Ugh, Don't Say That!

thanks mstemple05

with the storms tonight...I keep hearing..

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Nothing like a summer thunderstorm and tornado warning to keep us on our toes.

I guess some people keep forgetting.....

"If you don't like the weather (in Chicago), just wait."

 

I hate, hate, hate reading Instant Message talk. OMG and U R and
GR8...

 

kinda reminds you of those valentine heart candies...

 

It is nothing more that personal shorthand. I learned it in college so I could take notes faster (circa 1969)

 

gregg or pitman??

 

My own with some of both thrown in

 

4 sure =). Guess they can make those candies smaller since the English language has been IMized...

 

I hate that phrase!!!! It drives me crazy when kids say that.

 

some of my favorites...

raining cats and dogs
robbing peter to pay paul
killing two birds with one stone
some I never really could not visualize!

killing two birds with one stone
preaching to the choir

and my newest pet peeve...

"this is a good sedgeway to..."

what the heck is a sedgeway? actually spelled segue..Okay, I just looked it up. I now know it's an Italian musical term. I pretty much understood it meant a smooth transition from one thing to another..

it's understood! why say it? just annoying!!! So now, let's go to...or, This leads us to...

hitting the sack
calling the hogs
getting some Z's


good night all! :yawn:

 

What a sheltered life you have lived.
My Grandmother was from KY. and Southern Ill she used all of them well not sedgeway. Just seeing them brought back memories.

 

Something that we've been hearing a lot lately in the media drives me CRAZY!!!!

Bennifer
Bennifer 2
Brangelina
TomKat

Another one is when kids like to make up their own words. The other day my 8 year old told her friend that she could play when she gets all her stuffs put away. I asked her where she got that from. She said from her (13 year old) sister. Sure enough, the same day, I heard my other daughter use the word stuffs.

Another couple of words: prettyful, ginormous

 

"like" - as in "So he's like, looking at me and he's like, talking to his friend, and they're both like, laughing and stuff and then they're like, smiling at me.

Ick, ick, ick.

"Opposed to" aka "supposed to"

He "gots" it.

"Yous guys"

 

safety deposit box instead of safe deposit. or 'try and' instead of 'try to'. Someone has said my two most hated...nukular and 24/7. And the old standby, stating your pet has been spaded when it has been spayed. Gosh, there's so many! Everyone here has listed a valid one.
I've always said I don't speak English, I speak American, but I believe the language has truly deteriorated into something most people have trouble understanding at one time or another.

 

We should remember that prostrate and prostate are two separate things -- especially the guys!

My third graders and I have been going around and around regarding their wish to go to the liberry. I tell them that there is no such place, and they get the strangest look on their faces!

 

Stuffs has a long and honorable history, actually: one sees it in Beatrix Potter's "The Tailor of Gloucester", referring to different kinds of cloth. How languages change...

 

hey ravenc...

can you be more pacific??

 

liberry, Febberry, and Janjurerry.

I thought it was just me...

sigh!!

 

If you are going to the liberry, make sure you take a sammich with you!

 

"Wash it down with (insert drink of choice here)"

 

Text-talk is a kind of cutesy-code. It's fine if you're TEXTING, and inappropriate anywhere else. Use it in an essay in my class and I will fail you.

It's not much different than. . . .hey, remember this?

"f u cn rd this, u cd hv a gd job w/mor pay!"

Heh. There's nothing new under the sun, is there.

 

guess you hit the streets, get going lickety split, and make it home in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

wasn't sheltered...just part of my upbringing...

southern Ill is just a hop skip and a jump from St. Louis

 

OMG! You will not believe one of my college professors did this to our class in Blackboard (college online communication program). Said it was okay to talk casual in discussion boards! This class is Research and Inquiry Process!

I am, like so messed up! This class is supposed to get me ready for last course in Masters program! what now?

the mo iz rite like dis, the mo iz fo-get howz to rite the rite way!

edited to add..

oh, DUH sorry mamacita...yous teach college! yous know what blackboard iz!

 

LOL...yous knows yous can't ate in thar!

 

:haha: yous cants drank in thar ither!

 

don u mn WARSH t dn?

 

"mines" when they really mean "mine"

 

yep 2tired,

I heard that at least umpty-nine times!

and also...if we haven't said it already..

checkings accounts and savings accounts

 

well, the teacher finally put in her discussion board question.

so far, all of us are writing well, remaining gramatically correct, and using capital letters!

I think we as students shall lead the pack, and the professor will have to follow suit! We know this class is serious, and hopefully, we will not fall prey to becoming too casual or lax in our writing, even though she says we can.

bad habits are hard to break...and poor writing is just bad for students and especially teachers!

I still can't believe she said, "i will write in my casul hand, so u cn see that u don't haf to be formal in bb."

that's not casual...that's texting!

 

I ask my 3rd graders if they are "diamond mines" or "gold mines"

The good news is - a 4th grader corrected a kid on the playground for saying mines -- and I was lucky enough to hear him --
there is hope!

 

It's not the cliches that get me.....it's the AWFUL grammar you see on tv interviews. I think EVERYONE should have to pass a simple grammar test before they can EVER be on television!!

"Yup, I seen him come outa there"

"They done finished it"

"Him and me went over there"


God, SHOOT me now so I don't have to hear it anymore!!!!!!

 

well, I am ready to drop both of my college courses...

because my distingushed, Ph.D-candidate professors are constantly giving me such lovely sentences ...

"You can put your crap over here."

(Isn't this is a Catholic school?? hmy

"I know this is a lot of dumb stuff I have us do."

"in blakboard..you don't haf to talk propr..I no what you mean"

"It don't matter, I know what the h*ll we need to get through...so just skip them chapters.."

Is it just me, or did I not see a cross outside the door when I came in this room!

Lord help us!!!

and last but not least....

Is that my neighboring Catholic High School band...

blasting away...

Parliment Funkadelic..

"We Want the Funk!"

How can they get away with that??? WE couldn't get caught singing that in the hall in my high school 30 years ago!

 

I was amazed, and frightened, while working on Master's #2 (in Educational Administration. Almost all the classes were online. In the midst of a discussion in Principals and Personnel, one person kept writing about when you have to "higher" more teachers. He wrote this not once, mind you....but 5 times, so it was definitely NOT a typo.

In another class someone wrote about trying to "illicit" responses from her class.

These people were aiming to be PRINCIPALS!!!!

 

soo...they wanted to hire illicit people???

maybe literate people with principles?

sounds the same, must be right...

I'm guessing that is their theory...
Or, "I've been saying it like that for years...YOU don't know what you're talking about!"

I have one word for those folks...

d-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y

everything is NOT online!

 

Or people who write....."I guess I should of done that."

 

You took the words right out of my mouth... I was just thinking of the famous "should of"!!!

 

Music Doc - are you sure that we don't know each other???? :lol: That is one of my favourite expressions!

 

shudda
coulda
whyda
whaydda
why I outta

"da" is an article in Chicago

da Bears
da Cubs
da Bulls
da White Sox

 

Let me correct your miss spelling and your sequencing
It is :
shouda
woulda
coulda

 

It really annoys me when people cannot pronounce numbers correctly. For instance, 20 is NOT twendee or twendy. It is twenTY. I feel an insane urge to correct anyone who mispronounces numbers.

 

leave to you to break in down by scope and secquencing ...

Guess I'll one up you by congengating the verb 'be'

I be
You be
He, she it bees
We bees
They beed

:lol: