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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> "Can I get" ...I really @#$%& hate that. In fact I

> can't stand any Americanisms that have crept into

> our language.



I know. Don't people know how to say, "Gimme!" anymore?


Simples.

Don't know if anyones noticed - but there seems to be a slightly strange way of saying "thank you" from shop workers in ED. Everyone in Pretty Traditional seems to do it - it sounds a bit like a sneeze - the "than" bit is really drawn out, and then the "k you" bit is really brief.


Fashion eh?

someone I used to know would say " to die for " all the bloody time . watched far too many episodes of Friends.


Power Walking - do people still use that one ? someone once said to me they were power walking somewhere , yeah off the end of my f*ckin boot thats what . gnnnnrrr

  • 1 month later...

KidKruger Wrote:

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> "Resource. Do you mean person?"

>

> Resource can be people, cash/funding, space

> (factory space, desk space), raw materials, skills

> (again, implying people), time, knowledge - any

> input to an activity which can be consumed and

> therefore needs to be obtained and lined-up. So

> in the wider sense when running (say) projects or

> planning, a 'person' is one kind of resource and

> during conversation about that kind of 'resource'

> the term will be used interchangeably with the

> normal descriptive word. admittedly, often by

> folks half way through their part-time MBA.

>


I think 'resource' has gone out of style. People are now using 'asset'. So they talk about the assets they are going to deploy in any given project. I think we can blame the military.

"I'm good" as in "how are you" - "I'm good"


what the hell happened to "I'm fine" or "I'm OK/well/not great" etc..


awful thing is I catch myself saying now...


help... I'm slipping


http://www.swifteconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/slippery-slope.png

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Quality.

>

> Used as a universal blokey term of approbation.

> Absolute quality, mate. In football, a good pass

> was always a quality ball.

>

> Then "quality" became a value in itself. Spain,

> for instance, have "quality" all over the park.

> I'm pretty sure I've heard one pundit describe a

> team's "quality" as quality. "Their quality is

> just quality."

>

> Anyway, that's enough qualitative analysis from

> me.


Pirsig would have a field day.

PinkLady Wrote:

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> 'Friended' meaning added to one's list of Friends

> on a social networking site. This is one I don't

> mind too much. The one I hate is:

>

> 'burglarise'

>

> What's wrong with 'burgle'?

>

> (I'm not that keen on 'disrespect' either.)



Burglarise is used in the US. Never heard it over here.

  • 10 months later...

"At the end of the day" - My most hated expression.

Caracterful - One for the estate agents.

Disingenuous - Just say what you mean.


I heard a great conversation between two seemingly 'it' girls. It went.

1st girl "Hes like really cool"

2nd girl " Yah, i know hes like so hot its unreal"


So if he is only like hot he must be something else but not actually hot & if hes only like cool similarly hes not actually cool. Does that make him just warm and is that cool or hot?:-S

Here's a small sample of the crap I get to listen to at work:

"quote unquote" - for emphasis, but overused to the point of worthlessness. "That's quote unquote interesting" when it really is anything but.

"so to speak" - added to the end of a perfectly normal sentence for no reason whatsoever so to speak

"beachfront" - as in "it's all about building our beachfront" used when justifying expenditure that has no tangible benefit by implying that it is clever forward planning, positioning us for some future mystical opportunity or another that only stupid people would not understand.


Groan.

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