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Einion
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Rewind there a bit: nicer, yes; inaccurate, not necessarily - a mild or inoffensive term used in place of one considered offensive or unpleasantly direct.
With regard to usage, these days the nicer part is even open to question given the rise in deliberately-unpleasant terms/phrases in certain circles.
Einion
Einion
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Yeah, I hate that too when it\'s followed by something that they know full well wouldn\'t fly without that (not that it always is).
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I want everyone to give 110% / I\'m giving 110% or any variation. Yeah, it was cute for a while but it got old, real fast.
One of the things that just generally annoys me in recent years is the move toward the use of superlatives and emphasis nearly all the time - sorry Americans, one of the things you have to take the blame for - to add unnecessary weight. It gets to the stage that if you say something in a straight, no-nonsense way it sounds weak or even unpersuasive, when it is the superlative-laden stuff that should sound wrong, retaining an air of hyperbole, exaggeration or self-aggrandising.
To illustrate what I mean, I used it above and you didn\'t even notice!
Einion
JesterzUSMC
Recovering Megalomaniac
Hey, now! That whole era was a corporate middle-upper-management, smoke-up-your-butt, politically correct, make-me-sound-important, B.S. phenomenon. You can\'t pin that on the intelligent people (however few they are) or the whole country. I wasn\'t the tw*t that came up with that \"think outside the box\" crap!Originally posted by Einion
Yeah, I hate that too when it\'s followed by something that they know full well wouldn\'t fly without that (not that it always is).
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I want everyone to give 110% / I\'m giving 110% or any variation. Yeah, it was cute for a while but it got old, real fast.
One of the things that just generally annoys me in recent years is the move toward the use of superlatives and emphasis nearly all the time - sorry Americans, one of the things you have to take the blame for - to add unnecessary weight. It gets to the stage that if you say something in a straight, no-nonsense way it sounds weak or even unpersuasive, when it is the superlative-laden stuff that should sound wrong, retaining an air of hyperbole, exaggeration or self-aggrandising.
To illustrate what I mean, I used it above and you didn\'t even notice!
Einion
johnboyjjb
Active member
\"I could care less\" Really? How much less could you care before you couldn\'t care less?
Actually... \"I could care less\" is a shortening of \"I couldn\'t care less\", meaning there\'s no possible way I could care any less than I already do...so not only is \"I could care less\" a stupid, annoying phrase, the person using it is screwing it up because they are too lazy to tack the \"\'nt\" on the end of could.
\"Really now?\" No sh*t sherlock, i was just kidding.
\"I\'m not one to brag but...\" But you do like to brag, and toot your own horn, etc etc
\"You know, you could die from *insert activity or action here* \" I could also die from fires, explosions, earthquakes, terrorists, tsunamis, mauled by tigers, eaten by sharks, livers destroyed by alcohol, die of sleep deprivation, car crashes, not wearing helmet, shootings, robberies, falling out of windows, unleashing herds of furious kittens, bleated to death by sheep, eaten by cannibals, freezing to death, over heating, destroyed by black holes, having heart attacks, getting electrocuted, drowning, dying of A.I.D\'s, contracting Ebola, committing suicide <----- major \"duh\", bleeding to death, nuclear explosions, poisoning, starvation, assassins, getting thrown off cliffs, spontaneous self combustion, falling out of planes, bookshelves falling on me, mauled by tigers, sucked into a tornado, death by food poisoning, falling into a man hole, boxing,m kick boxing, playing football, pillow fight gone wrong, accidental smothering, the common cold, the flu, biting their tongue off and bleeding in their sleep, choking on people\'s throw up, horrific gardening accidents, eaten by rats, ETC. ETC. ETC. I mean seriously, there are tons more ways to die that could happen than whatever said activity was, and probably have happened to people doing much safer or calmer things than said activity. :cussing::cussing::cussing:
\"I\'m not one to brag but...\" But you do like to brag, and toot your own horn, etc etc
\"You know, you could die from *insert activity or action here* \" I could also die from fires, explosions, earthquakes, terrorists, tsunamis, mauled by tigers, eaten by sharks, livers destroyed by alcohol, die of sleep deprivation, car crashes, not wearing helmet, shootings, robberies, falling out of windows, unleashing herds of furious kittens, bleated to death by sheep, eaten by cannibals, freezing to death, over heating, destroyed by black holes, having heart attacks, getting electrocuted, drowning, dying of A.I.D\'s, contracting Ebola, committing suicide <----- major \"duh\", bleeding to death, nuclear explosions, poisoning, starvation, assassins, getting thrown off cliffs, spontaneous self combustion, falling out of planes, bookshelves falling on me, mauled by tigers, sucked into a tornado, death by food poisoning, falling into a man hole, boxing,m kick boxing, playing football, pillow fight gone wrong, accidental smothering, the common cold, the flu, biting their tongue off and bleeding in their sleep, choking on people\'s throw up, horrific gardening accidents, eaten by rats, ETC. ETC. ETC. I mean seriously, there are tons more ways to die that could happen than whatever said activity was, and probably have happened to people doing much safer or calmer things than said activity. :cussing::cussing::cussing:
Amazon warrior
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People who add \"no offense\" to something they clearly know is offensive because they\'re under the impression that it will negate all bad feelings caused by their rudeness. No offense!
Matt Cexwish
Member
In Germany some People use \"Lirum Larum\" and \"Schwubb Di Wubb\" a lot...
Sounds funny but is a whole lot of gibberish...
Sounds funny but is a whole lot of gibberish...
Shawn R. L.
New member
Would that be the English equivalent of \'blah de blah\' or \'hum-in-uh hum-in-uh\' ?
\"There\'s no I in team\" ...which generally means when you lot do something right I\'m taking the credit, But if you screw it up I\'m not responsible.
ScottRadom
Shogun of Saskatchewan
\"There is no I in team\"
\"Yeah, but there is a ME!\"
That\'s the way that exchange plays out 99 times out of 100 around my shop.
Not an expression but my boss has a big poster on his wall in his office that reads something like \"Nobody on their deathbed ever looked back and said \"I wish I had spent more time at the Office\" and another that says \"When I am old it won\'t matter how much money I have or how big my house is, but it will matter that I made a difference in the life of a child\" and yet ANOTHER that reads something like \"If you can\'t make your business work in 6 days, the seventh won\'t matter\" (We\'re one of the few business in the meat racket that closes on Sundays) and so on.
I was called into a meeting and asked to work longer hours. I refused as I already work 55-65/week. My boss told me he needed me, and that I\'d be paid extra. I said I\'d rather make what I make now and not get a divorce and see my kids every other weekend, which I will probably have to work anyway and besides, it doesn\'t matter how much I make, only that I make a difference in the life of my kids.
The meeting was very long and LOUD after that.
Short version.... No divorce yet but the extra money might come in handy if it happens!
Shawn R. L.
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Sorry ladies but this does seem to relate 95% of the time to girls - talking at hypersonic speeds. I\'m talking serious burst-transmissions. I simply cant tell what\'s being said. I can usually get the first word or two then it just turns into an audio blur.
Don\'t know if this is just a California/USA thing but while not being a saying, it is what is being SAID or more precisely how it\'s said that drives me knutz!!
Don\'t know if this is just a California/USA thing but while not being a saying, it is what is being SAID or more precisely how it\'s said that drives me knutz!!
