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Would you like to clarify? I fail to see how it doesn’t make sense to discuss whether or not someone deserves the death sentence. Also, history is one of my favorite topics, so if I have some “historical confusion”, please enlighten me.</p>
<p>You’re a kid, aren’t you, Yawn?</p>
<p>If you are interested in a death penalty discussion, you should feel free to start a thread for that. I would be very interested in your opinion. In the context of THIS thread, your post made absolutely no sense. You also spelled Saddam Hussein’s name incorrectly.</p>
<p>Your comparison of great evil with your own obnoxious post shows a spectacular lack of perspective.</p>
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- I’m not interested in a death penalty discussion. I merely referenced it to make a point - which has now been stretched far from its original context.</p>
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<li><p>You’ve yet to explain why it doesn’t make sense. Feel free to substantiate your claim.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s an English transliteration anyways. Maybe you’re stuck to seeing things from an English-centric point of view, but most words in non-English languages (particularly languages that don’t use derivatives of our alphabet and thus have slightly different approaches to pronouncing syllabic and consonant sounds) - i.e., most Russians’ names can be spelled in multiple ways in English transliteration. You’re lying to yourself if you think the “u” sound isn’t as appropriate (if not a more appropriate) than the “a” syllabic sound to describe what is undoubtedly an “uh” sound.</p></li>
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<p>these two are used so often in the workplace and gets a little bit tiresome: “on the same page” and “touch base”</p>
<p>WindSlicer, I apologize. “It is what it is” has become my standard response to folks who seem to want to drown me in pity because they’re aware of some difficulty or challenge we’re facing, and make it difficult for me to avoid joining the pity party. It’s useful when I want to appear to shrug off anything from the horrible housing market to my (or my family members’) health problems. Perhaps I should go back to a cheerfully resigned sounding, “oh, well.”</p>
<p>Found often on forums frequented by young people…</p>
<p>“Wait. … what?”</p>
<p>I actually still like that one …</p>
<p>“…went missing.”</p>
<p>This is a Britishism that is polluting our language. What ever happened to just good old “disappeared?” I guess it went missing.</p>
<p>Another regrettable trend that is a word rather than a phrase is the increasingly common use of “plethora” - a truly dreadful word.</p>
<p>Two words I would like to see retired: “Passion” (aren’t we all tired of that by now, particularly after going through college admissions), and “traction” as in “gaining traction”. Both of these were once useful but now are just annoying.</p>
<p>Also, having lived in Hong Kong and Singapore, I sort of enjoyed the “Britishism” of “gone missing”. However, I never got used to “moved house”.</p>
<p>“Whatever floats your boat’”</p>
<p>I don’t know why but that phrase bugs me.</p>
<p>I really really really cringe when people say, “There are a lot” or “There’s lots.” Actually, I hate when people misuse is/are in general. Sadly, I hear people in the broadcast media do it far too often.</p>
<p>Using “dialogue” as a verb…
“We will be dialoguing about this matter in the weeks to come”</p>
<p>PackMom,</p>
<p>You’ve… heard that? That makes me sad. So sad.</p>
<p>I’m in the minority. I like “it is what it is”, which I use whenever soneone tries to suggest that something is what it isn’t, or has some ulterior motive or whatever.</p>
<p>Speaking of “whatever”, that’s one phrase I could do without as a stand-alone (which is another phrase I could do without). Along with “Basically”. Are there basic and advanced discussion?</p>
<p>Oh, forgot about “whatever,” but using it is certainly a way to annoy me. I find it dismissive and rude.</p>
<p>On the phone in a heavy indian accent " theees eeez debbie could I speak with the person in charge of making decisions about your AT an T service"</p>
<p>Thought of another one that annoys me.</p>
<p>Anyways. Why add the s? The word is anyway. Period. And, yes, I realize that anyways has become common with usage, but it will always be nonstandard.</p>
<p>Oh, and while we’re being picky, why do so many people misspell the words definite and ridiculous?</p>
<p>Not for nothing
whatnot
where you at ?</p>
<p>The third goes through my head like a nail.</p>
<p>“Have a good one.” </p>
<p>I always want to ask what the one is referring to.</p>
<p>“Throws him/her under the bus.”</p>
<p>It’s too close to home - my D’s best friend was hit and killed by a bus not that long ago, so I literally cringe every time I see or hear that phrase.</p>
<p>I, too, dislike when someone forgets to add the words…“to be.” ie…this needs washed. Is that a Western PA thing? Also, in the workplace …things that are “synergistic” or the word “synergy.” I don’t know why it bothers me, but it does.</p>