bridge too far Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Doesn't wind me up but amuses me that so many Germans when speaking English keep to their own pronunciation of V and W although obviously they have those sounds in their own language. LOL reminds me of my first ever ski trip when the instructor kept talking about my 'welly' ski. I eventually realised he was talking about the 'valley' (i.e. downhill) ski! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 It is actually "to all intents and purposes" I think you will find it's, "too all in tents and porpoises." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 The word "like" being added to sentances As in I was like really annoyed It's like so unfair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Oh... and every word that the girl across the office utters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 People that say 'not being funny' are in general the least funny people you will ever meet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 People that say 'not being funny' are in general the least funny people you will ever meet. And on the flip side of that, I always find sentences that begins with "I'm not racist, but....." invariably turn out to be actually quite racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 And on the flip side of that, I always find sentences that begins with "I'm not racist, but....." invariably turn out to be actually quite racist. I don't want to argue but (I am going to start something you will disagree with and therefore argue with) That's that last time I am going to tell you/I am not going to tell you again (Used to be said a lot in my house when I was a child - I was always told again) I don't mean to complain but (see argue) Special tribute has to go to Jeremy Kyle who has made a career out of shouting at chavs and using phases they will understand but annoy 'normal' people: 1) At the end of the day 2) Step up to the plate 3) Put something on the end of it 4) I'm not being funny but... I am sure there are many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 "My bad" I despise. I also hate kids that feel the need to raise their voice at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minty Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 I also hate kids that feel the need to raise their voice at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question. [video=youtube_share;T3j4n5Jm1Qg]http://youtu.be/T3j4n5Jm1Qg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Any retarded American words or spelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StDunko Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Off of - drives me bloody crazy. Comprises of - aaaarrgghhh and of course the all time classic - could of Are people not just using the contractions: could've etc. which just sounds like "could of"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Are people not just using the contractions: could've etc. which just sounds like "could of"? I regularly hear people quite distinctly using 'of' instead of 'have' as they seemingly have never been taught or told that it's incorrect. It's very common to read 'of' used in posts on here as well. Just poor education I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Guly is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Guly is good :x:x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Amazeballs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Get-go - what's wrong with 'start' or 'beginning'? FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Amazeballs Some friends I know (a fair bit younger than me) started using this a lot recently. Then I was listening to the radio and the girl from Skins (where it originated) was talking about how she and the rest of the cast just made up this bullsh*t word for a laugh just to see how many people would copy them and start using it in everyday conversation. I haven't the heart to tell my mates this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Any retarded American words or spelling. A word that originated in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equalizer Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 I hate compound words, the worst being "staycation", especially when used by TV presenters in this country, as we use the word holiday, not vacation, it is pretty stupid to use staycation to mean a holiday taken in your own country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Some friends I know (a fair bit younger than me) started using this a lot recently. Then I was listening to the radio and the girl from Skins (where it originated) was talking about how she and the rest of the cast just made up this bullsh*t word for a laugh just to see how many people would copy them and start using it in everyday conversation. I haven't the heart to tell my mates this. Some SWF users use this word too.....makes me mad, sad and NEVER glad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 A word that originated in America. But personified here on TSW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 But personified here on TSW. By users of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 Quite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 27 July, 2012 Share Posted 27 July, 2012 But personified here on TSW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 People that talk about themselves in the third person. People that say "and it's so like......" or anything that comes off Friends People that talk in the pretend gangster voice "I'm not a happy bunny" WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddings and Monkeys Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 "reach out". I'll reach out to John and see if he can make the meeting. Makes me ****ing vomit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Let's take a helicopter view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Ticks all the boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 "Lets blue sky it..