words that make you grit your teeth

[Smilie]

the only time I write "ain't" is to make a point, and obviously I'd never have used that word in court when I was practicing, but I use it in casual conversation all the time, as do my peers.

Ack! I despise that word. 'ain't'. Might as well scrape your fingernails across the chalkboard.

It always makes me think the people speaking it are trashy school drop-outs. (not saying you all are whoever says it, just makes my flesh crawl. )

[TahoeDirtGirl]

The soon to be ex husband always said ...horse duvers. I could really butcher that word if I spell it.

And then there is corporate speak.
"Are you engaged in this project"
"We need to take this offline"

[sundial]

"I seen....."

Grrrr!

[martinkap]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'! Please, be real women and call it as it is:

Menstrual periods or Menstruation

Martina

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'!

I admit that when I read "hoo-hah" it makes me laugh. I think it's rather endearing!

[SouthernBelle]

Conversate.

No. It's converse.

[Aggie_Ama]

ain't

My brother-in-law says ain't and it pisses me off. My own mother hates the word so much that if we refused to stop using it she spanked us. She came from a working class family that greatly valued education and she viewed it as ignorant.

The thing with my brother-in-law is he does it to be more "country". My husband refuses to use the word and hates when his brother does, he tells me his mom raised them much like mine. I also dread the day my little nieces start saying ain't to me.

[teawoman]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'! Please, be real women and call it as it is:

Menstrual periods or Menstruation

Martina

Guilty as charged. I used that expression once in a post. What's weird is that I hardly ever use it in real life.

My peeve: defiantly instead of definitely.

[bmccasland]

And then there is corporate speak.
"Are you engaged in this project"
"We need to take this offline"

Synergistic My project must "be synergistic" with other projects, including TDG's. We're talking cummulative impacts, so why don't we say so? Did someone learn a new word in school, so now they must use their new word everyday? GAAK!

[mimitabby]

Synergistic My project must "be synergistic" with other projects, including TDG's. We're talking cummulative impacts, so why don't we say so? Did someone learn a new word in school, so now they must use their new word everyday? GAAK!

yeah, where I work we play "corporate bingo" during meetings.


http://www.snyderfamily.com/cgi-bin/corpbingo


oh Jane, sorry; I thought you were using the one phrase as a correction for the other