<p>This will probably make me look anti-social, but</p>
<p>A: How are you?
B: Fine, thanks. How are you?
A: I’m fine thanks.</p>
<p>This takes time in every encounter. But I admit my time isn’t that valuable. I’m thinking more of all the calls on a radio/TV call-in show, or Regis Philben with phone-a-friends on Millionaire.</p>
<p>Caller: Hello Host, How are you?</p>
<p>Well, I’m guessing Host’s status hasn’t changed since the last 10 callers.</p>
<p>These responses when I say something and usually they roll their eyes.</p>
<p>Duh!!
No Kidding!
I’m not stupid…
Reeaallly?
Oh, isn’t that special?
Bless your heart.</p>
<p>ep - do you have a second bugs me even more then do you have a minute. It never takes just a second… If anything do you have a minute should take the place of do you have a second and do you have 5-60 minutes should take the place of do you have a minute, because apparently that’s how long a minute is.</p>
<p>How about you just say When you have a few minutes can you give me a call? That way if i happen to be free at that moment (unlikely) I will call you… otherwise, I will call you later.</p>
<p>I work from home - there is no stopping by! It’s IM, email, or phone!</p>
<p>I hear ya. Unfortunately I can’t teach 650 kids at my home (what would THAT look like? Good God.). People stop by my classroom. As much as I would like to believe that all teachers are equally busy, it just ain’t so. I teach art to a lot of kids per day. They use paint and brushes and paper cut to particular sizes and glue and glitter, etc. It ain’t pretty (well, the finished art is but the process…not so much). Other teachers who don’t have the prep demands that I do stop by to chat all the time. I chat while I’m moving…while they sit…and they still don’t get it. I am perplexed by this.</p>
<p>I agree that asking “do you have a second” is worse than “do you have a minute”. I rarely have either!!! Email me!!! I will look at it at midnight and get right back to you!</p>
<p>“You guys”… When said by sales staff or wait staff. Grrr, rankles me every time.</p>
<p>“Young lady” with broad smile and wink and VERY young salesman. Very irksome. How about just cut to the chase, “How can I help you?” Just leave my age out of the conversation entirely. It’s grating and you LOSE points. Maybe try it when I’m 30 years older.</p>
<p>“I could care less”</p>
<p>Is it just me or does this sound wrong…</p>
<p>Jane and bob needs the jacket added to their uniform.</p>
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<p>I can ignore things that are a result of not really knowing better (“aks” for “ask,” for example).
I can ignore things that are regional (“youse guys” or “do what now?”)
What I don’t like are the expressions that have crept into daily life and that are annoyingly cutesy or somehow just off–like “anyhoo” or “have a good one” or “no problem.”</p>
<p>For a while I’ve been trying to figure out when “I’m good” crept into the conversation. To guests, “Would you like more coffee?” Or more specifically friends of my kids, when asked if they’d like a snack or drink. “No, I’m good.” </p>
<p>As opposed to I’m fine, thank you. Or no, thank you. My take is that this is the new norm. But I somehow it grates as awkward grammar.</p>
<p>In trying to figure out why some things bother me and other’s don’t, I think one element is whether there’s a connotation to the phrase that I find unpleasant. Somebody above mentioned one that I agree with–when a person says “no problem” after being thanked for performing a task that is part of that person’s job. To me, it has a connotation that the person views the task as an imposition of some kind. By contrast, “my pleasure” has the opposite connotation.</p>
<p>I heard one tonight while waiting outside a restaurant in DC. I’ve heard it before, mostly from kids but this was an adult. She was talking to a child and said that another child had fallen and she kicked him “on accident”. The child replied “It was ‘on accident’ so that’s okay”. Is this a regional thing?</p>
<p>from a simple google search (and, i confess, i have a friend who is a linguist): </p>
<p>Metathesis in the Pronunciation of Ask as /aks/
"While the pronunciation /aks/ for ask is not considered standard, it is a very common regional pronunciation with a long history. The Old English verb </p>
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<p>My kids do that and unfortunately I’ve picked it up from them.</p>
<p>My son drives me crazy with “yo.” “Yo, when is dinner?” Me: “my name is not Yo.” Also “mad.” It’s mad cold today. </p>
<p>My husband says “anyhoo” and it gets on my very last nerve.</p>
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<p>Just heard a journalist say “nukular” the other day, as in “nuclear family.” In fact, I hear it a lot. That one bugs me.</p>
<p>The term " dis" or “dissed”. </p>
<p>I will admit to being embarrassed for the Phila. Inquirer when they used the term in a headline. </p>
<p>Otherwise most things like this don’t bother me at all. It is all a bit fun to watch people “own” words in their own way.</p>
<p>Another one of interest is the use of “mine’s” instead of “mine”. I work in a suburban school that has a METCO program bringing some African American students to us from the city. These children routinely use “mine’s” in place of mine. For example “That crayon is mine’s”. rather than “that crayon is mine”. </p>
<p>I don’t correct them but it interests me.</p>
<p>I am guilty of “yous guys” because I was born in New Yawk. We moved down south 7 years ago, and my biggest pet peeve is when I say “thank you” to someone and the response is “mmmmhhmmm.” What is mmmhhmmm?? </p>
<p>“Thank you for holding that door for me.” “mmmhhhmmm”
I would rather hear “no problem.” lol.</p>
<p>UGH!! Drives me crazy. But I’m sure my accent drives them just as crazy. I think I might even say “aks” instead of “ask”. At least us NYers “turn the light on” instead of “cut it on” or “cut it off”, and I would love to know exactly where “over yonder” is. Anyone??</p>
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<p>Texan here. Can’t help you with “cut it on” or “cut it off” - never heard those before.</p>
<p>But being from New York, you should know where “over yonder is.” Your own homegirl, Carole King (born in Manhattan, raised in Brooklyn), put it into song years ago. ;)</p>
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