The Words are Out

Inserting "to be honest with you" in a conversation implies that, at some point, you weren't. Ya know what I mean jelly bean?

"To make a long story short . . . "

No you didn't. You just added six words.

"Let me be frank."

So, what were you being before?

Today's topic is awesome.

Just awesome.

Think of the awesomeness of that word.

I am totally thrilled with this topic.

I'm just sayin'.

Goin' forward.

My bad!

If they take away all of the annoying words and phrases, I may be struck dumb.

Everything happens for a reason.

No problem.

He/she gives 110 percent.

In the light of day . . .

Words that annoy,
My boy,
Must be uprooted,
Then swiftly booted.

“Whatever” is a verbal shrug,
Which only serves to bug,
Those who hear the word,
Because it is so confoundedly absurd.

I'm outta here.

To bed, to bed.

Nuff said.

Perchance to snooze.

And no longer annoy.

Until I wake.

..."Thanks for taking my call"...

..."but WAIT!, there's more".....

and from my childhood   ..."Be the first on your block..."   (of course, this allways came with the interminaboble wait for the Postman, with a special brown paper package  .  FROM BATTLE CREEK,MICHIGAN....

Ya knooooow, if the next time we are all together in the club car, we pool all our unused Ovaltine® undercap seal coupons, we could get Floyd that secret decoder ring (and congrats,Rings90)he was always drooling after....

Idiomatic expressionistic colloquialism wrought with slang and jargon accompanied by body language and the collective voices of Rich Little in his prime just tickles me pink with memetic implications.

If I were you ...

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Our TV reporter is 'LIVE' from . . . "

At this point in time . . .

Does anybody remember, " Bitchin' " .......
 
Was very glad when that faded away .......

Its aMAZing how many words and phrases come to my like, mind.

I don’t recall when I first heard the phrase It’s
a win-win. The expression is not only a requirement in a sales or
marketing presentation, it has flowed over into politics and sports.

We are proposing a nominal
tax increase and a nominal spending increase.  It’s a win-win for both parties and for the voters. That would be a win-win-win. As if.

Mike D’Antoni : We’re
going to keep Jeremy on the court, it’s a Lin-Lin for the Knicks.

"You know", (we finally got lotlot to hush) is the most overused word, you know..ha ha

P.S.  My son used a word they other day, which I have not heard in a long time ........he apologized for bickering with me....has nothing to do with today's messages but just thought I throw it in the mix.

It's like mental how pretty the Marist campus photos are. I'm like… wow!
Sweet.

Ok...I have a list: Arguably...(must I?)
Interestingly enough... (May I be the judge of that?)Think outside the box (Were you in one?)I'm sorry for your loss (Do you not know a name?)He,she,they goes "... " (Whatever happened to 'said'?)The perfect storm and the bottom line (overused)  :)

to make a long story an epic, blah blah blah, I mean, like blah blah.  Okay, I'll give you a shout.

" At this point in time," was (to me at least) an unknown affectation until the Watergate hearings after which, it was not surprising that Washington politicians would employ seventeen letters where three had always worked.

Pushing the envelope. What envelope and where?

It may be peculiar to Wisconsin where carbonated beverages are pop and drinking fountains, bubblers, but it is not unusual to hear frequent variations on this: "Our family is close… we go by my parent's house every Sunday."

When I was a boy/girl/child growing up. 

Thank you. "No problem." DUH aren't you paid for customer service?

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
 
It's epic!
 

To be honest: To interject a "personal" opinion that is based on the speaker's perspective of the subject - based upon their experiences, including emotional, educational and socio-economical background.

Even though it's like, totally overused, I still like the word awesome.  It puts me in a groovy mood.

I'm refraining from jumping into the mix, otherwise my entire day's "do list" will surely be scuttled.... & I have not the capacity to enter the weekend dealing with the guilt.

"It was incredible!"

"You know, like, you know, like, you know, like...." Any professional sports figure on camera cannot speak without those expressions.

"Dude, man, he bad, baby momma, baby daddy, awesome!" Those words are grossly overused, and are doing major damage to the language.

As noted by ChefDeb, "No problem" has replaced "You're welcome."

"You call me 'bitch' like that's a bad thing!" Assertive woman's reply to criticism.

Kudos to Tommy for the most polysyllabic commentary!! "Awesome!!"

Moose, "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto."

No Problemo.
 
Bart Simpson is right up there with Chico Marx in my book.

You know man like I'm  about to have this embolism but whatever my thing is it works for me, you know what I mean...I mean are you feeling me?

