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Hi Tony,
Must be a North Americanism. The context in this particular case was regarding issues that were discovered in implementing a new business process, and this coming from one of Canada's biggest banks! Instead of saying something like, "what we learned during this process..." or "after the implementation, we learned..."
Why, Why, Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
Why do banks charge a fee due to insufficient funds when they already know you're broke?
Why is it that when someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you believe them but, if they tell you there is wet paint, you have to touch it to check?
Why do they use sterilized needles for lethal injections?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose cruel idea was it to put an "s" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that, no matter what color bubble bath you use, the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people run over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the first end you try?
How do those dead bugs get into enclosed light fixtures?
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?
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Hi Shipmates, I agree with some of those saying, but Bill scousers always say YOU KNOW. the one that irrates me most is the people who thinke that uou cannot comprehend a sentance without the word right after every two or three words. and the word said has disappeared from the vocaburarly of todays generation and replaced with the word WENT, my first question was WHERE DID YOU GO TO?
Rgds Denis
[QUOTE=osheadenis;76235]Hi Shipmates, I agree with some of those saying,
Well you said it went, right, you know!
A little off topic but nonetheless irritating.
I am sure families of the site members will have called the respective company head office on many occasions enquiring over the ETA of the vessel on which 'hubby' or boy friend was sailing in the days and weeks before actually arriving.
Most of the members serving in the BF in the 50s will have had their families phoning India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool where the receptions used to make a big thing over correcting the unpronounceable names of that companies ships.
Example Q&A:
Family member ' When is the Automedon due in'
Receptionist: Oh, don't you mean the Auto Medon.
Or
Family member When is the Menalaus due in
Receptionist: Oh, don't you mean the Menna LAus
Menestheus would become Menes Theus etc, etc.
This can be applied to virtually all the BF ships.
If, the following day, you wanted an update and asked the question corrected for pronunciation the day before then the reverse was offered
The Receptionists never failed. There seemed to be some BF snobbery instilled in them from inception into the company. I heard this rudeness was stopped in the 60s.
Was a similar trait found in other companies.
Bill
There is a great deal of difference between adding new words or phrases to a language and mis-using existing words or phrases, which is, I believe, the basis of this discussion. And I don't think there is much danger of the English language 'dying' any time soon, other than the new generations who are slowly kiling it with their text speak, as it were.
You may, however, this doesn't alter the fact that some may find these new expressions irritating. When new words or expressions are created such that a language is no longer recognizable, it is indeed very irritating for those of us who have learned and understood it spoken in a certain manner. The very introduction of new words which are not based on the traditional method of root words is enough to kill one language and create another. All of this only serves to prove that there will always be generation gaps, including the use of language.
Not only creating new unfathomable words but wrecking the use of the English language. There is now a craze to use the word MORE in the most inapropriate ways. More quckly instead of quicker etc. But a classic by a poli the other day when he said MORE FASTER!!!!!!
how about the word shine. in american novels they use the word shine, or shined. they never use shines or shone. i blame bill gates and american english. alf