Terms you're tired of hearing...

[Rambuchan]

They do that on MySpace? I thought I was being innovative. [/oh well]

/thems the breaks.

 

[Brighteye]

With this statement you are discounting the teaching of the Buddha and Jesus, loads of cognitive psychology thinking and so on and so forth and blahdy blahdy blah.

As for your last line, thanks. But what's that got to do with anything?

Absurd-, absurd-... it's all the same to me.

um... Did I misunderstand something?
When I say without logic there is no thought, you bring up the teachings of Buddha and Jesus, as if they do not rely entirely on logic.

So... I misquote the Caliph of Cairo, using the line to imply that the entire works of Jesus and Buddha are superfluous or heretical.

Absurd? Maybe.

 

[Rambuchan]

Absurd-, absurd-... it's all the same to me.

But not to many others. Welcome to CFC!

um... Did I misunderstand something?
When I say without logic there is no thought, you bring up the teachings of Buddha and Jesus, as if they do not rely entirely on logic.

No, their teachings do not rely entirely on logic. That should be clear I would think. That's why I brought them up. Indeed, the whole matter of faith is crucial here.

So... I misquote the Caliph of Cairo, using the line to imply that the entire works of Jesus and Buddha are superfluous of heretical.

Absurd? Maybe.

I'll say!

 

[C~G]

None really. But...

It depends where and how they are used.

I personally think I'm quite lazy picking the words really. So it's easier to use certain terms. One of the problems is that if you read people's post word by word you might get wrong impression what they're saying because you focus too much into terms used. It's always the case that the other side of political spectrum is directing certain terms to opinion of the other side and it gets pretty messy. In fact it creates certain kind of vacuum into discussion where there's no reality behind anything said but just empty and fancy terms.

I hate labeling of people and ideas much more than certain terms. It is so easy to put things in the same box and dismiss them.

But if something comes to my mind, I don't like terms that are used while seriously debating. Meaning such as straw man and Ad hominem. They always leads the discussion into nothing but endless dispute of other one's skills of debate rather than what the debate is about. Both end up waiting for the other one make one logical fallacy so they can claim victory and dismiss everything the other one ever have said about the issue. This experience comes from both of the worlds of real life and internet.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

"Ad hominem".

Yeah, me too. Whenever I see that I think, "What the heck does archaeology have to do with this?"

 

[Urederra]

rant.

You are pre-approved

(and any other world with the prefix pre- where it doesn't belong. It is like cheating with the language.

Isreal, instead of Israel.

/rant

LOL, sorry turner, but I like LOL,

LOL.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Isreal, instead of Israel.

Yeah, I get tired of seeing this, also. A helpful little reminder: a lot of the words that we get from Hebrew end in "-el", which means "God". It helps if you remember that Arabic, a similar language, uses "Allah" which sounds similar. Thus we have "Michael", "Nathaniel", "Israel", etc.

I am a little ashamed to admit that this is the only way I can remember how to spell my brother's name.

 

[Leatherneck]

Stolen!

If you claim franchise fees, I'm all tapped out.

I want my two dollars!

you phrasus thiefus

 

[Rossiya]

"dodgy" is used a lot in england for almost any purpose.

 

[MamboJoel]

War on terror
Axis of evil
But looks like we don't hear those too much anymore
Any other buzz word.

 

[Ao-Li]

Up here (in Scotland) there seems to be a horrible overuse of the word 'Banter', overuse and misuse too. Also phrases like 'well good', 'well ace', 'well .....' you get where its going. Driving me insane.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Words/phrases that are constantly used wrong:

light year
decimate
quantum leap
infer

What others? Come on, I know we know them.

 

[aneeshm]

I refers to an argument that has no backing. So it can be blown over easily, like a straw man.

No . It refers to putting words in somebody else's mouth , then criticising him for saying them . Basically , it means that you say that your opponent said something he did not really say , and criticise him for saying it .

