My car's not fancy enough for that, but I do use that standard NATO phonetic alphabet often when spelling out important info, especially over the phone. But that's strictly for pragmatic purposes (clarity).
Can't say I recall ever hearing that!
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My car's not fancy enough for that, but I do use that standard NATO phonetic alphabet often when spelling out important info, especially over the phone. But that's strictly for pragmatic purposes (clarity).
Can't say I recall ever hearing that!
@circatee Like a "10 macOS Hacks that will Blow Your Mind!" kind of thing?
One that annoys me is the media's overuse of "ban". A business makes a decision not to sell product A? "Product A banned!"
It’s from the 70s. My dad had one.
Yes, I am old.
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I dislike politicians who use verbal pablum like the phrase "make no mistake, ..." which seems very in vogue among politicians these days.
I've been reading about it! I guess it makes sense that back then people would use them a lot, as there were no cell phones, so I suppose it probably was the only option.It’s from the 70s. My dad had one.
Yes, I am old.
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Anyway, not to stray from the topic at hand—another one that annoys me is "slay," as in doing something impressive. God, I hate it, and it's overused!
I have two comments about the rant above about how to pronounce "ask":
- "Ax" or "aks" are not incorrect. In fact, Chaucer used "ax".
- I am offended by the poster's commentary on "aks". It is a thinly disguised attack on a particular ethnicity in the US and advocates violence against people of that ethnicity.
Oh, please. If anything is offensive, it's this accusation you made against the other poster. So using your logic, Richard Green was also "advocating violence" against African Americans. Just stop.
From the article you linked:
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I've been guilty of saying "Yarp" and "Narp" after seeing Hot Fuzz. I felt the urge to rewatch that movie after reading that thread. There was a 🤯🤯🤯 moment when I realized the "Yarp" guy is Rory McCann.😎
The Yarp guy == the Hound.🤩🤩
Another one: "the feels." Example: "Man, that song hit me in the feels." Heck, even if they said "hit me in the feelings" it would bother me, but "feels" just makes it even worse.
Glad you pointed this out, it is the most egregious misuse of the English language, it is not only annoying but wrong.
"Bring" means move an object from somewhere else to you.
"Take" means move an object with you from your current location to somewhere else.
Clear as day, check the dictionary! YET, every network newscaster and writer gets it wrong, "bring" has replaced "take" in just about every conversation. There is no way to fix this anymore. My own family cringes when I try to correct them. I am sure Dave Brubeck would never play 'Bring Five'
Most annoying word for me now is "woke", but that is a whole different political problem.
Had to chuckle about the CB Radio, I am old too. Primarily used by truckers to keep tabs on traffic, tell jokes and report accidents and emergencies. In essence it was a verbal form of Twitter, to communicate all things important to them. Like Twitter and others, they used 'handles' rather than their own names.
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Go, good partner, go get you to Francis Seacoal; bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the jail.
—William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
ANTIPHOLUS (OF EPHESUS). And with you take the chain, and bid my wife / Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof. / Perchance I will be there as soon as you.
ANGELO. Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?
—William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
One of these mornings
The chain is gonna break
But up until the day
I'm gonna take all I can take, oh, yeah
-Aretha Franklin, Chain of Fools
—William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
ANTIPHOLUS (OF EPHESUS). And with you take the chain, and bid my wife / Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof. / Perchance I will be there as soon as you.
ANGELO. Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?
—William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
One of these mornings
The chain is gonna break
But up until the day
I'm gonna take all I can take, oh, yeah
-Aretha Franklin, Chain of Fools
I had one in my van, I built sound and lighting systems for discos back in old days. Never had a handle as never got into discussions with truckers, just listened for ‘smokeys’ and traffic. One winters day I was head home up 71 from Columbus to Cleveland in moderate snow. Traffic was doing about 30, and this trucker was yelling what the hell is this, and just then this red Audi 4000 passed is like we standing still, dodging in and around the traffic! I read up on the car, built for the Paris to Dakar rally. First pre-production cars were about $40k. Since then all my cars and vans have been all wheel drive. Nothing beats them!
Clearly Billie was ambivalent on the “bring” vs. “take” issue, possibly because he did not have the benefit of younger schooling as didst I under Sister Malevolent Obnoxious and her Ruler of Correctible Errors. And whilst his Antipholus got it right, Angelo was never known as the sharpest knife in the drawer. Perchance the title of the first work says it all: much ado about nothing.