CreamyGoodness
Well-Known Member
Lighten up Francis
Nickname. Got it. Carry on Drew.
Billy-Klubb said:Billy the Klubb was a nickname I got in Vegas. my real name is Andrew. I don't mind Andy, but when people call me Drew it fills me with a rage that gives me a headache.
+1 on the corporate lingo, (out of the military and back to school) college business professors compulsively use this crap. I fear when I'm done, they will have burnt it into my mind, and I too will sound like this. Full of complete **** and toolness
I'll take that over irregardless any day.
I don't like overused corporate buzzwords. It's often just a mask for incompetence. When I hear someone who is fluent in "corporate speak" it just sounds like this to me:
"I empower myself by keeping on the bleeding edge of corporate lingo. Leveraging buzzwords is a best practice, and it is one of my core competencies, after all. All my jargon learnings have taken me to the next level, helping me give it 110% and impact the optics of my ego going forward."
Oh, well. I guess it is what it is.
used by morons.Irregardless might be archaic and redundant, but it's a legitimate word
Irregardless might be archaic and redundant, but it's a legitimate word.
It's the opposite of both archaic and legitimate. It's a recent invention.
CreamyGoodness said:Did I mention I hate the word "children?" Hate it. I hated it when I was a kid, and I hate it now. I dont even mind "child".... No one says, "vote for me, think of the child." Or, "vote no on *x*, think of the kids!" its always "children." Feh.
Sure, my tax dollars going towards a school budget? Cool. Kids need schools. "A new initiative for our children?"... forget it... its going to be wasteful, someone I cant stand will be championing it, and I'm not going to agree with its message in the first place. This has been true 90+% of the time.
fluidmechanics said:I'm unsure why this gets under my skin but when people say, "I need to go to the ATM machine." It is an Automatic Teller Machine. A.T.M. The M means machine already. Bothers me for no good reason to no end.
JoeyChopps said:That's like some that are in the military or dod personnel will agree with. We have CAC's and you will hear people say "have you seen my CAC card?" CAC stands for common access card. The redundant card irritates me.
I'm unsure why this gets under my skin but when people say, "I need to go to the ATM machine." It is an Automatic Teller Machine. A.T.M. The M means machine already. Bothers me for no good reason to no end.
Irregardless might be archaic and redundant, but it's a legitimate word.
Did I mention I hate the word "children?" Hate it. I hated it when I was a kid, and I hate it now. I dont even mind "child".... No one says, "vote for me, think of the child." Or, "vote no on *x*, think of the kids!" its always "children." Feh.
Sure, my tax dollars going towards a school budget? Cool. Kids need schools. "A new initiative for our children?"... forget it... its going to be wasteful, someone I cant stand will be championing it, and I'm not going to agree with its message in the first place. This has been true 90+% of the time.
Maybe that's because your wife is newly impregnated, and you're shuddering at the responsibilities of being a father.
That's like some that are in the military or dod personnel will agree with. We have CAC's and you will hear people say "have you seen my CAC card?" CAC stands for common access card. The redundant card irritates me.
I think Creamy should start a poll thread and let the good members of HBT help decide what his twins are to be named.
Legitimate is a stretch. It never has been and still isn't accepted standard English.
Goofynewfie said:One has to be named okra
Im cracking up here. See what you started bomber!? Im not a dad yet all! Im not even expecting.
CreamyGoodness said:Im cracking up here. See what you started bomber!? Im not a dad yet all! Im not even expecting.
I'm unsure why this gets under my skin but when people say, "I need to go to the ATM machine." It is an Automatic Teller Machine. A.T.M. The M means machine already. Bothers me for no good reason to no end.
I know it's a little overwhelming at first. It doesn't really sink in until you're holding the child. I suggest that you maybe look at some bassinets. It really helps.
The redundancy of 'juice' is what bothers you most in that photo?!?!redundancies bother me as well.
dkwolf said:The redundancy of 'juice' is what bothers you most in that photo?!?!
This post brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Prevention Department.
RBI's is actually the correct way to pluralize the abbreviation....
From Merriam-Webster [...]
It fell out of use and just recently reappeared usually used by the same people that that say aggreeance
RBI's is actually the correct way to pluralize the abbreviation....
I don't see anything in there suggesting that it fell out of common use, just that it originated in 1927. Archaic would imply that it was common use at some point, and is no longer so. It sounds to me like irregardless has been in continuous, unfortunate use since the early 1900s.
Certainly it's never been "legitimate" in the sense that the powers that be recognize it as correct. Of course, the meaning of legitimacy is not widely agreed upon.... Still, I don't think this is a case of a once perfectly cromulent word that has been abandoned---it's been dialectical (i.e., "low-brow") since its introduction.
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