Annoying speech traits
 

Hey guys,

Does anyone you know have a speech or linguistic mannerism that drives you up the wall? :spin:

My mother has a habit of trailing off and either never finishing the sentence or leaving out chunks, like "There's a pile of newspapers by the door, so can you........?" or "We decided to eat out so.....fairly expensive".

Doesn't *really* bug me but it definitely flicks something in me...

How about you guys?

"So it's like...you know what I'm saying?" :confused:

Uh....NO!

Not really a pet peeve, but I totally know what you're referring to Belial!

Oh yeah, and my sister.

"Yeah, well...."

Well WHAT?

There's a new woman at work who is incredibly loud and perky which is bad enough but combined with finishing every sentence to sound like a question . . . I avoid her like the plague.

I seem to have an annoyihng speech trait that drives others up the wall. I tend to speak at the level I can hear, which means I tend to talk softly. My wife claims that my mother & I can have enitre conversations when we're in separate rooms that she (my wife) can't hear even being in the same room with us. Hmmmmmmm...

"Get outta here"...ok....*leaves*

I find it absolutely abrasive when people use "you know" excessively, as fillers in sentences. Hillary Clinton is a famous person that I can think of that does that, but I have friends that do that as well. Drives me crazy!!!!!

One thing that bugs me, and I hear it from several people, is the double use of is. "The thing is, is..." "The deal is, is..." It makes me cringe whenever I hear it.

I have a professor at school that breaks every 5 seconds in her lecture to say "MMM kay?" OMG! Exactly how are we supposed to learn anything? :hair:

Maybe he's watched the "Drugs are bad, mmmkay?" teacher on South Park too much!

I cannot stand people explaining their thoughts to me and ending it with......"You know what I mean?" I always expect them to end it with "Vern" just like Ernest T. Warrell

:hair:

it drives me a little bugshit when someone uses too many non-decriptive nouns. like... "you know, that thing over by that place that has that whatchyamacallit on it?" and then i'm expected to interpret this. my sister does this all the time and then looks at me blankly when i tell her i have no idea what she's saying or if she is even speaking english.

One of the women I work with says "Nummy" when refering to food. I've never heard her once say "Yummy" "Tastes good" or anything else, I really want to tell her she sounds like a 5 year old!

Back to work now..

Here's one that I notice in advertisements all the time which drives me over the wall ....

they say "There's nothing like this in the world" or "There's nothing that does this".

Instead they should be saying "There's nothing ELSE like this in the world" or "There's no other ________ that does this" ... at such times, I've been known to scream at the tv or radio "Other ... there's no Other _____" ....

Silly isn't it!

Mrs. WI will resume a conversation we ended three days ago with no warning at all. Then she wonders why I have no idea what the hell she's talking about!

Me: Hi honey, how was your day?
She: Ok, I guess...I'm still tired from waking up at 4:00 this morning.
Me: Yeah, I know. I didn't want to get up at all today.
She: They shut down
Me: :confused:
She: The bakery? We were just talking about it over the weekend? Don't you listen to anything I say? :box:

Next time she does that, I'm gonna say "Thank You" like they do on the TV commercial!

lmao @ WI, bigbad does this to me all the time.

Ditto!!!!!

Another thing that drives me crazy is "issues"
I absolutely hate to hear this buzz word!

We have "issues" with the server.
What was the "issue" with the equipment?
Was that "issue" resolved?
He has "issues".

The word to use is PROBLEMS
An issue is a damn magazine!!!!

Makes me want to :trout: the hell out of anyone who uses that word!!!

I know exactly what you mean Bardog... When I hear people say 'I've got issues', I ask them if they are looking for any back issues.

Unless, of course, it would be a bad time to joke about their problem.

If that's the case... I wait until they are getting over it and I :trout: the hell out of 'em. :p

Just tell them "I don't need to be hearing about you and your tissues!" and walk away.

lol Steph, I think she has!!!!

"...like, you know, ..."

I can cope (badly in the case of "like", but cope all the same) with either phrase in isolation. It's verbal stalling, but what the hell. Used together, I want to start pushing their teeth down their throat, one by one.

But since I think I'm one of those people who can time warp conversations, maybe I'd just best be keeping my mouth shut ;).

