Subject: Top ten irritating phrases
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 07 08
A top 10 of irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University.
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html
Do we find any other phrases even more irritating than this lot?
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 07 08
A top 10 of irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University.
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.htmlDo we find any other phrases even more irritating than this lot?
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lesley153
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I think "partner" is a perfectly acceptable alternative for "spouse" and all the other words, and greatly to be preferred to "common law husband/wife." I just can't shake off my associating the word with a business partnership. The last time I heard "It's all good" it was in an advert fo processed potatoes. Reply #161. Feb 11 11, 8:56 AM |
Lochalsh
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The idea is that it just doesn't matter. If the person doing the introductions wants us to know more, he or she will detail the relationship. Potatoes *are* all good, though processed ones--not so much. That's another phrase I dislike: "not so much." Why not just say "processed potatoes, less so," or "processed potatoes aren't very good." It's only a potato, so why add the dramatic aside? (To all the potatoes of the world: I love you madly, but I love precise speech more. Smooooooch!) Reply #162. Feb 11 11, 9:05 AM |
| lesley153
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How to make a potato happy. :) Reply #163. Feb 11 11, 11:15 AM |
purelyqing
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Phrases that people use repeatedly while talking. I have one lecturer who keeps inserting "in terms of" into his lectures. Another keeps saying "essentially". I don't mind when they use these terms once or twice when it is in context but it gets irritating when almost every other sentence contains these terms. I once had a lecturer who punctuated each sentence with "Clear?". One of my friends kept count of how many times he said "Clear?". It was more than 50 times in less than 2 hours. Reply #164. Feb 11 11, 11:46 PM |
evil44 
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What irritates me is anything redundant: Reiterate again ATM Machine PIN number DMZ zone There's also the "every now and again" phrase. I mean, what's that really mean? "Every now", okay do it all the time..."and again", repeat. So you have to do it all the time, twice. Huh? I also hate it when people use "cuz" or "cause" instead of "because". It's also irritating with people use "of" instead of "have" as in "should have". Reply #165. Feb 14 11, 3:54 PM |
| evil44
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purelyqing, I feel your pain. We had a teacher in high school who said "Uh" more than anyone on the planet (which reminds me, I also hate people who use hyperboles). In one 45 minute lecture, he said "Uh" 276 times. I wanted to take an ice pick and jab it through my skull at least a billion times. (by the way, 276 is not a hyperbole, even though some other things here were) Reply #166. Feb 14 11, 3:57 PM |
baldricksmum
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"If I tell you a secret will you promise not to ever repeat it?" Aaaagh! NO! Don't tell me! Am I really meant to keep stum if you confess to six murders? Reply #167. Feb 14 11, 4:10 PM |
| purelyqing
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evil44, wouldn't it be better to jab the ice pick through the teacher's skull instead? Reply #168. Feb 15 11, 1:14 AM |
reeshy
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Re "no problem", I say it often when I've done a favor for someone, and it really was no problem for me to help them, but they're feeling guilty for asking in the first place. I often a help a friend, explaining some of our lecture notes, and she feels terrible for always asking my help. When I tell her "no problem", I really mean it. :) Lecturers can be really annoying with their "phrases". I have a lecturer who said "basically" more than once in some sentences. And she continually said "etc. etc." Even worse, she pronounced it as "ek cetera". I don't know if that's a Scottish thing, but so many people here do it and I want to wring their necks! Reply #169. Feb 16 11, 8:48 AM |
Godwit
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"To be honest..." "Frankly..." "To tell the truth..." "Believe me when I tell you..." Spoken most often by politicians and television personalities. Followed closely by lies. Reply #170. Mar 05 11, 10:30 PM |
MotherGoose
