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Offline Texas Yellow Rose

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2018, 08:09:27 am »
Quote from: Freya on October 20, 2018, 08:06:15 am
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.

That's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.  Elementary school teachers forbid anyone in our classes to say axe instead of ask for 6 years. 
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2018, 09:59:37 am »
Quote from: Freya on October 20, 2018, 08:06:15 am
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!

I had to look that up, @Freya.  Zed?  Zee?  Maybe it's Dutch?   :laugh:
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #27 on: October 20, 2018, 10:50:36 am »
Quote from: Texas Yellow Rose on October 20, 2018, 08:09:27 am
That's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.  Elementary school teachers forbid anyone in our classes to say axe instead of ask for 6 years.

At one time I managed a testing and quality control lab.  There was a particularly annoying female with one business group who had many bad habits not the least of which was saying, "Can I axe you a question?"   My answer was "No, but you may ASK me a question."   After a time, it became a joke, what is now called a meme, for everyone save the annoying female. 
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2018, 11:10:26 am »
Have realized more than a few times, how lucky I was to have been taught in a parochial Catholic school system.

From the age of five in kindergarten, the Sisters of Mercy taught us reading, writing and arithmetic but also pride in being an American youth...encouraging us in Boy Scouts, etc..

Then the Franciscans and Jesuits took over.

Thankfully, by the time they got me, I was a Barry Goldwater enthusiast.

Strangely, the most effective English teacher was a lay teacher.  A flamboyant queen of a man named Mr. Driscoll. 

If you turned in any papers with 'promise', he would ride your ass (figuratively, of course)   There were no C or B students.   

Either an A, or you were taking shop the next year.  :laugh:
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2018, 11:24:37 am »
I really cringe with the misuse of "myself" is place of I or me.  9999hair out0000 9999hair out0000
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2018, 11:27:47 am »
Mute point, Moot point, I've noted that. I wasn't aware of the meaning of "moot", I am now.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2018, 11:33:48 am »
Using advice for advise or ideal for idea are two things I see a lot and it makes me crazy.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2018, 11:37:26 am »
I've noticed a lot of "sale" in place of "sell" lately. 
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #33 on: October 20, 2018, 05:30:44 pm »
Quote from: corbe on October 19, 2018, 11:47:00 pm
   I am quite guilty of abusing all of them.
My son has a Masters in English, so sometimes when he say something to irritate me I will as many grammatical errors as possible just to get back at him. He has at least relaxed in his corrections. I once asked him if his non English major friends called him a grammar nazi too.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #34 on: October 21, 2018, 08:17:46 pm »
I love this type of thread and I could list a fifty misuses that bug me, but I'll just go with "wa-la" for "voila." 
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #35 on: October 21, 2018, 08:19:32 pm »
Quote from: CatherineofAragon on October 21, 2018, 08:17:46 pm
I love this type of thread and I could list a fifty misuses that bug me, but I'll just go with "wa-la" for "voila."

What? Who the hell even uses the word voila much less misspells it? You hanging around with Magicians?
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #36 on: October 21, 2018, 08:22:47 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 21, 2018, 08:19:32 pm
What? Who the hell even uses the word voila much less misspells it? You hanging around with Magicians?

Most of us do hang with a different type of people than you do, Frank. 
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #37 on: October 21, 2018, 08:28:34 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on October 21, 2018, 08:22:47 pm
Most of us do hang with a different type of people than you do, Frank.

I'm seeing that. I had thought Midway Freak Shows were a thing of the past, but apparently not.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #38 on: October 21, 2018, 08:36:10 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on October 20, 2018, 12:20:51 am
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 #39 on: October 21, 2018, 08:37:08 pm »
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2018, 08:40:16 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 21, 2018, 08:28:34 pm
I'm seeing that. I had thought Midway Freak Shows were a thing of the past, but apparently not.

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #41 on: October 21, 2018, 08:44:45 pm »
In Brooklyn we compress sentences.

Such as: Jaeet? No, djew?  Translation: Did you eat? No, did you?

And the well known: Fuhgeddaboudit. No translation needed.

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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #42 on: October 21, 2018, 08:47:24 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 21, 2018, 08:19:32 pm
What? Who the hell even uses the word voila much less misspells it? You hanging around with Magicians?

Lmao

I've seen people do that a dozen times.  It's maddening.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2018, 10:01:25 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2018, 07:02:14 am
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2018, 10:15:44 pm »
Quote from: CatherineofAragon on October 21, 2018, 08:47:24 pm
Lmao

I've seen people do that a dozen times.  It's maddening.

Tout le monde devrait être obligé de prendre le Français juste pour savoir comment épeler le mot "voila".
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #45 on: October 21, 2018, 10:29:55 pm »
This is silly but one of the most annoying phrases in common use today is:
Where are you at? Why not just, Where are you? What does the 'at' add to the question?
And his brother:
Where are you going to? vs. Where are you going?

The most confounding thing about these usages is that it defies the normal construct of 'path of least resistance'. It is unusual for people to 'add' a word to a sentence specifically to make the sentence wrong. The normal case is to omit words to make the sentence simpler. I don't know? I don't get it?

I've worked with people who have never said, Where are you? without adding 'at' in their life. I'm not sure they even know that it works that way.

A guy a work told me once, 'I could care less!' So I told him, 'OK, do it! Knock yourself out. Go ahead and care as less as you want. If you could care less, you don't have to hold back for me.'

Never will forget the look on his face. Once he figured out what I was saying, just a look of complete surprise came over him. He raised a finger to come back with something, then he huffed away. That ended the conversation. So many people don't think logically about what they are saying or the words they use.
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Re: 9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
« Reply #46 on: October 21, 2018, 10:39:52 pm »
Quote from: 240B on October 21, 2018, 10:29:55 pm
This is silly but one of the most annoying phrases in common use today is:
Where are you at? Why not just, Where are you? What does the 'at' add to the question?
And his brother:
Where are you going to? vs. Where are you going?

The most confounding thing about these usages is that it defies the normal construct of 'path of least resistance'. It is unusual for people to 'add' a word to a sentence specifically to make the sentence wrong. The normal case is to omit words to make the sentence simpler. I don't know? I don't get it?

I've worked with people who have never said, Where are you? without adding 'at' in their life. I'm not sure they even know that it works that way.

A guy a work told me once, 'I could care less!' So I told him, 'OK, do it! Knock yourself out. Go ahead and care as less as you want. If you could care less, you don't have to hold back for me.'

Never will forget the look on his face. Once he figured out what I was saying, just a look of complete surprise came over him. He raised a finger to come back with something, then he huffed away. That ended the conversation. So many people don't think logically about what they are saying or the words they use.

Ever wonder why on all the cop shows they say "GSW" instead of "gun shot wound", even though it takes more syllables?

Well, you will now.
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