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CapnDunsel		#641	[-]
Jan 20 12 6:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When "I tried to reach out to you today..." is said to you by strangers in a business context instead of between people in an intimate or social context. Very bizarre.
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CapnDunsel		#642	[-]
Jan 23 12 10:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	when people use the word "weapon" when they mean "tool."
bobzilla		#643	[-]
Feb 3 12 2:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For Tom, who started it all: http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/op-ed/noproblem_020312.html?page=all
Grant		#644	[-]
Feb 4 12 12:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here's another one that I have about expressions - "------ isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing." I know it's mainly just a catchy expression, but is there actually a strong difference between "the only thing" and "everything"?
luluthebeast		#645	[-]
Feb 7 12 5:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There was to Vince!
clore103051		#646	[-]
Mar 27 12 11:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Have we touched upon the imply/infer confusion? Just read a post in which someone described another person as having inferred something to him. He implied, you inferred.
Andrew Kidd		#647	[-]
May 3 12 12:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm sick and tired of not just the overuse but the over-misuse of the word "trope." Thanks largely to the website TV Tropes, whenever someone on the Internet wants to show off or one-up someone else with their knowledge of popular culture, they'll use it repeatedly without having a clue as to what it actually means, thinking it means cliche, motif or convention. No, those are forms of rhetorical or narrative topoi. A trope is the means by which a word, sentence or other form or representation is assigned meaning beyond the literal such as metaphor, synecdoche or irony.
scotpens		#648	[-]
May 3 12 4:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: Fake Breasts! Amen to that! No woman needs boob implants for purely cosmetic reasons. Even the good ones are bad. The stuff just doesn't react to gravity like the real thing. My motto is: "Better flat than fake!" Grant wrote: I've brought this up a lot (maybe on this very thread, I don't remember), but one of my favorites when it comes to words is when sexual comedies (and dramas, and non-fiction) use such dry, dry sexual expressions, starting with the phrase "have sex." Once in a while those can be entertaining (remember how Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd's "Wild and Crazy Guys" routine used them?), but with all the COLORFUL expressions in the world, why fall back on those so many times?! I tend to agree. We used to use mild euphemisms like "sleep with" or "go to bed with" someone. Nowadays, it seems everybody just "has sex." Boring. On the other hand, I'm rather thankful that we don't hear the phrase "sexual intercourse" much anymore. Sounds terribly cold and clinical. CapnDunsel wrote: When "I tried to reach out to you today..." is said to you by strangers in a business context instead of between people in an intimate or social context. Very bizarre. I've never heard anyone use that phrase in any context, whether business or social. Sounds like something from a Hallmark commercial. I still occasionally hear the expression "touch base," but it's just SO Eighties! Andrew Kidd wrote: I'm sick and tired of not just the overuse but the over-misuse of the word "trope." Thanks largely to the website TV Tropes, whenever someone on the Internet wants to show off or one-up someone else with their knowledge of popular culture, they'll use it repeatedly without having a clue as to what it actually means, thinking it means cliche, motif or convention. No, those are forms of rhetorical or narrative topoi. A trope is the means by which a word, sentence or other form or representation is assigned meaning beyond the literal such as metaphor, synecdoche or irony. "Trope" is one of those words whose meaning, for better or worse, has broadened in popular usage. I, for one, would like to declare a ten-year moratorium on the use of the word "meme." Last Edited By: scotpens May 3 12 4:32 PM. Edited 3 times.
ghoulkid		#649	[-]
May 3 12 4:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lately,my biggest pet peeves are the people on facebook who think pictures of cats are the height of hilarity. Especially the photoshopped kind. Some of them are amusing,but enough already. I'm seeing the same pictures over and over,sometimes with different captions.
Andrew Kidd		#650	[-]
May 3 12 6:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	scotpens wrote: "Trope" is one of those words whose meaning, for better or worse, has broadened in popular usage. I, for one, would like to declare a ten-year moratorium on the use of the word "meme." But if you find yourself writing a paper in literature, rhetoric or the rest of the humanities, you better be extremely careful and choose and use your terms properly, otherwise you'll lose readers (and if it's for a class, marks as well, natch). I've that those who tend to overuse the term the most when discussing movies or related topics (e.g. science fiction) on the Internet usually turn out to be the least informed or culturally literate and somehow think that continually dropping the word will impress people and make them look smarter. I also agree with you about memes. It was an intriguing concept when Richard Dawkins promulgated it but the term has been trivialized by the Internet. Last Edited By: Andrew Kidd May 3 12 8:57 PM. Edited 1 times.
