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Post by mamasita99 on Jan 20, 2016 20:03:51 GMT -5
I cannot stand advertisements that use the phrase "Now, more than ever".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 21:04:54 GMT -5
uber and I don't mean the frickin taxi service
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 20, 2016 21:44:24 GMT -5
Television newscasters who say 'cops' and use other slang words while on the air. In the use of 'cops', I think it is disrepectful to the police when said on air during news reports. The use of 'cops' Off Air and in general conversation does not bother me.
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Post by dannylion on Jan 20, 2016 21:47:24 GMT -5
uber and I don't mean the frickin taxi service I love that word! But I always pronounce it with the umlaut. Umlauts are fun.
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Post by gregintenn on Jan 20, 2016 22:05:57 GMT -5
Television newscasters who say 'cops' and use other slang words while on the air. In the use of 'cops', I think it is disrepectful to the police when said on air during news reports. The use of 'cops' Off Air and in general conversation does not bother me. I always thought the term cop was an acronym for Chief Of Police. I thought it was a misnomer to refer to all law enforcement as cops. I prefer the term pigs.
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Post by gregintenn on Jan 20, 2016 22:06:40 GMT -5
And I still have no clue what a hult maker is!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 22:20:35 GMT -5
I definitely don't like retard. Mental retardation. They don't use that today. Its good in some ways, but in others, well, people don't understand what intellectual disability or developmental disorder actually means is mental retardation. I am sure this is good in some ways, but in others? ... The school district was just shy of identifying my cousin's daughter under this criteria last year, and even though they didn't use that as their final diagnosis, the iep they wrote was pretty much consistent with that end. It was not in my opinion an accurate assessment. But I had a hard time explaining to the parents, who see disability and disorder and think "learning disability' rather than 'mental retardation'... that basically that was the hole into which they were trying to plug her...
I don't like the n word or the c word.
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Post by gregintenn on Jan 20, 2016 22:24:45 GMT -5
I don't use big long words.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jan 20, 2016 23:05:44 GMT -5
And I still have no clue what a hult maker is! It's a thingie that makes hults. Good ones - not the cheap ones.
I have to explain everything to you guys.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 20, 2016 23:38:22 GMT -5
Television newscasters who say 'cops' and use other slang words while on the air. In the use of 'cops', I think it is disrepectful to the police when said on air during news reports. The use of 'cops' Off Air and in general conversation does not bother me. I always thought the term cop was an acronym for Chief Of Police. I thought it was a misnomer to refer to all law enforcement as cops. I prefer the term pigs. That's even slangier. Had to look it up. Cop comes from the Latin word 'capere', to seize. It then became 'caper' (seize) in old French/cap (arrest) in old English to 'copper' in later English to early 18th century English 'cop'.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jan 21, 2016 8:35:31 GMT -5
My Mom is 96 now, and as far back as I can remember she and my Dad both used the word "stup". It's short for the word stupid. I have always found that word so offensive and disgusting that I also will not use the word "stupid" under any circumstances.
I still remember the entire phrase when my Mom used it: "He's just a stup".
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Post by swamp on Jan 21, 2016 10:03:09 GMT -5
totes...short for totally, which is also stupid your outfit is totes adorbs.
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Post by mmhmm on Jan 21, 2016 10:13:55 GMT -5
totes...short for totally, which is also stupid your outfit is totes adorbs. Arrrrrggghhhh! Somebody get my fainting couch! I'm goin' down!
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Post by mmhmm on Jan 21, 2016 10:20:53 GMT -5
I love words. Words captivate me. I don't like vulgar slang. If you can't express yourself better than that - well, I'm sorry. There are times when such language may be somewhat understandable - like if you drop a big can of green beans on your foot, or something. Otherwise, just no. I don't like shortening words, as swamp indicated in her last post. When I was very young, I refused to use conntractions. I thought they were silly. It's not that difficult to say, or to write "Do not", so why "don't"? I did manage to get over that and do use contractions without feeling they're stupid. Language, to me, is like a painting. It's rich with color and expression. Why distort it?
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Post by tloonya on Jan 21, 2016 10:27:57 GMT -5
And I still have no clue what a hult maker is! What was you making from the leather to hold guns?
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Post by tloonya on Jan 21, 2016 10:31:15 GMT -5
My Mom is 96 now, and as far back as I can remember she and my Dad both used the word "stup". It's short for the word stupid. I have always found that word so offensive and disgusting that I also will not use the word "stupid" under any circumstances.
I still remember the entire phrase when my Mom used it: "He's just a stup". They could shortened it even more like 'stu'. Or 'st'...I know 2 letters short is important but 3 or 4 is even better shortenage.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jan 21, 2016 10:44:07 GMT -5
I love words. Words captivate me. I don't like vulgar slang. If you can't express yourself better than that - well, I'm sorry. There are times when such language may be somewhat understandable - like if you drop a big can of green beans on your foot, or something. Otherwise, just no. I don't like shortening words, as swamp indicated in her last post. When I was very young, I refused to use conntractions. I thought they were silly. It's not that difficult to say, or to write "Do not", so why "don't"? I did manage to get over that and do use contractions without feeling they're stupid. Language, to me, is like a painting. It's rich with color and expression. Why distort it? I don't mind contractions, although a teacher (a long time ago) told me they were not proper for business correspondence and we were never to use them.
