Stupid Things People Say

[arcentaur]

Originally Posted by Beo3

"you know what I'm saying"

No, I do not.

The correct phrase is “gnome sane”.

[Moggo]

Guesstimate!

Estimate is perfectly good for this, don’t create another word!!!


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[Moggo]

‘In the wild’

You never go near the ‘wild’, the wild is not the city centre or your office!


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[Blansky]

Originally Posted by 037

Ah, that one bugs me too. Your clasp isn't packing up for a tour overseas.

Even if it was an auto-correct error, I then have to wonder why the author didn't catch it and fix it.

A deployment clasp is when your wife/spouse or daughter/son grab onto you so you can't go on your tour.

[Star Ferry]

Originally Posted by ruffa

Overhearing an obnoxious drama queen say “she’s such a b*tch” in front of everyone but the said B

my girlfriend told me that her "friends" all hate each other. she also says they told her I was "too short for her." 5'8" and proud . I think the Netflix and wine addictions are really hurting these angry young women

[Moggo]

Originally Posted by Star Ferry

my girlfriend told me that her "friends" all hate each other. she also says they told her I was "too short for her." 5'8" and proud . I think the Netflix and wine addictions are really hurting these angry young women

How can you be too short for someone?! Did she require a partner or someone to reach the top shelf for her?!


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[FTX I]

Originally Posted by piratfisk

This is one of my favorite threads. I really enjoy linguistics, vernacular & phraseology.

In no particular order:

1- When ordering something "lemme get a..." instead of "may I have"

2- Saying "literally" when things are not literal, as in "my heart is literally gonna explode"

3- When "management" addresses people & the "bosses" are agreeing with each other in a mutual stroke-fest: "Just to piggyback off of what he/she said..."

4- New phrases like "it's lit/litty," "ayyy," "bruh," "I'm dead," & "aight bet"

5- "Be careful" after I've already tripped/hit my head. I got into an argument with the wife over this. I lost because she's nice & genuinely cares about my well-being.

6- "It is what it is." This is such a cop-out phrase said by people who resign themselves with being unwilling to try to change anything.

There are many, many more. This is what I can think of now.

Originally Posted by Blansky

I grew up in Canada and the linguistic structure of sentences often ended in the style of encouraging a response of raising the end of the sentence to a higher note. Linguistically a statement ends in a neutral tone the same as the previous words, but when you are being conversational and requesting a response you often take the tone higher. In the Canadian form it became "eh". The typical "is that right eh?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmr5OmbMvCk

I see often in some Brit TV and Australian TV they end in "yeah" in a raised tone, requesting a response.

When I moved to the US and California in the 80s I dropped using eh, and it changed the structure of how I spoke and so I became interested in why and how it's a structure of language.

Originally Posted by piratfisk

It's a way of asking "do you agree" without so many words. Man, words are fascinating. Etymology is also interesting to me.

Originally Posted by Blansky

The Brit pub-speak practice of taking a word, putting a cute definition with it and then replacing the original word with that definition and stringing them together is fascinating.

I can't do it but I've heard the word "wife" and that is replaced with "trouble and strife" then everytime in the sentence you use trouble and strife instead of wife and then string that with a bunch of other words done the same and soon only your pub buddies can understand what you're saying.

In black culture there a dozens of words that were changed. Just an example is the word car. Instead of car you said "ride". So instead of nice car, you say nice ride.

Great posts, guys. Thanks

[returntorolex]

Originally Posted by BigBlue1

This word

indubitably

I was accused of using a “fake” word in a meeting recently: Infinitesimal. I was describing the possible impact of a proposed policy change.

[tudorbaja27]

"Like" ; "Like" and "Like"

It drives me mad. It is so wrong - and yet used every four words. As soon as I meet a woman - and she starts throwing out "Like" every 10 seconds, I grab my drink and move on.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by tudorbaja27

"Like" ; "Like" and "Like"

It drives me mad. It is so wrong - and yet used every four words. As soon as I meet a woman - and she starts throwing out "Like" every 10 seconds, I grab my drink and move on.

Not so fast.

Maybe she's trying to say she really likes you.

[tudorbaja27]

Originally Posted by Blansky

Not so fast.



