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
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, 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
'A mail' instead of 'an email'.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Every time someone uses "blue pill/red pill" I don't know whether to punch through a wall or cry.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Depends on which pill you choose.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
And whether the "wall" I want to punch through is the wall of illusion.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
"Too soon?""tough on crime""That's right, I said it""first world problem"
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
idgi -- what's red pill/blue pill?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.hometalkies.com/lucia/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/matrix.jpg
Metaphor from Matrix, favored by libertarians, bitcoins, and MRAs, all of whom are basically the same people.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
huh. i don't encounter any people of those groups on a regular basis and i fell asleep during the matrix. what does it imply?
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
look, do you want to take the red pill and google this for yourself, or take the blue pill and remain blissfully in the dark?
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
-let's table this for now
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
lol for a sec I thought you meant our red pill/blue pill discussion
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i didn't want to google for it sorryi think i'll choose to take no pills and remain in the dark with this conversation tabled for now
which reminds me -- i have seen a swift uptick in the usage of the word "conversation" to mean "hashing out a particularly vexing issue" -- "join the conversation" or "start a conversation"
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
i don't hate it necessarily i just wanted to have the conversation
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
__________ No Longer a Hidden Jewel
I should have my hands cut off for the number of times I've written that headline. These places are nothing like jewels and why would they be hidden in the first place?
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link