"cow-orkers". This has not been amusing for a very, very long time.
― Lo Ambient Limit Switch (doo dah), Friday, 15 November 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
"Can I get a drink STARTED for anyone?" at coffee places with lines
As though a coffee is an enormously complex project with various stages. I'll get it STARTED for you, and our team of coffee specialists will have it finished within an hour. I mean I appreciate the practice, I just think it sounds funny.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah
― andrew m., Friday, 15 November 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
having worked at starbucks, "started" is accurate.
― clouds, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
I sometimes hear americans saying "I'm going to have" or "I'm going to get" when ordering food/drinks instead of "may I please have or get if it's not too much trouble?"
― conrad, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
guilty as charged.
SUBWAY ARTIST: What would you like today, sir?
ME: I'll get a 12-incher... and I'll take tomatoes, pickles, lettuce and mustard on it.
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
no, it ain't right.
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
I sometimes always hear americans saying "I'm going to have" or "I'm going to get"
― joygoat, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
"Alright mr. sandwich artist, you're working for me now, and this is how it's gonna be: I'm gonna have turkey on whole wheat bread. You're gonna slather it with mayonnaise. Then you're gonna layer it with turkey breast, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. Is that clear? Do we have an understanding?"
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFLUz1ZY-A
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Sandwich artist
― sktsh, Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Probably said this before, but one of the only phrases I hate are when people say "myself" and "yourself" instead of 'me' and 'you'. you get a lot of English service-industry people doing the whole "Is there anything else I can do for yourself today at all?". The best one I heard about was in a hotel guestbook had written "Myself and my wife had a lovely time". What a cock.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 18 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
"The room smelled like chestnuts."
Signed,
Me, Myself & Wife
― pplains, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
"nuke (x) from space/orbit"
― Lo Ambient Limit Switch (doo dah), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
The "myself" thing is the sort of thing people who don't have the best grammar write to sound more educated. I find it kind of cute and it doesn't really annoy me.
I guess the same thing can be said about "May I please help the following guest" though.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
― conrad, Friday, November 15, 2013 3:51 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love the notion of saying "if it's not too much trouble?" in a fast food scenario.
I definitely say "Could I please get"
― Walter Galt, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
It's almost to the point sometimes where I think too hard about not saying "I'll take..." that when the cashier asks me what she can get for me today, I say "... ... CHESSEBURGER."
― pplains, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
The "myself" thing is the sort of thing people who don't have the best grammar write to sound more educated. I find it kind of cute and it doesn't really annoy me.this is called overcorrection iirc and it's a real sort of failed aspirational thing that some people docute is not a word i would use to describe this behavior but it's interesting it's being framed that way
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
this is like the sociolinguistics corpus collection thread tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXPJOUD7G0
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
lady on the phone just did the whole pacific/specific thing TWICE. that one doesn't annoy me so much. as Hurting says, it's kind of cute.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
cute? really?
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
i dunno. cute isn't the word i guess. it's just... well i'd never want to correct anyone who says it twice in a sentence.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
"the phrase that pays"
― pplains, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
The "myself" thing is the sort of thing people who don't have the best grammar write to sound more educated
Guess which self y'all can go fuck
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
and thats from myself and four million irish ppl
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Also can i get a little less preciousness about phrasing when ordering food, or when speaking in general, language is living art and yourselves all need to learn to appreciate the valid ways a message gets flung atcha
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Uh im not rly mad i just thought that was a reasonably snappy 'self' line tbh
But srsly the meself, yourself, himself thing is an irish thing from the gaeilge that was brought with us into forced anglicisation (immeasurably improving the language, obv) and mé féin is iirc a more formal usage than mise and it may well be that this is the root of it in more formal contexts from ourselves.
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
So in conclusion, while some people disapprove of the usage...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLfa9RsV9Y
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Travelers cast wary eye as storm moves eastward
Oh, I'd bet they don't.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
Though kudos to the ... Anchorage Daily News? ... for at least giving a shot at illustrating the cliché.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
"how are you?""oh, i'm here."
― clouds, Sunday, 15 December 2013 05:25 (ten years ago) link
Just giving you a shout.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 December 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
_______ porn
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
especially if it's not actually porn
― clouds, Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
that's what i mean! it's attributing a largely inaccurate quality of titillation to the noun modifying it. people just want more excuses to use the word "porn" i guess
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
celibacy porn
― All that self-sacrifice, judgement, self-pity! I’d say it’s (snoball), Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
nounporn
― pplains, Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
give me good old fashioned sex porn any day.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 15 December 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
nouns are some of the most arousing parts of speech
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
interjections have the porn market cleaned up though let's face itoh! ah! uh! ooh! wait!
The first time I remember being aware of the "___ porn" construction was during the housing bubble, when it seemed like shows and magazine features and the like about oversized homes were suddenly everywhere, and I thought "Real Estate Porn" was actually a great descriptor because it captured the vulgarity of it all. Now it's definitely overused and has lost its bite.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Not to mention it takes away from actual real estate porn where participants are eager to show off their open house.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
i can't even with all these feels
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
"Man Cave"
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
"hot mess"
― nackt nacht (doo dah), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
"eyeballs"
In content meetings about our online readership, I hear questions like "How do we get more eyeballs looking at the page and how do we get those eyeballs to stay on the page?"
And I'm like, I don't know, don't advertise at pirate or purple people eater conventions?
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
"meatspace"
― Artichoke, Badger, Cornflower, Daisy (doo dah), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
"hot mess"― nackt nacht (doo dah), Monday, December 16, 2013 7:01 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nackt nacht (doo dah), Monday, December 16, 2013 7:01 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hate this so much. or hot minute.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Apropos
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link