Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Following Eddie's blog post I'm sure he will have much to contribute on this subject.
For me, the constant use of literally in the media, as in "the river was literally flooding the house (what as opposed to metaphorically flooding your house?)" is a real grrr and (at the risk of offending) IMHO in discussion forums (come on , you aren't humbly offering your opinion!)
The topic of this thread is no doubt going to run round inside my head all weekend now...
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Permalink Reply by Eddie Finnegan on
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Absolutely, Liz - going forward 24/7 or leastwise till the end of the day.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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I only ever write IMO.. I'm 'selten' humble and BTW, OT... as a German speaker, I dislike how angst and über are constantly used in the UK.. but perhaps I'm being übersensible (sensitive)
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Actually, one that really has got on my nerves over the last month is 'edgy' as used by trendy BBC execs who never watch TV or listen to the radio, to describe pointless (and often cruel) actions like abusing people on their answer machines.
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5 - With all due respect
reminds me of all the spamming you need to stand daily.
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Permalink Reply by Harringay SNT on
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The phrase `I`m not being funny...but` would be on my list
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'I hear what you say, Glyn, but ...'
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but..... there you go...
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Call me an old iconoclast if you will, but isn't it time we had a government tax on the overuse of ICON and ICONIC? Once upon a time it just meant an image with some later byzantine religious connotations.
And CLOSURE! My God, nobody can die these days without some of his/her relatives wishing for (some degree/sense of bloody) closure. I heard it twice this past week on Monday and Thursday in urban and rural Ireland, from two of my own relatives and in-laws. At our traditional wakes and funerals we used be happy enough with the old cliches: 'Sin a bhfuil - That's life - Sorry for your trouble - He/she'll have to get over it (like everyone else)'. Now we have to import our eschatological cliches from some transatlantic faux-psychology as repeated ad nauseam in soap operas and court report 'victim statements'.
No doubt next funeral I attend I'll hear someone borrowing their cliches from American presidential campaign reports, describing the 'narrative arc' of the deceased's life (=it had a beginning, a middle and an end) or the 'enormous paradigm shift' caused by his/her death.
In case it's my own, I'm already practising a vigorous overhead scissors kick from the supine or coffin position.
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"Quantum leap". Ever since that TV show people have been using it to mean a huge leap forward when a quantum leap means the smallest possile leap you can do. Grrrrrr!
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Does it!? Wow, had no idea. How very annoying (but not as annoying as I'll be next time I hear someone using this expression!).
Decimate is one of my pet favourites here. From the latin and means executing one in ten. Is used to mean anything from a few people losing their jobs to wholesale slaughter.
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