Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:54     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Literally when used improperly...which seems to be too often.


Couldn't agree more. Literally, it makes my head explode.


I hate irony.


Like rain on your wedding day?

Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:54     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:Those dumbass abbreviations that people started using about a decade ago - POTUS, SCOTUS.


Those have been around a lot longer than a decade ago. Maybe you just moved to D.C. a decade ago and discovered them?
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:51     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Literally when used improperly...which seems to be too often.


Couldn't agree more. Literally, it makes my head explode.


I hate irony.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:43     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
I hate "+ 1 million" and the like. It's stupid.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:41     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:stakeholders

Do you also dislike 'shareholders'?
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:40     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a mute point.


?

Are they making the error, and calling it a "mute point" instead of a "moot point", and that is your pet peeve?

Or,

Do you just not like it when people say "It's a moot point," and you jsut happened to misspell this?

?


Right, because that's called a typo, not an "expression you cannot stand."
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:40     Subject: Re:Expressions you cannot stand
When people use a percentage greater than 100% where it is meaningless. For example:
I gave it 110% effort.


You might as well say 150% or 8000%.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:35     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
" 7 AM in the morning"

I know it's in the morning, that's what the A.M. part is for. It wouldn't be 7 AM in the afternoon!
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:33     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
That whole "Really? Seriously? thing." I hate those. Even more, I hate it when I say them--it's like stepping into quicksand, before you know it out it pops.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:19     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:It's a mute point.


?

Are they making the error, and calling it a "mute point" instead of a "moot point", and that is your pet peeve?

Or,

Do you just not like it when people say "It's a moot point," and you jsut happened to misspell this?

?
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:17     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
It's a mute point.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 12:12     Subject: Re:Expressions you cannot stand
Irregardless makes my skin crawl.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 11:53     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Not an expression but this: "incentivize." Not a word.


um, it is a word. what bothers me is people who instead use "incent" as if that is a real verb.


the history of incentivize - http://interestingdiscussions.blogspot.com/2009/02/incentivize.html

became a word in the 70s . . .
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 11:47     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand
improper use of the word outlier
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2012 11:41     Subject: Expressions you cannot stand

"out of pocket"

as in

"I have a conference in Baltimore all day tomorrow so I"ll basically be out of pocket until Wednesday."

UGH.