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Another expression I've been hearing recently is, "Everything is everything." I'd like to place this in nomination as the most useless throwaway phrase ever.
My apologies if this one has already been mentioned:
"I could care less" when it should be "I couldn't care less."
If somone uses the phrase incorrectly does that obligate the person(s) in the conversation to wait around for them to "care less?"
Over the years, I believe I've developed quite a strong allergy to buzzwords and catchphrases. I think it started in the 70s, when President Ford started babbling the word rebate--you may remember that it was virtually impossible to escape that word for a while there!
Then came the Era of the Euphemism, when garbagemen became sanitation engineers.
Lately I feel as though I'm surrounded on all sides; it's getting harder and harder to pick out nice, straightforward communication from the blizzard of bad usage. I know there's supposed to be a silver lining in every cloud, but at the present time...
Technician is grossly over used, go to a job site and type it in the search box. A friend told that his, then new girlfriend, was a nail technician. What happened to manicurist?
A job title I once had was "customer engineer."
I am currently a "field service technician."
Technician is grossly over used, go to a job site and type it in the search box. A friend told that his, then new girlfriend, was a nail technician. What happened to manicurist?
A job title I once had was "customer engineer."
I am currently a "field service technician."
I'm now a "client liaison officer". Used to be a receptionist.
Disclaimer: Please don't take offense. It's all in fun. I hope everyone here realizes that fact. If these words/phrases are in your lexicon it's alright; I will still rep you.
Methinks. No! Not unless you are Shakespeare. Ya think? Okay.
See Ya!(said in that clipped annoying way). Any other form of good-bye in any language will do. Later! Okay.
Isn't that rich?/! Only describing chocolate or dessert items. In the same vein...
Isn't that grand?/! Only when describing sites at a national park, or the like. Or, by women in movies of the 30s and 40s.
Duh! I think the last time I used that one Nixon was president.
Newsflash! Like some anonymous poster has "the answer," and all news is true.
Get a life! Really rude!
Ditto: Don't let the door hit you, shove off, your free to leave/move, etc.
Last but not least...Butt Hurt! When someone says another has left the thread, because they got "butt hurt." No, maybe they just weren't in the mood for a cybershowdown that day. Or, that cooler heads prevailed.
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