A non-native speaker's perspective:
The most irritating cliches in
American English:
The annoying use of 'like' to premodify everything. It's a slot-filler for the linguistically challenged. Example (imagine a dim-witted blonde speaking): "I was LIKE waiting for the bus. And the bus wasn't LIKE coming. So I was LIKE upset about it."
British English:
The (over-)use of the adjective 'ridiculous'. When I hear the expression: "This is just ridiculous" uttered in the Southern British accent, I want to puke instantly. It's ridiculous.
Pole
That's What I'M Talkin' About!
by Farkel 68 Replies latest jw friends
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Pole
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Now That's What I'M Talkin' About! but you started this topic first.
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FMZ
Presently, this is a subject I would like to discuss in great detail.
FMZ
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Scully
Welcome to my world... a home infested with teenagers.
*** shudder ***
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fullofdoubtnow
This is lazy English, and I dun't lik lasy Englush.
I can tell that you don't Farkel, and neither do I
Crumpet: I agree, "innit" is an awful word, or non word as it's a combination of two words,
innitisn't it? -
Crumpet
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"This is just ridiculous" uttered in the Southern British accent, I want to puke instantly. It's ridiculous.
Pole - its hardly our fault - so much of South Britain is ridiculous!
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hillary_step
Farkel,
While we are on the subject I would appreciate someone suggesting ways that I may murder people who say 'Duhhhhh', and 'Hellooooo' as a means of accenting the fact that someone has behaved stupidly, and stay out of prison.
HS
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Farkel
Pole
: The annoying use of 'like' to premodify everything. It's a slot-filler for the linguistically challenged.
Now, that is what I'm talkin' about. It is like, so tacky and under-educated to speak in such a like, stupid way, like a yahoo, or even like a cretin. The problem with the youth of today is that they so, like, butcher the grammer that we speke so wull. Whatever.
Farkel
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fullofdoubtnow
Hilary:
While we are on the subject I would appreciate someone suggesting ways that I may murder people who say 'Duhhhhh', and 'Hellooooo' as a means of accenting the fact that someone has behaved stupidly, and stay out of prison.
I'd call it a mercy killing. If I was on the jury for your trial, I'd definitely vote to acquit you.
Linda