Word use that drives you up the wall!

[Scott in Houston]

Unfortunately, I type so slow, I have two options.

Slowly... you type slowly. haha

[03Lightningrocks]

Unfortunately, I type so slow, I have two options.

Slowly... you type slowly. haha

Irregardless... .... That is my excuse and I am sticking with it.

[pancho]

Using the letter Z instead of S at the end of words.

for realz?

do you speak liek this guy?

[WildBill]

Single Mother [Flame Suit On]

IMO, the way this term is popularly used lumps women into a single group and views them like they are somehow inferior.

I don't think that being single or a mother is a protected class or need special treatment.

Some women are married and some are single. Does that make either group better than the other?

Some women are mothers and some are not. Some are good mothers, some are not.

Some "single mothers" are better off single than when they were married and should not be pitied.

The thing that bothers me most is that I have a feeling that it's a euphemism for something else.

[WildBill]

Fixed Income [Flame Suit On]

I know this term is usually applied to people who are retired, disability, pensions, etc.

I am fortunate enough to still be working full time, but I am still on a "fixed income".

Every two weeks, I get the same amount of income.

I am on salary so I can't work extra hours for extra pay.

I think that the real issue is amount of the income coming in, not that fact that it is fixed.

I would like to have a $100,000 per year fixed income.

[HKMike]

Overuse and misuse of the word "literally." It drives me up the wall! For example someone says, "my head literally exploded." I would like to see that.

[Rex B]

Overuse and misuse of the word "literally." It drives me up the wall! For example someone says, "my head literally exploded." I would like to see that.

[WildBill]

Overuse and misuse of the word "literally." It drives me up the wall! For example someone says, "my head literally exploded." I would like to see that.

I literally don't think that you would like to see that.

[pancho]

Overuse and misuse of the word "literally." It drives me up the wall! For example someone says, "my head literally exploded." I would like to see that.

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[mamabearCali]

May used interchangeably with might. They are not the same term.

May=permission. May I please use the restroom? May I please have a soda? Yes, you may.

Might = a possibility . My daughter might learn ballet this summer.


Now let's put it all together.

It *might* snow this weekend. If it does, my husband says I *may* not drive to New York for the baby shower.

[pancho]

Fixed Income [Flame Suit On]

I know this term is usually applied to people who are retired, disability, pensions, etc.

I am fortunate enough to still be working full time, but I am still on a "fixed income".

Every two weeks, I get the same amount of income.

I am on salary so I can't work extra hours for extra pay.

I think that the real issue is amount of the income coming in, not that fact that it is fixed.

I would like to have a $100,000 per year fixed income.

In some recent years, retirees got bigger COLA increases than I did.

[HKMike]

Overuse and misuse of the word "literally." It drives me up the wall! For example someone says, "my head literally exploded." I would like to see that.

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Thanks! I feel better after watching that.

[Oldgringo]

Fixed Income [Flame Suit On]

I know this term is usually applied to people who are retired, disability, pensions, etc.

I am fortunate enough to still be working full time, but I am still on a "fixed income".

Every two weeks, I get the same amount of income.

I am on salary so I can't work extra hours for extra pay.

I think that the real issue is amount of the income coming in, not that fact that it is fixed.

I would like to have a $100,000 per year fixed income.

In some recent years, retirees got bigger COLA increases than I did.

Pikers! I want to be in that $250,000 bracket the current POTUS speaks of.

[jbarn]

Single Mother [Flame Suit On]

IMO, the way this term is popularly used lumps women into a single group and views them like they are somehow inferior.

I don't think that being single or a mother is a protected class or need special treatment.

Some women are married and some are single. Does that make either group better than the other?

Some women are mothers and some are not. Some are good mothers, some are not.

Some "single mothers" are better off single than when they were married and should not be pitied.

The thing that bothers me most is that I have a feeling that it's a euphemism for something else.

I don't like "single mother" either. It is often misleading. Some are single mothers, some are divorced, some are widowed. To me, single mother means never married.

[Abraham]

"Can I have"...asked in a restaurant to a wait staffer, rather than "I'll have...

Why, do quite a few people ask this in such a situation?

To me, it sounds infantile.

With such a question, the questioner puts him/her self in a subservient role, when in fact it's quite the other way around.

Many moons ago, I had a British girlfriend who who ask this when dining out and I requested she stop with the dopey question.

She informed me it was the polite thing to do.

I couldn't convince her it wasn't impolite when ordering in a restaurant to start out with: "I'll have the Chateaubriand or whatever...