Phrases That Make You "Cringe"

[Lunar Templar]

The esteemed Mr. Fry is only expressing his opinion. Incidentally I despise Wilde almost as much as I detest Restoration Comedy, but to address Fry's point:
I take no issue with inventions which enrich the language, but I most certainly challenge those which denude its potency. Language is the greatest invention of our species, & to strive for its inferiority is an absolute crime - an unbearable shame of such utter stupidity it genuinely saddens me.

2 things,
1) way to totally miss the point of the video.

Then please enlighten me.

as i understand from the video "knowing how to use words correctly is good, even important depending on the situation, but not the most important thing one should concern them selves with"
like picking apart 'I'm good' on the definition isn't really worth while, yes, they aren't using the correct 'i am feeling good' but at the end of the day its not really a worth while nit to pic, and really only makes the person correcting them look like a tool

and
2) congratulations, EVERYTHING you've posted on this thread has managed to get on my nerves to such a degree I can safely say this will likely be our only interaction, if only for my own sanity.

but since your so 'lingual superior', I'm inclined to ask, aside from the pre-stated 'Real life grammar checker' you like to do, what do you do with these skills? do you write, anything? you use it to present something to some one in a manner that might cause said person to want to expand their own lingual short comings?

None of that makes any difference to the subject under discussion, & to pretend that it does is to try to force two logical fallacies simultaneously. The first is your less than subtle ad hominem (a statement directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining) while the second is your equally spurious appeal to authority (if someone's published or performed that doesn't address the subject under discussion, & is an irrelevance).
As it happens I have had some of my work performed in off-west end & fringe theatres like the BAC & the Camden Roundhouse, & have worked as a lecturer. Is it relevant to this discussion? Absolutely not, for exactly the reasons I explained.

>.>;; yeah, I'm gonna have to say just ignore that bit, was kinda annoyed when i hammered that out, your posts smack of a smugness that grates on my nerves, don't mind being wrong, do mind when it feels like 'I'm better cause I'm right'

and before you throw that back at me
yes, i write for my own amusement
no, my 'typing vocabulary' sucks, unfortunately

Good for you for writing, but why do you accept your poor grasp of grammar & vocabulary? You obviously aren't happy with it so address it & the problem will be solved.

I'm not as hung up on grammar(clearly) as i am spelling,(and i thank the gods for spell check on the forums here) and in the case of larger words, using them right.

and, fyi, my writing is all fiction and fantasy based story's case sci-fi has a nasty habit of requiring SOME scientific knowledge, lazy yes, but i like magic more then tech anyway

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Retinal detatchment.

 

[Melon Hunter]

So, there's a couple of phrases I just don't get or seem backwards to me:

"Looks the dog's bollocks" = "looks good". I dunno about you, but I've never considered canine testicles to be a particularly pleasant sight. And for some reason whenever I hear the phrase I picture a bulldog. Not sure why.

"Allow that" a la "fuck that". Wouldn't allowing it mean welcoming it?

But the big cringer for me has always been comparing anything unfavourably to Hitler without any indication of irony. And that was long before I'd heard of Godwin's law. I'm pretty sure you're all mature enough to understand why I don't need to elaborate but suffice it to say that you'd have to do a lot of really nasty stuff on an astronomical level to even be considered equal to him, let alone worse. I get the implication but it's just a wee bit extreme, isn't it?

With regards to the bolded section, this is actually from a corruption of the original Meccano sets: 'box deluxe' and 'box standard'. If you switch the first letters of 'box deluxe', you get 'dox beluxe', which is then mangled slightly to produce 'dog's bollocks'. Likewise, 'box standard' was corrupted to form the phrase 'bog standard'.

Therefore, the two phrases reflect their original forms: 'dog's bollocks' to describe something that is of higher quality than usual, and 'bog standard' to describe something completely normal.

The more you know!

OT: I can't come up with anything I haven't already seen here, so I shall reiterate: 'I could care less.' Damn, it annoys me when people say that.

Also, 'the exception that proves the rule', taken the way most people use it, is a logical fallacy. Since it is a rule in its own right, that would mean there must be a rule out there without an exception to be an exception to this rule. However, said rule would not have an exception to prove it, and therefore would not be a rule, thus invalidating the exception that proves the rule 'the exception that proves the rule', which invalidates that rule, causing it to contradict itself. Phew.

 

[WolfmanNougat]

With regards to the bolded section, this is actually from a corruption of the original Meccano sets: 'box deluxe' and 'box standard'. If you switch the first letters of 'box deluxe', you get 'dox beluxe', which is then mangled slightly to produce 'dog's bollocks'. Likewise, 'box standard' was corrupted to form the phrase 'bog standard'.

Therefore, the two phrases reflect their original forms: 'dog's bollocks' to describe something that is of higher quality than usual, and 'bog standard' to describe something completely normal.

The more you know!

Wow, that actually makes a lot of sense! Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Ruwrak]

"wanna join my clan?"



I... seriously... hate... the word.. CLAN.
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