This is a great thread, my most hated sayings are; " I've spent all day firefighting" No, you haven't . Firefighters do that, you work in admin. And in my child's school " Are we all sat down?" No, we are all SITTING down ARGHHH, these are teachers! My almost 5 year old is punctuating every sentence with 'like' and I have to try to get her out of this habit, "No, darling , you weren't 'like' ruuning at lunchtime, you were running at lunchtime" so glad there are others that are fed up of ridiculous sayings& lazy and childish speech
"Can I get . . . . ?" as a question asked of a shop assistant. So tempting to be given the reply "I don't know, can you?"
But whatever happened to "Please may I have . . . ?" I asked a shop assistant (yes, they do still exist in proper shops) in this way and she almost fell off her seat with surprise, and held up the queue to thank me for my politeness. To me, it is normal - but it seems lazy speech and lack of good manners are becoming more "normal" by the day.
I worked in retail for many years , and often had customers just satnd in front of me and state an item we sold (eg 'pink lipstick' ) I would smile sweetly and wonderingly and say " Yeees... what about pink lipstick?
don't get me started on innit!!!! Another customer once said to me (and this is regarding a lip gloss) " I'm gonna get me one of those bad boys innit" I just sttod and stared then said " I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand "
I once had a job where I sometimes had to deal with obnoxious 'celebrities'. To put them in their place, I would ask them what their stage name was. This sidestepped the 'Do you know who I am?' gambit. It was slightly more polite than suggesting that they could look in their bag to see if they had a letter addressed to them.
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Oh yes. Hey. And how are you? How're you doing?
How am I doing what?!!
Been here a few pages ago.
The use of 'how' instead of 'why'
How do you do that?
Why do you do that? Some people don't differentiate between the two meanings.
This is a great thread, my most hated sayings are; " I've spent all day firefighting" No, you haven't . Firefighters do that, you work in admin. And in my child's school " Are we all sat down?" No, we are all SITTING down ARGHHH, these are teachers! My almost 5 year old is punctuating every sentence with 'like' and I have to try to get her out of this habit, "No, darling , you weren't 'like' ruuning at lunchtime, you were running at lunchtime" so glad there are others that are fed up of ridiculous sayings& lazy and childish speech
Then there's ruthless. Have you ever met anyone with ruth?
Well there wasTom's girlfriend, but that's another story.
"Can I get . . . . ?" as a question asked of a shop assistant. So tempting to be given the reply "I don't know, can you?"
But whatever happened to "Please may I have . . . ?" I asked a shop assistant (yes, they do still exist in proper shops) in this way and she almost fell off her seat with surprise, and held up the queue to thank me for my politeness. To me, it is normal - but it seems lazy speech and lack of good manners are becoming more "normal" by the day.
Speech disfluency is what these fillers are called. That's like just as irritating innit?
I worked in retail for many years , and often had customers just satnd in front of me and state an item we sold (eg 'pink lipstick' ) I would smile sweetly and wonderingly and say " Yeees... what about pink lipstick?
don't get me started on innit!!!! Another customer once said to me (and this is regarding a lip gloss) " I'm gonna get me one of those bad boys innit" I just sttod and stared then said " I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand "
I once had a job where I sometimes had to deal with obnoxious 'celebrities'. To put them in their place, I would ask them what their stage name was. This sidestepped the 'Do you know who I am?' gambit. It was slightly more polite than suggesting that they could look in their bag to see if they had a letter addressed to them.