hated expressions

Shouldn't there be a comma after "regards" Mick?

I guess we are all in agreement then.
(did I just say "I guess"?)

Rasher

Your "yeah no" is another form of the Asian "Yes Yes Sorry" which means - No I have not done the task you asked me to do

ie a way of avoiding loss of face or in the case of the Occidental youth a way of trying to be cocky and ahead of the game

Derek

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Using 'already' instead of 'now'. That one seems to be used by teens and twenty-somethings in US sit-coms, eg. 'Stop that already'. Thankfully, it's not being used here.

Tony

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We English invented the language, so we ARE right.
"On the right" could mean various things, politically on the right, or being correct, "on the right hand side" clears up all confusion.

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Bollocks. The word "hand" is surplus to requirements. As is the word "time" in such phrases as "in 20 minutes' time."

Davie

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Well, Americans have managed to drop so many words from the language that WE invented, I could have written the above as follows:

"Americans drop many words from our language, I could've written this"

"Tuesday, bomb went off" WRONG - "On Tuesday, a bomb went off"

America: The ONLY place that insists on saying 9/11 when they really mean 11th September which abreviated SHOULD be 11/9 or any other date for that matter.

America: where a "Fanny Pack" is really a bum bag; when ALL other countries imagine a "fanny pack" to be a sanitary towell (napkin for the Americans)

America: where a line is a queue - WRONG! A line is something you draw on a piece of paper. (or snort)

America: "Football" - Football IS what Americans call "soccer" - the game Americans call "football" is played almost exclusively by hand........

Americans: Elevator - NO, it's a lift

I could go on.........

By the way, I LOVE America and have visted around 30 times over the past 20 years; I am not deadly serious about this!

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......

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Originally posted by Bhoyo:
Bollocks. The word "hand" is surplus to requirements. As is the word "time" in such phrases as "in 20 minutes' time."

Davie

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"in 20 minutes time" is relevant - to a mariner or someone else, 20 minutes could easily refer to a position on a globe or a bearing on a ship. The word "time" clarifies this.

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......

Hi Blythe,

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<America: where a "Fanny Pack" is really a bum bag; when ALL other countries imagine a "fanny pack" to be a sanitary towell (napkin for the Americans)<

I explained this to my American wife, but she took no notice. So from that moment I've referred to it as a 'Pussy Pouch'.

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

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"in 20 minutes time" is relevant - to a mariner or someone else, 20 minutes could easily refer to a position on a globe or a bearing on a ship. The word "time" clarifies this.

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Yeah right. That confusion must arise all the time.

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Well, Americans have managed to drop so many words from the language that WE invented.

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I'm not American. Nor am I English, thankfully.

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Yes, you could mention many other American words that you never use, such as weekend, hifi, telephone... There are thousands of words and expressions you have imported from the US, to say nothing of Australia, India and other places.

"Whatever", as squealed by some fat American degenerate revealing the sordid details of their fucked up life for the entertainment of their peers.
Regards
Jim

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Not tonight - I've got a headache !!!

When do you get told that she doesn't have a headache ????

"I am loving it" and similar.

Also nouns used as verbs:This from a UK commentator on the Masters "he carded 72"; from an athletics event " she podiumed in her last event"

cheers

Nigel

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"Whatever", as squealed by some fat American degenerate

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Whatever

"Gobsmacked"



Goodnight


Ron

Where I come from is repleat with 'newspeak'

Here are some of my faves:

'very unique'. it's either unique or it's not.

'the bottom line is..."

'at the end of the day...

'at this present point in time...'

and I will kill the next person who uses the word 'conferencing'

DAMMIT it's 'conferring' not that other made-up crap!

'myself' used inappropriately.

And people who can't use the apostrophe must be lined up and shot.
It's a simple rule: to use an apostrophe it's either got to be a possessive or a contraction, except for the possessive 'its'.

DON'T use apostrophes in plurals!!!!!

Joe90

"Thinking outside of the box"
"Reaffirming our synergy"
etc etc

Can anyone tell me what "OK" actually stands for???

Also, isn't it true the "cool" was a slang word made up for the gangs in "West Side Story" - a word that wasn't currently in use as slang, and so wouldn't date???

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Don't wanna be cremated or buried in a grave
Just dump me in a plastic bag and leave me on the pavement
A tribute to your modern world, your great society
I'm just another victim of your highrise fantasy!

Dom

My Oxford Concise Dictionary has OK as of US origin being a corruption of "orl korrect" being a jocular form of "All Correct"

Derek

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Ross -

That was Goebbels, not Goering. (I am not proud to know this - but the Evening Standard leader writer seems to make the same mistake all the time)

My boss said "we're where the rubber meets the road" today. Is that new one? I quite like it...

Tim

I was just watching a film and one of the chracters came out with this immortal line.

"What I crave is more face time with my new head honcho re the new advertisng campaign and how the customer profiling is shaping up delivery-wise"

What the F**K language is that?

GEOFF

I`m with Ross here

"empowerment" makes my stomach tighten when I hear it

also "cascade" when used as a transitive verb, eg "go to the conference then cascade the information down to us" arrrhhh!

Or any noun which becomes "verbised"

eg: "conceptualise" or "incentivise", or even "dollarise"!!!!

laurie S

Basically, political correctnes is bollocks and marketing gimps are all just complete w*nk*rs.

joe90

innit.

Tim

Re Rubber road interface comment

Your boss was reading this thread after the 10th April

RE the age of some of these expressions - I first came across a whole raft of them more than 30 years ago when I joined a US company that was rife with verbising nouns and TLAs

Derek

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Originally posted by Derek Wright:
My Oxford Concise Dictionary has OK as of US origin being a corruption of "orl korrect" being a jocular form of "All Correct"

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Cheers, Derek I suspected it was SOMETHING like that, but wasn't sure (must get an up-to-date dictionary too!).

"Empowerment" - damn, how could I forget that. Eeeugh!

__________________________
Don't wanna be cremated or buried in a grave
Just dump me in a plastic bag and leave me on the pavement
A tribute to your modern world, your great society
I'm just another victim of your highrise fantasy!