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Old 03-22-2010, 09:08 AM   #61
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Ahhh...

Sunnies, boardies, toasty, brickie, sparky, pollie, bluey, barbie, brekkie, Brizzie, bushie, telly, chewie, choccie, Chrissie, cockie, coldie, cozzie, divvy van, dunny, durry, exy, footy, grundies, undies, lippie, middy, oldies, pokies, postie, pozzy, prezzie, rellie, rollie, scratchy, sickie, sticky, surfie, tallie, tinny, tinny, trackies, uggies, uni, Vinnie's, yewy

Then there's the stuff we end in '-o'...
I find this list fascinating but frightening - I have disturbing mental images for what most of these terms (could) refer to but am afraid to share. We could do a separate thread trying to guess, for ex., what a "durry" is! Crikey!
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:16 AM   #62
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"mute" when immediately followed by the word "point".
"orientated", when people say that I always think of potatoes.
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:29 AM   #63
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Not a word, but a suffix - the unthinking and careless burdening of otherwise harmless, maybe even useful, words with -ise/ize. As in "It is the human resources department's role to incentivise staff"
As someone learning English, I find this ise/ize confusing since it's virtually impossible to find any references on this...

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Uh-- (preparing to duck and run) "liseuse"?
It's a French word.

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I don't get it.


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"Atlantic"?
Someone from Atlanta?
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:41 AM   #64
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:46 AM   #65
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I dislike people who wrongly use any arbitrary noun as a verb. Eg, "medal", meaning "to win a medal" or "gift" meaning "to give as a gift".
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:54 AM   #66
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As someone learning English, I find this ise/ize confusing since It's imossible to find any references on this...
You're not the only one!

Generally, in US and Canadian English -ize is used, in British and Australian English, -ise is used; and there is no real hard and fast rule (except where the word has no alternative ending (eg capsize is always capsize and not capsise)).

In England, Oxford University Press uses -ize and Cambridge University Press uses -ise

Going back a bit, -ize is the Greek ending, -ise the Latin

If you want to get even more confused by it, try this as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...s#-ise.2C_-ize

Sticking -ise or -ize on the end of a word that really shouldn't have it, such as incentive, is just creating buzzwords to make the business sound forward thinking and with it, or some other such nonsense. (I know language evolves, but really - incentivise? )
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Old 03-22-2010, 10:05 AM   #67
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It would be nice if these three words could be limited to those knowing their proper meaning and usage.

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Old 03-22-2010, 10:11 AM   #68
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Old 03-22-2010, 10:16 AM   #69
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I dislike people who wrongly use any arbitrary noun as a verb.
Seems a bit harsh to dislike someone on that account - they may have other redeeming qualities.

I think I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I don't like 'so going' in phrases like - 'I'm so going to buy his next album'; 'I'm so going to get in trouble for that', etc.
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It would be nice if these three words could be limited to those knowing their proper meaning and usage.

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Old 03-22-2010, 10:19 AM   #71
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... I think I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I don't like 'so going' in phrases like - 'I'm so going to buy his next album'; 'I'm so going to get in trouble for that', etc.
You are so right! Again, one of those expressions that was kind of cute the first 397,000 times it was used.
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Re: council, counsel, console
It's usually the second definition of console that gets misused. i.e.

My computer council/counsel is frozen.
The CD's are in the council/counsel of the truck.
We have three game councils/counsels for the PS3.
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Seems a bit harsh to dislike someone on that account - they may have other redeeming qualities.

I think I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I don't like 'so going' in phrases like - 'I'm so going to buy his next album'; 'I'm so going to get in trouble for that', etc.
I'm so going to be all about using that phrase at work tomorrow.

But only to annoy people
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Re: council, counsel, console
It's usually the second definition of console that gets misused. i.e.
My computer council/counsel is frozen.
The CD's are in the council/counsel of the truck.
We have three game councils/counsels for the PS3.
Yes, or if what they actually mean is consol.
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I'm so going to be all about using that phrase at work tomorrow.

But only to annoy people
Stop it now!

Actually, there are so many words and phrases I have an aversion to these days, I'm wondering if it might be me who has the problem.
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