Education & Reference Words that annoy you

[bhoysdontcry67]

Errands.

 

[AimHigh70]

Surreal

 

[AimHigh70]

Download

 

[Scotland]

Anything that Damien Hardwick says.

 

[HBF]

Anything that Damien Hardwick says.

Hard to argue with that.

 

[Jack Stevens]

"Selfie" is bad enough, but it's starting to be used more and more for photos that just aren't selfies. For instance, some article where someone was rescuing a trapped animal or something and managed to get a "selfie" with it. Even though you can see both hands of the person of the person and someone else clearly took the photo. It's a ****ing photograph, not a selfie.

 

[Kram]

Correctamundo.

 

[GreyCrow]

Correctamundo.

Heyyyyyyyyyy

 

[Scotland]

'Football program'
'Culture'

 

[Handsuper47]

'Four walls'

 

[kickazz]

Whenever an artist brings out a new recording for some reason it is now 'dropped'.

Really?

 

[kickazz]

People in football circles overusing the word 'farce' to describe anything they simply disagree with or doesn't make sense, as opposed to a situation that progressively gets out of control.


Same with 'jumped the shark' used to describe something that has passed it's prime, as opposed to describing a ridiculous, clutching at straws attempt to vivify that which has passed its prime.

 

[kickazz]

Holistic.

I think this one falls into the category of a good word that for the most part is used inappropriately.

 

[Xtreme]

Anything that Damien Hardwick says.

Throw in Brad and Chris Scott as well

 

[Borry]

I still can't work out what alkalised water is and how it's supposed to be better for you.

I use it to rinse my mouth out after brushing my teeth.

 

[Scotland]

I think this one falls into the category of a good word that for the most part is used inappropriately.

Falls under the Dermott Brereton category of using more words/syllables than necessary to *sound smarter than you are.

*attempt to

 

[Feerits Elf]

it's

 

[Scotland]

His doing he's best.

 

[kickazz]

Wrong thread guys. . Grammar / spelling grievances that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>


But **** me I should stop using the trace keyboard it's always screwing things up.

 

[GreyCrow]

Vivify

 

[DT2000]

Kind of OT but my English teacher incorrectly uses two words all of the time and today I finally snapped and earned myself a detention

She always says "I could care less" when she really means "I couldn't care less."

And the other is "Do it again and see if you can't make some improvements," surely it's supposed to be "can."

She's been teaching 9/10/VCE English for over 20 years

 

[akkaps]

Kind of OT but my English teacher incorrectly uses two words all of the time and today I finally snapped and earned myself a detention

She always says "I could care less" when she really means "I couldn't care less."

And the other is "Do it again and see if you can't make some improvements," surely it's supposed to be "can."

She's been teaching 9/10/VCE English for over 20 years

Is the teacher ethnic?

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Kind of OT but my English teacher incorrectly uses two words all of the time and today I finally snapped and earned myself a detention

She always says "I could care less" when she really means "I couldn't care less."

And the other is "Do it again and see if you can't make some improvements," surely it's supposed to be "can."

She's been teaching 9/10/VCE English for over 20 years

Is she American?

 

[Gough]

In a middle school of 240 kids, I rocked up to detention on a Wednesday afternoon only to discover the only other person in there was my brother. It was a proud family moment.

 

[DT2000]

Is the teacher ethnic?

see below

Is she American?

wtf? How did you know? She's from Boston and moved here when she met her husband (at uni) who is an Aussie.