Maybe she's trying to say she really likes you.

Haha yes - she just stutters a lot.

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[FTX I]

This emoji bartmoon is a bit disturbing for me lol. We don't have this expression here so it sounds more like oh crap I'm flattered dude but no thanks. It gets worse when it's an image of a little boy doing that, but I understand it makes completely different sense to most here.

[77T]

Originally Posted by returntorolex

I was accused of using a “fake” word in a meeting recently: Infinitesimal. I was describing the possible impact of a proposed policy change.

Ha! Inextricably intertwined with “tiny”.


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[Blansky]

Originally Posted by returntorolex

I was accused of using a “fake” word in a meeting recently: Infinitesimal. I was describing the possible impact of a proposed policy change.

Like the public figure that used the word "niggardly" a while back and all hell broke lose.

Everyone is walking around with almost all the information ever accumulated in their pocket and they can't look up a word they don't know.

Too busy posting cat pictures I guess.

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Star Ferry

my girlfriend told me that her "friends" all hate each other. she also says they told her I was "too short for her." 5'8" and proud . I think the Netflix and wine addictions are really hurting these angry young women

You and I are the same height Star (well, when I’m having a GOOD day I’m 5’8”) funny thing is my ex wife (May she rot in hell, but there is no bitterness or anything) was 5’10” And she liked to wear heels! I didn’t give a rats pitute.

[Spartacus]

I hate the following:

“I can’t, I just can’t” “I can’t even” followed by nothing.

“Dead ass”. “I’m dead ass” ....this apparently means you are being serious.

[Dawg2]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

You and I are the same height Star (well, when I’m having a GOOD day I’m 5’8”) funny thing is my ex wife (May she rot in hell, but there is no bitterness or anything) was 5’10” And she liked to wear heels! I didn’t give a rats pitute.

"patoot"

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Dawg2

"patoot"

Ahhh, I beg your pardon


Patoot

[TheVTCGuy]

One I hate, a friend of mine used to say all the time:

“You know what I mean?”


Yeah, probably the same as “know what I’m saying”

[clock]

Originally Posted by Blansky

The word "folks", when I was younger it was referring to your parents (my folks) or "old folks" or black/white folks etcetc. It was a folksy term or at least sort of neutral.

Now its used in place of the word "people". "Those folks over there that are sending suicide bombers into markets"..... words used by the Bush/Cheney team.

Not sure how it replaced the word people in our language.

“Now IT’S used....

[clock]

Originally Posted by mailman

What’s up boss?
Hey boss.
Can I help you boss?

I’m not your boss.

Also: asking a salesperson for help or where an item in the store is located and their response is yes CHIEF

Using to instead of too.

[filsgreen]

Couple of Americanisms. Everything is "frikkin awesome"and you own a "bunch of watches". Also, would of and could of, instead of would have and could have, which is universal.

[911NBK]

I Hate the "me I"..... me I do this bro, me I go here bro, me I'm a freakn moron bro

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[Star Ferry]

Originally Posted by filsgreen

Couple of Americanisms. Everything is "frikkin awesome"and you own a "bunch of watches". Also, would of and could of, instead of would have and could have, which is universal.

I'm all for having a giggle, but you're taking the piss out of us with this one!

[timedate]

what about when you ask somebody how they are, and they say 'yeh, i am good'....no you're not you are a ****

[Dawg2]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

Ahhh, I beg your pardon


Patoot

I could not resist

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by timedate

what about when you ask somebody how they are, and they say 'yeh, i am good'....no you're not you are a ****

I think that word is almost lost in the US unless you're pulling water from it.

[DJ TT 2002]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

You and I are the same height Star (well, when I’m having a GOOD day I’m 5’8”) funny thing is my ex wife (May she rot in hell, but there is no bitterness or anything) was 5’10” And she liked to wear heels! I didn’t give a rats pitute.

Average height for a male in the USA.
Embrace the mean.

Can’t fly jets at 6’6”, either

[DJ TT 2002]

Not that I’d ever use the word “stupid “
but in my end of the world I hear:

Gonna walk on the Thread Mill

I’m having Prostrate trouble

I hope this chest cold doesn’t turn into Ammonia

[Watch This]

I was once told it's a doggy dog world.