Can I be honest with you?

Run that by me again.

"Let's run that up the flagpole and see who…?"
Hurls?

"Let's cut to the chase..." Ugh!

What The Village thinks....  We are bothered by the same things, it appears (is "it appears' necessary?  I edited 'all' from before 'bothered,' above).  We're in this together. (Edited "Joy! to know..." from last sentence).
 
STONEY, for years I said, unthinking, "at this point in time," 'til not Watergate but a friend stopped me, saying, "Eve, stop after 'point'."  So simple (do I need 'so'?).  A writer also, he knew I'd appreciate it.  Less IS more.  Help me, anytime, Neighborhood.
 
We write conversationally here, prone to conversational annoyances; when I read the well-thought, nicely-shaped paragraphs of some, (edited out 'of you') I blush, and resolve to attempt cut-and-paste, on which PeterLake long ago instructed me, but I mean, like, man, timidity held me back, y'know?  I mean, y'know what I'm sayin'?

Baby with the bath water.
Let's face it, if your parents or caretakers are that careless, you might just as well get it over early.

"I could care less" when he means "I couldn't care less."  Elementary-school grammar: two negatives create a positive.

My last post yesterday will help you all know it's possible to teach a new dog a new trick.

I guess that's another one:

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks'

I could care less, but I choose not to...

One that annoys me is the liberal use of the word "star" for any celebrity who happens along.  Examples:  "Dancing with the 'Stars'," and the advertising for Kathryn McPhee on the new "hit" "Smash."  Kathryn is not a star, she was a loser on "American Idol."  Also, NBC was callin the show a "hit" before they broadcast the first episode.  I found the over-hype a turn-off.

Howya doin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igh6A0qFS14

On the other hand -- Mooseloop, Dude!  I love the word 'dude,' and I think it's incredible that it's lasted as a 'cool' word as long as it has.  I also like 'awesome,' and I think it's fun being a 'bitch' once in a while.

BTW, congratulations Rings on the job. I've never lived in Madison, but visit there frequently.  It's a lovely city. Love the farmer's market on the square--best of the best!

Y'all are all Dead On today ....... Intellect always shows up, if given the chance ... and in this Village, it is intelligently understood that one's lack of familiarity with something, does not necessarily invalidate that thing/person/concept .......
 
Great Uncle Edgar usta say, " Boy, just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it isn't True ... and wishing that it weren't so isn't going to change anything ... Wish in one hand and crap in the other, and see which one fills up first ..." 
 
Crude ... but succinctly expressive, and sage nonetheless ... Edgar was lazy like I am, and despite his monumental education, preferred to deal in mundane/earthy milieu ... He would at times sign his name with the achronym, CPA afterwards ... When people would ask if he were an Accountant, he would say, "No, I own a string of Dry Cleaners ... that stands for, Cleaning, Pressing, & Alterations ..." 
 
Uncle Edgar led a Good life and was pretty much disaffected by things around him ... That and his Blessed Income are probably the reason he lived to a hundred and four years old, and never had High Blood Pressure When his "Best Friend" went to him and told him that he was taking Aunt Belle and going away for good ... Edgar said, "I will finance the trip, if you can get it done by Thursday ..."  Took the sting out, and took out all the fun for Arnie ... and Edgar never saw or heard from either of them again ...

All Y'alls, have a blessed day

These ones.

The Dude abides!

here's a local one: "so don't I."

That is so fun...........

lotlot, you're 'at the top of your game' today!  But seriously your comment about: LIVE from, or here's Joe Blow, with a LIVE report; or JOE Blow is LIVE at the zoo to tell us the latest.  LIVE!  As opposed to?  Joe Blow is DEAD?  I can't hep but mouth back "as opposed to what?" whenever I hear LIVE!!  If one day I hear DEAD! ... then I will follow.

Hello Ivan!  Love that Uncle Edgar, the CPA!

Amazing.  Amazing is the catch all adjective/noun/possibly verb for a certain generation, I don't know how old they are, maybe their twenties, but whoever they are, to them, everything is AMAZING.   It would be truly nice if everything really were, and they knew it, but it isn't, and they don't seem to care one way or another. 

"She was an amazing mother" said the girlfriend of the brother of Casey Anthony, who you will remember skated on the murder charge of her little girl.  It's not so much that it's not true, that she was an AMAZING mother, as it is that the jury took it literally. " NOTE TO SELF"(annoying): when on a jury, remember that witnesses are not wordsmiths and to consider the source. 

