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Post by questa on Mar 28, 2022 23:45:15 GMT
I picked up "exxy" from a Canadian woman with whom I travelled in Vietnam. Short for "expensive" but with a hint of 'you are getting ripped off here". I've used it for 20 + years and most people get it, even though they don't use it.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 29, 2022 0:24:55 GMT
I've never heard that from any Canadian, whether anglophone, francophone or allophone, but many places, urban or rural, have their particularisms.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2022 1:56:21 GMT
I think people who say "anywhoo" think it's a cute segue. It's not.
Never ever heard "bogue"!
A word I have seen way too much of lately in book reviews is "twisty", as in a twisty plot. Toddler-speak.
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Post by bjd on Mar 29, 2022 6:37:40 GMT
Never heard "exxy" either. Obviously the woman made it up and it was her own word.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 29, 2022 19:04:35 GMT
"Bogue" is definite Michigander dialect.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2022 18:56:50 GMT
The word I am forced to hate repeatedly of late is "explainer", as in news articles which say something like "We have included an explainer below about the refugee crisis."
What is wrong with the word "explanation"? Hasn't it served us well for centuries? And anyway, wouldn't an explainer be a person who explains, rather than the explanation itself?
I despair.
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Post by casimira on Apr 2, 2022 17:18:38 GMT
I have never heard "exxer" either. I never heard the word "bogue" and have no idea what it's supposed to mean
"Explainer"is stupid indeed and smacks of the same gibberish that most of the words in here that people hate.
My dilemma is how to go about telling someone I admire that repeatedly use a word I hate without offending them? Case in point is a good friend who repeatedly uses the aforementioned "anywhoo". Gratefully she uses it at the end of our conversations so I can let it go until the next time.
Another one that our architect uses constantly is "the bomb". I know what he is referring to but there are so many other words he could use as substitutes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 2, 2022 20:20:02 GMT
how to go about telling someone I admire that repeatedly use a word I hate without offending them? I think you already know the answer to that! I've heard "anywhooo" used that way before, sort of as a way to move off & say goodbye. My sister & her best friend got in the habit of saying "Well, I'm off like a dirty diaper!" as they exited. I feel great pride in the fact that I didn't kill either one of them. The same sister briefly went through a period of saying "I'm jiggy with that" to mean she was okay or in agreement with something. I'm missing enamel from my teeth because of how I ground them every time she'd come out with that sentence.
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Post by questa on Apr 3, 2022 0:00:28 GMT
Why the Teeth? Several of us have used the effect of questionable language on our dental regions. In my case it is just a figure of speech, my teeth don't really itch. However it is interesting that it seems pretty universal as a metaphor for a reaction to an unpleasant situation over which we have no control.
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Post by casimira on Apr 3, 2022 14:58:46 GMT
Bixa, to be honest I really don't know how to address my annoyance at my friends' overuse of "anywhoo".
Interesting question Questa about the adverse reaction to something that unnerves us is manifested by grinding/gnashing of one's teeth.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2022 15:06:30 GMT
In real life, I don't really worry about how the people around me talk. They have their own words and expressions, and I have mine.
I am more annoyed by certain words and expressions in the media, which are often exposed to millions of people. (Many of those words have already been mentioned on this thread.) Except on the most local of television or radio stations, I don't think that the media have subjected us to anyhoo.
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Post by casimira on Apr 3, 2022 15:20:39 GMT
We have an early morning local TV commentator that uses "anywhoo" along with many other annoying expressions and mannerisms and one of those perky like voices that unnerve me. I have witnessed her co-host cringe on more than one occasion when she overdoes it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2022 16:30:08 GMT
You live in the sticks.
