Incorrect phrases that annoy you?

[JTsyo]

I have several:


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WTF??? Chemistry is a science of matter. How dare you relationship "experts" hijack and corrupt this word to suit your needs. Do you even know what actual chemistry is? Fucking morons...

It's bio-chemistry.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Folks who say 'presently' when they mean 'currently.'

 

[ShawnD1]

Final one!

Bathroom when talking about a room without a bath
Restroom for toilet, you don't go there to rest
Washroom for toilet, you don't go there to wash

I love how "powder my nose" means take a shit.
In that movie Pulp Fiction it literally meant putting powder up her nose. Doin' blow baby!

I hope people on this forum are attempting humor when they use the interjection "walla".

In Edmonton, Lebanese people say this all the time. "walla, I totally kicked his ass"

A quick google search shows what it actually is supposed to be
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219011939AAMOrtg

wallahy is a swear and affirmation word used mainly in Egypt and it consider an Egyptian accent word so it's slang word
it means " seriously,swear to allah (god)"
people often used it to emphasize their sentences
like
I do work hard =wallahy,I work hard
other people use it as a swear
did you do your homework?
wallahy,i did it= swear to god,i did it.

 

[spacelord]

"I axed him".

axed? wtf, try asked. sounds like someone is a cold blooded killer.

 

[CallMeJoe]

...In Edmonton, Lebanese people say this all the time. "walla, I totally kicked his ass"
A quick google search shows what it actually is supposed to be
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219011939AAMOrtg

A better search might have turned up the French word, voila

 

[ShawnD1]

A better search might have turned up the French word, voila

Weird. I don't think I've ever seen a non-Arab person say walla. Walla, I swear to god man :awe:


Then there was that movie True Lies where "yalla" is equivalent to saying "marklar". Urban dictionary says it's like saying di di mau

edit. I should probably explain what marklar is
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=marklar

The word marklar stems from an alien race named the Marklars, which appeared in an episode of the animated series South Park. The Marklars use the word marklar as a generic word, similar to a pronoun, that can refer with specificity to any thing, place, person, idea, concept, or otherwise represent the meaning of any noun, including proper nouns.
Marklar: "You see, young marklar. Those marklars don't care about marklar marklar. They just want to take your marklar and marklar their own marklar. The only marklar for this is to marklar."

 

[Venix]

Party - Noun, not a verb.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party#English

That must be why it says VERB halfway down the page. Is this some lame trolling attempt or are you really so incredibly stupid?

 

[HAL9000]

That must be why it says VERB halfway down the page. Is this some lame trolling attempt or are you really so incredibly stupid?

Hah. missed that, I withdraw my complaint.

 

[Dumac]

Party - Noun, not a verb.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party#English

From your own damn link

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party#Verb

Also another link

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/party?show=1&t=1293141679

Many nouns double as verbs, just as verbs can double as nouns...

 

[Dumac]

And yes, non-English speaking countries call it different things. In China, it's 鋁, and in Japanese it's アルミニウム

Uh....

That just says aluminiumu....

which is just aluminium with an extra u since otherwise it would be impossible....

Not a different word for it at all. It is the same word.

 

[Dumac]

Mandarian oranges, instead of Mandarin oranges

Hahaha, never heard that one.

Next they'll be saying mandalorian oranges...

 

[CallMeJoe]

Mandantory.

Naval oranges.

 

[spacejamz]

Tall is small
Grande is medium
Venti is large

They are just named that way in order to sound cool and foreign. It isn't really obtuse...grande means large venti is for 20 oz.

the movie theater in the mall near me has medium, large and X large drink sizes (no small)...does that sound cooler than small, medium, large??

 

[CallMeJoe]

the movie theater in the mall near me has medium, large and X large drink sizes (no small)...does that sound cooler than small, medium, large??

It saves them explaining why they charge $3 for a "small".

 

[yhelothar]

I spell better then you!

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Forever malone

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Forever trombone

 

[Dumac]

the movie theater in the mall near me has medium, large and X large drink sizes (no small)...does that sound cooler than small, medium, large??

No, but it makes their drinks all sound like they contain a significant amount of liquid.

Which is probably true. Their "medium", which you would like to call "small", is probably pretty big.

 

[Kadarin]

One not necessarily incorrect phrase that really annoys me is "to make a long story short"; it usually means your long and incredibly boring story is about to become even longer and even more excruciatingly dull. Not to mention that a former coworker used that phrase all the time and he was a complete fucking idiot.

 

[sactoking]

1) It's aluminum, not aluminium. Just b/c some Brits got butthurt over the fact that it didn't follow the -ium convention when an American called it aluminum in the 1800s (even though the -um convention was also in use) doesn't mean we should kowtow to their demands.

2) Like John said 'chili' is really 'chili con carne'. If you enter an honest-to-goodness chili cook-off one of the rules is "no beans". Blame it on the purists.

3) Moot. People always use moot wrong. "Well, it's a moot point..." is used most often in a manner to indicate 'It doesn't really matter so we might as well not waste time discussing it'. That's the opposite of what it means! Something moot is open for debate, hence why law schools use 'moot courts' to discuss issues that merit further review and discussion. Moot can also mean "purely academic" but that also does not connote irrelevancy, it connotes a theoretical discussion without practical application.

 

[IronWing]

Hahaha, never heard that one.

Next they'll be saying mandalorian oranges...

They're Madrid oranges. Like Missouri, not Spain.

 

[Ichinisan]

3) Moot. People always use moot wrong. "Well, it's a moot point..." is used most often in a manner to indicate 'It doesn't really matter so we might as well not waste time discussing it'. That's the opposite of what it means! Something moot is open for debate, hence why law schools use 'moot courts' to discuss issues that merit further review and discussion. Moot can also mean "purely academic" but that also does not connote irrelevancy, it connotes a theoretical discussion without practical application.

Yeah...but isn't that a moot point anyway?

 

[sactoking]

Yeah...but isn't that a moot point anyway?

No, it's not. Since a discussion about people saying the opposite of what they mean has practical applications it fails one definition. Since it's not open for debate (I AM right ) it fails the second definition.

 

[IronWing]

Ephemeral, intermittent, and interrupted.

 

[Ichinisan]

No, it's not. Since a discussion about people saying the opposite of what they mean has practical applications it fails one definition. Since it's not open for debate (I AM right ) it fails the second definition.

Moot.