"Cregg" for "Craig" is truly baffling.
What words / phrases don't you like?
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& "may-lay" for "melee"
If you're implying my use of "Personally" was superfluous, it probably was. Using it made sense to me at the time because the text I'd written above it wasn't in relation to my own personal dislikes, so I was trying to draw a clear distinction between the two sections. I've probably done it a lot of times in these sort of threads:
<respond to the thoughts of others>
Personally
<my stuff>
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"I will find out and revert"
Stop it. Just stop it. It's the wrong word ffs.
Stop it. Just stop it. It's the wrong word ffs.
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This is what happens when your empire invades a nation, forces its imperial culture upon the populace, and then farms its IT call centres out to the formerly occupied nation...
It's people basically copying the Indian-English used out in Mumbai - "Please do the needful and revert", sort of thing.
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"Bi-annual"
As in "...at the bi-annual meeting with the regulators"
Is it twice a year, or every two years? If it's not clear, don't bloody say it!
As in "...at the bi-annual meeting with the regulators"
Is it twice a year, or every two years? If it's not clear, don't bloody say it!
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I have a doubt ...
Yeah pretty sure the exact meaning is twice a year, if it's every two years there is a different word. So actually it's perfectly clear.
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"When it's gone, it's gone!"
So it's not like The Matrix then and things will start over?
So it's not like The Matrix then and things will start over?
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“Everything happens for a reason” boils my wee wee every time i hear this expression.
Americanisms no 10...
saying "bit" instead of "bitten"
"you make your own luck" - absolute codswallap
people (TV documentaries) constantly mixing tenses. One minute they talk about something that happened in the past in current tense, then half way through they get confused and switch to past tense when talking about the past (as it should be).
saying "bit" instead of "bitten"
"you make your own luck" - absolute codswallap
people (TV documentaries) constantly mixing tenses. One minute they talk about something that happened in the past in current tense, then half way through they get confused and switch to past tense when talking about the past (as it should be).
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WoRdS wRitTen LiKe tHIs
In an attempt to call out stupidity. The irony.
In an attempt to call out stupidity. The irony.
Soldato
someone says they can't do something
someone replies "skill issue"
seems to be a zoomer thing to absolve one of any responsibility to help another.
and assumes the reason for not being able must be the fault of the person who can't do, complete disregard for people of varying ability.
it's like negative manners. my gran will come back from the grave and haunt anyone who says it.
someone replies "skill issue"
seems to be a zoomer thing to absolve one of any responsibility to help another.
and assumes the reason for not being able must be the fault of the person who can't do, complete disregard for people of varying ability.
it's like negative manners. my gran will come back from the grave and haunt anyone who says it.
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It's arguably not entirely incorrect, though, as it's based on Victorian English grammar at the time of occupation, some of which still endures even in British institutions of tradition, such as the military.
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When estate agents put blurb on properties they are selling "This property is close to X and Y schools".
The property in question is a studio flat.
The property in question is a studio flat.
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Paedos need accommodation too, you know.
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Which is how come several of our teachers had studios in a complex right over the road from the school... especially the creepy RS teacher!
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teachers with that kind of problem have no need to live right opposite
they have enough access anyway
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Footballers answering questions with either a yes or no then actually giving an answer!