ls99
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uncle!
Gentle writer, please: rules to live by.
World's most overused word: amazing. Everything is amazing.
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I couldn't agree more. Where I grew up on the South-Side of Chicago we'd say: "USE GUYS"
Mike
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.
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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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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."... "How you guys doing"?
You could just say, "Thanks, but I already have a great one."The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
Hey, all of you...I´m trying to learn good and proper American English so stop F*****G AROUND
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.
My friend put it best: "I did not come here to make friends. This
is a master-servant relationship".
My pet peeve?
Grammar & spelling [-]Nazis[/-] police.
Ooh, ooh, I thought of another one that bugs me. Saying I could care less when they should say I couldn't care less. They are saying the opposite of what they mean.
Mike D.
Once worked with a guy who periodically told me "You ain't sheet." or something that sounded very similar...
II believe the same person ..... also said, "I'll keep a eye out for...." What peeved me was that one of my co-workers harped on that, "she keeps saying, 'I'll keep a eye out....,'" his rolling eyes were like nails on the blackboard to me. Whatever, (hate the word whatever).