thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 10, 2013 13:19:59 GMT -5
Sam - it always bothered me that people called the electricity bill "the light bill." I always felt like making sure they knew that electricity was so much more than a few light bulbs.
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Post by Bob Ross on Apr 10, 2013 13:21:22 GMT -5
I've learned to despise the phrase "Get away from me, you pervert!" ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/sad.png)
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Apr 10, 2013 13:21:43 GMT -5
Oh, but thyme, I've had customers not know the difference. One lady called to set up an account for her lights. Then called back a few hours later to set up an account for her electricity (the outlets). She had no idea they were the same thing and it took quite a bit of convincing for her to realize she had already called and everything was set up. No joke.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 10, 2013 13:25:16 GMT -5
oh, I got one - "rode hard and put away wet". I kinda know what it means but the imagery I get when I hear it is FAR worse than the actual meaning. ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/confused.png) Work with horses and you get the correct image. Poor babies. I hate "Synergies" it's a dumb made up term because it sounds better than "stuff we have that works together"
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Post by movingforward on Apr 10, 2013 13:26:07 GMT -5
Oh, but thyme, I've had customers not know the difference. One lady called to set up an account for her lights. Then called back a few hours later to set up an account for her electricity (the outlets). She had no idea they were the same thing and it took quite a bit of convincing for her to realize she had already called and everything was set up. No joke. That is just sad
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 10, 2013 13:28:02 GMT -5
I thought Synergy meant that we fired the two guys that knew what they were doing and hired the boss's idiot nephew to replace them.[/span]
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 13:28:37 GMT -5
Sam - it always bothered me that people called the electricity bill "the light bill." I always felt like making sure they knew that electricity was so much more than a few light bulbs. Y'all gonna run up my light bill axin' me all these stupid questions! Then how imma cook my veggies? ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/angry.png)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 13:30:11 GMT -5
oh - this isn't a saying, but I hate hate HATE when people change their Facebook names to something like "John ImJustDoinMyThing Doe". That is NOT a good look!!!!
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 10, 2013 13:30:57 GMT -5
I thought Synergy meant that we fired the two guys that knew what they were doing and hired the boss's idiot nephew to replace them. That described the place I just left. The only way to move up in any fashion was to be born into or marry into the family. Our site director was the owner's SIL and was sent to our site because he pissed off papa-in-law.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 13:30:57 GMT -5
I have a love / hate relationship with "do do" like for example, a boss of mine likes to say things like "one of the things we do do well is record keeping" after she says that I pull out my Beavis & Butthead voice and say, "she said doo doo, heh heh heh heh" (but only loud enough so a few people can hear it and boss lady can't ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/grin.png) )........hilarious! ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/rofl.gif)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 14:11:14 GMT -5
oh - this isn't a saying, but I hate hate HATE when people change their Facebook names to something like "John ImJustDoinMyThing Doe". That is NOT a good look!!!! I have one friend who changed their middle name to Danger, which was mildly amusing - but all of the other variants get on my nerves. (Equality was a popular one for a while, but "don't you know equality is my middle name" isn't funny) It also annoys me when people share profiles and call themselves Johnandjane Doe, but I think we've had that thread before.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 10, 2013 14:27:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 16:35:40 GMT -5
Regular conversation in the office:
"Can you summarize the key takeaways from the meeting this morning and shoot me an email. Also, let's circle back on client XYZ. We need a brainstorm session. No need to boil the ocean here. Let's throw some ideas at the wall and see what sticks. The focus needs to be on the low hanging fruit and value added solutions. Oh, and on the revenue plan, we need some new ways to incentivize our sales guy and get some synergies with the marketing folks. Let's keep some powder dry for phase 2, and if need be, you and I can take this offline."
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Post by ginpin on Apr 10, 2013 18:48:38 GMT -5
![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/yeahthat.gif) You must work in my office. Another one that I hear from the corporate guys is 'robust'. 'We've enjoyed robust business' or 'We had robust margins on that account.' I thought robust described wine or something?
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Post by 2kids10horses on Apr 10, 2013 22:13:08 GMT -5
Misuse of the word "decimate". As in, "Whoa! Our football team just decimated our opponents".
Decimate means "reduce by one tenth". Popular use would indicate it means "obliterate".
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 11, 2013 3:52:08 GMT -5
Huh, I've been using decimate wrong all this time. Now I know.
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 11, 2013 4:46:08 GMT -5
To be fair, the en suite thing is mostly on the Canadian shows on HGTV (a lot of them are based in Canada). I assumed that was a Canadian/francophone thing. And here I thought it was just another way for the desingers to sound pretentious. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png) It means "part of a set", in that the bathroom is attached to the bedroom, rather than being out in the hallway. Nobody is trying to be pretentious.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 11, 2013 8:01:27 GMT -5
here is an interesting (at least to me) article on "literally". James Joyce, Mark Twain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald to name a few accomplishes authors used the word figuratively. So you arent necessarily dumb to use it that way. Why, though, did this usage of literally suddenly come under such fire? It is not the first, nor will it be the last, instance of a word that is used in a seemingly contradictory way. There are many such words, and they arise through various means. Called "Janus words," "contranyms," or "auto-antonyms," they include cleave ("to stick to" and "to split apart"), dust ("to remove dust from" and "to sprinkle dust upon"), moot ("able to be discussed; arguable" and "purely theoretical") and peruse and scan (each meaning both "to read closely" and "to glance at hastily; skim"). Usage writers often criticize such words as potentially confusing and usually single out one of the meanings as "wrong," the "right" meaning being the older one, or the one closer to the word's etymological meaning, or the one more frequent when 18th-century grammarians began to examine language systematically. It's not always possible to predict when something will be condemned: While the "skim" sense of peruse is often criticized, the "skim" sense of scan—the main current sense—is rarely noticed, even though it's a recent development, quite different from the meaning the word had for centuries.
It is from a Slate article. I've never heard cleave used to split apart, I've never heard moot used as anything other than "pointless," and I didn't know scan and peruse meant to read closely. Those all have a single meaning to me, so if I heard someone say "We are getting a divorce, we are cleaved." I would think they were an idiot. Or if someone said "This point is moot, so let's discuss it for the next 12 hours." I'd correct their usage. I don't like when people say "I literally died" unless, in fact, they were brought back to life with medical intervention in some way. I don't care what those fancy-pants authors did.
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Post by gs11rmb on Apr 11, 2013 8:07:04 GMT -5
Misuse of the word "decimate". As in, "Whoa! Our football team just decimated our opponents".
Decimate means "reduce by one tenth". Popular use would indicate it means "obliterate".
That's one of the few things I remember from high school English. I was taught it originated with the Romans, who would "decimate" their army whenever they lost a battle. If you were number 10, 20, 30, etc. you got beheaded. Definitely a way to "incentivize" the troops to victory.
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