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The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

Lily Powers

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Mike in Seattle said:
I was at a party the other night, where one old friend brought her daughter along. The daughter was just in from a well-known upper-crusty, top-drawer eastern university. She was just in for the weekend for a family event. I've know them for years, and she didn't speak like this before going away to college.

She was talking about a conversation with a friend, and each quote was preceded with "So she's like..." and "So I'm like..." and "So she's like..." After about 20 volleys of rapid-fire quotes back and forth of that type :rage: , I headed for a fresh martini and more hors d'ouevres before my eardrums exploded.

Her mother caught up with me a little later, and we were chatting. In quoting someone else, she launches in with, "So at lunch last week, Betty was like..." :eusa_doh: I said, "Nip it in the bud right now. Betty wasn't like, Betty said, Betty stated, Betty launched in with, but Betty is never like." "Oh no, I didn't, did I? It's rather infectious." "As with all infections, medicate, innoculate, vaccinate, whatever it takes to kill it in its tracks. There's nothing sadder than a 50-something respected businesswoman sounding like a pre-teen Paris Hilton wannabe."

Like, oh my god, she must have been like, so totally freaked when you dissed her on that. Like. lol
 

Dixon Cannon

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Marc Chevalier said:
No, thanks. May I have a dose of Esperanto instead? ;)

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Since our language is being reduced to a literal tower of Babel, I asked the supervisor at work if we could open an Esperanto desk!? Why not?...I can't understand half of the people the call in anyway!

Here is a great quote: Vocal communication is more than just making noises with your mouth - it's supposed to be about articulating sounds that form words expressing meaning in a context of verbalized thoughts, concepts and ideas. Anything else is gibberish and babel, not language.

-dixon cannon
 
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stephen1965 said:
'Innit'? - Means: 'Isn't that so' and is often used in conjunction with 'Know what I mean'(pronounce knaw't I mean). Often sentences will begin 'Innit, knaw't I mean' to which the appropriate response should be 'No' but is often more likely to be 'Hmm'.

Back when I lived in M'waukee, we used Aina, verses Innit, same meaning. There's actually a M'waukee dialect catalog of phrases out there too, we have a ton of them and since I moved 'up nort' I get asked by others who did the same if I'm from back home because them phrases and that nasaly accent still come through. Just a few that come to mind, a bubbler, soda versus pop, ending a sentence with hey?

http://www.onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/accent.html

I'm proud of the quirkyness of it all, and you may as well embrace who you are and where you come from. The article here is great if you have any interest in M'waukee or regional dialect in general.
 

Viola

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In its most horrifyingly advanced form it's used in sentences like, "Yo, jeetyet, what yuhz wanna do, go down souf skreet?"

I have a pretty thick Philadelphia accent, honestly. I don't say souf skreet but I will say jeetyet. :eek:
 

Edward

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stephen1965 said:
Of course, like all part-time anarchists, I love to wear a vintage tweed when smashing the English class system. :)

Always a good idea - I've noticed the police think twice aboutg battoning someone dressed in what they view as a respectable manner, as opposed to some crusty hippy. ;)

Baron Kurtz said:
Jamie Oliver. 'nuf said

bk


See also Jagger, Mick. Specifically, compare and contrast the polite, Vicar's son of the early sixties with the mockernee drawl he later adopted. The latter is faker than his Irish accent in Ned Kelly! lol

LizzieMaine said:
As an aside -- the only thing more pretentious than the middle class aspiring to "upper class manners" is the middle class pretending to be working class in some desperate attempt to appear "culturally authentic."

That is rank - it's even worse when the upper classes get in on it - the trustafarians, as they are often known. "She came from Crete, she had a thirst for knowledge..." and all that.

Baron Kurtz said:
It's a bit like piling peas on the back of a fork. The absolute dumbest attempt to copy "manners" that i've ever encountered. [huh]

bk

lol I still find myself doing this all the time, out of sheer habit. It is a daft approach. Maybe this goes back to the origins of the fork as a utensil, created to do what a spoon couldn't... odd, though, that in the UK regions (afaik, it is only in these islands where this rule of etiquette is (still) followed) the use of the fork in polite society should evolve towards its bering used in a manner that makes it most awkward, abandoning its spoon-like qualities altogether. I wonder was this a deliberate thing, originally to make the point that one had sufficient means to have a need for a fork (greater meat consumption?) than the common folks who only had need of knife and spoon? Would be interesting to find that out.


stephen1965 said:
I'm not an expert on this but I suppose that the upper class (U) can afford to be 'rude' or direct about what they say and what they want.


I think this has had a lot to do with it. In some corners of the upper classes, it seems de riguer to celebrate all that is vulgar and ignorant, and to think onesself terribly clever for doing so as, unlike the common working classes, one knows better.

Miss Neecerie said:
excuse me = pre-bumping 'please move out of my way'

I'm sorry = post accidentally hitting someone regrets


This plus a copious use of "please" and "thank you" (admittedly, I am fairly well trained from living in England to have every transaction include 5 pleases and 4 thank yous) makes the polite world go round.


:eusa_clap



As it goes, I find far more annoying words and phrases in the English language. Otherwise civilised people who insist on substituting "normalcy" (ugh) for the word "normality", for instance.
 

SamMarlowPI

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"i beg your pahdon, dear sir or madame, but may i walk in front of you so i may get pahst without being incomprehensively without manners and offending thee?"

"thank you ever sooo much, you are a positive light in the limitless marathon of the human race."
 

Darhling

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SamMarlowPI said:
"i beg your pahdon, dear sir or madame, but may i walk in front of you so i may get pahst without being incomprehensively without out manners and offending thee?"

"thank you ever sooo much, you are a positive light in the limitless marathon of the human race."


lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
 

i_am_the_scruff

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I don't want to offend anyone, but there's alot of stuff Americans say that irritates me like crazy.
Prime example, the non-word "thunk". Seriously, what? "who would have thunk?" No, thought. THOUGHT.
I was in Kansas a couple of years ago and the lady we were staying with actually said "I'm gonna call >insert name here< and see if he's had any thunks for dinner." I almost left the country there and then.
 

Paisley

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Miss Neecerie said:
I will take that dose of esperanza ...and maybe put it in Esperanto.


Not sure why would you turn down good esperanza like that Marc, the world always needs more of it. ;)

The word is "expresso." Geez.:rolleyes: ;)
 

stephen1965

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First I remember hearing 'Team Lewis' from Lennox Lewis. Now I hear that Great Britain's Olympic Team are 'team GB'. To me, it just sounds so... 'stunted'.
 

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