People using the word "narrative".......

[Eeyore]

Winds me up when people say pissed for angry. An Americanism that is creeping in more and more.

Always thought of that as an Australian phrase.

 

[GloryDays]

I suggest a lot of you never go to a book launch. I went to one last night and, although they didn't say the word 'narrative', they did say a lot of other big words.

My contribution - When people say 'reach out' like "thanks for reaching out to me" or "I was meaning to reach out and say...".

Used by Americans when they're trying to make business matters sound like normal, everyday life but comes across as very disingenuous (probably purposfully). Typically used by customer service agents at Amazon and people like that.

 

[pearl]

Winds me up when people say pissed for angry. An Americanism that is creeping in more and more.

ooophs ... I didn't know that, makes my blue sky a whole lot clearer

 

[ilduc944]

Advertised a job recently and so many CVs have the word 'inidividual' in the personal description, as in "a hardworking and skilled individual". Of course your an individual. Groups of people don't apply for jobs do they? The word is completely superfluous (no doubt some one here will hate the word superfluous and call me out on that one now......

Another Americanism maybe?

 

[Surf's Up]

Not so much a word more a tone - people who speak as if they are permanently asking a question by making their voice tone go up at the end of every sentence.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Advertised a job recently and so many CVs have the word 'inidividual' in the personal description, as in "a hardworking and skilled individual". Of course your an individual. Groups of people don't apply for jobs do they? The word is completely superfluous (no doubt some one here will hate the word superfluous and call me out on that one now......

Another Americanism maybe?

Surely it's a legitimate noun which can be used instead of person?

 

[Murray 17]

'Pre-prepared' - how's that different from prepared?

 

[Murray 17]

'Personally speaking' is one that always irritates me.

How else can you speak. (Apart of course if you're a spokesperson for a company etc).

My wife used to work with someone who said, "personally myself"!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Come on boys and girls, let's start singing from the same hymn sheet? Huh?

 

[Murray 17]

Not so much a word more a tone - people who speak as if they are permanently asking a question by making their voice tone go up at the end of every sentence.

A guy on ID channel, who's an expert on mass murderers, does this. I can accept the occasional rise in tone, but he does it for most sentences. If the programme hadn't been so interesting I would have deleted it before the end!

 

[Murray 17]

Starting a sentence with, "so". The two people I know who do this are both doctors, so it could be an NHS thing.

 

[ilduc944]

'Pre-prepared' - how's that different from prepared?

Forgot about that one. Place I used to work they used to talk about 'pre-planned operations'. If it's not planned it's spontaneous and if it is planned that happens before the event - pre-event if you must.

 

[ilduc944]

Surely it's a legitimate noun which can be used instead of person?

Yup, legitimate replacement but in the context of a CV it is just padding. An individual or person applies for the job, they don't need to tell you that they're an individual or person, it goes without saying. Just my current bugbear this one as I'm reading the word so frequently. Maybe I'll be more forgiving when I've got the person I'm after.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Yup, legitimate replacement but in the context of a CV it is just padding. An individual or person applies for the job, they don't need to tell you that they're an individual or person, it goes without saying. Just my current bugbear this one as I'm reading the word so frequently. Maybe I'll be more forgiving when I've got the person I'm after.

I had to have another look at my CV, no third person stuff going on, or 'individual', thank goodness.

 

[ilduc944]

I had to have another look at my CV, no third person stuff going on, or 'individual', thank goodness.

Job's yours.....

 

[Uter]

Do the needful is such an Indianism. My old job included running a team in Bangalore remotely and that seemed to be the cornerstone of their English capability.


Sometimes right, sometimes wrong but ALWAYS certain

I've encountered "do the needful" a few times in emails from Indian colleagues. They also use "revert" to mean respond e.g. "Can you please take a look and revert with your comments"

 

[Easy 10]

Advertised a job recently and so many CVs have the word 'inidividual' in the personal description, as in "a hardworking and skilled individual". Of course your an individual. Groups of people don't apply for jobs do they? The word is completely superfluous (no doubt some one here will hate the word superfluous and call me out on that one now......

Another Americanism maybe?

Its just fluous.

I don't know what supposed to be super about it.

 

[NeilS]

Hate poncey home/architecture programmes using the word juxtapose

 

[Norman Potting]

Rant commences:-

NatWest radio adverts. Currently making a song and dance about the ability to use your phone to get cash from a "hole in the wall" if you have been dumb ass enough to forget your card - money from this can apparently be used for such life saving things as cat litter. Not content with this the tone of the advert seems to imply that the facility is on a par with curing world hunger and disease ffs!

AND THEN the advert finishes with "..NatWest - we are what we do" What the f*ck is that supposed to mean - probably paid some coke snorting cretin zillions of pounds to come up with that and IT MAKES NO SENSE!

Really grinds my gears (or does that transgress the point of the thread?).

RANT OVER

..It has been a (genuinely) bad week.

 

[Justice]

Unprecedented grates on me for some reason