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9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« on: October 20, 2018, 03:42:44 am »
https://hbr.org/2018/10/9-words-and-phrases-youre-probably-using-wrong

9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong

by Ross and Kathryn Petras

Many times, especially in business settings, people use words that they think they know — but don’t. Although they do this in an effort to sound intelligent and sophisticated, it backfires badly, because even one small slip-up can cause an audience to focus on only that, not the speaker’s ideas. Sure, saying the wrong word (usually) isn’t a game-changer. But if you make that kind of mistake, it sets you up for a question that no one wants clients, coworkers, or employers to begin asking: “Are you really that smart?”

Think it can’t happen to you? We’ve heard horror stories: people laughing behind a prominent CEO’s back for his not understanding the correct use of a business term; a corporate lawyer saying “tenant” (a renter) instead of “tenet” (a belief); an employee toasting her supervisor as the “penultimate” leader (which doesn’t mean “ultimate” but instead means “next to last”).

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2018, 03:47:00 am »
   I am quite guilty of abusing all of them.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2018, 03:50:09 am »
Someone I know was using the word "supposeNly" in place of "supposeDly". 

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2018, 04:08:23 am »
Oviously
Ek-spearmint
Uh-mergency Uh-mediately Uh-fficient (basically, any word that begins with 'e' or 'i' can be replace with 'Uh')
Did you see that? Yes, I seen it!

I could write a hundred of these.

If I worried about this stuff, I would make myself crazy. I have learned to just, Let it go.

The fastest way on Earth to make a new enemy is to correct someone's English.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2018, 04:18:22 am »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 03:50:09 am
Someone I know was using the word "supposeNly" in place of "supposeDly". 



Your wrong about that.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2018, 04:20:51 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:18:22 am
Your wrong about that.

Someone else I know uses the word "your" in place of "you're".  So bleep annoying.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2018, 04:23:53 am »
Quote from: 240B on October 20, 2018, 04:08:23 am
Oviously
Ek-spearmint
Uh-mergency Uh-mediately Uh-fficient (basically, and word that begins with 'e' or 'i' can be replace with 'Uh')
Did you see that? Yes, I seen it!

I could write a hundred of these.

If I worried about this stuff, I would make myself crazy. I have learned to just, Let it go.

The fastest way on Earth to make a new enemy is to correct someone's English.

I think if you know how to gently tell someone they're a bleep up, like I do, then it's safe to correct them.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2018, 04:27:11 am »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 04:23:53 am
I think if you know how to gently tell someone they're a bleep up, like I do, then it's safe to correct them.

Your always gentle. 

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2018, 04:29:25 am »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 04:20:51 am
Someone else I know uses the word "your" in place of "you're".  So bleep annoying.

Yew're wrong about that.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2018, 04:31:48 am »
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2018, 04:33:20 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:29:25 am
Yew're wrong about that.

I don't think those grow in Florida.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2018, 04:34:14 am »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 04:33:20 am
I don't think those grow in Florida.

Orange you glad about that?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2018, 04:35:28 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:34:14 am
Orange you glad about that?

Osage oranges?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2018, 04:37:41 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on October 20, 2018, 04:35:28 am
Osage oranges?

Leave it to you to bring monkey balls into this conversation.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2018, 04:38:16 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:34:14 am
Orange you glad about that?

You just have to make everything about Trump, don't you?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2018, 04:39:07 am »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 04:37:41 am
Leave it to you to bring monkey balls into this conversation.

I do what I can.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2018, 04:41:00 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on October 20, 2018, 04:35:28 am
Osage oranges?

Had to look that one up.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2018, 04:44:47 am »
One word I find being misused all the time on the forum is "Bumfuzzle". It has nothing to do with a wino's beard.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2018, 04:46:18 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:44:47 am
One word I find being misused all the time on the forum is "Bumfuzzle". It has nothing to do with a wino's beard.
fo schizzle
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2018, 04:46:31 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:44:47 am
One word I find being misused all the time on the forum is "Bumfuzzle". It has nothing to do with a wino's beard.

Says who?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2018, 04:53:54 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on October 20, 2018, 04:46:31 am
Says who?

Don't let YOUR kakorrhaphiophobia nature keep you from learning new things. Pick up a Funk and Wagnall and find out what it really means.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2018, 05:16:12 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 20, 2018, 04:53:54 am
Don't let YOUR kakorrhaphiophobia nature keep you from learning new things. Pick up a Funk and Wagnall and find out what it really means.

Ah,  got you all hot and bumfuzzled. huh?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2018, 11:02:14 am »
9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong Incorrectly

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2018, 11:29:22 am »
IRREGARDLESS

Makes me want to put an ice pick in my eardrums.  If something is without regard (regardless), how can it be without without regard?!?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2018, 12:06:15 pm »
Personally, I dislike it when people say “axe” instead of “ask” but I realize with accents, dialects and the like, people don’t speak the Queen’s English anymore.

I am probably one of the few people in America who use the word “zed” instead of “zee”.

Curses for being an English major!
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