I do think we may register 100 posts today.

Ammmaaaazzziiinnnnggggggg . . .

IVAN, I like great-uncle Edgar, and am not atall surprised you have him.
 
Arghhh...in today's newspaper I just encountered a HORRID EXAMPLE: "Hopefully, we can raise enough...." Recast that sentence, man, I mean like it ain't even awesome.
 
I enjoyed and used 'awesome' when appropriate, but it's been ruined for me. Sad, for it's a good word. Swell, even.  In its true sense, it bespeaks something very different (do I need that 'very'?) from the way it's misued now.
 
About 'swell,' opinions, please: It's out of fasion, but I, not in fashion anyway, think it a fine, useful word. Not overused (yet). Maybe IVAN and I can restore it.
 
Are we rid of 'proactive' yet? 
 
I'd love to  be (warning: cliche coming) a fly on the wall when they create The List.
Sense of humor keeps us going, y'might say. Who am I  -- full to the brim of Southern-isms -- to be a critic.  
 
STONEY, I heard your Wisconsin "BY..." usage from a neighbor from, yep, Wisconsin. It caught my ear because I'd never heard it.
 
"Nauseous" when one means "nauseated" is a genuwine Grade-A pet peeve peculiar to the Northeast; I'd never heard it 'til I was grown.  The two are not synonymous, and people of whom you'd least expect it use it -- a close college-English-prof friend (from Longisland {sic}); television folk.
 
"Dude" has gradually altered its intent, seems to me, and hangs on. 
 
I learn more from The Neighborhood than, well, than I can adequately express. Does it help when I KNOW that sentence wants recasting?
 
I love all of you (yes, that's y'all: you all or all of you), and am annoyed when movie producers fail to hire a diction coach, leaving us with actors who offer "Come back again, now, y'all." Surely others are peeved when a cooloquialism -- look at that! I employed (via typo) "cool" in a new way.  Even peeves enrich our language, we're told, and lawsy me MIss Scahlett I don't know nuthin 'bout birthin' babies, but I'd never throw one out with the bath water.  My son called me on "baby with the bath water," saying, "Mom, you use that properly, but just too often." Point well taken, for overuse dilutes meaning, and eventually we forget what once it meant. Or didn't. Is "Point well taken" a pet peeve, a HORRID EXAMPLE, a phrase rendered meaningless by overuse? Hope not, because a fine phrase it is.
 
OT (off topic), but several  of us have been watching Downton Abbey, whose sudden appearance last night on PBS surporised me. I watched a bit -- enough to know I'd already seen it.  It's supPOSED to come on Sunday night. Seeing (part of) it underscored our agreement last week that too much is crammed into one -- would you say 'edition'?
Man, I mean like no problemo with Maggie Smith, you know, but anyway....

Heard recently:
"He is just so… oh, I don't know… incredibly credible."

dear me, look at my typos.  Haven't had nerve to try cut-and-paste, PL, but I WILL (not even 'shall'). I apologize, editor and Neighbors. I am tempted, oh! so tempted to write, in Mr. P's "Where Would You Like To GO? box, "To The Neighborhood" (recast this one twice; still needs work)." But back to ruining things: would seeing each other ruin it? I think not, not, not... (in writing poetry, thrice is fine; more's too much).  We could go on all day and, if PeterLake gives the word, all night, moving to thesepia train. Here, Floyd, good boy....

'the fact of the matte is' I don't want to be annoyed any more today so I shall dwell on topics that don't......

DEAR RINGS, WHAT FINE NEWS!  TELL MORE, PLEASE. DOES THE NEW JOB MEAN A MOVE FOR YOU?  WHAT WILL YOU DO THERE? WHEN DO YOU BEGIN?
 

When I was a little girl I oft recited the jingle, "I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw."  I didn't get it, but I repeated it a lot. It really made my mother laugh because she knew I didn't get it. After a couple years I got it.
 
I don't think I understood the phrase "can't see the forest for the trees" until I was at least 30 years old.
 
"He's forgotten more than I ever knew" came clear to me over the age of 45...but I forget exactly when.
 
I don't know what this has to do with today's topic, I don't think any of these are particularly overused.
 
But youse guys already know that.  Hmm..I grew up in NJ and never heard anybody say that.

Ooops, that should have been 'matter' and change shall to a more assertive will...

I Marjorie.... Yous guys is probably a neighborhood expression as opposed to city-wide. It was used in my neighborhood in the South-Side of Chicago when I was young.

