What cliche items of conversation qualify as your pet peeves?
Two come to mind for me: “No pun intended” … if there was no pun intended, you wouldn’t have pointed out there was a pun to look out for; and “Could care less” … if what you really mean is that it means nothing to you, shouldn’t you say, “couldN’T care less”?
Any others out there?
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when people puntuate their conversations with “like” as in
“it was soooo like amazing” etc etc etc.
It gets on my nerves, it’s like a verbal tic and it’s spreading like wildfire.
Oh and also the phrase “do you know what I mean”, repeated and repeated ad nauseum at the end of sentences.
Yes, I bloody do know what you mean!!!
(maybe these examples don’t strictly qualify as cliches, but to me they are)
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When people see that I listen to screamo type music and automatically assume I’m some socially deprived, emotionally isolative, no life creeper when in reality I also listen to country and rap and live in the state of Texas so I wear cowboy boots.. Hmm? A screamo loving cowboy.. how ironic?
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I HATE “No offense, but…” I am automatically offended. “With all due respect” almost always leads to a comment completely lacking respect.
Oh, thought of something else…This is a grammar pet peeve, but I’m sure you won’t mind hearing (reading) it, right? I hate the misuse of the word ‘myself’. “He came to the movie with Rodney and myself.” Ugh.
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I absolutely detest the use (or should I say “misuse”?) of the pseudo-word “irregardless”!!! It absolutely makes me grit my teeth! I had a high school principal who said this on a fairly regular basis over the intercom, and it just made everybody in class roll their eyes.
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I hate “is that right?” when you tell someone something they may be hearing for the first time; of course I want to say, “No, I just made it up!!!!!”….and of course the use of “like’ every word, as someone else mentioned, REALLY gripes me!! OH, and ending every sentence with an ‘up’ note; as in ” and then we went to see my friends,???” you know what I mean…awful!!
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“No offense intended”, after they offend you, or before a conversation starts.
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Ya know? I hate it when someone is talking ya know and every other utterance from their ya know mouth is ya know, ya know?
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