Words which grate on my nerves

[historian]

I was raised with a language of wit and eloquence. The language of great poets and authors,composers, scientists and statesmen, What has it sunk to? Everything is extreme; nothing is partly done or felt it is totally;the descriptive nuances of the language have died and bred two children - it was great or it sucked. Everyone is like and they assume you know becuase they ask if you know!
And now for the stupidest phrases ever - the more you buy the more you save.
Buy risk free (am i about to be struck by the plague)
Call now and its only $1.99 plus s&h 140.00
Pay no taxes on any purchases made this week (excuse me isnt that illegal?)
Buy one get one free - may i have the free one today and ill come by later to pay for the other.
Buy now at your Yugo dealer - the turbo charged Goat from 0 -60 in 1/2 second. Whats the hurry?
No wonder we survive on drugs

[khashka]

1. The ones that get on my nerves

Irregardless - the correct word is "regardless", irregardless is not a real word. If it were, it would mean the opposite of the way with which it is used.

In writing, the use of "could of", etc. - It's actually "could have" or "could've". I can accept this in dialogue, but nowhere else.

You're wrong about the "pay no taxes on purchases this week". It's both legal and usually honest. Sales tax does get paid - but by the seller, not the buyer. Some of the places I've worked have done that as a promotion. It only becomes illegal if the seller temporarily raises the base price to include the sales tax (because that's fraud) or doesn't bother to pay the sales tax. There's a store where I shop that does not promote it but does exempt the sales tax for their best customers. They pay the sales tax (I asked). But it means the people who buy a lot from them continue to buy a lot and even end up buying more (hey, it's a little cheaper to buy there than anywhere else!).

But you're right about the debasement of our language. Still and all, there are new words being added all the time. And I must admit, I do tend to mispronounce certain words intentionally - because I prefer the mispronounced version to the correct one.

Khash.

[izzie]

2. Is that like this, that things last for life? What does that mean?

As long as it last? For your children life? For my life? People repeat it to you all the time.

[khashka]

6. I always asume

it means things last as long as they last or they last as long as the life of the company that made them. After all, what good is a lifetime guarantee if the company no longer exists? Who's gonna fulfill that guarantee?

Khash.

[formactv]

3. Sooner rather than later.

Sooner is always rather than later. And the ever present "It's not about ____, it's about ____."

[wickerwoman]

4. The expression "Thinking outside the box" really chaps my hide.

I feel somehow diminished just typing it.

Corporate America invented the bloody box and then a few CEOs get all self-congradulatory and throw weekend boondoggles in Aspen to celebrate their ability to think outside it.

[khashka]

5. Yeah it does me too.

I guess my box is a lot bigger than their's because I've never seen what was so spectacular that their "thinking outside the box" resulted in. Maybe a better slogan would be "we're not the narrowly focused self serving assholes you always thought we were - yeah, well, we are, but not quite as much as you thought". But I guess that doesn't make good ad copy - and it still wouldn't really be true.

But I expect that shit from them. What really gets me is "speaking truth to power" from people who really oughta know better. When has "power" ever cared about "truth"? - power only cares about power.

So let's get powerful and then we can ram the truth down power's pathetic little throat.

Khashka