Annoying Words & Phrases

Channel98 said:
"Drive truck." Yes, I love hearing truck drivers talk like Cookie Monster. Here is a 2023 Reddit discussion of the phrase. Or perhaps I should say here is 2023 Reddit discussion of phrase.

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He drives a truck.
He drives the truck.

Yeah. That's not far from what I was going for.
 
scotchandcigar said:
In general, 98's got it right when it comes to brevity for headlines.
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Agreed it's common and acceptable, but I still don't like it. Make it a little shorter, sure. But sometimes headlines are too short and after reading it five times I still don't know what they're talking about. Especially VARIETY!

Animaniacs:

Yakko: In Hollywood they have a different language that they speak
It's spoken by those folks who went to school for just one week
Dot : It's found inside Variety, a magazine they use
Y+D : And no one understands it when they read the movie news

Dot : Like "Hix makes pix but the flick needs fix"
Yakko: Means someone made a movie that bombed
Dot : "The veeps in charge are now at large"
Yakko: Means everyone involved is gone

 
The other thing that can piss right off:

All the crap that comes before/after the URL when I copy it. "amp...website..." or "fbcid=...."

It has to do with website tracking or some such. I always make a point to try to cut that stuff out of the URL when I paste it.
 
What app creators do when you look to see what a new version brings:
**A whole damn essay about what their app does, how great it is, bla bla bla while saying absolutely nothing.**

What they all should be doing:
"Bug fixes and stability improvements."
 
Every time I see one of these on the highway

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I always mumble to myself "Bullshit. If safety was your goal, you'd just stay home and be safe. Your goal is to move stuff from one place to another, and get paid for it". It's just an abuse of language.
 
If they really mean what they say about safety, there should be a matching sticker on the dashboard that says "Don't drive like a dick! There is a phone number on the back for people to rat you out."
 
When a news story says someone "had" something done, the implication is that the person arranged for it to happen. For example, here is an NBC News headline today:

A cancer survivor has prosthetic leg stolen from his car in Oregon

Really? He had it stolen? He asked someone to steal the prosthetic leg? Why would he do that? The headline should say "A cancer survivor's prosthetic leg was stolen from his car in Oregon." NBC News president Rebecca Blumenstein, do you understand that?
 
Channel98 said:
When a news story says someone "had" something done, the implication is that the person arranged for it to happen. For example, here is an NBC News headline today:

A cancer survivor has prosthetic leg stolen from his car in Oregon

Really? He had it stolen? He asked someone to steal the prosthetic leg? Why would he do that? The headline should say "A cancer survivor's prosthetic leg was stolen from his car in Oregon." NBC News president Rebecca Blumenstein, do you understand that?
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I think you are leaving out a whole bunch of implied wording on your interpretation. I did not draw your conclusions from your headline. But I do agree that news organization should not leave interpretation to implied words and should be clear in their wording.
 
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Gen Z has come up with several dumb neologisms – and, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I maintain that "Gen Z" is also a dumb neologism.

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"Has anyone Noticed really Bad Grammar in Public comment sections??? Is it all Boomers Typing on iPads?? You'd better add 15 of the same emoji Too...

Or did it start with Donald Trump and his angry tweets, capitalizing things that Should Not Ever Be CAPITALIZED???
 
Alot of people make alot of spelling errors on alot of message boards and alot of social media sites. Krptonite, I would be willing to bet alot of money you know what the most common spalling error is.
 
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