Why the hell do people say this? It's soo annoying and stupid. "Hey I'm going to verbalize my punctuation when I talk." Who ever thought that was a good idea? My LPO* says that along with "that being said" (which is equally annoying) like 5 or 6 times a morning during quarters**. It's soo dang annoying.

Does anyone else think this is stupid?

*LPO = Leading Petty Officer (basically my boss)
**quarters = morning role call, meeting to discuss what needs to happen for the day.

never heard anyone do this.

Top annoyances of mine:

"At the end of the day"
"For sure"

o.O

I haven't heard it either...but yeah, that's weird.

Iapostraphe've never heard that exclamation mark!

It gives the impression that theyapostraphe're a moron though full stop.

"at the end of the day" DIE DIE DIE
"..going forward.." DIE DIE DIE

"at the end of the day" doesn't bother me much, cause it reminds me of an expression this british girl in Dubai taught me. "At the end of the day it get's dark... And then it gets light."

I'll sometimes say "question mark" but I don't do it often and it's only in very specific circumstances when it works to do so. I can see where it would be annoying though.

I've never heard of anyone using pronouncing punctuation of any kind.
However, comma, if I did I would probably think that guy who just said comma is a total prat, full stop.

Yeah... never once heard someone actually speak their punctuation marks in their sentence. As for a phrase that annoys me, "same difference", because it makes no sense.

Yes! That annoys the crap out of me. Also "I could care less." No, it's "I couldn't care less." It doesn't seem like a big deal, but you're saying the opposite of what you want to say.

("The exception that proves the rule" annoys me too. Exceptions rarely prove the rule.)

"In and of itself" annoys the hell out of me (and I used to use it, comma, occasionally). It's an overly worded and pretend smart way to say something very simple.

I've known one person to use However Comma. It was cute at first. I thought it was an interesting way to make emphasis. He, However Comma, and his entire schtick grew old quickly.

It always made sense to me. I just view "difference" as analogous to "result" as in 5-2 and 4-1. Same difference. Can't say I use the phrase myself much, if at all, though.

Come up to Seattle and 90% of people start 90% of their sentences with the word "so." That's annoying. I have to really focus to never do that. The way people talk rubs off on me somehow so when something is annoying I really really have to make a concerted effort not to suck as much as them. I'll give you a few examples...

Me: "Did you ever figure out what was wrong with the VPN?"
Them: "So, I think so. blah blah blah."

Me: "Would you like to go get some coffee?"
Them: "So, last time I went to starbucks my chai tasted funny, can we go to Zeitgeist instead?"

Me: "I noticed your latest checkin broke the build, will you take a look at it?"
Them: "So, yeah, sure, sorry about that."

WTF?

Sarn, that sounds like a Naval version of SNCO Syndrome, which yes, is very annoying.

Antony that webcomic is awesome.

Deal with it. People do it. Period.

"That being said" and "but" mean to ignore everything said before them because whatever the person really means will follow.

Thanks for posting that Antony. I have no military background and I never saw Terminal Lance before this morning, but I'm finding it incredibly interesting. I like how the author tells the story behind each comic.

Coker introduced me to that. It's probably my favorite webcomic, not just because it's Marine related, but because virtually all of them are based off of real stuff, most of which is so prevalent that I've experienced most of it in boot camp.

That's how I use it. Often I will say it half-jokingly (as in they're not the same at all but I illogically think they're similar enough), but I really don't have a problem with the phrase.

I'll say "dot dot dot" around other nerds, but otherwise, no, I don't usually vocalize punctuation.

strange, I thought what I posted about was more common than it seems to be..

It's not just a Navy thing. You just haven't yet had the misfortune of experiencing any of the Marine Corps (or other branches, obviously) outside of bootcamp yet, where people behave (marginally) differently. Recruiters don't count as they are chameleon snakes trying to ruin people's lives.

For some reason people think that pretending to be smart will make them more of a professional. In addition to the colloquial nonsense like saying 'cleared hot' and 'check rog' you also get ****heads pronouncing channelize starting with a k sound at the beginning and pronouncing the e on the end of cache. Then there's the fact that if they don't know the answer to a question they will make up some bull**** because they are terrified of not looking like a 'consummate professional', whatever that means. I guess it means that you have an answer for ****ing everything but can't actually do your job.

The worst is **** like what Sarn is talking about, where they try to be condescending, but just end up making you embarrassed to work for such a ****ing idiot.

****

It's "nicknames," not "knick-names" god damnit.

knick-names??

People typing out Latin or French phrases completely incorrectly. If you're going to bother to use it, try to understand what it means and how it's spelt.

For example: "Bonerfied", "per say", "on mass"

He thinks the pronunciation 'knick-names' is wrong. We don't get it because they sound exactly the same in our heads. He's probably British.

Oh, I never imagined there was a difference between the pronunciations

summa u guys need to just chill

How did logic even justify the existence of this thought process to you?

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw

I discovered yesterday that "meme" was pronounced like creme, and not "mee-mee".

oh god couchman

And how do you pronounce "melee" then?

Ha, Couchman just created a new internet meemee!

may lay

muss
arse
eee

Oh, that's hilarious. I somewhat intentionally mentally "pronounce" that word as meal when I read it. Something about the spelling of that word just makes me dislike it. Plus I dislike its use in the term "melee attack". I have no rational reason for any of this.

Oh gosh. We use "moving forward" daily at work with regards to new process or action items resulting from root-cause analysis. I may just be inured to the corporate jingo, but I feel that it has a valid place in my vocabulary versus eg "in the future" seems to have a different scope to me.

Other things have become so overused that they've often become a sort of inside joke. There are three words/phrases that are just so abused and thrown around:
"Soonest"
"Do the needful"
and "to action sth."

Which can be Frankensteined together (with all seriousness of intent and delivery by pointy-haired types) into something like "Please do the needful and action this soonest."

I will literally kill myself if I work in a place where people say "do the needful."

I have only announced my punctuation when it was a rule in a drinking game.