“Reaching out” etc

[IanDavies]

“Thank you for reaching out and speaking truth to power at this point.”

I swear I never felt the need to bastardise the English language my parents’ generation used the way these pretentious tools nowadays do.

“Pretenglish” – the horrendous new language.

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[griff11]

“Has Chezza achieved the seemingly impossible and found a subject we unanimously agree on?”

Do you think we could circle back and drill down on this later Richard88, it’s an interesting point you make?

Ciao.

[Richard88]

Griff gets it. We should definitely touch base and compare notes. I don’t see anyone pushing back on this in the short to medium term.

[greenasgrass]

“Has Chezza achieved the seemingly impossible and found a subject we unanimously agree on?”

So, I’m super excited for this. I can’t even.

[IanDavies]

If Chezza hears or reads the expression “for the ages” one more time, Chezza’s going on the dark web to buy an Uzi.

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[Illavim]

Another phrase that incites me to violence is ‘like no other’ – do people nowadays not understand big words like ‘unique’ ?

[IanDavies]

I have a thing about use of the word unique.

“That’s fairly unique,” “that’s quite unique,” “that’s almost unique.”

The word “unique” is an absolute – there are no degrees of uniqueness, something is either unique or it is not.

Must get back to bidding on this Uzi!

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[Refuse To Bend]

I agree 110%

The more I know the less I understand.

[Marlingford]

Nicely put Refuse To Bend!

I agree 107.34% that misuse of percentages also needs to be on this list

[Marlingford]

This one is specific to racing, but I find reference to the wealthy, rather mature businessmen who oversee Coolmore as “The Lads” quite irritating.

I’m probably being unfair as using a collective term makes sense, and they are of course entitled to call themselves whatever they wish. But it grates with me nevertheless.

[Richard88]

‘The word “unique” is an absolute – there are no degrees of uniqueness, something is either unique or it is not.’

Very true, Ian.

[Cork All Star]

On RTV, both O’Brien and Moore described Paddington as “very unique”.

[IanDavies]

Don’t use words you don’t know the definition of, fellas.

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[BigG]

It’s getting so common now that people start a sentance with So, and then
continue when the “so” has no relevance to the sentance.

[Gladiateur]

Even worse, BigG, is when people answer a question with “So…”

Gets right on my tits.

[Refuse To Bend]

Basically……….

The more I know the less I understand.

[Richard88]

When was the last time anyone gave an ‘opinion’ on anything? You now have to tell us what your ‘take’ is.

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