Most overused saying (from personal experience)..

[scrounger]

Which phrase of saying from your personal experience is the most frequently overused/annoying.

Hear most - have you got a lighter
Guilty of using most - Like

 

[Yellow Army]

i'm guilty of saying eeerrmmmm alot, and it drives grim up the wall!

 

[* ORM *]

I used to drive people bananas with two sayings:

No-one likes to see that (could be used in millions of contexts)
You know it makes sense

Now I just drive everyone crazy.


Current pet hates:

Like (gfookingrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !)
Basically
Absolutely (rarely used in absolutely the correct context)

One that seems to have died out of the political arena but used to drive me insane:

In real terms.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Do you know what I mean? As invariably i don't have the slightest idea.

Another pet hate is at this moment in time if you mean ****ing now then say ****ing.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Mar. 21 2006,08:37)]Do you know what I mean? As invariably i don't have the slightest idea.

Another pet hate is at this moment in time if you mean ****ing now then say ****ing.

That's a real Americanism... it's as if the word "now" is somehow too rude, or too abrupt.  So, instead, they use "at this time..." - which is monstrously irritating.

My personal hobby horse is the use of of the reflexive instead of the personal pronoun - again, in the misguided belief that that is somehow more polite.

"Myself and my colleagues..."

"If your partner and yourself would like to follow myself..."

AAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!  I, you, he, she and they for the subject; me, you, him, her and them for the object.  IT'S NOT DIFFICULT!!!

Anyhow, I voted for "dyanaataahmiin" - not least because my little sis uses it all the time, much to my chagrin...

Matt

 

[hexagon_sun]

"Do you know what I mean" and it's variant, "If you know what I'm saying". They drive me up the wall - give it a rest people.

I've also heard a couple of people recently using the word "random" in place of strange/odd/perculiar (an Americanism possibly?) - don't like that at all, hope it doesn't come into wide use.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Oh, and that has also reminded me of another personal bugbear: the campaign by the BBC to kill off the word "fewer", in favour of the word "less"...

GET IT RIGHT!!!!

...and breathe...

 

[shrimperman]

I use to use the phrase "random" quite often. Gladly this one rubbed off with age. Phrases that I find myself using far far too much is "essentially" or "convienantly". This really drives my mates crazy.

As for phrases that annoy me, its got to be "liiiiiike" with a carrot crunching accent. Arrrggghhh. The other phrase that winds me up is obviously "u kno what i mean" with a really ragged, east london, chavvish accent.

 

[Smiffy]

One phrase that a lot of chavvy girls use too much is the Chantelle saying...

" Oh my god "

Now, that is f%&king annoying, especially when the girl puts real meaning into it and uses those stupid f%&king hand actions to go with it.

 

[Uncle Leo]

People who use "isn't it" or "innit" at the end of sentences. E.g. the bloke who sits next to me...

"England are doing well in the cricket isn't it".

What the f%&k does that mean?

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Mar. 21 2006,10:15)]People who use "isn't it" or "innit" at the end of sentences. E.g the bloke who sets next to me...

"England are doing well in the cricket isn't it".

What the f%&k does that mean?

That's really annoying - anyone uses that when talking to me and I just reply with "Is it?".

 

[Guest]

isn't it / innit really annoys me, but not as much as 'Do you know what i mean'

 

[hexagon_sun]

That reminds me, "whatever" is another pet hate, particularly if said with a feigned yank accent.

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Mar. 21 2006,10:51)]That reminds me, "whatever" is another pet hate, particularly if said with a feigned yank accent.

I do say 'Whatever' quite a bit, but never in a fake American accent... that's really annoying.

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Whatever @ Mar. 21 2006,10:54)]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Mar. 21 2006,10:51)]That reminds me, "whatever" is another pet hate, particularly if said with a feigned yank accent.

I do say 'Whatever' quite a bit

fair play - at least you admit it.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Another one which we seem to have adopted care of Aussie soaps is to raise the voice slightly at the end of a sentence giving the idea that a statement has suddenly become a question.

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Mar. 21 2006,11:15)]Another one which we seem to have adopted care of Aussie soaps is to raise the voice slightly at the end of a sentence giving the idea that a statement has suddenly become a question.

That has definitely happened. There's even a few linguistics papers on this event

Innit/isn't it comes from the Indian community, I believe, and is similar to the French n'est-ce pas, it's a semantically empty tag

Fantastic is one word I use too much.

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Mar. 21 2006,11:23)]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Mar. 21 2006,11:15)]Another one which we seem to have adopted care of Aussie soaps is to raise the voice slightly at the end of a sentence giving the idea that a statement has suddenly become a question.

That has definitely happened. There's even a few linguistics papers on this event

Innit/isn't it comes from the Indian community, I believe, and is similar to the French n'est-ce pas, it's a semantically empty tag

Fantastic is one word I use too much.

Australian inflection.

About 50% of the population under the age of 23 speak with it - all because of bloody Neighbours.

The one that annoys me, and may lead me to killing somebody is the use of "so" in "that is so not right" or "I am so not wanting to do that"

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

I was on the bus and overheard two chavvie girls in a converstaion where they actually didn't say anything.
One trappy girl would say, "So i was like..." and then she'd pull a face,
"And she went"...pull another face...
"So I went..." etc etc


I think it is evolution, we will no longer talk but express ourselves by a series of facial snarls and big ups.

I hate South London workmates, usually white, pretending they are hoodies from jamaica and constantly saying, "Nah't'Mean Bro."

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ Mar. 21 2006,11:44)]The one that annoys me, and may lead me to killing somebody is the use of "so" in "that is so not right" or "I am so not wanting to do that"

 

 

which comes from Friends.,,,

cross-cultural media influences how we speak. simple.