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"However, comma"
2011-04-03, 12:27 PM #41
Originally posted by saberopus:
I will literally kill myself if I work in a place where people say "do the needful."


I have a lot of Indian coworkers, and I guess that phrase was very common from colonial British usage, and it's stuck since then.
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2011-04-03, 12:46 PM #42
It also bothers me when people pluralize "one"

"Hey, what about those ones"


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2011-04-03, 12:52 PM #43
sorry man, that's a perfectly correct thing to do. are you bothered by the word 'individuals'?
2011-04-03, 2:37 PM #44
Originally posted by Dormouse:
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."
:psyduck:
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2011-04-03, 3:22 PM #45
At first I thought this thread was about the usually unnecessary "However," but I cannot believe someone actually says the word comma because they think it's cute.
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2011-04-03, 6:14 PM #46
I hate it when people say literally as if it were an emphasis word, like "he's literally been hanging around the house all day" (not how saberopus used it though, it just reminded me)
I know a whole family of people that say "axe" instead of "ask"
"Irregardless" *stab*
"bestest" *stab stab*
And the one that bugs me the most, because my niece and nephew use it:
Turning vs into a verb "verse"
"I'm going Ryu and I'll verse anyone" *STAB STAB ST-* Oh gods I just killed my nephew!
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2011-04-03, 7:59 PM #47
lol deadman your post made me literally think that I actually do that... !!!
2011-04-03, 8:45 PM #48
"Equally as." Kill yourself.
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2011-04-04, 5:55 AM #49
While we're at this general word moan session, "Party" is not a ****ing verb.
nope.
2011-04-04, 7:52 AM #50
I know what you mean Boco but... it really is, now :/
2011-04-04, 1:01 PM #51
Other than people saying "Period." to emphasize a statement, I've never really heard of anyone speaking their punctuation.

Ex:
"SF Gold had plans to make the best MMO ever. Period."
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2011-04-04, 3:18 PM #52
Originally posted by Deadman:
I hate it when people say literally as if it were an emphasis word, like "he's literally been hanging around the house all day"

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=literally
2011-04-04, 3:30 PM #53
Originally posted by 'Thrawn[numbarz:
;1128084']http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=literally

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally

Several notes there seem to suggest that, while an accepted definition, rarely adds anything. I still think the use of "literally" in that way should be avoided.
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2011-04-04, 4:03 PM #54
Originally posted by Baconfish:
While we're at this general word moan session, "Party" is not a ****ing verb.


Any word can be verbed. It weirds language sometimes, but even Shakespeare did it.
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2011-04-04, 4:16 PM #55
Originally posted by Gebohq:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally

Several notes there seem to suggest that, while an accepted definition, rarely adds anything. I still think the use of "literally" in that way should be avoided.


http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
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