G

And you wonder why I'm single?

Drives me straight up the wall and you have to peel me off the ceiling when I hear that something is "NEW and IMPROVED". Is it fuckin new...or is it something you've improved upon? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Also, (oh, this one gets me crazy too) around where I live, something or someone is always "at". Where did you find it "at"? Where did he go "at"? Where did you leave it "at"? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggg! I hate that! Should be, Where did you find it? Where did he go? Where did you leave it?

No "AT"!!! NO FRIGGIN "AT"...damnitalltohell!!!!

Whew! I'm done for now...but I know there is more!

P.S. My mother used to say tager for tiger and I'd cringe whenever she did it. You'd be surprised how often "tiger" came up in our conversations. She probably did it to drive me crazy! LOL!

LOL Hon, don't dwell in GA. If there was to be a global grammar enema we'd get the hose. I work with a guy who constantly uses the wrong words. His command of the language is fingernails on a chalkboard. One of his most common is switching the words "liable" and "reliable". He says "I'm not going to be held reliable for that. " and I'll say "Don't worry, nobody will mistake you for reliable." LOL

ROFLMAO!

Lixy - new and improved drives me nuts, too!


My biggest pet peeve is when you are telling someone about a good restaurant/favorite store of yours and they feel the need to tell you that the ABSOLUTE BEST restaurant in the world is blah, blah, blah. They don't even let you finish talking about your place. WTF?

I have been spending a lot of time in Memphis and was talking to a group of people about some of the best barbeque I had. Some jagoff jumps into the middle of the conversation and tells me that I'm wrong. The best barbeque in the whole world is... Shut the fuck up, moron. I don't care.


Whew. Can anyone tell I haven't gotten much sleep but have had more than enough caffeine this morning? :D

LMAO :D

I’ve loved every post on this thread and can relate to most all of them. :)
While I find a lot of these annoying, I can handle the things like the interjection of “ya know” into each sentence, and even get past the current ‘hot word’ juggler. That’s the person that must include the top 10 hot-words of the week in every discussion to show they are “in the loop.” The only thing I’ve noticed is that most of the time, their loop doesn’t draw up very tightly.

The one that gets to my disconnect switch, is the person that begins the response to any question with “that’s a good question:dizzy:”. Use it once in a discussion and you have my TOTAL attention!! (you now better have an exceptional answer if the question was THAT good) Use it twice and every word is going to be tested for creditability. With the third use, I know you don’t have a fucking clue what you are talking about and I have to turn it completely off. I have left public meetings to prevent a spontaneous outburst and even excused myself from meetings that would only become otherwise antagonistic. For some reason, that flashes a red flag at me over rides everything else.

I have to agree with Lixy about 'new and improved.'

But one of my top pet peeves is the.... 'free gift.' Last time I checked, all gifts were free. That is, indeed, the essence of the 'gift.'

I know I have a few, and commit some that drive others batty....

But the one that drove me nearly insane and I finally had to have a discussion with an English major and correct her misuse on was "ideal". She was using this as an apporpriate substitue of "idea". For example, "I have an ideal on how we can solve the most recent problem."

Mine that I've been corrected on are unthaw and another negated word that escapes me at the moment.

One my mom says that now drives me up a wall is prit'near. It's a midwestern thing and makes me crawl under a rock when I hear it.

I'm prit'near sure it's a southern thing too :p

Having swiftly and shamefully embarrassed someone last night for using it, I had to laugh at myself (after I appologized sweetly and made up) and come tell you.

Apparently I still have a bad reaction to the word "pro-active". A very bad reaction. Luckily "pro-active" sightings have dropped drastically in the last 5 years...I can feel my jaw unclenching as I type.

G

I have problems with pregnant pauses, both giving and receiving.

I hate it when I lose the thread of my thoughts.

"Now where was I before I so rudely interrupted myself?"

Sounds like a malady I once heard referred to as "pausnia"...afflicts many actors who think it adds drama to their performances <rhymes with " William Fatner" coughcough>

My daddy always pronounced "deaf" as "deef", as in "If you don't turn that music down yer gonna be deef!"...eeeeeeerrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhh