The most irritating phrase in the... (sentence, quote)

[Den Mathias]

"I've got nothing." Also, the variation, "I got nuthin!"

[whydoucare?]

I hate when people say,"with that being said..." If I read one more post that says that, I am going to scream!

[Maine Writer]

"Needless to say," I'm going to say it anyway.

I'm never going to Missing. It must be crowded there.

[Ohiogirl81]

Slang and colloquialisms like y'all or Do what? don't bother me that much. Sometimes they even may be endearing.

[Coldjensens]

I do not mind Y'all unless it is used to a single person.


"Do y'all want to go tot he store with me?"

"I am not sure about the rest of mes but this me would like to go with you and whatever other yous are going"

Are all southerns schizophrenic?

[Lizali]

Originally Posted by kaykay

Ok, I'm probably weird here, but is anyone else bothered by the phrase " to go missing" or "She went missing." I just never heard that till a few years ago. It seems more correct to me to say something like "She was missing since Friday..." or "She is missing..." not "went." Now I hear it everywhere including the local news. Is this proper grammar?

That's a kinda literally German translation. Here we say: "Sie ging verloren."
But usually "ging verloren" is related just to things and not to persons. For instance: "Der Schluessel ging verloren." - "The key went missing."

So, if someone says "Sie ging verloren" is that a kinda funny expression, where Germans have to smile a little. It includes also, that she is back already, without any injuries and everything is fine. (Maybe she went missing cause she was drunken when we were walking, or a child went missing cause she run after the cat.)

If somebody is really missed and nobody knows where she is and obviously there happend something awful, we would never say "she went missing".

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

I do not mind Y'all unless it is used to a single person.


"Do y'all want to go tot he store with me?"

"I am not sure about the rest of mes but this me would like to go with you and whatever other yous are going"

Are all southerns schizophrenic?

a. West Virginia is not a southern state (except for the southern part of WV); and 2. we do know y'all means more than one person as in you all.

But I have heard real southerners use y'all meaning one person.

[Buzz123]

A lot of these depend on the context too, don't y'all agree?

[Tia 914]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

I do not mind Y'all unless it is used to a single person.


"Do y'all want to go tot he store with me?"

"I am not sure about the rest of mes but this me would like to go with you and whatever other yous are going"

Are all southerns schizophrenic?

y'all is often singular... in plural it's y'alls
of course, in some parts of the South, the term is youins...

[Tia 914]

one of my beefs: "if I'm you..."