"Correct me if I am wrong, but..."

[55Redneck]

What bugs me is for sale ads like this.

For Sell. One (enter product here) in very good condition. It's also for sell locally so if it sales locally I will pull it off this auction.

What the hell has happened to the English language? Are they trying to sell it or sail the damn thing. :sigh:

 

[mulester7]

It's all good.

.....I totally agree, Finnbow....posts here on AK receive special consideration....as long as I can decipher what a poster says, I'm good with it.....

 

[Tedrick]

Some of my pet peeve phrases:

"To be perfectly honest,..."
"In all honesty,...."
"To tell the truth...."
"Low hanging fruit..."
"A three-legged stool."
"Basically,..."
"...like..."
"At the end of the day..."

 

[youngold]

"Meh" really annoys me to the point i want the club the person to death when they use that expression...

 

[Junknewbian]

"Incidences"

There is no such thing as incidences!
There are incidents, and there is incidence.

 

[chris35745]

Since we are talking about things we hear at work...the one I hate is when some jackwad says, "working hard or hardly working?". Sometimes, I will give them something to think about. I might reply, "I'm working hard at hardly working." That seems to satisfy them for about a half an hour.

 

[CoogarXR]

I hate when people start a sentence with "listen..." IE- "Listen, I don't care what the news report says I'm tellin' ya, Freddy Krueger is a fictional character that poses no real-life threat!"

I also hate "Here's the deal..." IE- "Here's the deal, we fired Sanchez, he just wasn't fitting in with the other servers at the Oriental Express".

I hate "ur" in place of your or you're. Letters are free. Use them. I could see back in the day when people had to text on a 12-button phone, but who (besides me) still does that? Even I still spell out words (and punctuation, omg! WTF!) on my ancient phone. I would still spell stuff out if I had to text from a rotary phone... I don't know why that bugs me so much.

 

[uplander]

A lot of these phrases are absolutely asinine, no question, and I probably will need to check myself to see how often they come out of my mouth.

However, there are times when they can help. When I must correct an employee, or bring up a difficult topic with a superior or a colleague, some of these asinine phrases can soften the transition into the difficult topic. Sometimes it's helpful to use a silly phrase to set the stage, basically telling the other person, "you may not like what I have to say, but it is being said with good intentions, so don't take this personally." If the recipient is put into the right frame of mind, they may not have a negative reaction to what must be said.