"Say when." - Phrases that bother you.

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" 'The truth will set you free.'

Incomplete. "Trust in God and the truth will set you free." Or smething along those lines. I haven't read a bible in 3423546754 days."

That's obvious. Jhn 8:32 "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

"Even though I don't go to church anymore it still annoys me when people throw the incomplete phrase around."

Why? It's a complete sentence, and the meaning of the quotation. The truth can't make you free unless you know it.

"Anyone that uses 'x' and 'y' as an example will feel my boot up their pants bottom. Even when they say 'boy1' or 'boy2'. I prefer to be given names. It's just confusing."

"And if I feel your boot on my pants bottom, you'll feel my fist in your solar plexus. What do you have against algebra? Or Hayakawa? You aren't trying to define 'Mutt, Jeff, and/or Roger', you're trying to define 'boy'".

"Oh, and 'boys will be boys.' From a young age I was against the division of boys and girls."

Girls don't get into even half the mischief boys do. "They aren't boys, they're young hoodlums!" Most girls don't *want* to be around boys until they've gotten a little bit civilized.

"It comes with the territory."

Kangaroos don't come with US territory.

"It's unAustralian." That's not even in the dictionary...how unAustralian.
Most times people just makes jokes about it because it's such an annoying word to hear people say."

It's "People make jokes...", not "People makes jokes..." The word "people" is plural. If you're going to be persnickety about language, then learn the use of it first. It would probably be a good idea for you to go back to the Elizabethan English of the King James Bible, and then work forward.

i should've remembered that, as my late mother was japanese. i was too slow for her to teach me any.

Thanks. I'll be reading Hamlet next week, actually.

I get asked a lot by people who don't know me, "Whats wrong?" People who know me know that I always look like that. And majority of the time, their isn't anything wrong. I will often say in response, "nothing". But then with the social rules, when acquaintances asks you if theirs something wrong you either say "no" or whats wrong in very vague, non-TMI terms.

I get irritated by that phrase. See when theirs something up, I have a tendency just to come out and say it. And people have told me I should ask, "whats wrong?" instead" So I learned its peoples nice way of saying, "whats wrong with you?"

But then it begs the question of why people ask "whats wrong?" if they dont actually wanna know what is wrong? Cause out of all the things that could be wrong, probably 90% of it is TMI. Yeah theirs some non-TMI things that can be wrong such as, just being tired, have too much work, etc but come on people.....If you dont wanna know what is really wrong, dont ask it? I mean what is it suddenly, our message to suck it up and act like theirs nothing wrong.

"One out of every"

For example, it has been claimed that one out of every 110 children has an autism spectrum disorder.

Unless there is exactly one and the entire population is 110 this phrase can never be accurate. For example in a group of 220 people(218 non-autistic people and two autistic people), on average one out of 110 people would be autistic, but if you select a different selection of 110 people from the selection of 220 it is possible for either two or zero out of that group of 110 people to be autistic.

"calm down" this does not make me feel any better and how am I supposed to calm down if it's not fixed?

"chill" this does not help my anxiety. It's not like I am choosing to get stressed out




I had no idea "what's wrong?" was a phrase. I thought it meant what's wrong. I had used it myself when I see someone crying or upset. I never knew it was a nice way of saying whats wrong with them.

"Highly recommend" or "Highly recommended"

To me, either you recommend something or you don't. You shouldn't need to grade your recommendation. I have heard severa; people use it and now they are using it in a commercial on TV. Might as well be fingernails on a chalkboard.

The wonders of words being borrowed from different languages. It may be pronounced "Kah-rah-oh-ke" in Japanese, however the accepted pronunciation in English is still "Carry-oh-key"

The axiomatic meaningless statements:

Well you know boys will be boys.
That's just Jack being Jack.

and the worst:
It is what it is.

What is that phrase supposed to mean?!

Stuff like this drives me nuts:

"Can you xxxxxx?" When what they really should be saying is "Will you xxxxxx?"

where is the "y" [long E sound] in the romaji [phonetically transcribed japanese] "kara-oke"? it is invisible to me, i don't find it in any of the letters.

It's not present in the Japanese. That's just the way it's pronounced in English. I just attempted to describe it with other words. You notice the same sound again at the end of the English word, while the similar vowel sounds in the Japanese are in the first to morae. English is just a very weird language.

my point was that it is a disrespect to the people who speak the other languages for us to willfully mispronounce their words, IOW make no attempt at saying them correctly or even spelling them correctly. americans who take umbrage at foreigners who butcher our language need to know it works the other way 'round also. this said, americans are not the only offenders, i like the way the english warp certain french words like "garage" [even though a sizable portion of british citizens travelling through france speak french relatively well].

'Make the most of what you've got' - usually said to women about their appearance, which implies that one's appearance is a resource.

'I need to work to put food on the table' - no you don't, not in the developed world.

'That's what things are like in the real world'. I'm not even going to say anything about that one.

"Them...." instead of "Those..." when referring to objects.

Also, "Don't worry, it is light-years away!"
No. A light year is a measure of distance, not time.

My daughter hates it when I say "Just a second!". I can't say that anymore because in one second she'll be saying "it's been a second!". Even if I say "Just a minute!" I can hear her begin to count...