Speaking of coworkers who make you nuts

I don't think this just applies to coworkers, but to the general public. I cannot stand when people talk in this fashion: "It was like, ten o'clock, and like, he wasn't even on time, and then I was like..."

I think a few of my brain cells perish when I hear this.



Debbie


Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
--Paula Poundstone
 
My boss who's always shoving her MBA in people's faces has us order "vanilla" folders for the office. IT's manilla!!!!x(
 
Amy - I don't know about the musical ability thing, but I pick up accents really quickly. A matter of days. I go down south for a vacation and within the week, I have a drawl. I lived in England for a number of years and had a full-blown British accent. My Dad had to ask my Mom to translate most of the time:p

One of the guys I work with insists on calling the disorder ADT instead of ADD.

On a kind of related topic is my SO, who calls me babe because he can't remember my name.:p
 
Just to name few that drives me crazy:

umbarella - umbrella
camara - camera
conkulator or cackulator - calculator
Ra - the letter "r" where's the "a"

my dh says melk instead of milk x(

Haydee
 
I absolutely hate like when people run around saying like all the time. It's like annoying! LOL! I loathe the "like" thing too!
 
Ok .. I am from the South and I could go on and on .. on this subject .. LOL ..

the "axe" thing make me want to draw back a hand and slap someone

"where you stay" is another
"case quarter" .. ummmm ... means a quarter not a 2 dimes and a knickle

a funny one .. this older friend of my mother's (country lady) .. for oinion .. she pronounces is "urnyun" .. LOl .. she cracks me up!!

"git" for get
"over yonder" .. an expression that can range from around the corner to a couple of miles

and my MIL and good friend use the word "kindly" instead of "kind of" .. "It kindly looks like the color red" .. ?? WTH???


.. I could go on .. and on .. LOL
:7
 
>Someone else I know used the same excuse about Bush's
>pronouncing it "nu-cu-lar." He blames it on Texas. I have
>other theories.
I heard that he does this on purpose, to sound more like 'one of the common folks" (but I think it's just because he's an idiot).


My neighbor says "supposably."
One day, we both went to greet a new neighbor, who is Indian, and introduced herself as 'Puni" (pronounced like "poo-knee" ). My neighbor immediately called her "pony." Not to make fun of her, but because she didn't 'hear' what the real pronunciation is.
 
Hee hee...and as if to prove my point...I just got this email from a guy who is a pretty high-up techie for my company....

"Can you setup a meeting between me and you to agree on what your trying to accomplish. "

I'll give him a break, because different sides of the brain work for language and technical, I think....
 
>Or "He gave the tickets to Jim and I."

Or "me and my friends are going to go out"


I see a lot of apostrophe-s used as plurals (only correct as an option when pluralizing letters or numbers or words like CD's/DVD's that are composed of capital letters). Greg Twombly's DVD's often have "Combo's" listed on the menu. Drives me nuts! (You can also see this incorrect use of apostrophe-s in some of Cathe's workout descriptions, so maybe it's a Pennsylvania thing?)


I find the near-death of the subjunctive ("if I were"..king of the forest/a rich man/a carpenter) and the use "if I was" (a rich girl/invisible...) very hard to hear. Like fingernails scratching on a chalk board.
 
All from co-workers:

I need an intercontinental envelope (interdepartmental).

That traffic was bumpity-bump (bumper-to-bumper).

He got caught watching prom (porn) on his computer.

(I am not kidding - this really happened while she was on the phone with her child's English teacher)- Oh, I agree, it's very important to be able to pronounciate correctly.
 
Another misspelling that makes me cringe everytime I see it (and that's much too often!):
definAtely (which should be "definItely," related to 'finite,' and 'finish').
 
LOL!

>I need an intercontinental envelope (interdepartmental).
Maybe this person is sending mail to a foreign country.


>That traffic was bumpity-bump (bumper-to-bumper).

If there's street repair being done (or that needs to be done), then it could be 'bumpity-bump'!


>He got caught watching prom (porn) on his computer.

With kids these days, who knows how nasty proms can get?
 
I have a friend who says "expecially" and "supposubly" all the time. I even made a joke out of it one time and she just laughed. Don't they hear it correctly when others say it???

I do interviews all the time, and we sometimes tape record them. This means that I later have to go back and type these tapes, and I have to include every uh, um, and LIKE that anyone says and it about drives me crazy!!!!
Brandi
 
Okay, you guys have me nervous about posting now! Ha! I DO warsh my clothes though. Always have!


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I don't know if someone already mentioned this, but I have a friend who says "expecially" instead of especially. It drives me NUTS!

I also go nuts when people end their sentences in prepositions. The worst is "where is it at" or "where are you at". And I know that this is normal these days, but it bothers me when someone asks how you are and the person responds with "I am doing good" rather than "I am doing well."

Katie
 
Oh man, these are making me howl! Probably because I hear so much of them in my daily life. My cube-mate says Liberry all.the.time.

Who else gets annoyed when people call it expresso? It's eSpresso!!! ARGH!
 
Here's mine...I'm from Virginia!

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio."
 
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