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"Lecturers can be really annoying with their "phrases"." When I was in teacher-training, we had to do an exercise where we were videotaped while teaching a class, and then we had to sit down and watch ourselves on tape with our lecturer. It's a very painful and embarrassing exercise! Any repetitive phrases were painfully obvious and almost everyone has them. Mine was to tack "Okay?" onto the end of my sentences when I was explaining something to a student. In my defence, it was somewhat of an invitation to the student to leap in and tell me if it was NOT okay, if they didn't understand what I was saying. So my lecturer was criticising this and said "Did you realise that you said "Okay?" 17 times during that 40-minute class." The funny thing was that he did exactly the same thing, except he said "Alright?", instead of okay at the end of his sentences. It was all I could do to keep a straight face and not laugh as he was quite serious and quite unaware of the irony. Reply #171. Mar 06 11, 2:36 AM |
Jazmee27
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More than ten, but these set my teeth on edge: "What doesn't kill you strenghthens you" (if anyone ever says this to me, heor she will be minus a part of their anatomy!) "We can't help you" (said to me by doctors and physical therapists) "Don't get all up in my Kol-Aid" (synonymous with"get out of my face" or "leave me alone" or "mind your business" [the younger generation seems to love throwing this around]) "Off the hook" (I know some teens who use this all the time for things that are really great-for instance, delicious food) "my laws!" (like "OMG" [my Mom says this one, and it makes me want to throw a brick at her head!]) "Yo dawg" (My Mom started saying this after one of her friends said it to her-it's the way she greets me, and maybe it was cute or funny the first time, but now...) "If it's not broken don't fix it" (that's as bad as "common sense" or "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to..." or "you have a brain-use it!" [though I've used the latter in my story] "Duh!" (**So *annoying!) "over there" (I can't see well, so... [my response on one occasion was "Am I supposed to smell that?"]) "Do you know who I am?" or "Do you recognize my voice?" (again, can't see well, and it puts me "on the spot") "That's mad..." (I know a teen who used to [perhaps still does] say this whenever she considered something to be cool [or maybe she was expressing surprise, who knows? {she once told me "You sleep mad straight" and on another occasion said something was "mad loud" and something else was "mad good"}]) "No prob" (Uh... what?) "s'all good" or "s'all right" [although Mom and I use these, we're poking fun at those who say them) "Uh," "um," "like," "ya know" (*ick!) Reply #172. Mar 12 11, 10:45 PM |
| lesley153
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"Tragic" as a direct replacement for "dead;" and you can no longer read about a death - it has to be a tragic death, just as turpitude is always moral, and thuds are always sickening. Reply #173. Jun 21 11, 2:53 AM |
turbotude
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I don't understand why some women have addressed me as "Dude". I'm not a man, and don't look like a man. I find this irritating enough to warrant a dirty look from me. Reply #174. Jun 21 11, 4:44 PM |
| MotherGoose
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Thank goodness my daughter and her friends have stopped saying "my bad". Reply #175. Jun 21 11, 5:09 PM |
redwaldo
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"Having said that"-irks me! Reply #176. Jun 21 11, 5:15 PM |
irishrusty
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Brain storming. Team player. Reply #177. Jun 21 11, 5:49 PM |
| ga_jam831
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"It is what is"! As opposed to "It is what is aint"? Reply #178. Jun 26 11, 12:05 AM |
| Saints2668
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#1 and worst ever! At the end of the day... simply horrible! #2 We're just gonna take it one game at a time. (Can you take it any other way?") #3 Using the phrase, "He can really levitate" instead of saying he can jump." #4 It is what it is! This one is rapidly climbing the charts! #5 You don't know me. (I don't need to know you to know you're an anal cavity!) #6 He's got all the intangibles. (Well what are they!) #7 Keeping it real. (In case you were tempted to "keep it fake!") #8 The Nation's Midsection. Can ANY weatherman in America please reference the Great Plains section of our country without saying "the nation's midsection." #9 He's a true professional (especially when referencing a professional athelete). He should be... he gets paid millions of dollars to play A GAME! #10 We're gonna crank it up a notch. Does this mean you were priorly playing at a substandard level?! Reply #179. Jun 26 11, 2:41 PM |
| turbotude
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My son-in-law recently told me he had an angry client who was 'tripping out' on him. That phrase makes my skin prickle. When I was young, 'tripping out' had a very different connotation. Reply #180. Jun 27 11, 5:33 PM |
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