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Showing Original Post only (View all)Words and usages I am sick and tired of [View all]
1. Sick and tired
2. Each and every, when "each" will do, which is imo all the time
3. "Simplistic," "enormity," and "toothsome" when what is meant is simple, enormousness, and delicious. These words do not mean what many people believe they mean. We've already lose "eke;" let's not let the barbarians take over any more useful words.
4. "I just couldn't bring myself to vote for Hillary." Self-explanatory.
5. There's another word like simplistic that I can't recall right now due to senility. ETA "Noisome" when what is meant is really loud.
Are you sick and tired of any words or usages? Can we compile a dictionary or grammar guide (like that hasn't been done already, and look how much that has helped)?
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Hopefully, someday, people will learn how to begin sentences without the word "Hopefully"!
lastlib
Feb 2020
#139
A great humorist that wrote for the Atlanta Journal back in the 80s and early 90s
SCantiGOP
Mar 2020
#187
Beginning ANY sentence with "So,.... and some people pronounce it "Sho,......
northoftheborder
Feb 2020
#18
That comes from a lifetime of being chided for using 'me' instead of 'I' ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2020
#43
People who use 'anymore' like a synonym of 'nowadays' instead of the proper synonym which is
mr_lebowski
Feb 2020
#29
You don't have to understand the definition of 'begs', just that the phrase 'begging the question'
mr_lebowski
Feb 2020
#47
"Each and every" is a pet peeve for me, as is "on a daily basis" rather than just "daily." nt
tblue37
Feb 2020
#56
Not a perfectionist over linguistics but the reason those bother me is....
KY_EnviroGuy
Feb 2020
#136
"absolute" when it isn't. "Did our doctor (hospital) give you absolutely the best care?"
NCjack
Feb 2020
#112
All of these pale in comparison to some of the expressions I read about today
GoneOffShore
Feb 2020
#147
The expressions have been leaking over for years. And I fear that it's only going to get worse.
GoneOffShore
Feb 2020
#155
I suspect that it is older folks using 'seriously, man' or 'in all seriousness', but that was 30 ...
SWBTATTReg
Feb 2020
#160