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Post by casimira on Apr 10, 2022 19:44:50 GMT
I came across a new addition of a word that automatically had me grit my teeth. "Glamper" or "glamp" with reference to camping in luxury locales. Be it fancy vintage Airstreams with luxurious amenities to "tiny houses" set in luxurious surroundings near a waterfall etc. "My hubby and I just returned from a fab vacaay glamping in the Adirondacks" GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 10, 2022 19:53:56 GMT
Have been lucky enough to have never heard that term yet.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2022 22:26:02 GMT
Oh, glamping/to glamp/glamper has been around for a while. I can take it a 1000 times more easily than those other words you had in italics! I continue to be driven crazy by words used incorrectly by people repeating what they thought they heard. This could be avoided if these people would occasionally read something more challenging than the signs on restroom doors. One I keep seeing on social media is "deep-seeded", as in "He has deep-seeded psychological issues." Okay, that's bad enough but be damned if I didn't see it in an article -- an article written by a specimen of the generation who use infamous in place of famous, and things like deep-seeded because they're only semi-literate. Another word They are using to death is "disrespect", to the point that the word has become vague from overuse. The other day I saw it used in this sentence: "This wind is really disrespectful." Christ.
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Post by questa on Apr 10, 2022 23:33:00 GMT
I marvel at the speed with which these new buzz words travel. One word will air in Australia and within a week all the kids here are using it. Look at all the words we picked up with COVID ... enough to form a new dictionary, and don't let me start on tech jargon that has gone mainstream...I will go postal!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2022 8:01:55 GMT
I can’t stand the new phrase “life hack” rather than lifestyle tips.
I haven’t come across deep seeded but I’m sure it’s out there.
The standard of TV graphics is also abysmal with poor spelling and dreadful granma.
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Post by mossie on Apr 11, 2022 13:38:10 GMT
Ah Mick, the kids are not learnt to spell nowadays, the clever computer does it all for them, and as for grammar, they is for old fuddy duddies like us.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2022 21:10:09 GMT
Mossie is right that people dismiss sticklers for grammar as fuddy-duddies or too rigid. I don't care. Yes, I'm a curmudgeon about it because people are often judged for their grammar, so they should stop airily dismissing it as not important. When a person makes a big clunky malapropism or mangles verbs while trying to make a good impression, that impression is effectively undermined.
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Post by questa on Apr 11, 2022 23:38:55 GMT
I can’t stand the new phrase “life hack” rather than lifestyle tips. "Hack" in the sense of useful tips has been around for 20+ years It came out with the hiking, trekking, camping mob who refined their sport to the point of "how to climb Everest on a shoelace, a wire coathanger and a lemon". I am a sucker for these tips but don't like the word "hack". Many of them are really useful and clever and get added to my mental backpack. There was a series presented by a Russian guy that was entertaining and fun to try. Also a plethora of kitchen and household hints for saving time and effort.
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Post by questa on Apr 12, 2022 0:03:05 GMT
I just googled it and like the definition... a usually simple and clever tip or technique for accomplishing some familiar task more easily and efficiently "Life hacks," as they are known, are all about eliminating life's manifold frustrations in simple and deliciously clever ways. The best involve tricks that are free, efficient and stunningly obvious in retrospect, deploying household items (like the humble toilet roll) for purposes beyond their wildest aspirations. — Michael Koziol Merriam webster
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 13, 2022 6:53:07 GMT
I see gunmen are always called shooters these days. Is this a nod towards gunwomen? Perhaps they should be gunpeople.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2022 9:35:20 GMT
Gunpersons. Because later, after yet another yahoo with a gun has shot up a shopping mall or whatever, the police will be looking for a "person of interest".
Or maybe gun yahoos.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 13, 2022 17:32:00 GMT
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Post by questa on Apr 13, 2022 21:56:28 GMT
Thanks, Lagatta, I'm a gunner check that out right now.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 14, 2022 0:25:18 GMT
Ha!
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Post by whatagain on Apr 14, 2022 4:19:40 GMT
I used to a gunner. I was the NCO in charge of Bravo eight howitzer. I would be pointing the gun by moving the turret. I once had to do it by hand when the hydraulic system was failing. I can still hear the guy on the radio 'Bravo 8 are you ready ?'. I would roll the r of brrrravo eighte, because yes, i would also add a e at eight.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2022 23:19:32 GMT
You were young, brave, & I hope not foolish! This phrase has been overused to the point that I now instantly hate anyone who uses it: "love me some". Gad, it gets trotted out for everything from ones favorite actor to bacon. I think it is/was a southern regionalism, but everyone who is now saying it surely did not learn it on the front porch of pappy's cabin.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 20, 2022 3:35:17 GMT
I've never heard that.
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