Words and phrases that are soooo...meh! Like meh (2 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

Imagine a Wire tribute band that only played gigs via a wireless connection and never appeared in the venue and they were called Telemetry.

what guitars would they play with?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

what guitars would they play with?

Planks

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"Attention: All Mangers"

 

[shidheat]

i know i'm repeating myself here... but the word "sophomore" when applied to albums. just say 2nd

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

i know i'm repeating myself here... but the word "sophomore" when applied to albums. just say 2nd

It’s nearly always a “sophomore effort” too. Fucking awful phrase.

 

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[Scientician 0.8]

Upended.

It's still a useful term but has been overused into a lazy, carelessly used cliché in the Meedya.

 

[Jerry Twig]

There’s no better way to “trigger” someone than to tell them they look like you’ve just “triggered” them.

 

[magicbastarder]

Must be because they're a snowflake. Though thankfully that does seem to be already falling out of use?

 

[Jerry Twig]

There’s no better way to “trigger” someone than to tell them they look like you’ve just “triggered” them.

I am speaking as the “triggered”, to be clear! I have no problem with the word, but flinch when told it applies to me. I’ll decide that, thanks very much (and go fuck yourself).

 

[Unicron]

I think it's s business speak thing, but it has really infected sports too.

People who take learnings really need to learn some lessons.

 

[nuke terrorist]

describing your work fellow workers as a 'team'.
also-
creche.
advocacy.

they're all a bit double speak. there are better words available

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

What do you call a crèche? A car hole?

 

[nuke terrorist]

The word kresh sounds horrible.

how long has the word crèche being used to mean nursery in English?
Why is it spelled crèche and pronounced kresh and not krechy or cre-che?
The two C's in crèche have different pronunciations and there is nothing to indicate this.
Why is there a line over the first E
but no cedilla under the second C
to soften the sound?
In English at least, it's a silly word.

 

[therealjohnny]

The use of imported foreign words is so passé

 

[pete]

These are all imported words, a chara.

 

[magicbastarder]

In English at least, it's a silly word.

ah here, english probably has the least predictable spelling vs pronunciation of any language.
you're complaining about a word from a language which probably has much more consistently predictable pronunciation.

 

[pete]

It’s just pre-school with notions.

 

[magicbastarder]

Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse - 99% Invisible

In 1920, a Dutch writer named Gerard Nolst Trenité published a poem in English titled The Chaos, designed to draw attention to English spelling and pronunciation — and all the confusion its absurdities have let loose upon the world. It begins “Dearest creature in creation; Studying English...

99percentinvisible.org

that explains some of the weirdness.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

The word kresh sounds horrible.

how long has the word crèche being used to mean nursery in English?
Why is it spelled crèche and pronounced kresh and not krechy or cre-che?
The two C's in crèche have different pronunciations and there is nothing to indicate this.
Why is there a line over the first E
but no cedilla under the second C
to soften the sound?
In English at least, it's a silly word.

200 years? It’s also widely used in zoology to describe similar arrangements in animals like lions where the offspring of multiple parents are cared for together while parents take turns to go hunting.

I can’t help you with your issue with the phonemes though. It’s literally what the legal profession is based on (Latin languages call a solicitor an avocado ) and the word advocate is fairly common. Is your problem with the idea of advocacy, or the word itself?

None of these are digs by the way, I’m genuinely curious as to why these words which seem so everyday to me.