words that should be banned

[Dis]

stop bad mouthing sliced bread!!!

[Buck Birdseed]

Ozz: The thing is, I buy whole loaves from the factory (or at least from large-size, supermarket-delivering bakers) and they're fine- when they're whole, crusty and unsliced. It's when they're sliced that they quickly lose all flavour.

[Provost Harrison]

I think Buck has a damn good point about sliced bread, it is actually quite awful and would take a nice loaf over that synthetic crap any day.

Anyway Paiktis, Golf Sale...well I have been out for a couple of hours so I haven't been able to reply (sometimes I think I am not allowed to leave the internet ), if you ever walk down Oxford Street in London you will see lots of these placards pointing you down random back alleys and all over Soho so it would seem, although I have never followed one. Has anyone actually been to that golf sale? Anyway, it is a bit of a cultural icon now, that sign...

[Buck Birdseed]

I have, by sheer coincidence (I was walking past it). It's a small unassuming shop selling rather luxury-related golf accesories.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
if you ever walk down Oxford Street in London you will see lots of these placards pointing you down random back alleys and all over Soho so it would seem, although I have never followed one.

Soho has some very interesting shops.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
The word I want purged from the English language is Britain, British and all other derivatives (excluding maybe a parochial use to describe the geographical location "British Isles"). It confuses too many Americans.

I agree. It's just alot easier to say, "w ankers."

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by aaglo
Two more phrases that should be banned:

Have a nice day

ACK!


J/K

Irregardless, fo what you may think, I ain't inflammable.

That really hurt, you know what I mean?



ACK!

[MattyBoy]

I can't stand that ACK thing.
As for irregardless, that is not a real word :doitnow:

I just noticed that Buck is aka Snapcase. Amusingly, I had wildly different impressions of you two. Snapcase was a much cooler guy.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by MattyBoy
I can't stand that ACK thing.
As for irregardless, that is not a real word :doitnow:

I just noticed that Buck is aka Snapcase. Amusingly, I had wildly different impressions of you two. Snapcase was a much cooler guy.

Irregardless is, unfortunately, a real word, that means the same as regardless.

As far as that ACK thing:

ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK!



ACK!

[CapitanGarlic]

Just thought of a few that really get me:

"Escaping certain death" -- If death is certain, you can't escape it.

"Changing the course of history" -- History is what has already happened. You can only change that if you have a time machine, and I don't know anyone that does.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
I'm still trying to convince my Hong Kong colleagues that the other word for parentheses is "brackets" not "blankets."

Aren't brackets them square things?

[Dis]

and what are these? {}
brackets []
parenthesis ()

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
The unholy trinity:

Infotainment
Edutainment
Advertorial

No "infomercial?"

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dissident
and what are these? {}
brackets []
parenthesis ()

Braces

[Urban Ranger]

Another irregularity in English:

The plural form of parenthesis is parentheses, not paranthesises.