"Say when." - Phrases that bother you.

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24/7 when they mean "24 hours a day" don't know where that came from but its annoying.

i am really confused with the purpose of SOON and LATER and RIGHT AWAY
when is that?
and mostly the question HOW ARE YOU? like.. if you don't mean it just shut up

"How are you? Are you okay?" I hate it when I'm asked those questions under the same breath.

As a greeting when people say, "What's up?" I don't take it literally to mean "what is up in the sky" but for me something being "up" means "no good". Like in the sentence "He seemed to be up to something". So if someones asks me, "What's up?" I always feel like they are implying that I'm up to no good in some way. I also don't like, "at the end of the day" to mean after all is over, because the day is very specific to me. A 24 hour cycle.

I agree.

A lot of IT services are advertised as having "24x7x365" support - does this mean 365 weeks?!? "Constant" or "continual" would be more correct here.

The phrase that bothers me the most that people say is, "it is what it is." Basically to me it means who cares about what is happening. It annoys me.

It's also a pointless phrase. How could "it" be anything other than what "it is"?

I'd say that it's not so much "Who cares?", as saying that people are doing too much abstracting and arguing about what the thing or situation is -- just point to it, and that's the extensional definition.

If you want to define "elephant", you go to the zoo and point to elephant1, elephant2, elephant3, and so forth. If you're arguing about what the protestors are doing on Wall Street right now, you might say that they're a bunch of socialists, or a bunch of people who want jobs, or a bunch of people who aren't happy with the way the government has been performing, but still want to support President Obama, or a bunch of druggies and partiers looking for sex, or who knows? There might be some truth to all those statements, and none of them totally true: each is abstracting different aspects of what's happening.

I hate when people say they'll do something later and they don't mean that day. I've had a friend say they're busy, and they'll talk to me later. It isn't until days later that they actually talked to me.

I especially hate it when people say "Hi, you allright?" And then walk away so quickly. I DO NOT KNOW WAT THEY WANT ME TO SAY.

Or people who say "I'll stop by later", without defining later, making me wait for them all day and be anxious about it. Now I think about it, in general I hate it when you arrange an appointment with someone and they are late. I am always at least 20 minutes early because I am afraid to be late, other people are generally late, but if you count on them being early, they are on time and get angry you are late...

Those are my definitions too I also equate seven with several.

I don't understand why this greeting is so popular today: "Hi. How are you?" Hi is fine, it's a greeting. "How are you" annoys me because no one expects an answer - if you don't want an answer, don't ask the question! I had to learn to say it because people kept telling me I appeared very cold and mean when I didn't ask them how they are

"Have a good one?"
Have a good one what?--------

too lazy to actually wish me a good day?
Geez like they care any way.

people say "karry-oak-ee" instead of "kah-rah-oh-kay" [Karaoke]*

Guilty.


To me -

A couple: 2 or 3
A few: A lower than normal number for whatever it is. Usually I take it to mean 3 to 5, but it can go as high as 50 or so if there are frequently hundreds or thousands.
Several: A little more specific than a few; I take it to mean 5 to 10. A number just above what you could instantly identify the count of something as.
Quite a few: Sounds kind of like an oxymoron. It's higher than a few - more like "several" but could extend up to 100 or so depending on how many there normally are.
Many: At least 10, usually. It can go all the way into the millions depending on what it is.

And if we're talking about percentages of something:

A couple: I never use this. If someone were to use this I would take it as less than 1%.
A few: Usually 1% to 10%.
Several: I never use this. I would also take "several" to mean only 5 to 10 (absolute count, not %), even if it is out of millions.
Quite a few: Usually 15% to 40%.
Some: A vaguer term than "quite a few"; can range from 5% to 50%.
Many: Usually 20% to 60%, depending on context.
A majority: 51% to 75%.
Most: 70% to 95%.
Almost all: 95% up to all but one.

"5 minutes"
It never means 5 minutes...

I don't like people asking me how I am when they are just saying it for the hell of it and not because they are my close friend and have some possible reason to wonder whether I am ok or not.

I never ask people if they are ok. I don't care if they are ok and if they are not and want me to know I assume they would bring it up themself.

Most phatic discourse bothers me.

Probably the most annoying thing is when waitresses and such address me as "honey" or "sugar."