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Tired, annoying phrases

#123
viper4000 said:
No offense, but I use a lot of these ironically.
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Unless I am underestimating the lack of emotional stability of many of us here, we aren't/weren't really offended. It's more like passing thoughts. If anyone here REALLY wants to throw coffee in the faces of offenders of our "rules" then THEY need help, not the offenders. Ironically, many of us enjoy irony as much as the next guy.
 
#125
Let's not forget all of the buzzwords that middle management types who read Stephen Covey books and attend Anthony Robbins seminars like to say in order to try and sound smart. "Synergy" is a favorite amongst them. As in, "The shipping department and sales department just implemented a new operations protocol and it created a lot of synergy."
 
#129
TolerancEJ said:
Plus so many ask all sorts of specs and they are rarely the ones that eventually buy the instrument.
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I've never sold anything on TB, but the impression I get is that there are A LOT of tire-kickers. I'm always amazed when an item goes up for sale and there are a bazillion people saying "PM Sent," yet the item remains up for sale. Either people are low-balling/trying to offer trades when no trades were asked for, or they're tire-kicking.

Personally, I only PM a seller if I'm seriously interested in the item at the price stated. I don't like my time being wasted, so I don't like to waste other people's time. [/self-righteous hijack]
 
#131
SoVeryTired said:
At the risk of offending many Americans: "I could care less", when really meaning "I couldn't care less". The former means that there is still scope for caring less, whereas the latter means that it is impossible to care any less, i.e. the level of caring is at zero.
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YES! That's the one of the few in this thread that truly bothers me and I don't remember hearing people make that mistake when I was a child.

A couple of others:

"I sent her an invite to my party." The word is invitation.

"So I was trying to conversate with her..." The word is converse. "Conversate" is not a word.

"He was over-exaggerating." He's either exaggerating or he is not. You can't over-exaggerate.
 
#133
Corporate speak. I used to print up sheet of common phrases and bring it to meetings to keep score. It was interesting to see that when a new-ish phrase was introduced it's popularity within the organization spread more rapidly depending on the status of the initiator. And they thought I was taking meeting notes ... hah!

My favorite was "at the end of the day". Hey dudes, at the end of the day I hit the sack. Every day.
 
#134
matante said:
YES! That's the one of the few in this thread that truly bothers me and I don't remember hearing people make that mistake when I was a child.

A couple of others:

"I sent her an invite to my party." The word is invitation.

"So I was trying to conversate with her..." The word is converse. "Conversate" is not a word.

"He was over-exaggerating." He's either exaggerating or he is not. You can't over-exaggerate.
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Ooh yeah, that one really bugs me. I never even thought of the over-exaggerate one. That one's gonna bug me now, too. I see where my monacle went now. The plank must have knocked it loose!
 
#138
"My bad" is irritating but what I'm getting sick of is this latest "Really?" crap that's permeating throughout society lately. Example: Going outside and noticing you have a flat tire and simply looking at it and saying nothing other than "Really?". At first it didn't bother me that much but now it seems to be overused and everywhere.
 

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