Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 03:58 pm:
Nothing better then having an argument with the wife (Northern UK born & raised), only to find out we were on the same page all along...just a language barrier..
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 04:14 pm:
Speaking of a marital language barrier, my wife (Deep South) believes the word "several" means "three", while I (Great Lakes) think it means "five to seven". I never come home from the grocery store with what she expects.
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 04:26 pm:
One = 1 Couple = 2 Few = 3 Some = 4 Handful = 5 More than a few = 6 Several = 7 A few more than a handful = 8 A bunch = 9 Pack = 10 Most of a dozen = 11 Dozen = 12 Baker's Dozen = 13
It goes on, and I might have gotten a couple wrong, but I'm going from memory. My gramps had a saying for every number up to 100.
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 04:33 pm:
I was listening to the news on the radio today, the BBC naturally, and they were interviewing some dreary cow about some dreary issue, when she started with the b*ll***t phrases I got all hot & started shouting abuse at the radio. Pointless I know, but it helps relieve stress.
Here's a couple of the offending items.
"At this point/moment in time"... What the •••• is wrong with "Now"?
"Level playing field"... What? Do you mean "Equality"? Well why not ****ing say so then!
There are many more, but I have to think of my blood pressure.
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 10:00 pm:
I think the text/chat use of LOL is the most overused and played out item on Earth...I hereby request from this point forward that we change it to... G A Y (Giggling At You), which is actually what normally happens. I rarely, if ever, laugh out loud at what someone has typed, but I do quite often giggle at you when you say something funny.
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 03:43 pm:
What I really love about political correct and the whole 'diversity' cr@p is how two sided it is
So two gay guys talking about shaggin and trollin for fresh boy hole meat is protected speach and the volume is loud enough to be heard no matter where you sit in the office....
But the 'cute skirt' comment, directed to one person in passing is sexual harassment and you will spend at least an afternoon in the HR office
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 03:49 pm:
My main bitch is that people in the media seem to have forgotten the word "few" and use "less" in all cases. The local weatherman always uses phrases like "there will be less clouds tomorrow". Really you moron? Shouldn't there be "fewer clouds tomorrow"? Shouldn't someone who makes their living as he does be expected to speak proper English? Maybe instead of hiring a meteorologist they should hire the local grammar teacher (especially if she looks good in a sweater).
So here's the rule as far as I can tell; if you can count it use fewer instead of lesser. Fewer clouds = less rain. Fewer drunk chicks = less chance of scoring. Oh yeah, it's ETC. not ECT.
I've been waiting years for this topic to come up. I can't complain about this stuff at home as my wife was born and raised in Japan so when I complain about improper engrish, she just gives me a blank stare. I feel much better now.
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 03:53 pm:
I get really peeved by technical terms being hijacked, like a a Razor called "Turbo".
Guaranteed I won't buy that, I'm not going to put a scorching hot piece of hardware spinning at tens of thousands of rpm spewing exhaust gas, near my supremely handsome face.
Neither do I want a huge great belt driven compressor strapped to my computer to give me "supercharged internet access"
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 08:55 pm:
I see newscasters overusing the "literally" modifier. They'll be talking about something obviously literal and add "literally" to the description, like we might mistake the news for speaking figuratively?
Examples: The gunman literally shot the victim. The flood literally covered the streets in water. The suicide bomber literally blew himself up.
