The language Nazi... These words are NOT verbs.... yet

[Huge Ackman]

My very most hated language trend these days is the creation of new meaning for existing words through their mis-use. At the top of the list for me is "impact" but there are many more. Do any of you feel the same way? Add to the list if you like...Or correct me if you think I'm wrong...

 

NOT verbs:

Impact

Trend

Partner

Gift

.

.

.

.

 

Now, I realize that I may be wrong about this, at least if/when the very most recent dictionary is released. These often mis-used words may simply get recognized for their incorrect usage so my old-school interpretation of their meaning may be obsolete. However, they'll always get my dander up when mis-used according to my education...

 

One more that is often mis-used, in my opinion, is "grow" when it refers to an inanimate thing, like a business. You can't "....grow your business." You may ".... help your business to grow.:

 

That is all...

 

“Impact” sounds a bit awkward as a verb (imho) but it can be one for sure.

http://www.dictionar...owse/impact?s=t

 

“Amazeballs” sounds dumb as hell as someone I think already mentioned.

 

Additionally, the way “skill set” is overused by sports announcers/analysts is as annoying to me as valley girl lingo was in the 80s.

 

By that dictionary definition, I stand corrected but "IMPACT" as a verb will just never sound right to me....

[HemiBeers]

I do tend to agree with you....I hate to see our elegant and complex language misused and even abused on occasion..

 

A pet hate of mine is the gross misapplication of the word "awesome".

 

Black Holes are awesome, The Grand Canyon is awesome, what you had for breakfast is not.

Awesome Post!

[HemiBeers]

stupidest phrase ever:

 

it is what it is.

 

A fart would have more expression than that.

[Principled Man]

stupidest phrase ever:

 

it is what it is.

 

 

No, the stupidest phrase ever is: It is what it is and whatever

 

 

;) ;)

Edited June 20, 2018 by Principled Man

[Huge Ackman]

stupidest phrase ever:

 

it is what it is.

 

 

No, the stupidest phrase ever is: It is what it is and whatever

 

 

;) ;)

 

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202013%20Milwaukee%204%20July/IMG_3769_zps61319671.jpg

[goose]

NOT verbs:

Impact

Trend

Partner

Gift

 

While I generally dislike the verbing of nouns :P , those four are certainly acceptable when used as verbs, and have been for quite some time.

 

The sports world is particularly bad in using nouns as verbs. They also tend to ignore the past participle, whose use seems to have all but disappeared (Musta saw... , Coulda went..., Shoulda knew... ).

Edited June 20, 2018 by goose

[vaportrailer]

Anyone else noticing lazy/slurred 's' or 'st'-words? ie: shtreet instead of street, frushtrated instead of frustrated. They've been steadily creeping into radio and tv, and it's f***ing maddening once you notish I mean notice it.

Kinda like a buzz-word but more of a buzz-pronunciation. Barf.

[goose]

Anyone else noticing lazy/slurred 's' or 'st'-words? ie: shtreet instead of street, frushtrated instead of frustrated. They've been steadily creeping into radio and tv, and it's f***ing maddening once you notish I mean notice it.

Kinda like a buzz-word but more of a buzz-pronunciation. Barf.

Female anchors/commentators use it a lot. I shupposhe it doesh shound more shophishticated...

 

[toymaker]

"Piece" as used by managers who constantly think in terms of pie charts.

[pjbear05]

Anyone else noticing lazy/slurred 's' or 'st'-words? ie: shtreet instead of street, frushtrated instead of frustrated. They've been steadily creeping into radio and tv, and it's f***ing maddening once you notish I mean notice it.

Kinda like a buzz-word but more of a buzz-pronunciation. Barf.

Nah, it ain't lazy or slurred, the speaker is probably half in the bag.

[vaportrailer]

Anyone else noticing lazy/slurred 's' or 'st'-words? ie: shtreet instead of street, frushtrated instead of frustrated. They've been steadily creeping into radio and tv, and it's f***ing maddening once you notish I mean notice it.

