"so she turned around to me and said..."
― dogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
Got some more awfulness. Yesterday my students couldn't understand that starting sentences with "because" was fine.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
Because they do not hope to learn again
― Berks & Cow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
Wait Alfred you object to "very" as an intensifier? You are hard line.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
― dogs, Friday, January 11, 2019 7:12 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idgi... the redundancy of "to me"?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
bc of Alfred I am more conscious of overusing intensifiers
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
im fierce aware of it now
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I’m still bad at it though
soveryreallyfuckingsignificantly incredibly too
I use often, sometimes in the same sentence
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
rather!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
I swear Bernie Sanders precedes every utterance with "let me be clear". Let me be clear, honey, I am going to eat the fuck out of your pussy
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
I had a terrible, terrible boss a couple of years ago that I hated. During a one on one meeting where I just didn't want to talk to him anymore about work I brought up how he said "at the end of the day" and "let me ask you a question" so many times during a conversation that it was distracting. For the next six months he was incapable of saying 3 sentences in a row without taking longs pauses or making "ughs". It was so great.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
I've had multiple bosses that do stuff like this, it really wears you down after a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January
I'm not sure I would, but I am somewhat relaxed about these things.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
"Let's link"
No
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
the ubiquitous use of "like".
mainly because i am horribly guilty of it myself and it sounds even worse coming from someone with my accent
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
You could repurpose that list as 'Pet Shop Boys albums, ranked!', Alfred.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Mark Twain famously claimed that every time he was tempted to write "very" he'd substitute "damned" in order to make certain the editor would remove it for him.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
I have a few verbal crutches which I always wince at myself for using: "kind of," "really," "maybe," "I think."
I've also been told that I say "sorry" way too much, even by Canadian standards.
― jmm, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
strunk+white call rather and very "leeches that infest the ponds of prose, sucking the blood of words" iirc
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Those clods are dead though
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
"rather" is undead
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
li-cherally.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
everything is a matter of personal style and deployment and offering anything here in the spirit of correction as opposed to an "i dont like this meself" is snobbery
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
controversial position
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
xp You are correct, sir. Even the most tired of cliches has valid uses in the hands of a good writer. But it is not the purpose of this thread to inveigh against writers whose skill surpasses the bounds beyond which normally lie annoyance.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
let it never be said about me that I am not a snob
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
xps alf m8 tisnt gold yere given a fella to work with yknow
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Affirming a negative in a question - “Santa Claus isn’t real, right?”
― calstars, Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Full stop.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 January 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
^ both loathsome
I really can't stand when people do this? It's almost as if they don't have the confidence to state their opinions? It looks really precious and pathetic? I hate it?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
in light of the Tlaib controversy I kind of want to stake out a middle ground and say that, while I think there is nothing offensive about cursing in politics, I find it very corny. The use of "motherfucker" in political settings has the feel of the valedictorian trying to be "bad."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 12 January 2019 06:54 (five years ago) link
Politicians are all very corny, it has been observed elsewhere on this borad recently.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
Like it's not that people like Tlaib are contributing to the degeneration of the society, it's that they are actually so NOT doing that that it sound ridiculous when they call the president "motherfucker."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
the amount someone makes described as "cool"
"makes a cool $10 million a year"
why is it cool
i mean yes money is cool but
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
especially when it's like "brings home a cool $10 million a year"
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
it's a relic. money used to be metal. thus, "cold, hard cash", too.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
i did a thing
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
^ 100%
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 January 2019 06:41 (five years ago) link
"performative"
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 06:42 (five years ago) link
lol i can see that but if you live on the internet and have strong opinions on what everyone should be doing then.... you're going to hear a lot of that word
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 18 January 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
soupçon
― peace, man, Friday, 18 January 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
skosh is better than soupçon
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
bombshell allegations
― joygoat, Saturday, 19 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Probably not the right thread for this but it seems no one is able to tell 'defuse' apart from' diffuse' anymore, including The Graun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/21/native-american-mocked-by-students-i-saw-my-country-being-torn-apart
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
"Fulsome", when people use it as an intensified version of "full". What is frustrating is that there is no effective substitute to what people think "fulsome" means but it does not. "Comprehensive"? idk
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 21 January 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
xp unless it has since been corrected that appears to be correct use of “defuse,” no?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
It has indeed been corrected.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
Guardian keeping close tabs on thread
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link