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Originally Posted by N1cky (Post 8019259)

I've noticed this week that lots of people use the word 'she'. My boss says it all the time, she will be speaking to someone with me present and refer to me as 'she', also saw it in an email yesterday.

I think it goes back to when being a kid when your mum always used to say 'who's she the cat's mother'

It doesn't appear to be considered rude over here. It grates on me for the same reason :lol:

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Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 8019152)

OK, I have to ask (maybe I should set up a poll): How many people, when they write "lol" really WERE "laughing out loud"?

As you might guess, this is a pet peeve "word" of mine - I guess it goes with the general theme in this thread of overstatement (awesome, etc.). My guess is that most of the time, people really mean "that's funny". I just can't imagine that most of the time people were truly rolling around making "Ho Ho" sounds like Santa Claus.

In the same vein, "gutted" is another pet peeve of mine - "I just went to the shop to get some ice cream and they had sold out. I'm gutted" - surely you're just disappointed? Gutted sounds like it should go with some disastrous or personally devastating event, not the relatively trivial fact you can't get your ice cream.

Maybe we should change the title of this thread to Grumpy Old Farts' Corner.

Mea culpa - I do write LOL. Not so much that I am splitting my sides laughing, more as a clue that I am joking when writing - having been interpreted literally far too many times for comfort I thought it might give a bit of a clue to the tongue in cheekness of my comments (maybe I should be writing TIC, I dunno). It certainly isnt something I do in non cyber forums and it did take me a long time to realize what it was they were talking about :blink:but thought it was a standard clue. Promise I wont do it in response to any of your posts ever again!

Totally with you on gutted - hadnt heard it before I ventured onto this and other (usually migration) forums. I am always bemused at the number of folk who seem to lose their internal organs because their visa is late or, heavens forbid, they arent given one at all. I just have in my mind the River Cottage scene of a hanging slaughtered pig when they talk about being gutted - now that would be gutting!

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 8014257)

I hate the word 'like' when it is just thrown into a sentence without need.
My kids interject their sentences with the word several times..adding to the length but not the detail of what they are saying. I actually asked them to try to stop saying it and they couldn't!!

Yeah, I too, hate this use of the word. "I was, like, walking to the shops and, like, wanted to buy some jeans, and, like, they didn't have my size, like" OMG, give me strength !!!!

When written down, it just doesn't make sense, so why do people (mainly youngsters, it seems) think it makes sense to talk like this?!

Maybe I'm just getting old!!

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Originally Posted by king kong (Post 8017515)

Nothing wrong with the romantic word ''ejaculated'' ,or is it ''ive arrived'' these days . Romance is such a puzzle to me .;)

Come again?

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, I hate the use of "get it" instead of "understand". Why can't people just say understand:frown:

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Originally Posted by Loch Lomond (Post 8022802)

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I hate the use of "get it" instead of "understand". Why can't people just say understand:frown:

Indeed, I just don't get it.....

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Originally Posted by kporte (Post 8022936)

Indeed, I just don't get it.....

:lol:

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I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the word "er....." yet (As in, "Er, well, er, I really think that, er, this discussion of people's, er, pet hate words, er, is missing the, er, how should I say, er, most redundant word in the, er, English language").

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Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 8023909)

'ahead of'. As in Joe Bloggs is doing x y & z ahead of next week's meeting. Whatever happened to 'before', or if you're padding, 'in the run up to'? Ahead of? That's what you are if someone or something else is behind you. Bah humbug.

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Which reminds me.

Christmas - mentioned at any other time than approx Nov 14-Jan 14. Bah bl*****g humbug.:frown:

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 8028302)

'Humungous'

It's a 'male' measurement...means 'average' :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Englishtart (Post 8028368)

It's a 'male' measurement...means 'average' :rofl:

damn.

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Originally Posted by Englishtart (Post 8028368)

It's a 'male' measurement...means 'average' :rofl:

That`s a humungous sweeping statement. ;-))

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Originally Posted by fionamw (Post 8024027)

Which reminds me.

Christmas - mentioned at any other time than approx Nov 14-Jan 14. Bah bl*****g humbug.:frown:

Humbugs are nice.