What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

This will my pet peeve also. That along with, were and where.

 

Could be. I think they think using 'myself' somehow sounds "smarter".

HERM

 

I had a discussion with me, myself and I and decided that that was perfect!

HERM

 

Automated phone answering systems that say "Your call is important to us."

 

One simply can't overemphasize the importance of using correct grammar.



Let's also not forget the proper use of punctuation and tense.





However, I subjugate correct grammar usage to the higher forms of artistic expressison.

 

Let's eat Grandma!

Versus

Let's eat, Grandma!

Not the same.

 

yes...but they'd have to consider the alternative when they are stuck or trapped and say "GET MYSELF OUTTA HERE!!".

 

Shave ready

 

well, not the same unless you do belong to a family of cannibals.

 

Think that through.

 

Depends on who writes it.

 

Here's another one-ANY phrase that ends in an "uptick"(sounding like asking a question), when it was not meant to be a question:

A and B are having coffee at Starbucks. A asks B "Who was our first President?" B says "Everyone knows it was George Washington?" A says "Don't ask me, I was the one asking YOU".

 

Worse when every phrase in a statement ends on a rising intonation (aka: uptick).

 

right, and the only phrase that doesn't is the last one the speaker is saying, as if to mean, "OK, I'm done now...your turn to speak".

 

I really hate it when people end all their sentences with an exclamation point! What's so flipping exciting!?!
This is dick! See dick run! Spot is brown dog!

 

"I can't be arsed/bothered" to read two pages back to see what others have posted on this topic...

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I think this depends on the region. "De nada" is the Spanish response to "thank you." De nada literally translates to "It's nothing." Growing up in Arizona, I heard that a lot, and never even thought about it as a problem.

 

I deal with a lot of corporate types. Several of the common phrases have already been mentioned. One of my least favorite: "Can we set up a meeting to flush out that idea?" Flush should only be used to describe the action of flushing a toilet, or using grenades to get someone out of a fox hole. "Can we set up a meeting to flesh out that idea?" To take a skeleton of an idea and add flesh to it to make it bigger and stronger. This is the correct usage. Unfortunately, one of the VPs in my company always uses flush, and other managers use it to imitate her.

 

I don't know if it's already on here, "talk to the hand".

 

Hmm... there is the milder form of that second usage as in "flush out some quail". That might make for a valid management usage if one were trying to find an idea lost in a sea of bad ones (i.e., "Let's meet to flush out workable alternatives.")

"Flush" almost seems to be one of those verbs which is highly influenced by what follows it. Think "flush away your troubles" vs. "flush out the truth".