"I stood the night". really, all night on your feet? thanks so much for "sharing"

Peter--that explains it.  People often site that expression as a NJ ism. Chicago?  Makes sense.  I'll have to watch Jersey Boys again to see if they used it.  I'm from an area near Newark, but not quite as urban as that or the south side of Chicago.
 
I'm totally indebted to you!

Absolutely is beginning to be annoying...."May I borrow your pen to write my check?" "Absolutely!"  "Waiter.....I dropped my spoon, could you bring another?"  "Absolutely!"  Maybe it's just here, maybe it's just me, but the word is beginning to get to me.

Just because.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F84BJTXVNw

A phrase overused by company management is "that being said". 
 
Blah blah blah, that being said, blah blah. (For the second set of the blahs, insert the new doctrine.)

egggsactly.

Off topic, it's one of those crazy weather days.  This moning it was sunny, over lunch it was snowing really hard--it was beginning to accumulate.  Now the sun is back out and everything that fell has melted.  I'll bet there were rainbows out there today.  So, to get this on topic, I'll say--Don't like the weather in ______(insert your location)?  Wait an hour and it will change.

I like swell.  The word.  Is it overused nowadays? because if it is it isn't overused here.  The 'swell' I like has the Fred Astaire accent, or a Cole Porters rhythm.

Typos are more bothersome to the typer than to the reader if the reader is me… I mean that.

Georgia ~
Your appearances are like somebody threw back the curtains and opened a window to let in the sunshine and fresh air.Don't worry bout the picky stuff.
We need people around here who, when they hear "colall," don't have to wait for the word lamp to know what it means.

Guest, I think, types in Peterman's little box. I have heard him cussing about it but if you have no more to say than he has…

I like and use a lot of colloquialisms and peculiar turns of phrase because that is how I think and talk.

Park4 ~
I like "swell" too. It is marvelous and seldom heard or read these days.

The child that is born on the Sabbath Day
Is blithe and bonny, good and gay.
Amusing how word meanings can change over the years. Come to sunny Llandudno, bright by day and gay by night is the headline of a holiday advertisement in a 1950's newspaper.
I have a fat tome titled "The Dictionary of Slang" which is both entertaining and informative. A swell was a rich man about town. Like Burlington Bertie, or the gentlemen who sang "We are a couple of swells, we stay in the best hotels ....."
Lots of things have come mind today, but I'm not sure they'd translate over the pond.
 
 

I like Grace's characterization of the elements of the student body:

http://youtu.be/mHa1zTLrXO8

Among the most ardently anticipated phrases: "And, finally," or "In conclusion."

Hazel ~
Give it a shot.

"do you want to come with?"

Yeah, we'll make the ton today. Good, innit?

This has been a swell day, in spite of the drizzling rain ... (One of my favorite kinds of day, however ...) but I must now wish every one in this Village, a Great and Fabulous Weekend !!!  I Wish You Great Weather, Lotsa Family Good Friends, Good Food, Good Wine, and an Abundance of everything that Makes You Happy !!!  Relax and Do Something Excessive For Your Selves !!!!!!! (Guilt Free Pass is Yours ...)
 
 
To the Tribe:  A GOOD  SABBATH !!!!!!!
 
I Wish You Peace, Joy, and Rest in Every Aspect of Your Lives ...
 
" Let Us Be Strong and Strengthen One Another ..."
 
May Our Rest Be Pleasing Unto Him Who Brought Us Here .......
 
Blessings Upon You All .......
 
 
IVAN

It is what it is.

I see we're taking this to the next level.  Oh, my bad!

Gleefull laughter from the misty hills of Wales. A guilt free pass for the weekend from our resident Rabbi, a nudge in the crotch from that reprobate Floyd and the entertainment of your comments.

Let's add "Where ya at?"
 
"Baby out with the bath water" comes from the medieval world when the family bathed seldom and in order of importance.  Dad got fresh water, and in a big family by the time the littlest got the "tub" the water was so dirty the an unattentive parent might toss the water out and the little one with it.  Or so the story goes.

Good evening, villagers!  What a topic!  I am enjoying all y'alls (YEAH, GEORGIA, I SAID IT!!!)  pet peeves, ticking off the ones I agree with and recognizing the ones I am guilty of overusing.
 
OVER SHARE!!!  TMI!!  and others that have not crept in this evening.
 
