Expressions you cannot stand
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Anonymous
| "Seriosly?" |
Anonymous
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Preggers
hugely pregnant we're pregnant hubby, hubs wifey little ones mom friends , mom things feel badly (ever feel goodly?) |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]
feel badly (ever feel goodly?) [/quote] No but goodly isnt a word, whereas Badly is. The adverb form of good is "well". Hate "anywho" -- there is a poster here that uses it all the time. and "we're pregnant" |
Anonymous
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"Respectfully" as an email sign off. Yuck.
411 as in "I've got the 411 on that". |
Anonymous
| "value proposition" - I have heard this when interviewing people. Or "elevator speech", which is this sixty second introduction that some outplacement firm thought up. |
Anonymous
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"Going forward"
What you mean is "In the future". |
Anonymous
| "I'm going to go grab a bite." |
Anonymous
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From waitstaff: "Are you still working on that?"
I am not "working on" my meal, I am eating it. It isn't a project I am trying to complete. |
Anonymous
| So-called friends |
Anonymous
Are the people who say this old and never got out of the high school mentality? |
Anonymous
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"Spend" instead of "budget" - as in "what is your monthly ad spend." Can't stand it.
People who correct grammar on DCUM - Failing to recognize many posters are on little iPhone's with autocorrect and without our reading glasses. |
Anonymous
| Just "prom" instead of "the prom" or "my prom." I don't know when this started. It hurts my ears to hear "I am going to prom." |
Anonymous
| Flat instead of apartment when said by an American to an American audience. Same with frock. |
Anonymous
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price point
other sales jargon - sounds like you are trying to sell me a used car! at the end of the day - still hear it, after all these years would rather hear overseas jargon than sales jargon any day! |
Anonymous
What about 'knickers'? 
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