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Koukol 5		#651	[-]
May 4 12 6:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Movies based on Comic book heroes.
opticalguy	Movie Related Technical Gaffs	#652	[-]
May 30 12 3:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ok … I know I'm the only one bothered by this but in many movies a major plot point will be stuff that is movie-related and totally impossible. For example in The Orphanage (Spanish, 2007), an otherwise first-rate ghost story, the protagonist digs up some 1970s home movie footage that is both shot in CinemaScope and uses that magic, low-light (the only illumination source is a low wattage bulb) super-8 film stock that we all looked for and never found. I haven't seen Super 8 (2011) but in the trailer the kids are shooting at night … they could afford arc lights but not 16mm? In Shadow of the Vampire (2000), which is a very fictionalized version of the filming of Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) that has them shooting the old (1920) film-stock with candlelight when that crap has an ASA of about 6 … arc-lights or daylight required! The video equivalent is in every police procedural of recent vintage (from NCIS to Law and Order) in which they take a 480 by 720 pixel (if you're lucky) security camera and up-rezz it to Imax quality. Try that in Photoshop and see what you get! And don't get me started on the 1980s thrillers F/X (1986) and F/X2 (1991) … gaaahhh! After seeing the first one I remarked that, "Now I know why my dad who was a lawyer could never sit through an episode of the old Perry Mason TV show!" opticalguy1954@yahoo.com (Spencer Gill) Last Edited By: opticalguy May 30 12 3:59 AM. Edited 1 times.
Elisabeth		#653	[-]
May 30 12 2:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Over use and MIS USE of the word "Amazing". No one says, "How wonderful you look", or tells a bride that she is beautiful, any more. They just say "You look AMAAAZING!!!" I've been to a lot of weddings, and the only "Amazing" bride I've ever seen is Elsa Lanchester! (s) "E" Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
bobzilla		#654	[-]
May 30 12 6:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think "awesome" falls in that category, too, E. People use that for everything today. It even has become the new "terrific" being used as sarcasm when things aren't actually awesome!
flashback		#655	[-]
May 30 12 7:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	pet peeves.
jamesenstein31		#656	[-]
May 30 12 7:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I use awesome to mean "cool." Then again, I use cool, rad, neat, wow, and others.
Grant		#657	[-]
May 31 12 8:51 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here's an expression that's bugged me about once a week, the last time being 15 minutes ago on another site - the expression "porn star moustache." And no, I don't have a moustache - including the kind that goes with that phrase - and have never had one or really had the desire for one. And no, I don't feel sorry for anyone labeled that way because of the "porn" part. It's just that it's become such an incredible PIGEON HOLE. I mean - there are only so many kinds of moustache even POSSIBLE, so why label an entire kind that way, even as a joke? (And I'm sure it ISN'T always a joke.) I'm guessing it grew out of that huge ' 70s craze, since people connect moustaches (which have been around since B.C.!) with that one period, at least when it comes to this country. After all, the ' 70s craze has never exactly been a gushy nostalgia craze, since a huge, huge part of it has been jokes instead of sentimentality. In fact, the one phrase is even added to the other a lot of the time, so "guess" isn't really the word. Either way, that expression needs to be given a rest. Last Edited By: Grant May 31 12 9:17 AM. Edited 1 times.
Elisabeth		#658	[-]
May 31 12 5:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	STRAPLESS WEDDING DRESSES!!! There doesn't even seem to be an option anymore. Even gals in woman's sizes are squashed into strapless "mermaid dresses". WTF ever happened to SLEEVES? "E" Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
diabolik72		#659	[-]
May 31 12 7:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Can confirm that "reaching out" is used a lot in the corporate world, or at least it was a few years ago. Another annoying one [and sorry if I've mentioned it before] is "at the end of the day" which seems to be used as a way to say "in summary," or "in conclusion." I heard one guy use it twice in one sentence. It would not be that annoying on its own but while at that job almost everyone said it, and they used it over and over. It was as if they knew of no other way to express an underlying point or principle.
The Batman of Gotham		#660	[-]
May 31 12 7:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"porn star moustache." I've NEVER heard this expression. - GJS
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