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Old 09-18-2009, 08:28 AM   #21
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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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Well you can only have one good "one", the rest are going to suck.
Rationing, dontcha know?
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ur. Is it really that hard to spell "your"?
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Old 09-18-2009, 08:51 AM   #24
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How about logically impossible uses of literally when the writer really meant figuratively, as in "I was literally buried in email."
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Old 09-18-2009, 09:14 AM   #26
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Gentle writer, please: rules to live by.
Oh Lordy. (I almost said mea culpa). I'm guilty of 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 27, and 31... and those are just the ones I recognize.

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I try to edit some of them to "Awesome!!!!"
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I couldn't agree more. Where I grew up on the South-Side of Chicago we'd say: "USE GUYS"

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What if you were talking about the other guys Is it 'YOUS GUYS'?


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I have two pet peeves:

1) Sitting in a restaurant with my family and always being addressed by the server as "you guys". It's not a gender thing with me, it just doesn't sound good to me.
I agree that it is absurd. How would we men feel if mixed groups were addressed as "you girls"?

Still, when in Rome...and where I live it is totally gauche to notice that people come in sexes. So, I hope you ladies and gentlemen will excuse me if I pass you sometime and say, "How you guys doing"?

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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
I interpret that to mean "Have stupendous sex at your first opportunity!"
And henceforth you will also have this uniquely pleasing thought several time daily.

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Sorry guys. I tend to think of "you guys" or "guys" as gender neutral but "the guys" as male.
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The "you guys thing" -- I must admit I find it mildly irritating when a 20-something server uses it to address a table of adults old enough to be their grandparents. It's not so much a gender thing as it is being inappropriately familiar.

Kind of like when a receptionist at the dentist yells out, "Richard, you're next. How are you today, sweetheart" and she's 28.

Now, where's that recent Curmudgeon poll...
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I interpret that to mean "Have stupendous sex at your first opportunity!"
And henceforth you will also have this uniquely pleasing thought several time daily.

ha

Great interpretation ! I usually answer you do also but now I'll make sure the person is under 90 before I say that .
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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?


Afterthought...is "Have a great one" ever preceded by "I" or "You" ?
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... "How you guys doing"?
I try to make it a more friendly, "I'm a doin' fine, guys, thanks, how 'ya doin'?" Uh oh, now I realize I'm gettin' that from Ben Bailey's exaggerated Noo Yorker on "Cash Cab."
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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
You could just say, "Thanks, but I already have a great one."
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Hey, all of you...I´m trying to learn good and proper American English so stop F*****G AROUND
Hokay. Let's try some basic pronouns.

Dis / dat / dese / dose

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This is a conversation between a young German Oceanographer and I early 1970s. His real first name, not using his last, though if he happens to read this, will recognize the exchange.

Dr Hans: Say, why is it when Americans meet me they say; Hi, How are you? Yet when I proceed to tell them they don't want to hear it, just move along.

Me: That is an Americanism. They really don't care how you are, it is a form of greeting. It took me a while to figure this out.

Dr Hans: well that is very rude, if they don't want to know, they should not ask.

Me: I don't think we will be able to change that, sorry.

Dr Hans: Are there more of these kind of things?

Me: Yes, but I'm still learning them.


I think I'm now up to speed on most forms of greetings. though some still get me thinking.

Like: Yo, whassup?
I tend to answer that with: You is.
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