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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Woodbloke » 29 Nov 2021, 11:48

Andyp wrote:“Gifted” is one that get me.
Probably not wrong but it just grates.



You forgot 'crafted' Andy and 'crafted' is just plain wrong :evil: - Rob
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Pedant's paradise

Postby TrimTheKing » 29 Nov 2021, 11:49

AJB Temple wrote:My pet hate with chefs and TV cooks ( am addicted to TV cookery and also to cook books) is the creeping wide use of "off". So they will sauté off some onions, fry off some meat to colour it, dry fry off some spices to toast them. Off is always superfluous in this context. They also now put dishes "through" the oven, as if there is a door on both sides.

The widespread inability to differentiate correct use of I and me bugs me.
Ignorant and incorrect use of decimate and disinterested does too.

I can't even claim I got out of bed on the wrong side today, as I am still in it. Frosty outside you see and the indoor job is tiling :x


There are so many of these I would go mad trying to list them all.

A couple of the high fliers are, in a meeting and someone asks to “Talk around that for a minute…”. Talk ‘around’ it? So you don’t want to discuss it or talk ‘about’ it, you want to ‘talk AROUND’ it? Grrrrrr.

Pretentious gobsh!tery!
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby novocaine » 29 Nov 2021, 11:53

TrimTheKing wrote:
There are so many of these I would go mad trying to list them all.

A couple of the high fliers are, in a meeting and someone asks to “Talk around that for a minute…”. Talk ‘around’ it? So you don’t want to discuss it or talk ‘about’ it, you want to ‘talk AROUND’ it? Grrrrrr.

Pretentious gobsh!tery!


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Myself and one other nearly got fired for it, good job we had both handed in our letters of resignation that week.

blue sky thinking, run it up the flag pole, talk around a topic, incentivise, blar blar blar.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby 9fingers » 29 Nov 2021, 11:56

My pet hate is "Thank you for reaching out" as a first line of a reply to an enquiry.
Shortly followed by the sign off email footer from Octopus my new energy supplier "Love and Power"

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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Gill » 29 Nov 2021, 12:07

Wind me up by describing something as 'almost unique'. A thing is either unique or it isn’t! 'Almost unique' is like being a little bit pregnant.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Mike G » 29 Nov 2021, 12:47

novocaine wrote:You are all pendents. ......


Pedants. :lol: ;)
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Lurker » 29 Nov 2021, 13:35

Mike G wrote:
novocaine wrote:You are all pendents. ......


Pedants. :lol: ;)


Never mind novo’ I got the joke :)
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby RogerS » 29 Nov 2021, 13:37

Wish you guys would stop hanging around :eusa-whistle:
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Phil Pascoe » 29 Nov 2021, 13:46

Gill wrote:Wind me up by describing something as 'almost unique'. A thing is either unique or it isn’t! 'Almost unique' is like being a little bit pregnant.


Close proximity and reducing things down are two of mine. I did hear on the radio one day "it's nearly almost exactly one o'clock". :lol:
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby novocaine » 29 Nov 2021, 14:14

utilize.

oh shut up and stop trying to sound clever, the designer did not utilize it, the site does not utilize anything. they might have used it, but I guess that doesn't sound clever enough for you.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Mike G » 29 Nov 2021, 14:36

:lol: :lol: Ooooh, this is fun....

utilise ;)
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby novocaine » 29 Nov 2021, 14:41

Mike G wrote::lol: :lol: Ooooh, this is fun....

utilise ;)


Yep, that one was on porpoise too.

Not sure who is being the troll and who is being trolled at this point Michael. :) :lol:
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby 9fingers » 29 Nov 2021, 14:42

Envision instead of imagine?

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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Dr.Al » 29 Nov 2021, 15:02

"Action" as a verb (what's wrong with "do"?)

"Steer" as a noun to mean "direction": when someone tells me they're giving me their steer, I always assume a cow is about to be delivered.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby John Brown » 29 Nov 2021, 15:31

Mike G wrote::lol: :lol: Ooooh, this is fun....

utilise ;)

No. The z was the preferred spelling in British English up to a few decades ago.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Mike G » 29 Nov 2021, 15:40

John Brown wrote:
Mike G wrote::lol: :lol: Ooooh, this is fun....

utilise ;)

No. The z was the preferred spelling in British English up to a few decades ago.


Well, that all depended on whether you went to Oxford or Cambridge. ;)

The preferred UK spelling now is -ise.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Andyp » 29 Nov 2021, 15:46

If both are in the dictionaries who gets to decide what is preferred. :eusa-think:
I do not think therefore I do not am.

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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Phil Pascoe » 29 Nov 2021, 15:53

Reach out to instead call, phone, speak to ...

For free ...
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Andyp » 29 Nov 2021, 16:10

We are just discussing the written words here.
How about broadening it to mispronounciations?

Uz instead of us for example.

And a few that get my missus in a pickle.*

Alone, a loan and a lawn.

As a foreigner I do make allowances, sometimes. :D
I do not think therefore I do not am.

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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Malc2098 » 29 Nov 2021, 16:26

Mike G wrote:
John Brown wrote:
Mike G wrote::lol: :lol: Ooooh, this is fun....

utilise ;)

No. The z was the preferred spelling in British English up to a few decades ago.


Well, that all depended on whether you went to Oxford or Cambridge. ;)

The preferred UK spelling now is -ise.


Or the Joint Matriculation Board.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby RogerS » 29 Nov 2021, 16:45

Andyp wrote:We are just discussing the written words here.
How about broadening it to mispronounciations?

Uz instead of us for example.

And a few that get my missus in a pickle.*

Alone, a loan and a lawn.

As a foreigner I do make allowances, sometimes. :D


I'm finding that I often have to interpret the spoken voice on the TV for the missus who's ear is really only tuned to RP.
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Mike G » 29 Nov 2021, 16:46

Phil Pascoe wrote:Reach out to ....

For free ...


Oh god yes. They drive me potty. You see "for free" in expensive advertisements on TV by multinationals.

How about "can I have a contact phone number, please? "Of course. I was going to give you my non-contact one until you asked......"
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby RogerS » 29 Nov 2021, 16:50

I just love the way this thread is panning out :D
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby Malc2098 » 29 Nov 2021, 17:13

RogerS wrote:I just love the way this thread is panning out :D



You mentioned a staircase and I posted an embroidered tapestry and look what happened!
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Re: Pedant's paradise

Postby PAC1 » 29 Nov 2021, 17:18

"I'm just going to go ahead and ..." in most youtube videos from across the pond

Even the BBC announced on Saturday that someone was 'killed in a fatal stabbing'. Are there any other outcomes for fatal stabbings!
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