'deal breaker'

[splitimageview]

Another.

"I feel you."

As in, "I sympathize" (or, I suppose, empathize.)

Please, don't anyone here attempt to feel me!

 

[Al Patterson]

Another.

"I feel you."

As in, "I sympathize" (or, I suppose, empathize.)

Please, don't anyone here attempt to feel me!

"I feel your pain" made me vomit in 1992....

 

[Al Patterson]

OK, I will post the most irritating perversion of the English language in recent memory. And there is nothing to be done about it. The ship has already sailed. Even mainstream news websites, corporate websites (including Apple), and almost EVERYONE ELSE uses this disgusting breach of the English language.

The use of word ISSUES instead of PROBLEMS.

It boils my blood. Not only is it STUPID, but overly politically correct, asinine, and imprecise.

A "PROBLEM" is not an "ISSUE". Machines (almost always) don't have ISSUES, they have problems.

"I bought a camera on eBay and it has ISSUES." OH REALLY? Maybe it talks to you rudely?

http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/14/youve-got-problems-not-issues/

DO NOT SAY "ISSUES" when you mean "PROBLEM". WRONG WRONG WRONG.

IDIOTIC. MORONIC.

It can't be helped. It has gone mainstream. I noticed this starting about 15 years ago. By 10 years ago, this was a major annoyance, by 5 years ago, it "jumped the shark". (another horrible term). NO NO NO!

STOP USING THE WORD ISSUES. IT IS ASININE. Pick up a dictionary, idiots.

http://www.beedictionary.com/common-errors/issues_vs_problems

(unfortunately, this is a lost cause. non-native English speakers are now parroting the imbecilic English speakers who are propagating this abomination. one cannot escape this vile issue)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...19.0...0.0...1ac.1.15.heirloom-hp.y78dzfw_R6M

Yeah, but in corporate america, problem is not PC, but issue is. While I take issue with the term, I have no problem trying to stay employed...

 

[Al Patterson]

You'll see it soon! Just google "needs cleaned" and read on...

The wife of on old friend says "needs warshed"....

 

[ferider]

My Leica is "buttery smooth" ...

... disgusting when you think about it, in particular if the Leica is also "minty".

 

[kuzano]

Learned this one selling Life Insurance...

Learned this one selling Life Insurance...

Worked this one case for months. The proposed insurance client waivered what seemed like forever on a choice.

My District Manager knew about the case and and asked me one day how close I was to a sale. I whined that the prospect would not give me a decision....

He pointed out to me that "no decision" was in fact a decision.... a "no" decision. I dropped the prospect and sold four others instead.

Time spent in any endeavor involving sales and marketing is time wasted in the absence of a definitive "YES!"

 

[sreed2006]

So your boss was the deal breaker?

 

[mgermana]

My Leica is "buttery smooth" ...

... disgusting when you think about it, in particular if the Leica is also "minty".

If your Leica is buttery, then it needs cleaned.

 

[Rob-F]

And your replacement is?

Terminal purchasing disincentive?

 

[Rob-F]

The wife of on old friend says "needs warshed"....

Sounds rather familiar. Missouri or southern Illinois, by any chance? Southern Illinoisans will say, "I warsh my dishes in the zinc." I have wondered if sinks at one time were commonly made of zinc, or zinc coated steel.

 

[hepcat]

Galvanized metal "warsh" tub...

and galvanized is, of course, zinc plating.

 

[hepcat]

Indulge me one more petty irritant: the disappearance of the infinitive "to be," as in "This thread needs edited." Even the journalists here in West Virginia do this...in headlines!

I be.
You be.
He bees.
We be.
You be.
They's bees.

What's the problem?

 

[Boris Stupak]

"Gifted". Using "CLA" instead of "repaired" or because you don't even know what "CLA" means.

I "gifted" my mother with an anti-psychotic prescription.

I want to "gift" my friend with this toilet seat for Christmas.

I was "gifted" with an old, broken worthless camera, and being a sensitive, film-loving, esthete who marches to a different drum with an appreciation for fine mechanical objects, I want to have it CLAed for hundreds of dollars by a "special" 80 year old craftsman with a ten year waiting list.

GIFTED AND GIFT are not verbs, except amongst the idiot classes or the chronically illiterate.

 

[Keith]

As an answer to a question or exclamation or any other use this has become one of the most annoying .....

Dude!

 

[shadowfox]

I can't believe no one mentioned this one yet:

Mashup.

About the only thing I want 'mashup' is my potato with some thick gravy...

 

[Al Patterson]

Sounds rather familiar. Missouri or southern Illinois, by any chance? Southern Illinoisans will say, "I warsh my dishes in the zinc." I have wondered if sinks at one time were commonly made of zinc, or zinc coated steel.

Central Pennsylvania, near Lancaster County.

My father used to say that, but he was from New York, so he must have picked it up while travelling.

 

[back alley]

I can't believe no one mentioned this one yet:

Mashup.

About the only thing I want 'mashup' is my potato with some thick gravy...

hey larry,
what does mashup mean?

 

[Doug]

hey larry,
what does mashup mean?

I would have guessed it's what happens when your car hits the bridge abutment, but the entertaining Urban Dictionary has other ideas:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mashup

 

[jwicaksana]

i know, right?

#justsayin'

 

[Film dino]

"I feel your pain" made me vomit in 1992....

This irks me too- for a start it's biologically impossible.