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Dubaiexile Jun 14th 2017 5:21 pm

Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
 
Did you put in brackets "you tw*t"

Millhouse Jun 14th 2017 5:55 pm

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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12273139)
I used "with all due respect" in a letter to our client today. All pleased with myself. :sneaky:

That's a phrase that is underused.

Bahtatboy Jun 14th 2017 7:46 pm

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Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12273182)
That's a phrase that is underused.

I think to get just the right nuance its got to be said to a Brit to a non-Brit (I include our antipodean and Irish friends as Brits in this context). I'll await the response to see if it struck home, although its not quite past the censors yet. Or am I unjustifiably laying a cultural-appropriation claim to it?

Edit: Its overused in the sense that its usually used without the appropriate degree of unction.

Pulaski Jun 14th 2017 9:43 pm

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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12273260)
I think to get just the right nuance its got to be said to a Brit to a non-Brit (I include our antipodean and Irish friends as Brits in this context). I'll await the response to see if it struck home, although its not quite past the censors yet. Or am I unjustifiably laying a cultural-appropriation claim to it?

Edit: Its overused in the sense that its usually used without the appropriate degree of unction.

Usage really needs to be confined to occasions when it is inappropriate. :nod:

weasel decentral Jun 15th 2017 2:46 am

Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12273260)
I think to get just the right nuance its got to be said to a Brit to a non-Brit (I include our antipodean and Irish friends as Brits in this context). I'll await the response to see if it struck home, although its not quite past the censors yet. Or am I unjustifiably laying a cultural-appropriation claim to it?

Edit: Its overused in the sense that its usually used without the appropriate degree of unction.

I don't think I have ever used that phrase as it is honestly interpreted, it's always been delivered either ironically or sarcastically.

moneypenny20 Jun 15th 2017 3:06 am

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Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 12273405)
I don't think I have ever used that phrase as it is honestly interpreted, it's always been delivered either ironically or sarcastically.

You mean people really use it in a non sarcastic manner? They're weird.

weasel decentral Jun 15th 2017 3:20 am

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Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 12273414)
You mean people really use it in a non sarcastic manner? They're weird.

Well when people say it to me I assume they mean it honestly :lol:

BEVS Jun 15th 2017 3:23 am

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'Thus far.'

martinbkk Jun 15th 2017 4:08 am

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The fail had an article in 2013

From not bad to quite good, how trait of being polite stops us from saying what we really mean | Daily Mail Online

that though its not so much about overused expressions does help to translate what a Brit (I think specifically) means when they say certain things. Could be useful if you deal with the the less perceptive.

Statistix Jun 15th 2017 4:49 am

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Where do I start...........??

24/7
Outside the box
Sub-optimal
Push the envelope
Buy-in
Verticals
Reporting line (or line manager, etc)
Brainstorming
Leveraging
Need-to-know basis
.... blah, blah, blah.......

Statistix Jun 15th 2017 4:50 am

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Those are all from a business environment........

More generally, I hate "actually"............

scrubbedexpat141 Jun 15th 2017 5:49 am

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Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12273182)
That's a phrase that is underused.

Agreed....It's in the Geneva Convention....use it freely.

Boomhauer Jun 15th 2017 6:20 am

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" take it to the next level "

Boomhauer Jun 15th 2017 6:23 am

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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope (Post 12271733)
Signature (as an adjective)
Boutique (as an adjective)
Iconic
Cooked to perfection

Seems like everyone and his cousin is starting a "Boutique" hotel or joint of some sort.

Chic

Meow Jun 15th 2017 7:42 am

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The utterly ridiculous acronym bae and other millennial nonsense like totes when they mean totally instead of referring to multiple bags, my bad (presumable grammar is the missing word) and cray cray. No, you or your pathetic activity are not crazy, just ignorant and lazy if you cannot manage that single extra letter.

Also the appallingly twee hubby, hubster, wifey and other vomit-inducing terms.


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