Phrases & Terms that bug me

I'm sure you all care oh so much, but I'm bored so....

- referring to regular mail as "snail mail" - not cute... annoying

- "you didn't gain it all at once, don't expect to lose it all at once"
   a) how do you know I didn't gain it all at once?
   b) not really all that helpful

- anything having to do with Twitter or tweeting

- when people say "I could care less" - If you say that it means that you care, because you could care less than you currently do.  The phrase is " I couldn't care less" implying that you care so little you possibly couldn't care any less than you do already.

- starting a sentence with "not to be rude, but..." OK if you start a sentence like that then you definitely are going to be rude so either embrace it and just be rude or don't say it.

Other annoying things:  Posts like this one.  But hey, I'm bored so if you are too share the sayings that bug you.  Its great for stress relief.

Original Post by haunted000:

Original Post by watergirl:

Original Post by haunted000:

I used to love the phrase "intensive purposes" until I learned it was supposed to be "for all intents and purposes."  Now I hate the phrase, but still kinda like "for all intents and purposes."

totally circular tubular

what? how do you hate it but still kinda like it ?

Basically, the incorrect phrase drives me nuts (i.e., I hate when people say "for all intensive purposes"), but I like "for all intents and purposes."  

Although I am guilty of the offense, redundant acronyms drive me crazy (e.g., ATM machine)

thanks for the clarification, i was so confused @@

yeah! like

hot-water heater

its a water heater!!!!

Original Post by watergirl:

Original Post by cc31:

Also, it gets on my nerves when people tack on "type of thing" or "kinda thing" at the end of whatever they're saying, type of thing :P

 "and whatnot"

URF!

UGH! My husband says that ALL the time! 

The first time my fiance left me a voicemail (when we first started dating), he said "and whatnot" about 17 times in a 1.5min message..... he was nervous :)

Literally is also a good one. Right

I literally agree with you (that is, not just figuratively).

I'm pretty anal about how people structure their sentences; most people my age [teenagers] are really stupid.

I hate it so much when people use 'chatspeak' [or whatever you want to call it] in real life. Actually, I hate it all the time. ie. roflmao, tbh, imo etc.

Oh and when people just throw words like 'seriously', 'literally' and 'virtually' into sentences. Grrr...

This is going to make me look like a TOTAL nerd, but I love Harry Potter and I love what Dumbledore says in response to Harry's uncle when he says "I don't mean to be rude, BUT...". 

He says, "--yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man."

Great reply to a stupid phrase.

Original Post by clangworthy:

Literally is also a good one. Right

 ugh, i really hate that one.  A friend on my facebook just said his "calves are literally made of fire and knots.  Turns out walking stairs for 3.5 hours give you a bit of a burn."  I told him to go fight crime with them.  Fire calves must qualify as a super power.

"I eat 1000 calories a day."

OK, I know there are people with real ED problems, and I want to support them, but c'mon (how many of you cringed at c'mon??).  It is not hard to find the answer you are looking for, and it really seems more like attention getting than a real seeking of answers.  I type the bare minimum for a female is 1200 calories several times a day.

Here's a word my husband says that really drives me bonkers, even after 13 years: "warsh".  "Honey, can you warsh my pants so I can wear them tomorrow?"  Makes me shudder every time.

I'm with you on the warsh. I grew up where it is customary to say warsh. I didn't even realize I was pronouncing it wrong until I was in my early teens. I had an english teach who gave us a lesson on regional differences in pronunciation.

As soon as I realized I was putting an r in wash I began to purposely lose that habit. There were about 5-10 of us at school determined not to sound like hicks. We'd help catch each other.

Dropping the r sound in wash has got to be one of the hardest habits I've ever broken. But I made it.

Irun, okay I have no accent at all but can't say iron so I say Irun my clothes.

How about "Did I tell you", how on earth would I know if you told me if you don't say it again or the ever popular "Remember I told you" bull you are just trying to get yourself out of trouble.  I had a supervisor who loved "Remember I told you" and my reply was always "No, I don't remember and I think I would have"

A huge pet peeve for me is working with someone who sighs all the time, it always leads to what's wrong.  It is like working with a flat tire all day and we all know a flat tire can ruin your day!

I don't like...

"Where you at?" (sounds so unintelligent!)

"Looky here!" (in-laws say this to my (nearly) 2 year old son...just bugs me)

"At the end of the day..." (former boss loves to use this one to drive a point home).

At the end of the day, I'm going home and getting drunk.

"We should dialog about this" - dialog is not a verb (ok, so according to dictionary.com, it is, but they have this usage note: this usage today is widely regarded as jargon or bureaucratese)

"This is getting into the weeds" - supposed to mean getting to the details, but in what garden do"weeds" = "details"?

"Read and heed" - old boss always wrote that. I think he thought rhyming made it sound better - and it was always just a forward of an email that everyone had already received. That and "latest and greatest"

I'm sure there are a lot more that I hear at work all the time, but trying to think of them makes me angry.

Hey beer, where you at?

I hate when people refer to computers as CPU's.

CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Not Computer.

I know a lot of people use it for that, and there's no avoiding it.... but it still bugs me!!

i hate the following:

"back in the day"

"thats so gay"

"thats retarded"

"He's so articulate!" (and you know who they're talking about)

I'll start by condemning myself: I start way too many sentences with "actually" or "realistically".

What drives me crazy?  People who claim to go the the "libary" on a regular basis, but still refer to leaves as "foilage".

"Work smarter, not harder"

Whenever a boss said this, it was a guarantee that our department was about to lose at least 2 to 3 people.

"outside the box"

"cross functional"

"customer driven"

"paradigm shift"

"synergy"

*shudders from memories of team meetings to come up with departmental vision statement....*

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."