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1. #101
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, Bugler said:

   “Didn’t” is not properly pronounced “didunt.”

   Couldunt.
   Isunt.
   Wasunt.

   Et ceterunt.

2. #102
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:15 pm, Joy said:

   My votes:

   Dude
   Neocon
   Ebonics
   Irregardless
   Guestimate

3. #103
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:18 pm, Joy said:

   chicagojedi – I am guilty of that will try to get myself to call them leftists.

   If I forget, feel free to correct me.

4. #104
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:51 pm, jsr said:

   I am totaly for banning the use of the expression “public service” by professional politicians when they are, like, talking about their, you know, career.

5. #105
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:56 pm, JohnW said:

   I hate when people say “absolutely” instead of “yes.” News flash – it does not make you sound more articulate!

6. #106
   On May 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm, coaster said:

   What makes me want to tear out my last bit of hair, is when I hear someone described as “the gentleman”, who just murdered, raped, molested,robbed, highjacked,terrorized or set something on fire.

7. #107
   On May 19th, 2008 at 11:25 pm, AlabamaMama said:

   I’m guilty of just about every single grammar/usage faux pas listed above. But I would NEVER use them in a professional setting!! My dad is a bit of a grammar nut (and apparently I inherited that nuttiness), and he made a point of constantly drilling this into our minds: You can use whatever language you want when you’re just hanging out with your friends. But if you are writing, or are in a professional situation, you need to speak like an educated person, not a valley girl.
   As far as “should of, would of, could of,”… In Alabama, due to our slow speech patterns, that’s what should’ve, etc. sound like. But I’ll agree that when written “of” instead of “‘ve,” it just looks ignorant.

8. #108
   On May 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pm, sparky1962 said:

   Y’all forgot the word “Liberal”, heave that in the pile as well

9. #109
   On May 20th, 2008 at 12:40 am, M0mm1e0f2G1rls said:

   My husband uses this everyday and I just want to slap him every time it comes out of his mouth:

   “It is what it is.”

   I think I’ll go smack him with a pillow just because he may be dreaming of saying it.

10. #110
    On May 20th, 2008 at 1:09 am, nyc123me said:

    One that bugs the hell out of me:
    “I’m all about [whatever]”
    gaaah!

11. #111
    On May 20th, 2008 at 1:10 am, nyc123me said:

    fo’ shizzle

12. #112
    On May 20th, 2008 at 1:31 am, Christian Soldier said:

    Gosh – this is totally awesome-really-like English is used here -ya know!!!!

13. #113
    On May 20th, 2008 at 1:33 am, Christian Soldier said:

    PS Anyone ever heard of a Valley Girl?

    (-:

14. #114
    On May 20th, 2008 at 3:35 am, love2rumba said:

    This post is so out there, dude!

    It’s kinda like “wow” you know!

    /snerk

15. #115
    On May 20th, 2008 at 3:38 am, love2rumba said:

    Yo, Christian Soldier, I have heard about valley girls!

    And they would say, dude, that John McCain is “grody to the max!”

    

16. #116
    On May 20th, 2008 at 5:14 am, Lockstein13 said:

    Valley Girls.

    Ahh – ahem – yes.

    The continuing curse of Frank/Moon Zappa.

17. #117
    On May 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am, Concerned Citizen said:

    The one that really gets me is when people say “me and” as in “Me and Jim went to the movies.”

    Most of the common errors bother me to two too.

18. #118
    On May 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    LGM

19. #119
    On May 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am, markie13 said:

    “Myself” Don’t use it unless you absolutely have to. For example, “Bill and myself…”

    It makes people sound like Mike Myers in the first Austin Powers movie. “Allow myself to introduce myself…”

20. #120
    On May 20th, 2008 at 9:40 am, pueblo1032 said:

    Mine is AXXED… Especially when I hear a supposedly educated person say it, such as a news anchor or sports figure. “HE AXXED ME TO GO WITH HIM TO THE GAME…

21. #121
    On May 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am, Hexadecimal said:

    Oh hell! I’m so flipping guilty of these.

    I remember a George Carlin routine, “Jammin’ in New York,” where he goes off on the butchery of the English language by adding words to make something sound more important, or in some instances, dehumanize it. For example, going from “shell shock” (the sound of which invokes the images of shells going off) to the more clinical “post-traumatic stress disorder.” Or, less importantly, “shower activity” or “rain event”. Or my favorite, where he starts dealing with the airlines:

    Airline Employee: Get on the plane. Get on the plane.
    Carlin: [expletive] you! I’m getting in the plane! Let Evel Knevel get on the plane!

22. #122
    On May 20th, 2008 at 10:51 am, drfredc said:

    Frankly, you know,

    We’ve been assimilated

    you know…

23. #123
    On May 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am, jwm said:

    If I hear any of the following from someone speaking to me, I immediately tune them out and stop taking them seriously. These phrases are:

    1) Starting every sentence with “basically
    2) Ending every sentence with “know what I’m saying.”
    3) Using “uhm” between every word.

24. #124
    On May 20th, 2008 at 12:26 pm, jbirish said:

    Oh please, get rid of “basically” peppered throughout every sentence.

    Liberal: call it by it’s real name please. Marxism.

    ////-American: Either you’re an “American” or you’re not. Ethnicity is obvious, and it’s irrelevant(or should be).

25. #125
    On May 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm, CS said:

    How about banning Larry the fake cable guy and “git er duuun”

26. #126
    On May 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm, Flarn said:

    “Shower activity.” It’s called “rain.”

27. #127
    On May 20th, 2008 at 4:36 pm, amigoneus said:

    Incorrectly using “I” to sound smarter. The lights were hung by Mary and I. Argghhh. And someone mentioned earlier about appostrophes. Drives me crazy. “He get’s along with employee’s….the car’s we drive…”

    Phew, I feel better.

28. #128
    On May 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm, atheling said:

    We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership.

    Obamessiah. So articulate, you know.

29. #129
    On May 20th, 2008 at 7:52 pm, 24Klady said:

    “Fact of the matter” – usually is said by someone trying to convince you they really do know what they’re talking about, when they obviously don’t.

30. #130
    On May 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm, secondsight said:

    stupid interjection: “, I mean,”

31. #131
    On May 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    Incorrectly using “I” to sound smarter. The lights were hung by Mary and I…

    Sorry to seem pedantic (occupational hazard – I home schooled my children through all twelve grades, and I’m a writer :p), but I is the correct form of the personal pronoun in that sentence; it’s the sentence form (passive) that makes it sound awkward.

    The active form is Mary and I hung the lights.

    A simple rule to follow is to drop the other person or persons from the sentence, and see which form of the personal pronoun fits. But I do agree that the incorrect use of the personal pronoun – either way – is annoying, especially when misused by supposedly educated people.

32. #132
    On May 20th, 2008 at 10:30 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Personally, I mourn the death of the adverb.

    Oh yes, and words that really need some sort of qualifier like “quality” and “change.”