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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The over use and out of context use of the word
'Awesome' by f*****g Americans!
When looking at a pair of shoes - 'They are totally awesome!'
When listening to gibberish one of their friends is spouting - 'That is so...like... awesome!'
When watching a US Army helicopter kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan - 'Awesome!'
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 22:55, 3 replies)
'Awesome' by f*****g Americans!
When looking at a pair of shoes - 'They are totally awesome!'
When listening to gibberish one of their friends is spouting - 'That is so...like... awesome!'
When watching a US Army helicopter kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan - 'Awesome!'
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 22:55, 3 replies)
This is hard to admit, but they are actually more correct than you think , old usage.
The "e" is in there, as it used to be in aweful, which just meant impressive rather than something bad, if it was awsome then it would be very dodgy.
Irksome and so on, tending to make you be irked? ( plucked out of thin air like a pedant magnet i`m sure, CBA to pull out the OED at this time of o`snooze, Charly boy 2 minding his manners after Charley boy 1 was rude and got topped for it said on seeing Wren`s St Pauls " I am apalled by its awefulness" IE. "I`m gobsmacked, that is well impressive, innit?".
It may be quoted in either david crystal`s the stories of english, or in Fowler MEU, let me know, i`m in a state of constipated indifference after the day i`ve had.
I think it comes from the Pepys diaries, but after 400ish years my memory may be getting a bit slack.)
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 23:34, closed)
The "e" is in there, as it used to be in aweful, which just meant impressive rather than something bad, if it was awsome then it would be very dodgy.
Irksome and so on, tending to make you be irked? ( plucked out of thin air like a pedant magnet i`m sure, CBA to pull out the OED at this time of o`snooze, Charly boy 2 minding his manners after Charley boy 1 was rude and got topped for it said on seeing Wren`s St Pauls " I am apalled by its awefulness" IE. "I`m gobsmacked, that is well impressive, innit?".
It may be quoted in either david crystal`s the stories of english, or in Fowler MEU, let me know, i`m in a state of constipated indifference after the day i`ve had.
I think it comes from the Pepys diaries, but after 400ish years my memory may be getting a bit slack.)
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 23:34, closed)
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