Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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MomentarilyI'm told that the common use of this is now acceptable, but it still pisses me right off.
It does not mean in a moment, it means for a moment, you piss-ant. This goes double for news readers.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 14:51,
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It's an American usage.I was somewhat perturbed the first time I heard it, a few minutes out of Chicago, or wherever, when the pilot announced to the passengers that we would be touching down 'momentarily'. I hoped we were going to have time to disembark.
Or deplane, as they say there.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:08,
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Who's Laura?Another one from newsreaders, who one might assume to be reasonably well educated and, occasionally, well spoken, is the insertion of the phantom R, as in laura norder and laura biding citizens.
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