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Post by Opie on Dec 13, 2023 13:59:32 GMT -5
Oh, I see what you did there !
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Dec 13, 2023 15:18:38 GMT -5
"Lean into" as in..."we've got some challenges coming and we need to just lean into it."
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Post by Larry Madsen on Dec 13, 2023 15:27:20 GMT -5
"if you will", is one I noticed and thought to be a bit weird.
After hearing is few more times in the same sitting, I knew it was 100% weird.
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Post by markfromhawaii on Dec 13, 2023 15:54:51 GMT -5
"Lean into" as in..."we've got some challenges coming and we need to just lean into it." In the realm of Christianese… “I’ll come along side ya.” You’ll do what?!?
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mikem
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Post by mikem on Dec 13, 2023 16:44:19 GMT -5
They say (blah/blah/blah)..... is an annoying phrase to me....
When someone says this to me: "Well, they say........."
My immediate response: Who are THEY?
When that someone replies with "you know, those that know more about (fill in subject)".... Me: ok, name THOSE
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Post by Leftee on Dec 13, 2023 17:36:12 GMT -5
“Woot” From where did it originate and why would I ever use it? That was unofficially the first hash-tag. On the FDP, no less. It used to signify a band name alert. I still do it here.
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Post by apple on Dec 13, 2023 20:41:56 GMT -5
On Facebook posts from any given day:
"You've got this." "My current situation"
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Dec 13, 2023 22:34:22 GMT -5
“Woot” From where did it originate and why would I ever use it? I take umbrage at your disparagement of the simple Woot. It is simply and expression of joy like whoop and hollar. I am just Yeeting this out there.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Dec 14, 2023 10:34:56 GMT -5
“Woot” From where did it originate and why would I ever use it? I take umbrage at your disparagement of the simple Woot. It is simply and expression of joy like whoop and hollar. I am just Yeeting this out there. I’ll prolly see your umbrage and raise my indifference.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Dec 14, 2023 10:36:34 GMT -5
I take umbrage at your disparagement of the simple Woot. It is simply and expression of joy like whoop and hollar. I am just Yeeting this out there. I’ll prolly see your umbrage and raise my indifference. Call
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Post by Seldom Seen on Dec 14, 2023 10:51:12 GMT -5
^Welp^
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Post by LeftyMeister on Dec 14, 2023 11:19:17 GMT -5
The stuff I hear at work makes me want to retire. I have two days of meeting at corporate starting tomorrow. 😣 Having returned to an office environment a few months ago, I’m right there with ya. The current one that makes me wince is hearing engineers consistently pronouncing height as ‘heighth’.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Dec 14, 2023 12:04:05 GMT -5
The stuff I hear at work makes me want to retire. I have two days of meeting at corporate starting tomorrow. 😣 Having returned to an office environment a few months ago, I’m right there with ya. The current one that makes me wince is hearing engineers consistently pronouncing height as ‘heighth’. Along those lines....I'm seeing, more and more, the incorrect usage of "myself" as in: "If you have any issues, just contact myself or one of the other techs".
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Post by rickyticky on Dec 14, 2023 12:37:53 GMT -5
"My new album drops next Tuesday" "Price point". You can take one word out of that phrase and it would still mean what most people use it for. "Price point" is used in marketing strategy to target pricing within a scale.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Dec 16, 2023 12:08:35 GMT -5
Most of these don't bother me in colloquial speech, but almost all bother me in formal writing or speaking.
A teenager is talking to her friends and she uses the word "literally" incorrectly? Fine. If I was her English teacher, I'd probably gently correct her to help her develop better habits, but not out of annoyance.
This past week I heard a reporter on NPR talk about data mining, and saying that some sets of data from children users online are "literally a gold mine". If you're a journalist and you're speaking on a national platform, please don't speak like this. This person likely has, at least, a four year degree, and should've learned this stuff in middle school.
Similarly, I don't care if you say "who" when you should say "whom" in regular speech. But, if you're writing something that you're being paid for, learn when to use which. It takes very, very little time or effort to do it right. I hate it when writing just looks like someone transcribed an audio file (lots of memoirs are like this... likely because they just dictated the whole thing to an assistant).
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Post by Laker on Dec 16, 2023 12:38:47 GMT -5
When I was still in the corporate world two things I got tired of hearing were: ”do the due diligence” ”scenario”
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Ryder
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Post by Ryder on Dec 16, 2023 12:49:20 GMT -5
Whatever trips your trigger!
Also, Whatever floats your boat!
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Post by Laker on Dec 16, 2023 14:08:40 GMT -5
Whatever trips your trigger! …or, whatever clicks your switch.
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Post by Leftee on Dec 16, 2023 15:00:30 GMT -5
The lady who used the “thought leadership” drivel was in our meetings this week. Every time I had a question for the group, I asked it, “I value the group’s thought leadership…”
She laughed and told me to shut up. Numerous times.
I think she learned her lesson.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Dec 16, 2023 16:25:04 GMT -5
Oooh, HR speak is something else... education gets into it, too. Lots of words that end up with no meaning, and if they repeat it a lot, they hope to obscure this fact.
There's a category of political/social terms I call "smurf words".... remember The Smurfs? How they said "smurf" to mean so many things in the show that it lost all meaning. Family Guy made fun of it. With these political words you can't have a conversation because the words have too many meanings.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Dec 16, 2023 16:25:45 GMT -5
Nothing kills like overkill
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Post by LVF on Dec 16, 2023 18:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by Vibroluxer on Dec 16, 2023 20:37:17 GMT -5
"Want to come with?"
What's up with that? It's missing a noun. Luckily, I only know one person that uses this phrase frequently and she lives 3 hrs away so I tend not to hear it very often.
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chucksmi
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Post by chucksmi on Dec 17, 2023 6:47:35 GMT -5
I find "Is that a thing?" somewhat annoying. Obviously, everything is a thing, is it not?
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Post by chucksmi on Dec 17, 2023 6:48:16 GMT -5
I find "Is that a thing?" somewhat annoying. Obviously, everything is a thing, is it not?
These effing kids with their hula hoops and loud music.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Dec 17, 2023 16:42:24 GMT -5
lowkey, a lot of these suggestions are really extra.
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BillytheKidder
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Post by BillytheKidder on Dec 17, 2023 19:25:02 GMT -5
“It is what it is”
“Welp”; someone else mentioned it, but I hate it so much, I’ll pile on.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Dec 17, 2023 20:16:39 GMT -5
I prefer it is that which it presents itself as.
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Post by Taildragger on Dec 17, 2023 21:17:27 GMT -5
I can't imagine a woot-less world...
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Post by Taildragger on Dec 21, 2023 11:28:14 GMT -5
Sooo..it grates on my nerves when people start every sentence with 'so'.
I was listening to some young academic being interviewed on NPR last night.
The first word she uttered in the opening sentence of every one of her answers was, "yeah".
Just as irritating as "so", let me tell ya.
It was as if she was starting each answer with, "oooh: I know that one!"
Or perhaps it's meant to patronize, as if to say, "yeah, well everybody knows the answer to that one, but I'll indulge your poor, pathetic, ignorant little self".
Kinda life when Southern ladies say, "bless your lil' heart"...
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