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Words that bug you - written or spoken

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    #332
    Boolean
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Boolean


    "Cheers" instead of "thank you", cheeses, I hate that.


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    #333
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,070 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Boolean wrote: »
    "Cheers" instead of "thank you", cheeses, I hate that.

    :o I say 'cheers' sometimes, though I would argue that it has a subtly different meaning to 'thank you'.


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    #334
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I have to admit to being one of those "Cheers mate" types. Too long spent in England and have too many English friends so the term is in daily use thus ensuring I can't drop it.
    On the plus side "mate" is infinitely better than "Bud".

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #335
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    Jagging (ie. "going out" or "in a relationship" with someone) - horrible!


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    #336
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I have to admit to being one of those "Cheers mate" types. Too long spent in England and have too many English friends so the term is in daily use thus ensuring I can't drop it.
    On the plus side "mate" is infinitely better than "Bud".

    I actually complained in Dunnes Stores two weeks ago because the young guy at the checkout ended every other sentence with "mate". It's only one step behind "dude" in my book.


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    #337
    campingcarist
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    Alden Many Serf wrote: »
    I actually complained in Dunnes Stores two weeks ago because the young guy at the checkout ended every other sentence with "mate". It's only one step behind "dude" in my book.
    I'm glad to hear that it's not just me who complains about things!


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    #338
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Watching interviews with sportspeople after their event. They tend to use the word 'Yeah' at the end of a sentence when they run out of things to say. Sometimes, they even combine it with "So. Yeah!" Might be something to do with the interviewer not filling in a silence with another question and leaving the interviewee to linger in silence.

    What about starting a reply with "yeah, no." What's all that about ? Agree on the "so" thing too.


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    #339
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    suckin' diesel


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    #340
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    trashcan wrote: »
    What about starting a reply with "yeah, no." What's all that about ? Agree on the "so" thing too.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zExc6SK4kpA


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    #341
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Boolean wrote: »
    "Cheers" instead of "thank you", cheeses, I hate that.

    I say that all the time, nothing wrong with it!


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    #342
    charkee
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭charkee


    ..furnish...used in iinsurance and legal correspondence..

    .eg .furnish your reports...

    pretentious c...p!


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    #343
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    earlytobed wrote: »
    "So" as the first word of an answer.

    As in
    "Did you go to Cork"?
    "So. I went to the train station, then met Eileen then went on to Cork"

    "What happened in the pub"?
    "So. We were sitting there when John came in......"

    I don't understand why so many people begin a sentence with "So"

    Fairly quaint, benign, and very old school Irish usage. Just a verbal tick. It's been condemned as a neologism in British and American English as it caught on there recently.


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    #344
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I follow a lot of crafters online, and they often say......"it's SO stinkin' cute!"

    I'm not sure which annoys me most, the 'SO' or the 'stinkin' cute'. Remember when we used to say....'isn't that lovely'.....ahhhhh! :)


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    #345
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    if something is stinkin' it isn't any type of cute that I know JB.

    Why oh why is it impossible for folk to say what they mean? We have a huge vocabulary to choose from.


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    #346
    campingcarist
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    "I really, really ....."

    I think this shows a lack of vocabulary and it is used so often.


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    #347
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,070 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    campingcarist wrote: »
    "I really, really ....."

    I think this shows a lack of vocabulary and it is used so often.

    :o


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    #348
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Me too, Looksee! Although I don't usually use two 'reallys' together like that, but I definitely have been known to regularly edit out a lot of solo 'reallys' from my posts. :o


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