Our Troop supports young men, training them to become leaders by building self-esteem and teaching them to have fun in the out doors.  One leader wanted every to attain his Eagle Scout rank.  "Let's set them up for success!"  He used that everytime for every conversation.  It used to set my teeth on edge.  (oops!  another one!)
 
Oh and my all time favorite besides "all time favorite" is CONVERSATE!!!  arrrrrrrrrrrgh!  I am going to need a nice bourbon now.....

Stoney: Guest is succinct.  Just yesterday, didn't he write: "A dog is a dog."  I shall never forget that.  He is eloquent in his brevity.  But to find out that he cusses - who would have guessed that of Guest?   House Guest, perhaps, but Guest?

100! Dunnit!

"I see, said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter...."

or for worse politically incorrect quotation:

"One dark day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight--
Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.,
A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and shot the 2 dead boys....
If you don't believe this tale is true....go ask the blind man,
He saw it too!!"

There are many politically incorrect sayings that have endured ....

Thank you , Ivan, for your traditional Friday blessing to all the Village!!!

I totally agree with Georgia about "nauseous" and "nauseated"....the first means something that causes one to become sick like a smell of rotten eggs, while the correct term means that one has become sick to one's stomach....all the TV commentators get it wrong, and most people opt for the short form, whereas the longer word is correct for "made sick to the stomach!"

Mooseloop~ Interesting variations on an old ditty.
Politically incorrect is one of those wordings that raise my hackles.

"We are efforting to bring you that story."
 

Seriously.

I am serious and don't call me shirley.

"Just sayin' "   is a saying that CHAPS MY HIDE.   Heheheeee

PARK...................you use swell quite well........it sounds charming and of another era, yet strangely current when you use it........................YOU can get away w/ it my dear...............
 
I don't know what to have for dinner............a dilemna................I shall have some more wine & then decide...............
 
IVAN.................oodles right back to you!
 
The woman I teach w/ & I were having lunch & I responded to her statement that some of the tests were too much for the kids...................I mentioned that some of them were definitely based on class ( as in your socio/economic/education spot in the chain of life) She responded, "Yes, but the other class".............. I just shut up & ate my sandwich slathered w/ grainy, spicy, brown mustard.................I am so thankful for wine...................

"unprecedented" is like nails on a chalkboard.  There was a long section of time when the media used this word incessantly. 

What joy to hear others like 'swell,' which feels also to me like a word from another time -- like many of Mr. P's clothes, and most of his prose describing them.
 
PENELOPETX, use away (y'all)!  It's a highly functional term.
 
HOUSEGUEST always knocks my socks off (cliche?), as does his host. Both write succinctly and gracefully, and neither misses a beat.
 
Aren't w e-- all of us -- lucky?  Thanks, IVAN, for your thoughtful Sabbath wish.
 
Borrowing from PeterLake, Peace Out 'til the morrow

Seamless, seamlessly and pristine could go back on the shelf anytime now.

More bang for the buck.

"neat, neato,and,last but not least, a "Right ON!", tho generationally oudone by "Rilly= gag me with a spoon"

...and now for a story;sorry to add it so late, I had a nap.

There was for a time, a wonderful phrase; "How 'bout that..."

And it,too,often considered overused. But did you ever wonder from where it came?

Its origins seem to be from the war; not Viet Nam, but our Revolutionary war with England.

Back in the day,as America had yet to defend from outside agression, we had no standing Army,and therefore,no Army Bases. Oh yes, we had Forts, but they were not very portable,and would have made a challenging force both vulnerable,and strained to use in a battle such as the Revolutionary war.

So, we 'Billeted' our forces as we crossed the country,at the houses and farms they found themselves,relying on the grace of the families they encountered.

Now, here is how that may have been enacted:

A loud knock upon the door of a farm,and when answered by the farmer,was spoken"Hello, I am General George Washington,fighting to make our Country free. I have a small band of weary soldiers needing rest and sustinence. Could you take in any for the night?"

The farmer had a large family,and a small home,but did have room for one of the men.

General Washington looked up and down the scraggly crew,and picked the least 'scraggled' amongst them "Peters, in here for the night"

He then moved on to the next house,and as they were getting closer to the town, it was larger,and,in fact,unbeknownst, was a house of ill repute...

Upon his knock to the door, the Madam appeared, and he said "I'm George Washington, fighting for the freedom of this Country. My men are in need of a place for the night, can you take any?"

Well, it being a many roomed 'House', she of course said " Certainly. How many are there?"

General Washington looked back over the assembled squad and said "Thirteen,er,twelve without Peters"

And she said" HOW ABOUT THAT!"