phrases you hate- Page 6

[Jon]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 4:23pm

I hate when people mispronounce the word "jewelry" as "joo -luh-ree".

It's JEWEL followed by a REE - not JOOLUH - REE!

[feinstein9]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 7:25pm

> My three biggies were already mentioned:

My Bad
Whatever
No Problem

I always want to smack the person saying it.

but ALF says "no problem." it's his catchphrase. do you really want to smack alf?

edit: i just thought of something that drives me nutso: when people pronouce "espresso" "EX-presso". dude, there's no X! Updated On: 8/25/04 at 07:25 PM

[Jon]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 10:32pm

worse than "no problem" is the bogus Spanglish "No problemo", pronounced "No prob-LAME-O!"

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:19pm

Hows it hangin?

Eeesh.
Its like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:21pm

LOL, that's funny WickedRocks. :)

I'm kind of loving the phrase: "Shove It" these days.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:21pm

"Dont flip out..."

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:42pm

Last call.

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 12:34am

The word "OK."


Not so much just speaking in person, but in AIM, when someone says okay after I say something, and I didn't ask them a question, I yell at them.

I'm a nut.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 7:14am

Ok, (I understand). :)

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 8:14am

G-Unit. Such a stupid phrase.

I went to a middle school talent show, and all these random middle school children started yelling "Holla!" before each performance...ugh.

[ChicagoManic]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 8:17am

Girls in my town say myin, instead of mine. Do you how annoything that becomes? Very.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 2:14pm

If she says "myin", look at her and ask, "urine?"

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 4:24pm

I really dont like it when people use "alot" for a lot. I also dont like it when people ask me " Do you KNOW YOU ARE OVERWEIGHT?" My standard reply to that , " No, but if you can hum a few bars, maybe I can fake it!"

Updated On: 8/26/04 at 04:24 PM

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 4:35pm

What about mines?

"That's mines! Mines is the best"

People at my school talk like that...and that is not the only thing. And the sad thing is, it's a high school.

I was watching the Maury show one time, and it was yet another paternity testing show. A black women is accusing another black man that he fathered her child, but he denies it...you get the drill. In the end, he was proved to be the father, and the woman started yelling at him. He started yelling back in these looong drawls, "Heeey, Heeey, Heeey...", and his head kept popping up everytime he said it. The way he was saying it was funny, annoying and pointless.

Updated On: 8/26/04 at 04:35 PM

[SamIAm]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 8:22pm

Well, wow Auggie, since you AXED me two times (OK. I couldn't resist and had to use another mispronounced word that drives me up a wall) here:

BADLY
worse ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wûrs)
adj. Comparative of bad1y., ill.
More inferior, as in quality, condition, or effect.
More severe or unfavorable.
Being further from a standard; less desirable or satisfactory.
Being in poorer health; more ill.

n.
Something that is worse: Of the two routes, the eastern one is the worse. She was accused of cheating on exams, lying, and worse.

adv. Comparative of badly., ill.
In a worse manner; to a worse degree.

Idiom:
for better or (for) worse
Whether the situation or consequences be good or ill: For better or worse, he trusts everyone.

Can be used as an adjective or an adverb, depending upon the phrase.

Adjectives can express degrees of modification. The Positive, The Comparative and the Superlative.

Although English teachers often disagree about this as well (and I've even heard a few correct a student to tell them that they 'feel badly' not 'bad') you are correct that the technical grammatical reference is 'bad' as seen in this 1998 question from a college student to a professor:

Here is a question for you.
Is it correct to say I feel bad, or I feel badly?
I have an ongoing discussion about this with an academic wizard.

I feel bad. If you say you feel badly that means that your faculties for feeling are somehow impaired. The verb "feel" functions as a linking verb in this situation, so we want a predicate adjective, not an adverb. (That last part was for the wizard.)

Now on to the gerunds vs. infinitives discussion :)

Updated On: 8/26/04 at 08:22 PM

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 3:57pm

I despise 'prolly'.

I always want to say "It's 'probably', stupid." I hate when people type that.

[Mythus]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 4:35pm

This isn't really a phrase, more of a speech impediment. Up around where I live (Massachusetts), lots of people put r's at the end of words, for some reason. Like, "idear" and "Melisser" (instead of Melissa). It really bugs me.