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04 Oct 2011, 10:38 am

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When people say "At the end of the day" meaning "all things considered". They probably don't say it in the states but in Britain it seems to be almost every other sentence, especially when sportspeople give interviews.


Football managers especially. For some reason they all have very limited vocabularies.



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04 Oct 2011, 10:53 am

I think "Knickers" is cool. It's so British and Cockney 8)



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04 Oct 2011, 11:03 am

i do not like to be called "pal" or "buddy" or "captain" or "champ" or "chief" etc.

if am called that by anyone, then i will inevitably become defiant.

i can not think correctly when i talk to someone who thinks i am inferior to them, and somehow, they wind up insulted and i wind up in trouble.



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04 Oct 2011, 11:15 am

The most horrible word in the universe is R E L A T I O N S H I P. I wish i had never heard it.



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04 Oct 2011, 11:26 am

b9 wrote:
i do not like to be called "pal" or "buddy" or "captain" or "champ" or "chief" etc.

if am called that by anyone, then i will inevitably become defiant.

i can not think correctly when i talk to someone who thinks i am inferior to them, and somehow, they wind up insulted and i wind up in trouble.


Those would irritate me too.

I was called "fella" by a policeman in my own home :x Whatever happened to calling male members of the public "sir"?



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04 Oct 2011, 11:38 am

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Anyone get this.. its not just thinking a word is stupid, it's actually feeling bad because people use it.

When people use the word "Anyways" it upsets me. It makes me sort of shiver. Yet other incorrect English words don't bother me.



Putting an S on the end of any word that doesn't need it is annoying. e.g. Walmarts, K-Marts. Plus, adding an apostrophe to plural nouns should be punishable by death.



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04 Oct 2011, 1:07 pm

There have been instances where I would only accept one word of greeting/starting a conversation from certain people. If they said anything other than that form of hello it was upsetting.

I cannot think of anything else other I dislike being called "dear" and such.



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04 Oct 2011, 1:31 pm

nemorosa wrote:
b9 wrote:
i do not like to be called "pal" or "buddy" or "captain" or "champ" or "chief" etc.

if am called that by anyone, then i will inevitably become defiant.

i can not think correctly when i talk to someone who thinks i am inferior to them, and somehow, they wind up insulted and i wind up in trouble.


Those would irritate me too.

I was called "fella" by a policeman in my own home :x Whatever happened to calling male members of the public "sir"?


well i had a major incident happen 8 years ago, (when i was living in the "pymble" house), and me and tammy were going to bed, and i heard a very loud smash down the street (i suppose tammy heard it too), and i determined that it sounded like a fatal accident, so i ran down the street (with tammy) to see what had happened, and i rang "000". the police turned up very quickly, and i could not work out where to stand.

one policeman said "out of the way bozo!", and i suddenly lost control, and i refused to obey any direction that he could utter, and then 3 policemen took me (forcibly) back to a police station, and i was non compliant throughout the entire episode.



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04 Oct 2011, 1:35 pm

by the way there were no fatalities, and the smash sounded much worse than it it was.



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04 Oct 2011, 1:38 pm

Why do we have homonyms and homophones in the English language? Most people don't seem to understand how they work.



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04 Oct 2011, 1:46 pm

b9 wrote:
by the way there were no fatalities, and the smash sounded much worse than it it was.


Glad to hear that. I was afraid to ask. Terrified of accidents.



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05 Oct 2011, 4:49 am

The corresponding Hungarian word for "must" comes from German, thus it sounds horrible. My mother used it to nag me to do things. For many years I had been correcting everyone who uttered this word in my presence.

Also, when someone in my family would say "Johnny, wouldn't you go down to the shop and buy ... ?" I would say "Exactly."


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05 Oct 2011, 5:12 am

I hate the words, ret*d and ret*d. Yes, I'm that much of a sensitive baby.


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05 Oct 2011, 6:15 am

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I hate the words, ret*d and ret*d. Yes, I'm that much of a sensitive baby.

Same here as I mentioned the "R" word.


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05 Oct 2011, 6:34 am

"it needs to go here" instead of "it has to go here" an object does not NEED anyting.

That's anoying me when people use this word this way.



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05 Oct 2011, 6:53 am

I am bored "of" something instead of "with" something.
Someone lied "on" me instead of "about" me.


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