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When people misuse anxious and eager. They are not interchangeable.
And the other big thing is when people turn adverbs into adjectives. The Apple ads - "Think Different" nearly drove me mad! It's differentLY!!! It's an adverb!!!
(I'm kind of a grammar nut...)
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Any word that requires kerning the letters "X, K, A" with letters like "L and T". Words like that.
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Karaokee (or however ya spell it) it is a BAD thing!!!
Hurricane REALLY sucks!!!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
When people say Ect, instead of Etc, it's with a T, not an Ec
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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BUSH BEER.....when i thing of BUSH, it aint cold and foamy.....
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"basically" ....people use it as an entire reply or description. "my bad" (what a dumb expression) Gangsta rap from corn-fed farm or yuppie kids ....when people say "EX-presso" "verbiage" "awesome" and like, the over-use of the word "like"! Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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people who start scentences with "say, listen,...", do I have a choice?
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"it's like, well, you know, like...." left over valley girl lingo
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"hey, how's it going?" used as a personnal greeting when quickly passing a person. Most people don't really want an answer to the question. What's wrong with "hi" or "hello"?
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3487 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Is it just me or did anybody else hear the American President say, "Nucular"?
"You guys" used for everybody all the time. Once we went out eating with the family, and this teenage waitress asked my parents, "So what are you guys having?" To me, that is utterly respectless. (utterly is an ugly word, too)
"I swear!" Oh, really?
"Oh my God!" I wish people would quit using that as a cheap, thoughtless and meaningless expression. This one bothers my probably the most.
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LOL John . . .Grey, yellow... green...whatever...no colour of that item does anything to whet my appetite for a gormet spread . . .ack. . . .I'm amazed at how 'hi class' folks try so hard to make it sound elegant . . .
LOL Mikey...yer right.... I tried putting the last letter first and the first letter last and I'm STILL getting...POOP.
'Alummminuminum' . . .yeh I can see where that could be an 'edgy' word . . .like 'humididididty'.
. . .It also bugs me when people say the word 'humble' without pronouncing the 'h'. I take umbrage at 'umble'...guess I'm not too Humble about it...huh?
More frequently mispronounced words . . .
...saying 'meridian' for the highway 'median'...
These are alright to say when 'cuttin' up and 'playin'...but some people actually, seriously pronounce these words this way...which is the whole reason why we say them when were cuttin' up...
...saying 'leafs' for leaves... ...saying 'teefies' for teeth... ...saying 'feets' for feet ...saying 'scrool' for 'school' ...saying 'fishes' for 'fish' ...saying 'saddy' for 'Saturday'
There's so many more ebonically gifted words such as these . . .I'm too tired to continue . . .
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'Cooler than s**t!' ...........Huh? 'If you will' ............... said at the end of each sentence. 'In all likelyhood' .............. what?
My past neighbor who died at 89 used to say, 'back up in there' at the end of each sentence. Now that's infectious if you get started saying that.
I'm with Stevo -- the new annoying word is 'Extreme'. Take no offense if the name of your shop is 'Extreme Graphics!'
Remember when 'rebate' arrived on the scene. It was when Gerald Ford was president, and to my knowledge he probably made the word up, because I never heard anybody mention the word prior to that.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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