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Post by daisy24601 on Apr 17, 2019 9:50:57 GMT
Just came to add this one as I just saw it again and it winds me up. "I'm so OCD!" For a start it stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, you don't say "I'm so disorder". Also it's a serious mental condition (which I used to have which is probably part of the reason it bothers me), it's not liking things neat and clean! Bah!
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 18, 2019 12:00:04 GMT
I've just seen a sign, which was itself large enough to be a hazard, warning of "Mobile roadworks ahead".
As there were no 'operatives' to be seen, I shall probably never know if it's the road that is mobile, or the work!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 12:14:28 GMT
On the subject of signs, I pass one on the way to work every day that winds me up: "Fast Signs: More than Fast. More than Signs"
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 18, 2019 12:28:42 GMT
In restaurants where you’re in a mixed group of ages and genders and the ‘server’ (that’s another one all on its own) refers to you collectively as “guys”.
”Hi guys I’m your server Mindy, can I get you some menus?”
1. We are not all male 2. If you can call us all guys, why can’t we call you a waitress? 3. Yes, that’s what we’ve come for, unless you'd like us to guess
So let’s correct that for Mindy, shall we?
“Hi everyone, I’m Mindy. I’ll be back in a moment with your menus”
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 18, 2019 12:33:10 GMT
This one is gaining ground
“Leaning into...” for example: “Mindy is really leaning into that new way of greeting customers. Well done Mindy!”
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 13:32:01 GMT
This one is gaining ground “Leaning into...” for example: “Mindy is really leaning into that new way of greeting customers. Well done Mindy!” Meaning she'll like literally* give it a go for a few hours and forget it, going back to the usual. *urgh
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 19, 2019 22:10:05 GMT
This one is gaining ground “Leaning into...” for example: “Mindy is really leaning into that new way of greeting customers. Well done Mindy!” I'm starting to feel bad for Mindy. Don't browbeat Mindy. Waitressing can be a tough job without customers itemising what's wrong with your friendly greeting! 'Guys' has long been genderless now, annoying as that may be. Its not Mindy's fault! I've heard "lean in" used in a way that doesn't literally mean that and it was the title of that book but I've never really understood this new use of it. The one that's been winding me up for the last year or two is that at some point we stopped merely contacting people, we now apparently REACH OUT to them.
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Post by The Matthew on Apr 20, 2019 4:29:35 GMT
The one that's been winding me up for the last year or two is that at some point we stopped merely contacting people, we now apparently REACH OUT to them. I hate that one. It brings to mind the clammy hands of the undead thrusting through the soil as they struggle to escape the grave.
I have a loathing for business-speak in general. Another phrase that's on the rise is "thank you for giving me the opportunity to help you", which I take as (a) this is about me, not your ridiculous little problem, and (b) nobody cares about you enough to invest even the most trivial amount of effort in responding to you. Somehow all these stock responses manage to convey a message of "We have utter contempt for you, but we're being so polite about it there's nothing you can latch on to that will prove it".
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 20, 2019 16:08:16 GMT
“Reach out” basically means “I’m trying to give the impression I phoned them but actually I just sent an email”
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 21, 2019 11:55:38 GMT
I don't know if "life hack" has made an appearance here yet but it deserves to.
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Post by showgirl on Apr 21, 2019 14:18:17 GMT
“Reach out” basically means “I’m trying to give the impression I phoned them but actually I just sent an email” A Canadian colleague where I volunteer uses this expression, which I had never heard before and assumed was a N American one. Alas, it has now crept in here but always makes me picture the speaker literally reaching out, as if to touch or even embrace the other person, which would generally be as inappropriate as impossible.
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Post by ruby on Apr 21, 2019 20:58:05 GMT
"Living my best life".
Well, that's fine and dandy but can you do it as far away as possible from me please.
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 21, 2019 22:51:33 GMT
Could it actually be possible that, thanks to Line of Duty, the entire nation has now learnt to spell definitely correctly?🎉🕺🥇
Maybe next week Jed Mercurio's laptop could have a shot at those sodding apostophe's that get into plural's all over the place?
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Post by justfran on Apr 22, 2019 16:22:34 GMT
"Living my best life". Well, that's fine and dandy but can you do it as far away as possible from me please. I agree this is such an annoying phrase, especially when used with # or someone actually saying the word “hashtag”
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 22, 2019 18:52:13 GMT
Starting sentences with “I mean...”
People wouldn’t and don’t talk like that. Or if they did the circumstances in which they would start a sentence like that are rare. It’s an affectation.
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 22, 2019 21:16:52 GMT
Starting sentences with “I mean...” People wouldn’t and don’t talk like that. Or if they did the circumstances in which they would start a sentence like that are rare. It’s an affectation. I think I do this. I'm not sure though. In that sense I don't think I do it as an affectation because I'm not usually aware of it. Or I've done it before I realise it. It's a bit like an "erm". I think Tony Blair did it a lot. I'm picturing lots of his sentences beginning "I mean... Look..." while the hands did the holding an invisible box at the sides and shaking it thing.
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Post by mistressjojo on Apr 23, 2019 2:41:59 GMT
Going back to a topic discussed earlier in this thread, old Australians like me used the word 'good' to mean 'OK', 'noted' or 'understood' in both positive and negative situations. I don't know whether this usage continues nowadays, but it used to lead to some curious conversational exchanges, like:
Landlord: "I am increasing your rent from £500 per month to £800 per month." Tenant: "Good."
