Sunday, March 18, 2007
Phrases that annoy me
“At the end of the day….” If I heard this rarely, it wouldn’t be too bad. But some people in England seem unable to speak without this sprinkled liberally in their conversation.
“I’m a glass half full person” (or the variation, “my glass is always half full”- well use a smaller glass then!) This is most popular in women’s personal ads. I’m sure it was cute the first thousand or so times I heard it, but it is heavily overused. Many moons ago, the word for this was optimist.
“Same difference”. My question: ”as what and what?
In England, people say “I couldn’t care less!” This conveys a message that they really don’t give a damn! Americans, for some reason, have the phrase: “I could care less”, which conveys to me that either, they care sufficiently that it is indeed possible that they might be able to care less, or that they have a very stupid phrase which conveys the exact opposite of their intent!
Well, maybe these phrases do annoy me, but at the end of the day, I’m a glass half full person and whatever people say, it’s the same difference, so I could care less.
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“I’m a glass half full person” (or the variation, “my glass is always half full”- well use a smaller glass then!) This is most popular in women’s personal ads. I’m sure it was cute the first thousand or so times I heard it, but it is heavily overused. Many moons ago, the word for this was optimist.
“Same difference”. My question: ”as what and what?
In England, people say “I couldn’t care less!” This conveys a message that they really don’t give a damn! Americans, for some reason, have the phrase: “I could care less”, which conveys to me that either, they care sufficiently that it is indeed possible that they might be able to care less, or that they have a very stupid phrase which conveys the exact opposite of their intent!
Well, maybe these phrases do annoy me, but at the end of the day, I’m a glass half full person and whatever people say, it’s the same difference, so I could care less.
