Have you ever wondered why people feel the need to constantly use phrases like 'at the end of the day' and 'you get me, yeah?'? To me, it simply highlights their lack of intelligence and inability to extend their vocabulary beyond irritating idioms. I asked people in the office their thoughts and they all agreed, adding that phrases like 'can we touch base?' and 'at this moment in time' are hugely overused and meaningless.
A fairly new one that I find truly annoying is 'innit', especially when used at the end of a sentence. (Well, mainly then because most of us have lazily shortened isn't it to innit and thats quite acceptable)
"Lets go to the pub, innit' If this is you then you sound like a moron! A friend at uni was guilty of this and it made me want to slap her.
Recently a friend's brother told me to 'jog on'. I couldn't decide whether it made me feel 100 years old or glad to be past phrases like that. End of, that's another. Thankfully my boyfriend has never thrown that me at me during an argument but when he does I might have to consider replacing him.
The misuse of the word 'literally', 'I literally died I was so hungover' or 'that electricity bill was literally an arm and a leg'. No, it really wasn't.
Does saying 'no offence, but...' qualify you to say something offensive?
I admit that some idioms are meant to be fun and I am guilty of using some myself, in particular the phrase 'how rude' and the overuse of the word 'like'. "I like, love those shoes!' But I am trying to cut back. Honest.
Ok, that's enough, rant over. I even bore myself sometimes.
On a far more cheerful note I returned to Marks and Spencer yesterday for the white version of the underwear set I bought last week. It had to be done! Now I'm much less worried about being run over.
2 comments:
Some refreshing 'blue sky thinking' on a subject that annoys many of us :)
Ahh, thats a classic!
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