctly when they were sayin that they'd get it done by "hook or by crook." They were simply saying that they'd get it done "by any means possible." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Hmmmm.......are we Grumpy Old Men / Women, or what? Not too upset by fashions in colloquial speech (except possibly "like" for "said", which really does grate....) - English has been evolving and absorbing since Chaucer was a lad, and white youth has been copying the slang of black youth since the Jazz age of the early 20th century What REALLY annoys me is modern management-speak, of which there are a good few examples in this thread. Not a day goes by when some jumped up little gobsh*te tells me that "we need to be mindful of having a conversation with x in respect of y" rather than "we should talk to x about y" etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzneck Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Shaggy, I agree with you regarding management speak. When we got called up to global head office meetings we used to play a game called "buzz word bingo". The twelve year olds in suits with laptops and MBAs could not understand either our frivolity or how we made a business work by just getting on with the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 [quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1427545321' post='2731589'] Unnecessary use of the present participle of verbs: "I'm loving your bass", "I'm liking this book" etc. [/quote] Yeah, I hate 'hating'. Why you hating on me. I also dislike when people say hashtag. And this trend of people saying 'Just saying' And people who use 'simples' are ***** in my book. Talk about being weak minded. To be influenced by a f***ing annoying advert that's there to take money off you. Then on top of that thinking it's cool. Oh dear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painy Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 You are ALL Trevor MacDonald and I claim my five pounds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I don't know if it's been covered but why do people say something's "cheap at half the price"? Of course it bloody is, that would be half price, 50% off. Unless it was extremely overpriced to start with, which pretty much makes the saying the opposite of the reason people seem to say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dincz Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Made-up past tenses - or at least their spelling: He dove into the river. He snuck out while nobody was looking. He lead me up the garden path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 [quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1427552369' post='2731684'] What REALLY annoys me is modern management-speak, of which there are a good few examples in this thread. Not a day goes by when some jumped up little gobsh*te tells me that "we need to be mindful of having a conversation with x in respect of y" rather than "we should talk to x about y" etc etc [/quote] "Leverage" as a verb. I hate, loathe, and detest that, especially as no-one has a clue what they actually mean by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1427650327' post='2732700'] "Leverage" as a verb. I hate, loathe, and detest that, especially as no-one has a clue what they actually mean by it. [/quote] I'd say that it's important to optimise the transparency of any leverage, vis a vis the dynamics of the current situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgie Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) [quote name='dincz' timestamp='1427577708' post='2732002'] Made-up past tenses - or at least their spelling: He dove into the river. He snuck out while nobody was looking. He lead me up the garden path. [/quote] ah that reminds me.....drug as in we drug the buckets up the hill by hand. Sorry....I made a mistake in my comment. Edited April 1, 2015 by gadgie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planer Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I've got a new one... 'I pulled the trigger' Grrrrrrr, you mean 'I bought', don't you? My response is to ask whether anyone was injured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interpol52 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 People saying "rocked up" when referring to someone arriving somewhere. Where does that come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeEvans Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 This is an especially middle-class one but my personal pet hate is when historians on TV or radio use the present tense. "And what happens here is that Henry the Eighth realises that he isn't going to get what he wants unless he divorces AGAIN..." etc. It's history - use the PAST TENSE! The clue is in the bloody name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dincz Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 A king walks into a pub ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire5 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 [quote name='Maude' timestamp='1427402785' post='2730058'] You know what really bugs me? People who start a sentence with "You know what really bugs me?" [/quote] That.And another "I hate to have to say this".Do you? Then shut it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Here's one I use when I'm trying to be cool,talking to folks at gigs during a brake. I use it for anything, somebody could be talking about anything and I'll say; [i]"Oh wow, I'm sorry I totally flaked out on that one"[/i] Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 All those archeologists that say they're "really excited" about every lump of pottery. I also hate the terms "dissing" and "way to go" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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