"My Bad" and other lazy expressions

JimVT | 02/10/03 | JImVT

[JimVT]

It seems we have unleashed yet another bit of bastardized English; this one is "my bad".

[John H K]

My hatred for:

"At this point in time"

knows no bounds (It means exactly the same thing as "at this time")

For whatever reason it is impossible for any law enforcement, search and rescue, EMT, emergency medical, etc. person to give any sort of interview or briefing WITHOUT using "at this point in time." I wonder how THAT started?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Go ahead and flame me and I promise I'll start on "route" and "rout" next!

Not a bad post.

But how about one on "your" and "you're"?

[GOPyouth]

Far out.

[GOPyouth]

Fa shizzle dizzle.

[widgysoft]

Whoopsie dazy, i've just posted to the wrong thread.

[showme_the_Glory]

Don't worry "it's all good"

[Shooter 2.5]

My problem is trying to understand all of the acronyms the military uses. Someone will typed four or five paragraphs and they can't type a couple more words to explain themselves.

[GOPyouth]

This thread is off the hook.

[Temple Drake]

how bout "the foreseeable future"?

[tacticalogic]

I had one once, but the wheels fell off.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I was going to write a long response.

But yada, yada, yada. This is my post.

[ncdrumr]

And what not.

[cowtowney]

I think your right. We're seeing a paradigm shift of meaningless words and bad grammar. It is very unique. For sure.

[Petronski]

When you hear 'the truth of the matter is...' you are being offered one version of the truth, and not a good one.

Listen for it, it is uncanny, especially on political shows.

[babaloo999]

I wonder what he thinks about the alleged word 'doable'.
I heard Rush say it about 10 years ago. He brain farted and couldn't come up with the word 'possible' and he blurted out 'doable'. It seems as if I heard it everywhere after that. You know what I'm saying?

[SerpentDove]

We're talking majorly irritating!

[GoreIsLove]

that hella sucks

[shhrubbery!]

I wonder if these toxic little phrases come from television shows -- sitcoms, maybe? I don't watch them, but through osmosis figured out that the annoying 'yada, yada, yada' came from Seinfeld.

Another dumb ubiquitous phrase is 'lose it,' which I guess means to have an emotional breakdown. Don't know where that came from.

The mother of all stupid phrases is, for me, 'affirmative action.' (Of course it differs from sitcom expressions in that it was created to be obfuscatory, rather than just cute.)

I was in Europe for a couple of years in the early '70s, and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting 'affirmative action, affirmative action.' I had no idea what they were talking about.

[Wright is right!]

I always thought "my bad" was started by Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode One.

Michael

[ladtx]

It is very series. Anyone who uses it is a real looser.