Oh we've done this we've done this!!
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Err nothing was actually decided, I don't think, except that the English hate the French.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
SOmeone like Stephen Fry would say "restauran" and it just stinks of pretentiousness: "It's a French word, don't you know?". Yes, I'm aware of this but we've been using this word for a very long time indeed and I think we're at a point where we can start pronouncing it as spelled.
― ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Gordon Ramsay's seemingly unique pronunciation of the word "restaurant" is seriously one of the most irritating things on British television.
― Venga, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
filet = fil-LAYfillet = FILL-ittwo different words, ain't they?
fillet = FILL-it
two different words, ain't they?
Not necessarily.
filet (ˈfɪlɪt, ˈfɪleɪ, French filɛ) — n fillet fillet a variant spelling of fillet
― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, yes, in the U.S. it's fi-LAY mignon and McDonald's serves Fi-LAY O' Fish.
― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was a waiter, the English and Australian guests said "FILL-et" (or FILL-it, not sure which). (And b/c the filet mignon was listed on the menus as only "Filet," they sometimes asked "Filet of what?"
― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd say fi-LAY mignon, but fill-it o'fish.
― ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
for the same reason i don't go round asking mcdonalds staff for filay au poisson.
― ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oh okay i was thinking of fillet as in:
2. a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.
this usage is always pronounced 'FILL-et' afaik
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Firefox doesn't thinks it should always be spelled "fillet."
But then again, Firefox alerts me that "women's" is a typo, too.
― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it hates "women's" and "children's".
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
what about 'it's a steep learning curve' to describe a task that is hard to pick up? Now, if time is on the Y axis and competence is on the X-axis, as is the convention, then a steep curve indicates a job that is picked up very quickly. It's a _shallow_ curve that indicates difficulty. Perhaps people have the mental picture of a steep curve being hard to climb.
friend of mine had this to say: steep learning curve - nothing to do with time, all about the amount you get better at something (x) compared to the amount of effort required (y).
― NI, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yes.
dog latin when referring to the large down-filled bed covering do you say "DOO-vett"?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
when you catch a fish do you fillet it? (fill it it)
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
she was only the fishmonger's daughter but she lay on the slab and said fillet
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJOIqVAD-s
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
fingers
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I am struggling to make some sort of filet of fish commercial + casiotone for the painfully alone joke right now
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Fish Filet for the Culturally Delayed
― corey, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
swag
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
derring-do
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
People don't say derring-do enough IMO.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
actioned (this is the first time i have seen this "word")
context: your unsubscribe request has been received and will be actioned.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"stunned"
whenever something mildly unexpected happens in sport, politics &c the person or persons on the receiving end are always said to be "stunned".
― Neil S, Monday, 27 June 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
similarly "floored"
― corey, Monday, 27 June 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
'extravaganza''bonanza'
ugh
and er
'mentalist', as in a nutty, crazy person.
also when people use 'depressive' as an adjective. stfu. 'depressing' is obviously right.
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
'blogosphere'
come on really what the fuck
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
utilize
― remy bean, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
and any word with the same letter in more than about 4 times. i cant think of an example right now. but yeah.
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I will try to popularize the term "protes" for proteins.
― fletrejet, Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:36 PM (7 years ago)
So happy this never materialized.
― Aimless, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ouster
― flopson, Thursday, 10 November 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
idk what I was thinking choosing to intern at a middle school when, for 15 years straight, my least favorite word has been and still isappropriateSometimes it's the right word to use but so many of the times it's notand I have caught the diseaseI just flung it out there in a way that wasn't appropriateyou guys really don't know the complex web of hatred I have for this wordeven though sometimes it is the right word
― puffy paint (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
lather. rinse. repeat.
― Aimless, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
today is a good day for me and crippling long-term hatred!
― puffy paint (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
"amusing" -- almost always used in an arch, self-aware way. ugh. "arguably" -- rarely actually needed in a sentence. "old school" -- should never be applied to anything that is not old hip-hop.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
transmittal
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm guilty of nearly all three of J.D's.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
I want to murder people who use the word "timely" as an adverb ("submit the application timely"), even though I know it's grammatically correct. it seems to be a favorite usage of bureaucratic assholes who will punish you for untimeliness, so maybe it's tainted by association. on the other hand, the clunky phrase "in a timely manner" (in which "timely" is an adjective) doesn't enrage me much at all.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I thought maybe I hated all words that had an -ly ending in both their adjectival and adverbial forms, but words like "weekly" and "daily" and "early" don't seem to bother me, so "timely" must be uniquely evil.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
i hate that use of "timely" too! the same people i've heard use "timely" like that also said "verbage" (to mean "legal language").
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
former english majors with depressive disorders should not go into dilbert/office space type careers.
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
haw
on further thought, it seems like people use the adverb "timely" for brevity's sake to avoid the wordy construction "in a timely manner". but for some reason it doesn't occur to these people that they can use similarly brief (and far less irritating) alternatives like "on time" and "early" and "promptly". I guess assholes who edit themselves for brevity and plain speech are still assholes.
verbage/verbiage is absolutely vile, I agree.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
(but "verbose" is alright)
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
One thing that has been getting on my nerves lately is "journey" as used by reality show contestants "it's been an amazing journey and I just don't want it to end" and otherwise intelligent documentary presenters talking to camera at the end of the film: "I've been a journey and have discovered..."
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'v e been *on* a journey, I mean.
'anyways'
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 June 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
stateside
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
magisterial.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
^ I'm guessing that poor word has been badly overworked lately on BBC.
― Aimless, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link