<p>drb,</p>
<p>Quite understandable given the frequency with which the Pats themselves pass.</p>
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<p>Oooh! We did it once in a loooong meeting, but nbobody was brave enough to announce their victory outloud!</p>
<p>Just google “Bulls**t Bingo”:</p>
<p>“Check off each block when you hear these words during a meeting, seminar, or phone call. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout BULLS**T!!”</p>
<p>you know what I’m saying</p>
<p>have a good one</p>
<p>amazing–everything isn’t really amazing, is it?</p>
<p>horrific–I don’t think I ever heard this word until about 5 years ago, now everything is either amazing or horrific!</p>
<p>went missing–mentioned above. Apparently this is a common British usage, but I still don’t like it.</p>
<p>embedded–e.g. reporters with military troops. I don’t know why , but i don’t like this word</p>
<p>I’ll admit that I’m guilty of using the word “so” as a filler word. I’ll work on that!</p>
<p>“Apparently this is a common British usage, but I still don’t like it.”</p>
<p>There’s quite a few Britsh expressions I cringe at. But THE most annoying is “at the mo.” Mo being short for moment. Couldn’t they just say “now” if the word is too long?</p>
<p>You don’t like “embedded” because
- subliminally it reminds you of sex
- it plays into the male-dominated, military-dominated school of world politics. </p>
<p>It forces you to think of the military (with whom the reporters are ‘embedded’) as male, and the US as a “male” occupying force, basically protecting the subservient, female third world from danger and oppression.<br>
Also, in victorian literature, when a man “bedded” a woman, he was the dominant figure and she was submissive – once again, it raises the image of a strong, male US dominating another country and more or less forcing it into submission.<br>
(Not that I’m teaching a course on this or anything this semester . . Just ask me about metaphors in international relations, I dare you.)</p>
<p>BTW, my current “ickiest word” is
privilege, used as a verb (to privilege, 'this viewpoint would privilege the dominant male perspective . . '; this admissions strategy privileges traditional students, etc.)
Don’t know WHY I hate this particular locution so much, but I do.</p>
<p>“Near miss” - does that mean that the two cars (or planes or whatever) hit each other? If not, they had a complete miss, but nearly had a collision.</p>
<p>This word brings to mind two images;
Han Solo in “Star Wars” encased in that metallic bas-relief sculpture,
and,
the various red, yellow, green, citron chunks in fruit cake</p>
<p>momzie, I don’t think of embedded that way at all. </p>
<p>I dislike how the word was so quickly overused by the media. Every network had their reporters embedded with the troops, and they always had to let the viewers know about it.</p>
<p>Heighth instead of height. When did it get an h?
Bacteria used as singular, i.e The bacteria was deadly when it should be the bacteria were deadly or the bacterium was deadly
Nuke-u-lar instead of nuclear
fixin to</p>
<p>“Let me double-check that for you.”
What happened to just plain checking?</p>
<p>Then there’s your and you’re, its and it’s. Grrr.</p>
<p>“The car was travelling at a high rate of speed.”</p>
<p>“I live in close proximity to the beach.”</p>
<p>“Where’s that at again?”</p>
<p>“Where you at?” “Where she at?” “Where he at?”</p>
<p>You get the idea.</p>
<p>I seen it happen.</p>
<p>I feel bad about it.</p>
<p>Warshington, D.C.</p>
<p>Get a life!</p>
<p>Person of interest.</p>
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Isn’t this correct? Unless you’re talking about your sense of touch?</p>
<p>Agree with Chedva. Isn’t that correct?</p>
<p>A copyeditor friend of mine hates when people say “I feel badly.” He always retorts, “When do you feel goodly?”</p>