The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

[AtomicEraTom]

Sociolinguists call this "code switching," and it's extremely common -- most people do it to a greater or lesser extent, and *everyone* I've ever known in broadcasting does it: a more formal, careful way of speaking for general-public use, and a more casual style when one is among close friends. Often the casual style is much heavier in dialect words and phrases. Ayuh, yessah, ain't it though.

Yup, I hate it, and I actually kinda have three, because I get a bit of a foul mouth when I'm with my friends as much as I hate to admit it, that's what you get hanging with the redneck crowd I guess. So, sometimes when I'm talking to my parents I'll find myself going, "You will not beleive what this ffff, I mean, guy did at work today!"

 

[St.Ignatz]

If its anything like here, "yo, I'ma go to the Acme, wanna come with?"

It is inelegant. However, in very casual settings, I use it.

Sorry Viola but it's Acame as in "I'ma go to the acame to get some pararika and maybe some filim to take picstures to put ina alblum".

 

[Viola]

St. Ignatz: Who axed yuh?

Okay, Ack-a-me, I've heard, pararika I have not and refuse to believe.

 

[St.Ignatz]

No problem with picsture?

 

[Viola]

Is that pik-stirr? Or pick-chur?

Because if it's the second one, while its an obvious crime against spelling - the shameful thing is I don't see how its a bad pronunciation.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Pick Stures. My Dad grew up in Haddington in the teen and 20's and a couple of the south Philadelphia boys I work with still say it but it's just patois not really an annoying phrase.

 

[Viola]

Heh, well, that must be a South Philly thing, sorry, out of my milieu.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

You folks made me think of another area of speech that perturbs me:

The meteorologists when discussing the radar or the forecast no longer speak of 'rain' or 'snow' but rather of a 'rain event' or a 'snow event'.

For cryinoutloud!

 

[Lincsong]

What if the guy absolutely refuses to take a hint? Of the "you got a boyfriend" [Yes] "Want a new one?" type?

I mean, I have the advice of my brother ("Tell him twice nicely, then channel Marvel's Thor and thunder "I SAY THEE NAY!") but somehow I think my brother was not actually concerned with good manners.

Which also brings up the girl who is having relationship trouble with her current boyfriend and then tells another guy about her troubles, when the recipient of her sorrowful tale asks her out she replies "well, I think in 4 years he'll be ready to marry".:eusa_doh: Why bother someone else with her troubles if she's not ready to drop the current boyfriend?[huh]

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Which also brings up the girl who is having relationship trouble with her current boyfriend and then tells another guy about her troubles, when the recipient of her sorrowful tale asks her out she replies "well, I think in 4 years he'll be ready to marry".:eusa_doh: Why bother someone else with her troubles if she's not ready to drop the current boyfriend?[huh]

women tell other women these things with the expectation of sympathy....if she tells a guy this...sorry...he is -already- in the friend category. She isnt telling him in hopes he will ask her out and rescue her from the crazyness.

Because seriously think of it this way...the -last- person I would tell of my woes and idiocy in relationship...is someone I could -ever- see myself being interested in. Its in -my- best interest to seem as -sane as possible- to such men, for future dating prospects. If I appear insane and relationally inept.....erm yea...

 

[Viola]

Which also brings up the girl who is having relationship trouble with her current boyfriend and then tells another guy about her troubles, when the recipient of her sorrowful tale asks her out she replies "well, I think in 4 years he'll be ready to marry".:eusa_doh: Why bother someone else with her troubles if she's not ready to drop the current boyfriend?[huh]

She's making conversation and asking for sympathy. I wouldn't think she'd be ready to be asked out unless she specified he was an EX- and even then it'd be raw enough to tread carefully.

If he's not being described as an ex, I don't know how you'd go about asking her anyway, unless you just paraphrase Vanilla Ice and go all "why don't you drop the zero and get with the hero?" lol

 

[Lincsong]

Exactly, why look for sympathy when it's not there????? Guys aren't the lonely hearts section of the newspaper.lol Guys are interested in when it is his opportunity to strike next.

 

[Lincsong]

I don't want to talk about it

When a guy "allegedly" says something that upsets the girl, what is the use with the girl giving the silent treatment, then when the guy asks why the usual reply is "I don't want to talk about it". Guys are mind readers.:eusa_doh:

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Alas...none of these are "annoying phrases'.....rather just the different ways the sexes communicate...

which ain't really going to change just because it annoys you

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's one that's bothered me for a long time -- the "ironic" use of outdated street slang by people who don't realize how ridiculous it makes them sound. I used to work with a guy who habitually greeted everyone in the office with "Yo, what it is!", delivered in carefully-enunciated pear-shaped tones, at a time when that particular phrase was too recent to be retro and too old to be hip. This was a guy whose closest approach to The Street was when he took his trash out to the curb, and he never caught on to how idiotic he sounded. He thought, in his own blinkered way, that he was showing us how "cool" he was. He was wrong.

 

[Diamondback]

rather just the different ways the sexes communicate...

Or NOT communicate, as the case would be there...

I should think "saying something by way of the 'Silent Treatment'" would be enough of a phrase in spite of its non-phrasedom to qualify, though.

 

[rumblefish]

How about the misuse of the Latin phrase- per se. And the over use of the word- literally.
Two gems from the knucklehead I carpool with:
"I'm gonna fix it, per se. I just don't now how long it's going to last"[huh] shakeshead
"It was so hot in that boiler room... My head was literally on fire":eusa_doh:

Maybe I should go back to riding a motorcycle to save gas?

Oh! One more; supposeBly is bad enough,,, I get to hear supposeVly,,, every once in a while. or is it "once and a while".

 

[Fedord Spaniard]

Here's one that's bothered me for a long time -- the "ironic" use of outdated street slang by people who don't realize how ridiculous it makes them sound. I used to work with a guy who habitually greeted everyone in the office with "Yo, what it is!", delivered in carefully-enunciated pear-shaped tones, at a time when that particular phrase was too recent to be retro and too old to be hip. This was a guy whose closest approach to The Street was when he took his trash out to the curb, and he never caught on to how idiotic he sounded. He thought, in his own blinkered way, that he was showing us how "cool" he was. He was wrong.

Hahahahahh lol thats funny. It reminds of people that go to urban places and just cause they saw a movie, they actually think that everyone that lives there is into crime and likes the same kind of music and have the same mentality.

You dont know how many times people have been shocked to know that i grew up in a tough area and expected me to be just like everyone else from those streets just cause of the repuation of that area. These are the same people that go to a spanish speaking area and refer to people there as "papi" or "mami" or in other spanish slang..when the only spanish they know is probably what they learned in a taco bell menu.

 

[Viola]

These are the same people who say "you're going... Into The City? On the...on the subway?" in hushed, frightened tones.

Because if you go Into The City, you will, of course, be eaten by werewolves.

 

[Lincsong]

You mean you won't get eaten by werewolves????