Wanderer Guilden
14 years ago
Wanderer Guilden
Mage
lol Shad, your friends'd hate me then ;D i always talk in double negatives ;P
my teachers are used to it now, when i answer questions in english it's usually in a double negative fashion, so my english teacher has to translate for the rest of the class so that they can understand my answer ~:|
[act]imagines helena talking in double negatives[/act] :D yup
Talking in double negatives does make people listen!
One thing I like to do to make people listen is if someone asks me how to spell something, sometimes I say something different. |;) Sometimes people can be slow (though I admit I am slow when people do the same thing to me)
bad example:
Friend: How do you spell incredulous?
Me: S-K-E-P-T-I-C
Friend: [act]writes down[/act] Heyy! ":(
Also there are people who are obsessed with things at my school...
1:How do you spell immortal?
2: E-D-W-A-R-D
Dreamweavers' Guilden
14 years ago
Dreamweavers' Guilden
Rebel
Lol MK going back to your comment about the written word, I to also miss reading it, but I do not miss using it at all. Computers help people (like myself) who have bad fingers and hands and who can only write for a short period of time before their hand aches like nobody's business and soon cramps up so you cant write anyway.
One thing that annoys me, though it doesn't apply to writing neccessarily, is people who say "That's what she said" or "Thats what he said" My boy says it ever single chance he gets, which is nearly to everything, and it irks me like nothing on earth.
I suppose theres other things that would irk me too, but that is my biggest hate!
Ugh I have. Hated it. Had a friend who said it constantly and I could have gladly murdered him . . . Fortunately those kind of ctach phrase kinda things only last a few months before everyone gets bored of them. Well 90% of the population does anyway. There will always be those annoying few who keep using them well past their used by date.
people who say he said or she said bug me too. i mean you are spread rumours and thats not nice, i have had it done to me. i remember a friend like runnig up to me and asking me something, my mouth like dropped open so far she obvoiusly knew that it was wrong and i asked "Who said that?" the answer i got was "The brunette over, she said so."
*snorts*
that would annoy me, but hey I'm sure eveything annoys me, espeacialy butterflies. ;D i mean they are so happy looking arent they?!
Dreamweavers' Guilden
14 years ago
Dreamweavers' Guilden
Rebel
Dont worry Shad, it annoys me like nothing on earth that he still uses it *sighs* Oh well i cant change him so i'm not about to try. . .
and of course they are! their beautiful butterflies :P
i wasn't worryin, just complaing/whinning like normal....... meh i'm so over changing things Cough cough
butterflies are so increabily beautiful its annoying, like seriously people will be saying something and then "Look at that butterfly!!!!"
AS if i couldn't its soooooooo damn bright.
I know Mulan uses "with all due respect"; and so do barristers in court
I know some people who use shouldn't of and that irks me :P
Absolutely can get annoying where people repeatedly use it.
The others on that list don't bother me so much.
Wanderer Guilden
14 years ago
Wanderer Guilden
Mage
okies, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 constantly irk me... basically only 5 and 6 don't ... :P goes to show, i supose ~:|
people use them constantly around me....
Shouldn't of drives me crazy because it IS grammatically incorrect. It's like people think 'shouldn't've' is a contraction for 'shouldn't of' which is just dumb. When talking, it's harder to tell because they might be using the 've' contraction, but still.. how hard is it to just pronounce the 'ha'?
But anyway, I came into this thread to bring up something that's lately been bothering me. It's when writers use old sayings that no longer have any meaning, like 'the whole nine yards' --- the whole nine yards of what? I looked it up: nobody even knows anymore! Are we so lost for creativity that we can't even come up with a new phrase to mean 'everything' and so resort to using old, outdated cliches of unknown origin?
And while I'm here:
A shot across the bow --- if you're not talking about a ship, why would you use this phrase? I read something just last week that used this to describe sending a warning shot at a single person. ::)
14 years ago
Fri Dec 04 2009, 10:55am
When I came to uni in another state, I noticed that all the in-state people seemed to begin every single sentence either with "Honestly," or "I'm not gonna lie.."
YES, when you tell me something, I generally trust you enough to accept it as the truth!
The whole nine yards just means 'everything' or 'extreme', well that's the impression I got anyway. eg 'She went the whole nine yards' just = 'she went to the extreme' [act]shrugs[/act]
I've never used the phrase though but I think I do tend to use phrases I'm not 100% sure of the meaning of 'cause I've simply applied my own meaning to them.
I don't mind 'Honestly' in conversation . . . it's just like 'really'.
I know what the whole nine yards is supposed to mean, but if the original origin of the phrase has been lost, should we still be using it? That's what irks me about it: there are so many other ways, NEW ways people could phrase the idea that someone went all the way. I'd just like to see a little creativity applied to such things every once and a while. Maybe it's just me.
Honestly... hmm... I think I might be guilty of using that one, but only sarcastically. I think. :-/ I don't use it in writing... though I might if I had a character who could pull it off. Which would imply a character in the present day, and none of my writing is set in a contemporary setting, so I don't see it happening.
i hate the phrase "no pun intended" because if you say that, you've obviously realised what you said was a pun and want to draw attention to it. its kind of annoying.
i use 'no pun intended' when i see that the person i am talking too has realised that there is pun i didn't mean to use......
Same . . . well actually I don't say no pun intended I usually cringe and facepalm because I realise I have done something incredibly lame, then quickly try to assure everyone I'm not lame but then they just think I'm even lamer :P Oh yeah I'm such a cool person!!
I kind of dislike it when in there's dialogue or something in a novel, and it's like "so-and-so said 'blah blah' not in an unfriendly manner" (or something along those lines).
I have to go back and reread it, and finally figure out "OH, so he said that in a friendly manner." The whole double negatives thing can sometimes mess with my head :-?
14 years ago
Wed Jan 13 2010, 05:53am
I dislike the word 'chillaxing'. I hate it even more when the g is dropped of (ie 'chillaxin'). Of course, I tend to find it used more in friends' facebook status updates than in literary writing! :P
I detest the word 'impact' being used in this manner 'A impacted on B'. When I was a newspaper subeditor, I always used to change this to 'A had an effect on B' or 'A made an impact on B'.
I think that is one way of reading it, Sian, but at the same time, I think there is probably a clearer way to indicate that the person is being nearly unfriendly, for example: 'she said, verging on being unfriendly,' or 'she said somewhat stiffly.' I only use the double negative, when writing, in dialogue, if someone is deliberately trying to confuse, or if they're dumb enough not to realize it's a double negative.
The DN that really bothers me, though, is 'didn't do nothing' ::) Nobody who uses that seems to realize that they're actually saying they did something. It's SOOOOoo annoying! Especially when the character saying it OUGHT to know better. If they're a less-than-educated sort of character, I can deal, but otherwise... ":(
The one phrase I often use that annoys people is 'almost exactly'. I know they contradict each other, but it's my way of saying ' very nearly' and 'as close as makes no difference'.