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I really am getting annoyed at people saying 'literally' in the middle of a story, when they weren't 'literally' doing something.
Like "Oh My God, it was so crazy. People were literally going mental". No they werent. They werent breaking down or going on a mad killing spree smearing shit on themselves.
They were FIGURATIVELY going crazy.
Drives me round the bend. Literally.
Like "Oh My God, it was so crazy. People were literally going mental". No they werent. They werent breaking down or going on a mad killing spree smearing shit on themselves.
They were FIGURATIVELY going crazy.
Drives me round the bend. Literally.
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Haha, I do that all the time when I'm annoyed. It helps with my anger. :razz:
Certainly is, like.
To be honest (were you not being honest with me beforehand then??)
At the end of the day (stupidest expression ever)
Basically (especially when people over-use this word in essays and get a higher mark than me...Not that I'm bitter or anything)
Random (no you are not 'random')
grrrr
haha, i love those little rants, but I see where you are coming from. I see so many native english speakers writing and (probably pronouncing when speaking) would've as "would of".
This literally thing is quite annoying too. Those are just overused words and phrases that everyone seems to overuse.
reminds me literally of one of those kxcd comics I posted in waste time.
"where is my fucking jacket?"
"over there, right next your regular one."
"what?"
"nevermind."
Yep, that is very very common. I actually think that they write it like that because they say it like that though.
dobbin; that really annoys me too, especially once... someone wrote, "know I dont think so" shortly followed by "yeah I no" :banghead:
bad grammar can piss me off at times ie like the above i would find slightly irritating but generally don't care about it
im guilty of it myself sometimes and bad spelling.. worst part is i used to be excellent at spelling and grammar a few years back.. then discovered weed :mad: (numbers hurt my head now too)
It annoys me in shops though when they put apostrophes in the wrong place or they miss them out. Don't they know it changes the whole meaning of the sentence. Dickwads. Literally.
Also interesting is 'definately' for 'definitely', as some sort of emphatic pronunciation.
Bad grammar and spelling.
"Would of" - Oh my GOD this annoys me!
People who get so annoyed about this sort of thing. Fair enough its nice to have good spelling and grammar (mine both suck by the way
But people who actually get annoyed if someone puts "there" instead of "their" need to get out more.
Seriously, there's more to life!
lol yea.. the txt spk bashers are even better
Our english teacher had a go and informed her that accents do have stuff to offer because they come from ancient dialect used in the areas. Soon shut her up.
"Init"
"Fucking"
"Like"
"Literally"
"You know what i mean"
And when people say man all the time even when they are talkin to girls
Alot of that's probably due to 'text talk' being hard to understand though...
I don't mind seeing "re" in email titles because it's short for "reply". If you don't write a new email title, the system automatically puts "re" in front of it. That's fine. But my managering director always substitute "re" for "regarding". It seems to only occur within my company because no one ever uses it outside of my workplace.
I thought that the 're' in email titles was also short for 'regarding', just like when it's used at the top of official type letters. Have I been wrong all these years? Have I actually been teaching my classes wrong? Oh dear.
It IS used as an abbreviation of 'Regarding' too. It has been in all the workplaces I've, erm, worked in - and being a consultant, that's a lot of places!!
Very commonplace...
i say 'quality' quite a lot and 'elo cherub' urrm and 'arite ?' and 'definately!!'
most frequent phrases are probably 'why the FUCK is my phone?' and 'im confused'
See i couldn't give a shit about some ones spelling or bad grammar ... probably cause mine is pretty bad but as long as i can understand it and read it i don't have a problem.
i think people who get pissed off about tiny minor spelling mistakes/ bits of bad grammar need to get a life. not everybody is perfect
Lol That sounds like me.
I think that could be me