What I hate is when people DONT use contractions and write it out incorrectly. So many people - even here - write "should of" instead of "should have". Like, "I should of said this" or "I should of done that." They are typing it like it sounds when you use the contraction.
Add the common addresses of "dude" or "bro" and my head will explode. It makes a person sound like they smoked way too much pot in their lifetime and have burnt out some brain cells.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jan 21, 2016 10:47:55 GMT -5
totes...short for totally, which is also stupid your outfit is totes adorbs. Umm....dude....that is super stup. SUPER stup.
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Post by Opti on Jan 21, 2016 10:49:14 GMT -5
And I still have no clue what a hult maker is! What was you making from the leather to hold guns? holster?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 10:59:24 GMT -5
discombobulate. I know it is a real word and the shade of meaning that it provides. But it simply sounds pretentious when you say it.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 21, 2016 11:05:05 GMT -5
Mine is obviously "retard." When it's used to describe someone with issues as opposed to slowing down. DH actually used it one time only and when I cringed like he had struck me, the pain on my face so obvious, he never used it again. When I think how casually my friends and I used it as kids not even realizing what it truly meant, I feel ashamed When I was young it was a medical term to describe a person who is now considered learning disabled or brain damaged, developmentally disabled. I hate it used as an insult or other disabilities like spastic but not when used to describe a person who is actually disabled. My best friend had a son who had MD and mental retardation, he died from them around 1980 before they changed the words, he was disabled enough not to be insulted by the description which wasn't used as an insult just what he was. Now my great niece has down syndrome and is in special ed but she is pretty smart and would be very insulted if someone called her retarded and if she was retarded and heard someone else called retarded it might hurt her feeling if they were or not. It is a word I think should be gone as should all insults about birth conditions like race or being born a little people it isn't an insult just what we are. I was born female and think it is offensive to call a boy a girl as an insult for example. You throw like a girl or you run like a girl isn't an insult stop using it to mean you do something badly. Words I don't use are curse words or insults that are offensive to anyone. This political corecteness is growing into the thing when people will have to be just silent to not to insult anyone! STUPID is a word in dictionary so is retarded. Some might get upset over being called 'disabled' so what are we supposed to remove that word from use? Blacks had decided they want to be African Americans. Orientals - Asian. What ta heck the difference? If I hear that Russians are drinking I don't get all worked up. It is what it is! And how do I know what to call little people? I don't know any. So whom do I ask? Some can get upset over 'little'. So just shut up then or what? People should stop being too friggin sensitive.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 21, 2016 11:06:23 GMT -5
What was you making from the leather to hold guns? holster? YEP! Thanks
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jan 21, 2016 11:10:53 GMT -5
Irregardless.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 21, 2016 11:18:44 GMT -5
This is the first thing I thought of when I read the title
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 11:23:26 GMT -5
Politically correct!
The only ones that ever use it are people justifying being rude by claiming they aren't worried about being politically correct.
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Post by gregintenn on Jan 21, 2016 11:32:54 GMT -5
And I still have no clue what a hult maker is! What was you making from the leather to hold guns? So hult is Russian for holster?
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 21, 2016 11:37:23 GMT -5
I don't care if it means being PC the question was what words bother you. Mine is retard because it was used to refer to my students.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 21, 2016 12:06:17 GMT -5
What was you making from the leather to hold guns? So hult is Russian for holster? No greg, Russian would be a kobura. Now you know!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 12:11:24 GMT -5
hult-maker. I avoid that term whenever possible. O.k. I'll ask. What the hell does hult maker mean? I've never heard the term before, and thought it was something Loony made up. I've never seen it before either. That's why I don't use it.
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Post by mmhmm on Jan 21, 2016 12:12:13 GMT -5
I love words. Words captivate me. I don't like vulgar slang. If you can't express yourself better than that - well, I'm sorry. There are times when such language may be somewhat understandable - like if you drop a big can of green beans on your foot, or something. Otherwise, just no. I don't like shortening words, as swamp indicated in her last post. When I was very young, I refused to use conntractions. I thought they were silly. It's not that difficult to say, or to write "Do not", so why "don't"? I did manage to get over that and do use contractions without feeling they're stupid. Language, to me, is like a painting. It's rich with color and expression. Why distort it? I don't mind contractions, although a teacher (a long time ago) told me they were not proper for business correspondence and we were never to use them.
What I hate is when people DONT use contractions and write it out incorrectly. So many people - even here - write "should of" instead of "should have". Like, "I should of said this" or "I should of done that." They are typing it like it sounds when you use the contraction.
Add the common addresses of "dude" or "bro" and my head will explode. It makes a person sound like they smoked way too much pot in their lifetime and have burnt out some brain cells.
Ack! Grammar and syntax have, in many cases, fallen off the edge of the planet. I detest "had went". I loathe "seen" where the word should be "saw". These are things that were taught in grade school!
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