I hear this more and more, it seems:
“I’m just touching bases with you to see blah blah blah…”
Your turn. I’ll widen the berth to include words that aren’t words, but people use anyway.
Go.
I hear this more and more, it seems:
“I’m just touching bases with you to see blah blah blah…”
Your turn. I’ll widen the berth to include words that aren’t words, but people use anyway.
Go.
Posted by Maigh.
27 March 2008 at 6:24 pm
16 comments
Rant
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27 Mar 08
7:36 pm
A couple come to mind.
#1 favorite: “For all intensive purposes…”
A close second: “We’ll need those financial statements for the last physical year.”
27 Mar 08
8:32 pm
You’ve been tagged! http://how-rude.blogspot.com/2008/03/middle-name-meme.html, but you don’t have to do it if you don’t wanna.
27 Mar 08
9:30 pm
Irregardless
Too many others for me to catalog.
Maddening, innit?
27 Mar 08
10:55 pm
It’s a doggy dog world
28 Mar 08
10:48 am
Oh - I love irregardless. That’s my favorite one.
28 Mar 08
4:22 pm
BASICALLY
The new “um.”
As my daddy used to say, “that just jacks my jaw” everytime I hear it.
Is it “For all intents and purposes?” Although I’m quite sure most people say “all intensive purposes.”
29 Mar 08
12:47 am
the phrase “you’ve got your work cut out for you” has always bothered me. i mean it’s supposed to be a negative thing, like you’ve got a lot of work to do and it’s gonna be hard. to me, though, if someone has already got the work cut out for me, then it should be easier, right? i’m not very good with scissors.
29 Mar 08
5:26 pm
“supposively”…… that always gets me. And maybe it is a Southern thing…”innit” that is. I admit that it is part of my vocabulary at times.
29 Mar 08
8:41 pm
a whole nother thing.
it drives me crazy, but i use it too. that and air quotes.
i am ashamed.
31 Mar 08
11:55 am
@megs I always hear folks say “supposably” which is *really* nonsensical.
Here’s a great source for more ire-induction: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
31 Mar 08
10:51 pm
This work needs to be “flushed out”. Do they not realize what they’re saying??
01 Apr 08
3:53 pm
oh! i just got two more work related ones that drive me crazy!!!
“masonary” and “ashphalt”
01 Apr 08
4:53 pm
Dang it! Irregardless was on the tip of my fingers when I was drafting this but I just couldn’t latch on. And oooooooh if I hear one more person start multiple consecutive sentences with “basically” in a meeting…well nothing will happen. I’ll be sitting there imagining them Barbie sized, flicking their foreheads.
01 Apr 08
5:44 pm
“Just look at it as a challange.”, when more work is given to you by your supervisors.
02 Apr 08
1:34 am
don’t take for granite that its first come first serve
02 Apr 08
1:35 am
that literally drives me up the wall