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Over used and incorrectly used phrases...

"Minty".

As if "mint" wasn't misused enough, now we have the weasel word minty. WTF does that mean? Sorta mint? Almost mint? Pretty mint?

Mint to me means unused. New. Sealed (if a record). Anything else is like being "kinda pregnant". You either are or you're not.

Happy trails,
Larry B.
 
leesonic said:
"I could care less"

It's "I couldn't care less". If you could care less, this means that you must care about it even a little bit.

Lee.
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I have bitched about this misuse of the language before. I seems to be spreading like the plague. I've even noticed this same misuse in books by one of my favorite authors, David Weber.

kirk57 said:
"If it sounds good, it is good"

I see this as a sort misinterpretation of Daniel R. von Recklinghausen's statement
"If it measures good and sounds bad, -- it is bad. If it sounds good and measures bad, -- you've measured the wrong thing."

It's entirely possible that it sounds good to you, but is a complete failure in the task of High Fidelity reproduction. IOW, it may sound good to you, but be crap.
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Another one of my peeves. It should be written, "If it sounds good to you, it sounds good to you.". There is no guaranty that what sounds good to "you" sounds good to anyone else. In many cases it doesn't.
 
Again, not audio related, but using "begs the question" when the person really means "suggests or invites the question". ("Begs the question" refers to circular reasoning -- assuming what was to be shown.)
 
Bose pronounced as 'bosey' (as in posey - of flowers).

"I was pushing some watts" or "It will only draw the watts it needs" - what ?

Repetitive failure to realise the difference between "to" and "too" - mostly by using "to" for everything. "it was to loud" AAAaaaggghhh !
 
The phrase, "ruler flat" pretty much doesn't occur in audio. It's a goto phrase, as if one could tell the difference between components if one dips every so slightly..
 
"It punches above its weight class" Cute the first few times, now not so much.

"If it sounds good, it is good" See my signature.
 
Critical listening is the common term for listening for playback quality evaluation, or differences in playback quality, as opposed to listening just for the music.

Focused listening can be focused on the music, or parts of it, or on the playback attributes, or aspects of them (or anything else you're capable of listening for, I suppose).

Anyone who frequents an audio forum and claims not to listen critically is ...whatever...

:D
 
Instead of "needs to be replaced" people say "needs replaced". I heard once it's regional Pennsylvania dialect, but it bugs me.
 
similost said:
I see a list of them around here.. More over used, than incorrect, but some are still used not correctly..

I have one at the very top of my list...I'll list is and why... You do he same with the phrase or word that most eats on you..

For me... Critical Listening... I don't know, but it just seems to get over used... and at times, I think wrongly...

Critical of what? How the system sounds? Seems once you critique it, it's done... how do you keep critical listening for days on end?

Or are you taking notice of the music, and picking out instruments, or tones or something, that actually is not being critical, but rather focused listening?

There's a phrase we never hear.. Focused Listening... but we hear critical all the time...

So that's mine... What's yours?
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I have a problem with that terminology too.

You can listen to a sonata form and actually do a critical listening by analysing it like a music student. This can be done best through cans. But I doubt that's what a lot of folks do here.
 
gtv2000 said:
Instead of "needs to be replaced" people say "needs replaced". I heard once it's regional Pennsylvania dialect, but it bugs me.
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Yea, I hear that all the time (just kidding, Dr. Morbius ;) ). As a non-native Lancastrian I take great joy in teasing the natives when they make that error, as well as other local linguistic idiosyncrasies.
 
gtv2000 said:
Instead of "needs to be replaced" people say "needs replaced". I heard once it's regional Pennsylvania dialect, but it bugs me.
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That really bugs me -- like fingernails on a blackboard* -- and I'm right in the thick of it!

* If you don't know what that is a reference to you are probably just to young. Google it! :D

And with regard to "Irregardless", what's the problem? It's a double-negative, so surely the writer must be stating "with regard to...", right? "Irregardless" is another fingernails on a blackboard kind of thing to me.
 
bobsvinyl said:
The infamous "vinyls".

Not stereo related- I see "ect." so many times, I actually researched it to make sure that "etc." was still correct. It is the abbreviation of the Latin et cetera, it's not ec tetera.
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etc - a directory of files in a linux computer. As in /etc/fstab, the file that "mounts" the various disks, directories, and file systems in the correct place to allow the computer to start. Etc. - abbreviation for et cetera (Just had to add that in there - mostly for fun:D)


My peeve is "highly resolving". Typically that's just marketing speak for speakers with treble levels a few dB louder then the bass.
 
johnebravo said:
Again, not audio related, but using "begs the question" when the person really means "suggests or invites the question". ("Begs the question" refers to circular reasoning -- assuming what was to be shown.)
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You beat me to that one. Which raises the question...

I also hate ellipsis abuse. And people saying fitment instead of fit.
 
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