Kinda like a buzz-word but more of a buzz-pronunciation. Barf.

Female anchors/commentators use it a lot. I shupposhe it doesh shound more shophishticated...

 

 

Shoundsh like they're having a shtroke!

[HemiBeers]

stupidest phrase ever:

 

it is what it is.

 

 

No, the stupidest phrase ever is: It is what it is and whatever

 

 

;) ;)

 

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202013%20Milwaukee%204%20July/IMG_3769_zps61319671.jpg

thank goodness for the eye candy to distract us from the stupid lyrics.

[HemiBeers]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

Edited July 6, 2018 by HemiBeers

[goose]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

[laughedatbytime]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

Be the change you want to see.

[HemiBeers]

Our HR department has an automatic email process that sends out these stupid ass "inspirational" emails at 8am every Monday.

 

I set up one of my Outlook rules to send it to deleted items automatically.

 

I think it would contribute to a more positive work environment if....you just leave me the f**k alone.

Edited July 7, 2018 by HemiBeers

[HemiBeers]

Years ago my boss gave everyone a different inspirational poster for Christmas. I got the one below.

 

After I read this, I remarked "so I guess you're telling me I should stop rocking the boat?" It was a funny line, be somehow I don't think he appreciated it.

 

I crack up when employers and bosses think that simplistic, trite, hokey statements can all of a sudden transform everything.

 

The less stupid shit they say the better.

 

[goose]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

Be the change you want to see.

Don't let good get in the way of great.

[HemiBeers]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

Be the change you want to see.

No, I'm trying to change things but you're in the f***ing way.

[HemiBeers]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

Be the change you want to see.

Don't let good get in the way of great.

I'm great, you're good, so get the f**k out of my way.

[HemiBeers]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

 

"find your soulmate"

 

Found her. Divorced 4 years later. f**k that.

 

People that come up with these fruity advice buzz phrases need to be kicked hard.

It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

 

:)

Be the change you want to see.

Don't let good get in the way of great.

It's a win win!

 

It's a trite phrase from someone who get's their life philosophy from dopey posters.

[HemiBeers]

This is the kind of drivel I have to see at 8am every Monday:

 

"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other."

 

 

All I respect is my f***ing paycheck lady. I care about are things that could possibly endanger that, but that's as far as it goes.

 

I really need a new job or to find a fresh set of idiots to work for.

Edited July 7, 2018 by HemiBeers

[Mike Check]

I do tend to agree with you....I hate to see our elegant and complex language misused and even abused on occasion..

 

A pet hate of mine is the gross misapplication of the word "awesome".

 

Black Holes are awesome, The Grand Canyon is awesome, what you had for breakfast is not.

That was an awesome critique ;)

[Mike Check]

Perhaps digressing, but these advice phrases always bug me.

 

"follow you passion"

 

ok my passion is to sit in my underwear and smoke weed all day and eat cheetos. So how does that help with maintaining a living?

Reminds me of the Ron White joke...

 

I was sitting on a bean bag chair, naked, eating Cheetos the other day when Robert Tilton came on TV. He's a televangelist out of Dallas. He looked at me and said, "Are you lonely?" Yeah. "Have you spent half your life in bars pursuing sins of the flesh?" This guy's good! "Are you sitting in a bean bag chair naked eating Cheetos?"... Yes, sir! "Do you have the urge to get up and send me a thousand dollars?" Ha, ha close! I thought he was talking about me there for a second!

[Mike Check]

Our HR department has an automatic email process that sends out these stupid ass "inspirational" emails at 8am every Monday.

 

I set up one of my Outlook rules to send it to deleted items automatically.

 

I think it would contribute to a more positive work environment if....you just leave me the f**k alone.

Amen. My place has 10 company values that they cycle through (one every week) and send to everyone. The worst part is managers have to each take a week and give an example of how they've seen those values put into practice in the work place. Sometimes the supervisors have to take a turn too which worries me as that would be my next run up the ladder. I hate seeing them and don't want to inflict them on others but I like my job.