Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[mr bagcroft]

one i can't stand is "takes the chocolates." not even sure why, just makes me cringe

How about this one...
"early doors"...BIG cringe from me on this one.

 

[1989]

in speech you could perhaps be forgiven for using and overusing the chocolates term, but in a book??? surely publishers et al identified the high frequency and changed the term accordingly in parts?

I would have thought so. There are plenty of other terms to mix it up. After the first few times ‘the big dance’ was mentioned it became very annoying.

 

[Contra Mundum]

I've only recently noticed the bogan thing of dropping the "ly" off the end of adjectives, like, "as he did previous", or "he ran in courageous".
Bernie Vince is a shocker for it

Derm does that between assorted spoonerisms

 

[Contra Mundum]

How about this one...
"early doors"...BIG cringe from me on this one.

Where does that expression come from?

 

[Contra Mundum]

Couldn't agree more. I'd put 'the big dance' in the same category. Didn't mind it until it was repeated over and over again in Sam Mitchell's book. Can't stand it now. The chocolates one or 'get the chockies' is a shocker though.

Yep the Big Dance is triggering and...and s**t

 

[mr bagcroft]

Where does that expression come from?

Precisely.

 

[peternorth]

I would have thought so. There are plenty of other terms to mix it up. After the first few times ‘the big dance’ was mentioned it became very annoying.

Precisely.

Precise

 

[Fizza]

Twice today, Kelli Underwood mentions how the Gold Coast fans in attendance have made the trip "up" to Ballarat.

 

[Johnny Karate]

Twice today, Kelli Underwood mentions how the Gold Coast fans in attendance have made the trip "up" to Ballarat.

Kelli Underwood is Queen of the cliche.

 

[Registered User]

I heard some new jargon from Jordan Lewis

Jordan Lewis

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: "they usually use a deep numerical". WTF?!
After Gerard Healy quized him about it, I think he said it's an extra defender who gets a lot of disposals

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Twice today, Kelli Underwood mentions how the Gold Coast fans in attendance have made the trip "up" to Ballarat.

Well as you can’t travel directly “down” from the Gold Coast to Ballarat, except by car, and I don’t think they would have had enough notice to do that, they probably were Melbourne-based Suns fans going “up” (or had flown “down” )

 

[Fizza]

Well as you can’t travel directly “down” from the Gold Coast to Ballarat, except by car, and I don’t think they would have had enough notice to do that, they probably were Melbourne-based Suns fans going “up” (or had flown “down” )

Yeah that's fair. I'll be honest I'm not a huge fan of hers, tbh, the only person I like who was on commentary today was Brad Johnson. Derm, herself and Dwayne were very ordinary IMO

 

[troybe]

Leigh Montagna

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on Dead Set Legends this morning was talking about Dustin Martin and saying he could be the second best or the first best player in the comp

 

[troybe]

Even the teletexter can’t understand Mumbles Barrett!


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[almuz]

Hearing a bit of ‘frank’ as in ‘they we’re able to frank the win’.

Maybe a few media types getting around franking credits at tax time

 

[FreddyTwoShoes]

Announcer on SEN last night (sorry don't know his name): "..and the Matildas were denied a goal in extremely auspicious circumstances".

 

[Registered User]

Hutchy on The Sounding Board podcast yesterday: "bravity", instead of 'bravey'. Ha

 

[Contra Mundum]

Hutchy on The Sounding Board podcast yesterday: "bravity", instead of 'bravey'. Ha

I notice the Olympics commentators don't use blue RIBBON event they use blue RIBAND event. Apparently it's correct riband is an archaic word for ribbon: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/qa-blue-ribbon-or-blue-riband/

 

[Chief]

The surname of Namibian runner Christine Mboma isn’t pronounced “Mabom-ba”.

The surname of the Greek runner Rafaela Spanoudaki isn’t pronounced “Spanner-dookey”.

FFS Bruce…

 

[Registered User]

Matt Ryan, equestrian guy: "I was hoping it would all come to fruitation"

 

[yamborghinidream]

Jobe Watson with the non-stop "Zachy" and "Jakey" can drop.

 

[Registered User]

Jobe Watson with the non-stop "Zachy" and "Jakey" can drop.

ha, the bogan nicknaming can get annoying after a million times. One that bugs me is Dale Thomas constantly referring to Richmond as the "Tigs"

 

[PieMan86]

I don't know why but the one thing I have never been able to stomach hearing in football circles is when clubs and players talk about their brand of football.
I think it is one of the most overused words in the game.

 

[peternorth]

I don't know why but the one thing I have never been able to stomach hearing in football circles is when clubs and players talk about their brand of football.
I think it is one of the most overused words in the game.

When experts talk about clubs brands they just make s**t up on the fly. Cause footy isn’t as structured as they think

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Why do so many people say “asterix” when they mean “asterisk”? Daisy Pearce the latest.