Annoying words and phrases
Marketing 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
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
Marketing 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
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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I use both, and stand by it.
I choose my words carefully, I check my emotions - if I've hit the bottom of the barrel of my caring and can't scrape up anything at all - it's a total zero verging on the negative, I say "I couldn't care less."
Because I can't, I'm 100% not caring and could not "not care" any more =)
Sometimes it's not quite that bad though, sometimes my humanity and innate compassion or mild morbid curiosity makes me care just a tiny little bit...
And then I say, usually with an expressive shrug and facial expression
"I could care less..."
Cause it's technically true (and I value my accuracy when expressing my emotions =)) but at the same time I try to imply clearly that it'd be pretty damn hard for me to actually care any less, and only by the grace of the tiniest of exceptions have they avoided being any lower on my care meter and reaching absolute zero.
All that being said?
The fuckers who get it wrong piss me off too.
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I think we might just have to accept that Snap has different meanings for our two cultures =)
The only use I know of in America came from a shortened version of the phrase "oh my but that was a snappy retort" and is usually associated with lead up "awwwww" as they build drama and suspense, a head weave (both motion and hair...) and final releasing snapping of the fingers for emphasis (or possibly because the people who use it are so used to moving their lips when working out words that physical movement is just linked to their vocabulary and unavoidable.)
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:16, Reply)
I choose my words carefully, I check my emotions - if I've hit the bottom of the barrel of my caring and can't scrape up anything at all - it's a total zero verging on the negative, I say "I couldn't care less."
Because I can't, I'm 100% not caring and could not "not care" any more =)
Sometimes it's not quite that bad though, sometimes my humanity and innate compassion or mild morbid curiosity makes me care just a tiny little bit...
And then I say, usually with an expressive shrug and facial expression
"I could care less..."
Cause it's technically true (and I value my accuracy when expressing my emotions =)) but at the same time I try to imply clearly that it'd be pretty damn hard for me to actually care any less, and only by the grace of the tiniest of exceptions have they avoided being any lower on my care meter and reaching absolute zero.
All that being said?
The fuckers who get it wrong piss me off too.
...
I think we might just have to accept that Snap has different meanings for our two cultures =)
The only use I know of in America came from a shortened version of the phrase "oh my but that was a snappy retort" and is usually associated with lead up "awwwww" as they build drama and suspense, a head weave (both motion and hair...) and final releasing snapping of the fingers for emphasis (or possibly because the people who use it are so used to moving their lips when working out words that physical movement is just linked to their vocabulary and unavoidable.)
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:16, Reply)
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