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Also, despite being reasonably funny originally, the whole inbetweeners "Friend" thing now does my head in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintfully Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Some SWF users use this word too.....makes me mad, sad and NEVER glad But it is a deliciously ridiculous word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 When someone tells you something you need to know and they say "FYI" and then say what they need to say. The irony is they think it's a short way of saying "for your interest" when they don't even need to say it in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambol2K9 Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 When people(mainly teenage girls) say 'like' every other word. "it was like so good, he was like..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuengirola Saint Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Innit. When it was a colloquialism for 'Isn't it', I could handle it... but now this 'word' appears to have taken on the meaning of about 20 others... sometimes I swear it is used just to fill a gap where they know a word should go but aren't intelligent enough to know what word it should be. It also seems to be used in a CB-radio style, to let you know that they've finished what they were going to say. Innit. I remember back in the 80's a girl i knew from Dagenham taking the rip out of us for saying innit in place of isn't it, she would have said ain't it, but i now hear people from London saying innit, we've always said it on the Waterside ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 "I'm loving this thread" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Any retarded American words or spelling. A word that originated in America. Think the word originated in France as "retard" meaning late, subsequently adapted to late/slow developer etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 When people(mainly teenage girls) say 'like' every other word. "it was like so good, he was like..." I overheard this when attending a Uni open day with my son, and as you say it often combines "so" and "like" in the same sentence .." I'm like so not going to get an 'A' in Geography" * This was from someone applying to a University rather than a course in hairdressing !. *or was it .." I'm so not like going to get an 'A' in Geography" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Not used to often nowadays but I dislike " I, myself, personally ". People who type 'wer be there' meaning 'we'll (we will)'. There are many more but it's more fun to read other's pet hates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 28 July, 2012 Share Posted 28 July, 2012 Think the word originated in France as "retard" meaning late, subsequently adapted to late/slow developer etc. You're thinking of Alfred Binet, who did not use the word in anything like the way our resident racist does. It was the American translator of Binet's work who helped the eugenics movement in the US seize on his verbal reasoning test in order to diagnose 'retardation' as a measure of irretrievable, and genetically determined, mental backwardness These tests were used, for example, to pursue forced sterilisation programmes predominantly against black Americans. Hence, I assume, our little dumb joker's preference for the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Here are a few things I hate. 1) the use of nouns as verbs: "the team expects at least three members to medal at these games"; "a committee has been tasked with the job of ..."; 2) using a reflexive verb without the required direct object (a reflexive pronoun): "I am going to commit to four hours of practice a day" (should be "I am going to commit myself to four hours ..."); 3) piling up groups of nouns (using nouns as adjectives): "England football team coach"; "sports car production line costs"; 4) police officers who talk to the media with convoluted latinate phrases, instead of using straight-forward, colloquial forms: "We entered the domicile and apprehended the individual at that point in time after we had ascertained the likelihood that he might abscond from the premises". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 convoluted latinate phrases, instead of using straight-forward, colloquial forms Dat's exactly what I was gonna say! Not really! None of this stuff in this whole thread bums me out or whatever! I don't like it when pap calls me "Bearsey" tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 I bet your like David Jason playing Dell Trotter Bear. On here you is likes all bads with the Spelling and stuff but actually, when you want to be, you speak in an upper class, standard English that even the queen would say is 'a bit posh'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Dell Trotter Bear! I like dat somehow! If I have a cub dat's what he is getting called! Oh yeah and you is quite correct: I am Ruperts Lowe! Dat's why I'm Bearsy cos of Ruperts The Bear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Amazeballs Correct. Anyone who uses that word in any context is an absolute c*nt IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Lush - grrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Here are a few things I hate....convoluted latinate phrases, instead of using straight-forward, colloquial forms Adversus solem ne loquitor. Delphinum natare doces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Adversus solem ne loquitor. Delphinum natare doces. i sum risum - subtilis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Got a mate who gleefully says "it gets dark!" whenever someone says "at the end of the day". You're friend sounds great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Your* obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 29 July, 2012 Share Posted 29 July, 2012 Here are a few things I hate. 3) piling up groups of nouns (using nouns as adjectives): "England football team coach"; "sports car production line costs";". Should be hyphenated if a phrase is being used as an adjective - ie. sports-car-production-line costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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