I still occasionally say 'Good-o' to denote something is understood or noted. And some people alternate this with 'Right-o'. Neither term mean a thing is good or right, just that it's understood. 'I'm taking the car tomorrow' 'Good -o. ' It's a bit of an Aussie thing, ending things with 'o' .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 7:21:26 GMT
Starting sentences with “I mean...” People wouldn’t and don’t talk like that. Or if they did the circumstances in which they would start a sentence like that are rare. It’s an affectation. I think I do this. I'm not sure though. In that sense I don't think I do it as an affectation because I'm not usually aware of it. Or I've done it before I realise it. It's a bit like an "erm". I think Tony Blair did it a lot. I'm picturing lots of his sentences beginning "I mean... Look..." while the hands did the holding an invisible box at the sides and shaking it thing. Oh, I do it ALL THE TIME. I don't filter for message boards (well, I do, otherwise I'd be kicked off for swearing), I type how I talk. For me, "I mean" is a verbal placeholder for the beginning of a statement where I need a fraction of a second more to double check that what comes out next is going to make sense but also I just want to make sure people have that fraction of a second to tune into the fact that I'm speaking, in much the same way that SO MANY others begin their sentences with the much-derided "so". I appreciate that it's grammatically incoherent, but people would and do talk like that. Every time you see me do it on the board, that's evidence that I am in fact one of those people and it does in fact happen. Unrarely.
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 23, 2019 7:39:44 GMT
I think I do this. I'm not sure though. In that sense I don't think I do it as an affectation because I'm not usually aware of it. Or I've done it before I realise it. It's a bit like an "erm". I think Tony Blair did it a lot. I'm picturing lots of his sentences beginning "I mean... Look..." while the hands did the holding an invisible box at the sides and shaking it thing. Oh, I do it ALL THE TIME. I don't filter for message boards (well, I do, otherwise I'd be kicked off for swearing), I type how I talk. For me, "I mean" is a verbal placeholder for the beginning of a statement where I need a fraction of a second more to double check that what comes out next is going to make sense but also I just want to make sure people have that fraction of a second to tune into the fact that I'm speaking, in much the same way that SO MANY others begin their sentences with the much-derided "so". I appreciate that it's grammatically incoherent, but people would and do talk like that. Every time you see me do it on the board, that's evidence that I am in fact one of those people and it does in fact happen. Unrarely. That's interesting, I now realise you're referring to writing "I mean". While I know I do it in conversation it would never occur to me to write it other than in its literal use, anymore than I'd write in the various ums and ers that pop up in speech. That said, I find it a bit irritating when people do write "ummm" at the start of things, in that "well actually, no" sort of way. With "So..." I think I noticed that use of it written down before I realised it had become common in speech. In conversation I can almost understand it in the same way as um and 'I mean' but written down it looks ludicrous.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 7:48:47 GMT
I say it verbally, and I write it on social media because I say it verbally. I don't think Burly specified whether it was verbal or written use that ticked him off though, probably both! I'm not sure I would've used the word "affectation" myself, I always understood that to mean people were being pretentious in the thing they've affected to do or say, and I don't know that there's anything inherently pretentious about linguistic placeholders like "so" and "erm" and "I mean". I'll accept "ludicrous" though, that's fair.
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Post by The Matthew on Apr 23, 2019 10:40:21 GMT
That said, I find it a bit irritating when people do write "ummm" at the start of things, in that "well actually, no" sort of way. "Ummm" is a funny one. In speech it means "I am about to say something but I'm not entirely sure what it will be so give me a moment to get my thoughts in order". In writing it means "You are the most numbingly stupid creature that has ever existed and the only positive contribution you will ever make to this world is as fertiliser following your death".
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 23, 2019 10:43:04 GMT
"Drop"
As in "Netflix drops new series of x" for instance.
Oh, so Netflix has cancelled the new series of x? No, they have released the new series of x.
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Post by sparky5000 on Apr 23, 2019 10:48:55 GMT
Whenever I watch Match Of The Day and the pundits say “them players” 😐
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Post by d'James on Apr 23, 2019 11:31:33 GMT
"Drop" As in "Netflix drops new series of x" for instance. Oh, so Netflix has cancelled the new series of x? No, they have released the new series of x.
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 23, 2019 13:33:30 GMT
"Drop" As in "Netflix drops new series of x" for instance. Oh, so Netflix has cancelled the new series of x? No, they have released the new series of x. Yes! Thank you. I meant to say this but forgot. Artists now "drop" a new track or album. And if you must say it, don't be over 21. I hear people in their 40s and 50s saying it and it makes me cringe even more.
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 23, 2019 13:42:20 GMT
Yes! Thank you. I meant to say this but forgot. Artists now "drop" a new track or album. And if you must say it, don't be over 21. I hear people in their 40s and 50s saying it and it makes me cringe even more. "Greg Doran drops new RSC season brochure"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 14:24:10 GMT
Oh yes, 'dropping' definitely. Also celebrities who apparently SLAM other celebrities, when actually they just said something mildly negative. This often apparently causes the slammed celebrity to CLAP BACK.
Load of bloody codswallop if you ask me.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 23, 2019 14:38:52 GMT
Everyone these days seems to be "super excited" and everything is "super cool". Is it another youth thing?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 14:43:38 GMT
Definitely not, "super" is my modifier of choice and I am closer to 40 than I ever believed I would be when I was a youth.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 14:47:06 GMT
Oh! I can't abide 'super' used like that. Super excited, super worried, super hyped. Aaaaargh.
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