Gwylan
Veteran
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All very existential...
What English expression do you hate the most?
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All very existential...
Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
I have just heard, via a radio, a fully grown man use the expression really-really at least six times in one interview. If only I knew his address I would apply some corrective Quercus robur to his head.
mistyoptic
Vintage
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- A parallel reality
Was he super annoying?
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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- Scotland
Mega.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
A friend was working away for an extended period and one day at her hotel, being a bit fry-upped out, decided to have the vegetarian breakfast (which seemed to have quite an appealing set of things) for a change. On ordering, she mentioned she didn't like mushrooms (or whatever it was) so could they leave them out. They asked "would you like something else instead?". After a moment's thought she, quite innocently , requested a slice of bacon. They came back several time to check she really did want a vegetarian breccie with bacon.
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
More annoying than an annoying thing on the most annoying day of the year* in Annoyville, Illinois.
*22 June, St. Thomas More‘s day. (Patron saint of annoying people)
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swee'pea99
Squire
William Barnes coined several words to promote "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech", including speechcraft for grammar, birdlore for ornithology, and bendsome for flexible.
Birdlore & bendsome - love it!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I have to say that when it comes to the subject of this thread, that Anglish stuff - for me - is pretty high on the list.
Andy in Germany
Guru
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
To some extent, but I think English is one of the more extreme examples.
raleighnut
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Le 'Weekend' Le 'Camping' and Cul de sac thats's why I hate the french Rowan Atkinson
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
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- Z’ha’dum
The Welsh Language Society is a bit like that lot
I remember a considerable amount of outrage when the Welsh government wanted some of the teacher in our school to volunteer to go on a Welsh course in order to increase the use of "incidental Welsh" used in classrooms
They decided to not start with non-Welsh speaking teacher like me
but to start with teachers who were fluent in Welsh - like the Head of Welsh and the teachers who were first language Welsh
in order to make sure they were speaking "proper Welsh"
I learnt a lot of Welsh swear words that day
couldn;t pronounce any of them but I am pretty certain they were "proper Welsh" - but maybe not according to Aberystwyth!!!
Drago
Legendary Member
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That's the public services for you. It's easier to annoy, inconvenience, and generally oppress those that aren't causing any issue than it is to actually address a problem.
Like when they sent me, a nice Jewish boy, on an Islamic awareness course so I could waste my time visiting mosques...or not, as there were none on my manor. I've never been an observant jew, so I had to borrow a kippah to wear - I was ejected before the first tea break
The thought of sending my muslim colleague who actually had a mosque on his beat didn't seem to occur to them.ebikeerwidnes
Guru
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That's the public services for you. It's easier to annoy, inconvenience, and generally oppress those that aren't causing any issue than it is to actually address a problem.
Like when they sent me, a nice Jewish boy, on an Islamic awareness course so I could waste my time visiting mosques...or not, as there were none on my manor. I've never been an observant jew, so I had to borrow a kippah to wear - I was ejected before the first tea break
What the stated reason for ejecting you??
I would suspect "asking question they did not want you to ask" as a possibility
When I worked for a big company I got sent on an "equal Opportunities" course pretty much every year
not because I was order ed to do it to correct my attitude
but because I was one of the few people in the department that could be trusted to not make "wrong" comments
The department was pretty much immune to most "equality" type problems as we had 2 of the most disabled people in the whole Head office working with us
The Head of Department used to refer to them as his secret weapon - 2 clearly disabled people who were also damn good at their jobs
The total lack of any females other than the boss's secretary was a problem for a while until the "Network Girls" joined our department
(name was approved by them for the irony of them being the only women and having a boss who was the most "old fashioned" in spite of some sterling competition!)
It was a weird place to work - but what to you expect from the Technical support in an IT department - whose job is to tackle things the computer programmers find to technical!
