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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ozzbo wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am sick and tired of all these dangling participles.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LittleRusty wrote:
People who say “me and him”

People who use ax when they mean ask.

What is particularly galling is knowing that, as I fade into the sunset, this will become standard usage for the masses. And it doesn’t matter what I think.

The other galling point is that I am becoming one of those people I thought were too anal when I was younger.

So...


Do not worry. Their turn will come, too.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

etc-etc wrote:
LittleRusty wrote:
People who say “me and him”

People who use ax when they mean ask.

What is particularly galling is knowing that, as I fade into the sunset, this will become standard usage for the masses. And it doesn’t matter what I think.

The other galling point is that I am becoming one of those people I thought were too anal when I was younger.

So...


Do not worry. Their turn will come, too.

Now there is a truly comforting thought.
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Harry Hilgers
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

etc-etc wrote:
LittleRusty wrote:
People who say “me and him”

People who use ax when they mean ask.

What is particularly galling is knowing that, as I fade into the sunset, this will become standard usage for the masses. And it doesn’t matter what I think.

The other galling point is that I am becoming one of those people I thought were too anal when I was younger.

So...


Do not worry. Their turn will come, too.

SO?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LaTrompeta wrote:
I am sick and tired of all these dangling participles.

SO?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've noticed on radio interviews, people have started answering questions with the word, "so." I think it may be a more modern version of how we used to answer questions by saying, "well..."
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'd be a fun guy to have a beer with.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe it is because the person starting the conversation wants to be dominant?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The reason it can be bothersome is that it is so often used as a conjunction, so one feels like they have missed part of a thought process and may wonder what came before the "so"?? But I have done it on occasion and it has caused confusion, so I try not to do it, and yet it can be a difficult habit to break.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iiipopes wrote:
Maybe it is because the person starting the conversation wants to be dominant?


Perfect...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So's law is a thing. Start a rebuttal post with "so what you're really saying is ..."

And most likely that is NOT what they're saying. Listening is a lost art *sigh*
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LakeTahoeTrpt wrote:
I've noticed on radio interviews, people have started answering questions with the word, "so." I think it may be a more modern version of how we used to answer questions by saying, "well..."


What I hate is a response starting with "unfortunately," when they fully intend to say no. If the answer is no - then say no.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't guess

A whole nother level

Aluminium. Won't somebody teach those folks across the pond how to speak proper English?!?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, this is the language gripe forum, right?! (interrobang!!)

My latest pet peeve - "moving forward." A verbal tic which irks in its ubiquity and virtual meaninglessness.

And, there are two words one should never use. One is swell, the other is lousy. I'll tell you what they are later.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GizB wrote:

And, there are two words one should never use. One is swell, the other is lousy. I'll tell you what they are later.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqFblQz-weU
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good one, Ayryq! As many I Love Lucys as I've seen, I didn't remember this great clip. I think I got that joke from some humor compilation in the 60s. That's 1960s, not my 60s!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably because this forum is not college repository writing class.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bothers me too. People simply do not know their own language.

I see errors in news headlines on a daily basis, and glaringly obvious ones, not just the ubiquitous and incompetent use of the apostrophe. Where are the proofreaders?

And then people say things like 'don't sweat the small stuff'. As if the decline in the teaching of spelling and arithmetic is a small thing. Sure. Anyway, if it gets much worse I'm moving to Africa.
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