<p>“Would any studio audience be dead? Now, that would be silly.”</p>
<p>Tangent alert: Two career criminals took a corpse in a wheelchair on Tuesday to cash its welfare check. Funny in a twisted sort of way.</p>
<p>The inconsistent use of “plunged”, “tumbled”, and “soared” to describe market movements and economic indicator changes.</p>
<p>“Myself” instead of “me”.
My pet peeve: Misuse of “I” when it should be “me” (“My brother was waiting for him and I.” “Between you and I”). And this misuse is becoming more and more common.</p>
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Judging by some of these shows, they may wish they were.</p>
<p>Or how about “This show was pre-recorded.” Before it happened?</p>
<p>Here’s another. I’ve seen this on one of those bridal shows on WE. This particular bride said repeatedly (and I’ve seen this elsewhere). “John and I’s wedding.”</p>
<p>Thank you, zoosermom, for reminding me of that. I hear “I” all the time when “me” would be correct. It’s like some people dimly remember what their 7th grade English teacher said, but it interpret it to mean, “never use ‘me’ in a sentence when more than one person is referenced.”</p>
<p>For you utes, “give Tom and I the basketball” is wrong, “give Tom and me the basketball” is correct.</p>
<p>That’s the effect of so many teachers correcting the young: “Me and Dave are playing in the sandbox.” Now we have "Between Dave and I, there is, you know, this past history of basically getting along very well. We, like, strategize about our future plans, going forward. I mean, I shoot him emails all the time. At this point in time, we literally have a virtual relationship, you know what I mean.</p>
<p>I just telecon’d WashMom and she shared another of her faves. WashMom buys stuff for a Fortune 50 company and is currently negotiating and managing over $1.5 billion contracts. A lot of stuff. She says she has this conversation with suppliers all the time:</p>
<p>WashMom: Is this the best delivery terms (or price or whatever) we can get?</p>
<p>Vendor: Can I be honest with you? (Or, “to tell you the truth.”)</p>
<p>WashMom: Yes (what she wants to say is, “Why? Have you been lying to me so far?”)</p>
<p>Vendor: <some incredible=“” lie=“”> such as, “We’re losing money on every part” or “We wouldn’t do this for any company other than <washmom’s>” or “I’d like to help you but the boss won’t let me.”</washmom’s></some></p>
<p>The on-topic part of this is “Can I be honest with you?” She says she doesn’t know whether to laugh or choke the offending party.</p>
<p>(It’s off-topic, but WashMom’s favorite negotiation was when a vendor came to a meeting with a claim for $6 million for “extra work” that was not contractually approved, and left the table owing her company $400,000. The engineering managers at WashMom’s company wanted to pay the vendor the extra money because “they signed a bad contract and aren’t making enough money.” WashMom’s position is that a Fortune 500 company – the vendor – should have better lawyers. Of course, people in WashMom’s career aren’t financially rewarded for things like this…)</p>
<p>For sure. So, sometimes me and Dave, we play “outside the box”.</p>
<p>In case you didn’t notice, I am married to a woman who negotiates multi-zillion dollar contracts for a living. Feel free to pity me. Of course, she’s the one who gets to be the bad cop whenever we have to negotiate anything, so that’s a plus. I tend to be a natural sales guy in negotiations, and get taken advantage of.</p>
<p>I’ve got too much on my plate to respond to this thread.</p>
<p>“I’ve got too much on my plate to respond to this thread”</p>
<p>Clever.</p>
<p>The one that bugs me is when TV newscasters say “We are efforting to get more information on this story…”. It used to just be the local news, but I’ve heard cable newspeople use “efforting” as a verb, too.</p>
<p>“It is what it is” in any of the possible permutations of number and tense, with the possible exception of the classic Popeye formulation of the phrase.</p>
<p>People will continue to use these iritating tics “irregardless” of what we think.</p>
<p>Let’s “circle back” to this next week.</p>
<p>This thread is a real paradigm shift!</p>
<p>The one that killed me was when someone’s response at architectural school critiques was always “Your point is well taken”. After about the tenth time he’d say it I’d want to kick him.</p>
<p>All of the above.</p>
<p>lol, Marite.</p>
<p>Between you and I really bugs me. </p>
<p>“Nuculer” (Surely the prez can afford speech therapy?)</p>
<p>“Out of pocket” (I thought this meant expenses you had to pay yourself–now I hear it to mean everything from out of the office, out to lunch, in the bathroom, no cell phone signal, etc. I don’t get it).</p>
<p>Use of “reticent to” in place of “reluctant to.” </p>
<p>“Pre-owned” </p>
<p>(I’m guilty of overusing actually, so, like, you know what I mean-- and I grew up saying things like, “Me and Susie are going to the mall. . .”)</p>
<p>I heard a speaker preface every other paragraph with, “That having been said…” After a while it gets to be a verbal tic!</p>
<p>And an online cartoon the other day pointed out you can say “Bear with me” for a long time before people realize you’re not making any sense. ;)</p>
<p>Anyways, at the end of the day, it is what it is.</p>