Constant Use of Inane Sayings

[Andara Bledin]

Soft 'g' words:

Gigawatt, gigabyte, giant, geography. And any words derived from the same roots.

And it's Italian, so it's Nu tella. Can't really use English rules (of which there are at least two different ones that could apply) to foreign words.

Though, to be fair, we do it all the time. After all, when is the last time you heard someone say vice versa as four syllables?

[Ginger Tea]

I use hard G for Gig's, rarely use wattage terms, but that would be hard too, I have heard the soft J, but as I don't use science terms that often, there could have been a giga and a jigawatt and geography is ge not gi, the main point was how many gi j sounds are there compared to hard G's.

It was more, of the top of my head I cant think of many j gi words to make jif seem valid, but I can find a lot more hard G's.
It's like saying oh it's pronounced Jif when there are maybe 5 out of the dozen Gi words that has a soft J.

I thought it was Swiss, but I don't pay that much attention to the labels and its been years since I've had it, mainly cos I never buy milk or bread any more, not that milk is needed, I just rarely buy either cos when I come to want to use em they are mouldy or off, or some bugger has used them.

[BrenDAnn]

A phrase that I am tired of hearing: "Working hard, or hardly working?"

*twitch*

Also, "What's the good word today?"

I'm not religious (raised Christian though) but I do believe the "good word" is the Bible, in some circles. Correct me if I'm wrong. Meanwhile, I'd love it if the people that use these phrases would stop trying and failing at being clever, thanks.

[Bloodsoul]

I've yet to see a button that I would consider 'cute'.

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

A phrase that I am tired of hearing: "Working hard, or hardly working?"

*twitch*

HATE!!! I used to get that at work a lot, from the same kind of morons who think "there's no price tag, it must be free, hur hur" was funny.

Also: "Hot enough for ya?" and "Tell me how you really feel".

HISSSS!!!

[HYHYBT]

I've only known one person who regularly used "working hard or hardly working." She also said things like "put your roller skates on" and "we're cooking with gas now," neither of which I'd ever heard before.

[Aethian]

I've heard "we're cooking with gas now" but I don't know when.

One I hate...hate...HATE is "Hot/Cold enough for ya?" No...I haven't heard that one multiple times today.

[Andara Bledin]

I've heard and used, "Now, we're cooking with gas." But it's definitely an old-school term.

[catcul]

The only time I cook with gas is when I use the grill.

[wolfie]

I've heard and used, "Now, we're cooking with gas." But it's definitely an old-school term.

My understanding is that it dates back to when most people used wood stoves, and only people on the "bleeding edge" of technology had the new gas stoves. Definitely marks it as an old-school term.

[XCashier]

My understanding is that it dates back to when most people used wood stoves, and only people on the "bleeding edge" of technology had the new gas stoves. Definitely marks it as an old-school term.

Especially since many stoves now are electric.

Pretty much every cutesy "joke" that customers come up with goes here.

• The aforementioned "Working hard or hardly working?"
• "It didn't scan, so it must be free!"
• "Sitting down on the job again?" (usually when you're sitting on the floor stocking the bottom shelf)
• "Get back to work!" (usually when you're already busting your ass)

Yeah, off and get a new writer, thank you.

[HYHYBT]

I'm not sure whether this fits better here or in the "stupid new words" thread, but I just ran across a misusage I've never seen before and which makes no sense as written: "It just donned on me."

[Andara Bledin]

I'm not sure whether this fits better here or in the "stupid new words" thread, but I just ran across a misusage I've never seen before and which makes no sense as written: "It just donned on me."

Well, if we're going there, we've got the ever-popular "intensive purposes."

And, in a thread on another forum, someone kept referring to those who only think in the near-term as being "short sided."

[Ginger Tea]

without knowing the specifics the Donned on me gaff could stem from the speaker picking up the phrase from some one who learnt it with English as a 2nd language, so they might not have known they were saying dawned wrong, thus the person who picked up the phrase from them might not know it is wrong to begin with.

An episode of Midsummers Murder had two characters use the same mangled phrase "the long and the tall of it" both were meant to be unrelated to each other, but the odds of two strangers using the same phrase wrongly especially both now living in a small village.

No one in Japan corrected the west about Sushi not meaning raw fish, now if anything it is westerners informing us of the correct term Sashimi.
Sake is not a wine, but we still call it rice wine.

Back to dawned / donned, they might say donned but also write it correctly as dawned, it might purely be an accent thing, just as most people would say Ma-Jor-ka instead of Me-orc-a.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VFqbroi1I

[Andara Bledin]

I'm pretty sure the majority of English speakers pronounce "don" and "dawn" as homophones.

This is apparently the case for most Americans as well as Scots, apparently.