Hate.... Hate Hate Hate

[Boris Bajic]

I hate nothing and no-one, of course, but I disapprove of the following:

1. "Can I get a skinny latte (or whatever is being ordered)?

Well, you can get it if you want, but it might work better if I brought it to you....

2. "She's not like my daughter at all, more like my best friend".

Madam, were you 'best friends' with your own mother? No? Then why do you insist on pretending that your daughter must somehow behave as same to you? You are her mother for God's sake! You are not meant to be her best friend. That's the job of her best friend.

3. Harass pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable.

I believe this comes from the 70s sitcom in which Michael crawford plays an accident-prone man. Over the past two decades the stress has passed to the first syllable and everyone who pronounces it like that sounds slightly like Frank Spencer.

4. Outside of....

There is no need for the second preposition. It is superfluous and likely to cloud the intended meaning.

Right... Once we've sorted that lot out, there will be more. Am I alone in hating such things?

 

[Spinney]

Get X for free! It's free. You don't need the 'for'.

 

[Globalti]

I have a boss who likes to use ten words where one would do; my mission is to simplify my written English as much as possible so as to avoid misunderstandings with my export customers. When I was on jury duty recently I was impressed by the direct, simple way the judge spoke. He never needed to repeat hmself because everybody understood him clearly.

I once saw an email my boss had written to a customer and noticed that they had been forced to use a dictionary to translate some of his words, an unforgiveable discourtesy quite apart from the potential for misunderstanding.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I have a boss who likes to use ten words where one would do; my mission is to simplify my written English as much as possible so as to avoid misunderstandings with my export customers. When I was on jury duty recently I was impressed by the direct, simple way the judge spoke. He never needed to repeat hmself because everybody understood him clearly.

I once saw an email my boss had written to a customer and noticed that they had been forced to use a dictionary to translate some of his words, an unforgiveable discourtesy quite apart from the potential for misunderstanding.

I'd 'like' this, but I do it too....

The only time I really dislike it is when someone is using an interpreter (me). I used to interpret for a chap who'd start meetings with stuff like "Should it prove possible to bring a convoy to this location, albeit under the auspices of an umbrella organisation, probably WFP but perhaps also UNHCR although this he yet to be discussed, then we would be looking to your side, by which I really mean both civic protection elements and the army, insofar as you have any direct operational control over the latter in terms of guarantees and assurances, to undertake to put in place guarantees that any vehicle entering this town would be... I say, you haven't started interpreting yet..."

 

[Spinney]

I'd 'like' this, but I do it too....

Yeah, but on here you do it on purpose so you look like a complete tw*t for humorous effect...

 

[sazzaa]

People who use the words ourselves or yourselves.
Lateness.
People who spit.
Cafe staff who offer you milk to go with your black coffee.
People who call the spare room subsidy a bedroom tax.

 

[trampyjoe]

txt spk

 

[vernon]

People at the counter in garages when they ask me if I've got any fuel when I've arrived by bike and I'm wearing my cycling kit including a cycle helmet.

 

[vernon]

txt spk

Lol

 

[pplpilot]

txt spk

Grrrrrrr. Do not get me started. Nothing makes me want to frisbee my laptop/phone/ipad across the room when I get mail or text messages from an adult that contains text speak. Lazy and immature.

 

[rich p]

1.People who get annoyed and irritated by trivial things, by things that change for whatever reason, and things that aren't said or done in the way that they themselves do them.
These people usually think they are the arbiters of moral rectitude, tradition and righteousness, but they're mostly just twats.

 

[Dayvo]

1.People who get annoyed and irritated by trivial things, by things that change for whatever reason, and things that aren't said or done in the way that they themselves do them.
These people usually think they are the arbiters of moral rectitude, tradition and righteousness, but they're mostly just twats.

Erm, sounds a bit like me!

But just 'a bit!'

 

[rich p]

Erm, sounds a bit like me!

But just 'a bit!'

nobber

 

[bikingdad90]

Incorrect application of English grammar and punctuation marks; Particularly the incorrect use of apostrophes in signage for shop fronts and the worst offenders, restaurant owners' and their menus... 'Nough said about the matter!

Second irritation happens to be people who lack the ability to speak proper' and insist on the use of slang really get my 'beef' up. (Note, my whit and sarcasm).

 

[MarkF]

"Like", "It was, er, like" "Like, er" "Like....................."

Also the woman in the sandwich shop:-

Me:- "Cheese salad, please, in brown, everything on" (I say "everything on" to hasten the deal.)
Dopey woman:- "Would you like onions on that"
Me:- "Yes please, everything on"
Dopey Woman:- "Salad cream?"

Every bleedin day.