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The Figure of Speech That You Dislike The Most

KassieMac said:
Ok, you just hit on two sore spots:
1) Pop, soda, soft drink, cola ... all fine. Coke is a brand. If you ask for Coke, you should get Coke. It drives me up a wall to ask for a Coke and they say "What kind?" ARGH! Which reminds me of ordering coffee in a drive-thru and asking for sugar packets (before I realized the evils of sugar) ... the girl tries to give me a handful of Sweet'n'Low! I just looked at her and carefully enunciated SU-GAR!! Ok, this tangent could go on for days ...

2) I confess, I do say 'my bad' in casual conversation. I know it's not proper English ... but don't they want us to learn their ways & try to fit in? Isn't that part of how we'll be 'cured'? But you're right ... not apologizing at all is the more common behavior in the world. I may go with that from now on (except here).
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Well, in some parts of America there's not really such a thing as Pepsi and that's why Coke becomes the vernacular. Where I'm from, there are those who reflexively say Pepsi as their generic soft drink word. But that area's sparsely populated.

I think "my bad" actually originated in sign language, because they need to speak efficiently.

Finally, RCMP police. :rolleyes:
 
gonzerd said:
And while I'm busy procrastinating I might as well make mention of Ed Byrne explaining the difference between metaphore and simile
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On the subject of metaphors I remember one notable "mixed metaphor" I once heard. At the time I was working for a company and had responsibility, among other things, for collecting some past due accounts. The woman who worked for me came into my office and told me how she was able to collect a debt. Her exact words were "I had to pull tooth and nails to get it."
 
I don't know if anyone has said this word bothers them yet (honestly too tired to look through all posts), but I absolutely, positively can't stand the word : AWESOME. I've never used it, won't use it and wish it would just roll over and die already.
 
nurseangela said:
I don't know if anyone has said this word bothers them yet (honestly too tired to look through all posts), but I absolutely, positively can't stand the word : AWESOME. I've never used it, won't use it and wish it would just roll over and die already.
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It's funny that if it has some awe, it's good, but being full of aw is terrible.
 
There's a hilarious clip from the Sleepy Hollow series ... where Ichabod Crane woke up in the current day after being put under a spell for 250 years. So they're pondering how language has changed in that time. Crane said that in his time, 'awful' meant 'full of awe' and 'intercourse' meant 'conversation'. Abbie (his modern-day partner) replied "So if I went out with a guy and we had awful intercourse, we'd be going on a second date??"
 
Tarragon said:
Australians speak English, not Australian versions.
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I sometimes seriously wonder about this because even I, someone who has lived in Australia since 1970, often have trouble trying to figure out what an Australian is saying. They have a propensity to end words with the letter 'O', as in 'arvo' (which actually means 'the afternoon' - just recently figured this out), and they often talk like babies (ex. the city of Brisbane is often referred to as 'Brissie'). They don't, however, all refer to each other as 'mate'; that's actually rare, but it does reflect the informality for which they are widely known.
 
As somebody with off-the-charts OCD, whenever somebody says that they're "OCD" about something, I get ENRAGED. They have no idea what length we will go to to fulfill our obsessions, and they just toss it around like they know what it's like. You don't know what it's like. You don't know how torturous it is. But you can just throw it around like it's nothing.

I'm sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.

"Literally" is awful as well. Whenever somebody uses it incorrectly, I respond to them with what they just said but substitute the word "figuratively."
 
Saw one that makes me ireful in the paper today:

_______ is just a fraction of ____________.

Very good, writers. If you have two numbers that are different, you can make a fraction! Way to create meaninglessness!
 
Not so much a figure of speech as such.
It does my head in when say for example some muppet science reporter on the news says something definitive about
something that in NO way can they know IS definitive.
"The worlds largest something........"
That you know of muppet!!
I don't know why but this actually enrages me lol.
Needless to say i don't watch a lot of TV anymore.o_O
 
Raggerty said:
Not so much a figure of speech as such.
It does my head in when say for example some muppet science reporter on the news says something definitive about
something that in NO way can they know IS definitive.
"The worlds largest something........"
That you know of muppet!!
I don't know why but this actually enrages me lol.
Needless to say i don't watch a lot of TV anymore.o_O
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To be fair, if it's breaking an existing recorded record, then it very likely is the world's largest whatever.

Personally, I'll take that over media reporters that completely twist a science study to something the study didn't even hint at. I could start a whole new thread on examples of that rant.
 
Dragonwolf i gave a bad example.
It's when folk make a definitive statement as in "having its fixed and final form" when their is NO evidence to make such a statement.
It's the arrogance to state something is finite when it is not.
How humanity thinks it's so smart,so advanced when we have just come out of the trees and still haven't stopped fighting over trivialities.
In 100yrs humanity will just laugh at how dumb we are now.
But information is still presented as conclusive when it IS NOT.
"That we know of" is a powerful statement.;)
 
How about when people say, "Southern (Northern, etc.) accent"? That bothers me a lot. It is a Southern dialect, not accent. An accent is when someone who does not natively speak your language pronounces the language with vowels, consonants and inflections that are familiar to the native language. For example: a French accent or a Russian accent, but a Canadian dialect or Aussie dialect.
 
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