Phrases that are finger nails on chalkboard to you - Page 4

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@whitedogs wrote:
People who don't know the difference between there, their, they're.

Advice and advise get me. And "texted" makes me wince too. I noticed yesterday some younger person used a word with an "ed" at the end when another version of the word was the only correct thing to say. I can't remember what the word was, darn! Soon we'll hear "I eated my lunch!"

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@whitedogs wrote:
People who don't know the difference between there, their, they're.

Fixed it:

cancun08 · ‎03-11-2010

Win, win.

~Breathe In~ Breathe Out~ Move On~

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@Sooner wrote:
@whitedogs wrote:
People who don't know the difference between there, their, they're.
Advice and advise get me. And "texted" makes me wince too. I noticed yesterday some younger person used a word with an "ed" at the end when another version of the word was the only correct thing to say. I can't remember what the word was, darn! Soon we'll hear "I eated my lunch!"

I believe texted is a 👍...or maybe I misunderstood:

@Sooner

D Kay · ‎04-20-2010

When people say I seen..... instead of I saw......

On the day.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Lots of things are ok or deemed to be since everyone uses them, but it wouldn't have been the preferred sentence construction when dinosaures roamed the earth and I was in school.

Also my fear, and my weak joke, is that the "ed" will creep onto words where it really doesn't belong.

gizmogal · ‎05-09-2014

I am absolutely fed up hearing “at the end of the day” as an expression that is supposed to mean “when all is said and done” or “ultimately” or “ finally”. I hear ”at the end of the day” in serious discussions at business meetings, explanations of products or policies by sales people, talk radio, opinion pieces by TV pundits. I rarely see it in writing, but I’m sick of hearing it.

Definitely chalkboard level annoyance to me.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

Anita Hug · ‎03-22-2015

"It's past history" Is there any other kind of history?

I also do not like the over use of the word "hack" these days. "food hacks" are just recipes to me! It seems that that word is a one-size-fits-all for everything from recipes to home repairs. I think it's silly to call squirting whipped cream on coffee a "java hack"