I suddenly hate "malicious compliance".
It is a literal race to use this first and often in any EU/DMA thread.
It is a literal race to use this first and often in any EU/DMA thread.
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What if the append, "don't wear it out."
I use to say that a lot when I was young. That's my name, don't wear it out.🤭
Down here in Georgia (not the Eurasian version), when agreeing with what another has said, many (predominately males) have a tendency to reply:
"Thass right." in the most buttery manner possible.
Makes the hairs on my neck bristle, every time....
"Thass right." in the most buttery manner possible.
Makes the hairs on my neck bristle, every time....
The term "skill set" annoys me. In the last couple of years its use has become more and more common. A plural "skill sets" has been creeping in too. What's wrong with just "skills"?
When Webster published his original dictionary he deliberately simplified the spelling of words. eg, color for color, center for centre. His attempt to simplify had a profound effect on American English. Wikipedia has an interesting article on the history of the simplification of spelling. The article notes that it goes back a long way, with attempts in England as far back as the 15-1600s. So why is there a seemingly opposite trend to make simple terms less so? I don't want to be one who argues that language should stay static. The reality is that it changes over time. Never-the-less, "skill sets" has got to go!
When Webster published his original dictionary he deliberately simplified the spelling of words. eg, color for color, center for centre. His attempt to simplify had a profound effect on American English. Wikipedia has an interesting article on the history of the simplification of spelling. The article notes that it goes back a long way, with attempts in England as far back as the 15-1600s. So why is there a seemingly opposite trend to make simple terms less so? I don't want to be one who argues that language should stay static. The reality is that it changes over time. Never-the-less, "skill sets" has got to go!
I just saw "Manage your spend." Why is "spending" cut short the way that "failure" becomes "fail"?
If you can't afford to pay attention, you're just too poor.
If you can't afford to pay attention, you're just too poor.
Almost every word or stupid phrase that is shortened into an idiotic saying.
Apparently people are too lazy today to talk correctly.
Apparently people are too lazy today to talk correctly.
Is "I have to do [something] yet" correct? As in, "I have yet to do something." I've been seeing an increasing number of people using it, and I'm not sure. It just sounds (and looks) very weird to me...
"I haven't done [it] yet" sounds better, but I don't think your first construction is technically incorrect, just awkward.
I believe yet at the end of the sentence, like in questions or negative sentences, has a different meaning:
”Are you finished yet?”
“I’m not finished yet.”
That’s is a different yet from this one:
”I have yet to finish.”
"Birb" for bird used in memes. Funny for a minute or so now just annoying, actually saying it sounds like "burb" which I also dislike.
Isn't that the issue with many memes?
To my mind, many of them are neither original, linguistically clever nor witty.
True, which is why I tend to enjoy memes from animal doing what they do naturally or "inside jokes" from shows or books and some clever political memes (here many though are dumb or vicious).
Well, personally, I would prefer that you (one) give (gives) me a good (and witty, and clever) cartoon instead.
At least, that is original, can claim originality, (and sometimes, is also very sharp, witty, apt and funny).
However, on these very threads, (and elsewhere), - and this occurred especially, (unfortunately) in the old days when PRSI still existed, - I have noticed that memes tended to be used casually, lazily and as a glib substitute for thought, or argument, or debate, masquerading under the mask of supposed "wit".
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Agreed.People who start a sentence with “So”. Drives me nuts!
Above all, this is an especially egregious habit when it takes the written form, or, appears in writing (rather than expressed, orally).
Ah, yes, the infamous "So" when beginning a sentence. Wholly unnecessary!
Something else which always bothers me is a situation in which someone uses "formally" instead of "formerly". Those two words have distinctly different meanings!
Something else which always bothers me is a situation in which someone uses "formally" instead of "formerly". Those two words have distinctly different meanings!