Words or phrases that drive you mad

kathleenryd

could have kicked myself - I think this all the time - I use so many of these words and phrases - but you have to have a sense of humour and unless you are perfect, you are, obviously, absolutely,randomly,awesome.

GemJar_2

"have you heard the latest" and "is it?" (Girl one: "Julie has a new haircut" Girl Two "is it?" and "axe"(instead of ask) and "nuffink" and "sumfink"

esuhl

What annoys me is when a word is used in an "unconventional" way. Phrases such as:

"That's a big ask." (Instead of "That's a big thing to ask".)
"Think different." (Instead of "Think differently".)
"My bad." (Instead of "My mistake" or "My fault".)
"What have you ate?" (Instead of "What have you eaten".)
"That is a lot of data." (Instead of "Those are a lot of data".)
"End of." ("End of what?" for goodness' sake!)

Any mention of the non-existent letter "haitch" usually makes me grind my teeth too!

Oh.. and I'm not sure whether this is correct or not, but last time I travelled by train an onboard annoucement was made: "The door buttons are now activated". But the word "are" signifies present tense, which contradicts"activated" suggesting past tense.

I would have said either "The door buttons are now active" (to give their current state) or "The door buttons have been activated" (to infer an earlier action). But then I thought... if the door buttons are active, there is nothing to say that they haven't always been in that state... and to say that they "have been activated" means that they were activated in the past, but may have been subsequently de-activated. So saying that they "are now activated" makes it clear that the activation happened in the past, but the buttons are still active in the present. It also avoids the split-infinitive in saying "The door buttons have now been activated".

But was the announcement grammatically correct? And can anyone tell me why I actually care about the answer?!

kathleenryd

Incorrect use of 'infer' and 'imply'

xangeleyes

What about when you tell someone a story, perhaps you're having a bit of a moan, and you've finished and the other person agrees with you and says 'yeah, tell me about it'........erm, I just did!

hansi

"In the loop"

Putting "yeah" at the end of sentences i.e. I'll see you at the pub, yeah?

DitaBombita

I cant stand, "Welcome to my/our world"

Generally used by colleagues when im complaining about something at work.

It annoys me for two reasons, first one its generally said in a sing song type voice, and the second - Lets do something about it then! Arghhhh

vikingaero

Has anyone said like, you know, like. I like had a really fab time like at the weekend like. We like went to this pub that was like a steamboat like. Why do you have to say "like"????!!!

ska_lover

I hate the word 'RANDOM' used inappropriately. It seems to be the cool word of the moment.

'I went to see a film last night' ...'wow how random'

Other hated words/phrases are 'fail' and 'epic fail'.. as in 'my cat died last night - epic fail'

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

hansi

vikingaero wrote: »

Has anyone said like, you know, like. I like had a really fab time like at the weekend like. We like went to this pub that was like a steamboat like. Why do you have to say "like"????!!!

Im like, baffled by that one, too:j