On Jan 2, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Gary Nunn wrote:
"My bad" - This is just bad grammar and silly slang. I cringe
when I hear
educated adults say this.
I was happy as heck to see the phrase "Cowboy up" go. I have no
idea where it originated (nor any interest in learning), but was
pleased that it was less than a flash in the pan.
I totally missed that one. Just as happy I did.
I really hated "good to go" when I first was hearing it, but it
doesn't irritate me so much now. (When your first exposure is
someone who is saying it 10-20 times A DAY in your presence, most
of them when you're the only one around to hear, it gets old very
quickly.)
That's exactly what makes these expressions worth getting rid of...
the mindless repetition. "I hearrrrd THAT!" was one that my little
brother got hooked on for a while. I had a co-worker for whom
everything happened "from the get-go", an expression I learned to
hate about the second time I heard it.
And I expect to continue to dislike such expressions "on a going-
forward basis."
Dave
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