 

[Veritass]

Oh, yeah, let me add using the "hol" in "holic" from "alcoholic" on the end of anything you want to imply is addicitive: civaholic, spendaholic, etc. Just use "compulsive gamer" or "compulsive spender" instead; there is no "hol" involved.

 

[croxis]

Compulsive is over used

I hate the lowercase e, x and i being used for everything trendy.

 

[Willowmound]

... and the question could be asked "Why do you english have so many words with extra letters that are not needed?"

Go head tell me, because at this time I don't get it.

The letters making up a word are in many ways like DNA (bear with me!). The letters form the word, but many words have silent letters, or are pronounced differently from how they are spelled. Because just like DNA, a lot of the information is 'sleeping'. The sleeping bits are leftovers from what the organism/word used to be. Or said differently, the letters making up a word will often give a clue as to the word's etymological roots.

The U in colour? Colour is a French word, brought to the English language with the Norman conquest in 1066. In French, 'ou' makes a distinct sound. As the word transformed from couleur to colour, the U stayed with it as 'sleeping DNA'.

And that's the reason, and that's why I like your so-called 'extra' letters. Because I like language.

The silent S in 'island', by the way, is the result of a misunderstanding. In the Middle Ages, English scholars assumed the word came from Latin insula. This is not correct. Island is a proper Germanic word (English, as you know, is a Germanic language) and in fact the same word as 'eye'. So it really should have been spelled 'eyeland'.

I like this too. Every word has a connection with its past. Removing seemingly useless letters only impoverishes the language.

(I'm not English, by the way.)

 

[Leatherneck]

The letters making up a word are in many ways like DNA (bear with me!). The letters form the word, but many words have silent letters, or are pronounced differently from how they are spelled. Because just like DNA, a lot of the information is 'sleeping'. The sleeping bits are leftovers from what the organism/word used to be. Or said differently, the letters making up a word will often give a clue as to the word's etymological roots.

The U in colour? Colour is a French word, brought to the English language with the Norman conquest in 1066. In French, 'ou' makes a distinct sound. As the word transformed from couleur to colour, the U stayed with it as 'sleeping DNA'.

And that's the reason, and that's why I like your so-called 'extra' letters. Because I like language.

The silent S in 'island', by the way, is the result of a misunderstanding. In the Middle Ages, English scholars assumed the word came from Latin insula. This is not correct. Island is a proper Germanic word (English, as you know, is a Germanic language) and in fact the same word as 'eye'. So it really should have been spelled 'eyeland'.

I like this too. Every word has a connection with its past. Removing seemingly useless letters only impoverishes the language.

(I'm not English, by the way.)

I'm going to get the duct tape out now because my head is going to explode ...

Actually I knew a number of those, island I knew as I look at the etymological roots of word not long ago and from time to time I find others ... like when my kid ask me "Dad why is there a "s" in island, if you can't hear it." So off I go to look it up or have them do so and bring me the answer. It's all interesting. American are the kings of if you don't need it get rid of it, so I think that is the main reason American English is changing from the Queens English. In a few 100 years barring the international need to communicate, they very well could be two different languages. Americans tend to be more phonetic. Which I never understood why phonetic was spelled with a "ph" it really should have been an "f" ... just makes sense or since, your choice.

 

[jimbob27]

Worlds randomly shoved in the middle of sentances. For example

"It was like... so totally cool".

Newspapers that put every 3rd word in quotation marks... not realising that this grammatical nuance is supposed to indicate sarcasm or irony. For example

Woman "terrified" after kidnap ordeal.
Footballers "overjoyed" with win.

 

[Xanikk999]

"I was joking, cant you take a joke"?

"Dude, i was kidding"

 

[Xanikk999]

Words/phrases that are constantly used wrong:

light year
decimate
quantum leap
infer

What others? Come on, I know we know them.

Ive never heard anyone use light year wrong... Its the distance light travels in one year no other meaning i can think of?