Honest to goodness
This one annoys me.
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phrases that annoy you
by John Doe 80 Replies latest jw friends
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Finally-Free
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Quirky1
Colder than a well diggers butt..
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megs
uh, thanks... always nice to know when you're an annoyance
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snowbird
using "continual" and "continuous" synonymously [elicits more concern over ambiguity than irritation]
CoCo
Dear Coco,
Are you sure I didn't sit behind you in Language Arts, Camden Academy, Wilcox County Alabama, Miss Zelma Hines presiding?
“Continuous” refers to actions which are uninterrupted: “My upstairs neighbor played his stereo continuously from 6:00 PM to 3:30 AM.” Continual actions, however, need not be uninterrupted, only repeated: “My father continually urges me to get a job.”
I log on to JWN in the am and post continuously, though my boss's baleful stare continually urges me to cease and desist.
Tee hee hee.
Sylvia
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compound complex
"If you don't start cutting the muster, you'll never catch up, and I know you don't relish being in a pickle."
[compound-complex sentence]
Anonycoco
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compound complex
Snowbird:
Please check your PMs ...
Thanks!
CoCo
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snowbird
Coco,
Sylvia
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John Doe
Colder than a well diggers butt..
My dad liked that one. I prefer, colder than a witch's titty in a brass bra.
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dig692
Saying "supposively" rather than supposedly
Saying "for all intensive purposes" rather than for all intents and purposes
The phrase "from soups to nuts" I could do without
And when people use the words "too", "also", and "as well" all in the same sentence in their comments. For example, sister over-zealous just made a comment that going out in field service is the mark of a true christian..and then brother has-to-make-a-comment-every-paragraph says "and too, also, loving our neighbor marks us as true christains, as well"
GRRR!
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Denial
over the past couple of years, i've noticed a word that has been become fashionable to abuse: "literally". people seem to use it as an intensifier or to add emphasis.