Pretentious? Moi?

"at this moment in time! - I HATE that...!

And the constant misuse of the word 'myself'...

Intoxicated by the exuberance of his own verbosity if you ask me...

It's better than the use of "momentarily" over here to mean "soon" :-)

cheers

Jules

Yes, "The 'plane will be landing momentarily" conjures up all sorts of problems getting 200 people off in time.

I'm also bemused by "nominal" for "normal".

Chris

that sounds fairly unique

In article , The Medway Handyman writes

Sounds like it.

A chum had "It's the machine, you know what to do" which I liked but it confused the f'ck out of biddies.

That too. And *that's* spreading...

And being asked "Do you have a XXXX card" at all? (loyalty card).

I answer "Not even slightly".

LOL!

Bloody NASA do that all the time.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager saying something like:

"Copacetic" was another NASA favourite, back when.

Similarly, "Do you want to ...?", as in "Do you want to show me some ID?", to which my natural response is "No, not really", but I think something more imperative is intended "over there".

Chris

Hmm, that would be a good time to have a small fragment of the card about your person, which could be waved in front of their eyes. "Yes, but only this little bit" would cause some confusion, I imagine.

Hmm, that would be a good time to have a small fragment of the card about your person, which could be waved in front of their eyes. "Yes, but only this little bit" would cause some confusion, I imagine.

have you been burglarized yet?

Or 'going forward', for 'in future'.

or 'for sure' instead of 'certainly'

I remember my first attempt to buy a cup of coffee..in New York.

"Howdyawannit?'"

Pause..

"In a cup? Hot?"

"nah dywantreglahlackand withthesugarorswettener'? "Just milk please"

"oKAY yawantitreglar!".

"Gettingafriedegg" involved a similar rigmarole.

py clappy church over a quote.

A friend who was rarely in recounts answering the 'phone in person once and getting: "Oh, it's you, I wanted to speak to your answering machine."

I think the caller meant "I expected".

Chris

One of the *favourite* words at my works HQ is "Basically" at the start of a sentence.... FFS!

"Basically you have a problem with..."

Makes it sound that they are talking to a moron and have to start at the simplistic terms and work up to get the point across.

Even the customers get the same treatment

Trying to contact the pastor at a happy clappy church over a quote.

His answerphone message is as follows;

"Hi. Unfortunately I have been unable to receive your call at this moment in time. Please leave your name, number & a short message and I will reciprocate your call as expeditiously as possible".

Did he swallow a dictionary?

Nearly everyone of 30 and under seems to start any communication with "To be honest....." As if this is a particular (and unusual) favour being bestowed.

And another irritant: "I didn't used to..." instead of "I used not to..."