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Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Mr. Pickles
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
What five-year-old is doing that?Ned said:
Saying "fantsy-tantsy!" instead of fantastic.
I just made that one up and had to restrain myself from saying it out loud. If I had let it slip, I feel like it probably had a really good chance of catching on, which would have been terrible. Crisis averted, I hope.
I just made that one up and had to restrain myself from saying it out loud. If I had let it slip, I feel like it probably had a really good chance of catching on, which would have been terrible. Crisis averted, I hope.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
" Conflate / Conflated / Conflating "
and
" Canard "
These used to be perfectly good words. This political season has ruined both of them. you can fast forward to 2038 and the second I hear some cockbreath use "conflate" in the middle of debate, I'm going to flash back to a Clinton/Trump should-have-shutup-about-an-hour-ago windbag session from 22 year prior.
and
" Canard "
These used to be perfectly good words. This political season has ruined both of them. you can fast forward to 2038 and the second I hear some cockbreath use "conflate" in the middle of debate, I'm going to flash back to a Clinton/Trump should-have-shutup-about-an-hour-ago windbag session from 22 year prior.
Kafka
Footballguy
MikeIke
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
msommer
Footballguy
Gianni Verscotchie
Footballguy
My entire life, I've never heard anyone say 'heighth' - until this year.
I've heard it used at least 6 times already this year - Friend, youtube video, Olympic coverage, etc..
I'm pretty sure it's not even a word.
"Please state your heighth and weighth"
I've heard it used at least 6 times already this year - Friend, youtube video, Olympic coverage, etc..
I'm pretty sure it's not even a word.
"Please state your heighth and weighth"
Sconch
Footballguy
"We need to get this tent up before it rains. Hand me those canvas support thingies."
Peyton Marino
Footballguy
At least 80% of the time that someone writes "purposefully," they really mean "purposely."
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
sandboxing
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
1. "Hot take." Really just means that the person using the term finds the "take" to be out of step with the person's own opinions, and has little to do with the speed at which the "take" is delivered. Also, I said this in some other thread, but when I find myself reacting to breaking news, I don't always require days or weeks of careful musing and pinpoint, nuanced draftsmanship to express a few halfway coherent thoughts.
2. "Game script." This is apparently going to be the new "in" word to refer to how a given fantasy football player fits into various real-life offensive schemes. The term itself isn't wrong in terms of usage, but somehow we managed to get by without it for some 18-20 seasons, and now it's ubiquitous.
3. "Sure, Demaryius Thomas will get his, but Emmanuel Sanders is gonna eat." Just horrible and must be killed before it multiplies.
2. "Game script." This is apparently going to be the new "in" word to refer to how a given fantasy football player fits into various real-life offensive schemes. The term itself isn't wrong in terms of usage, but somehow we managed to get by without it for some 18-20 seasons, and now it's ubiquitous.
3. "Sure, Demaryius Thomas will get his, but Emmanuel Sanders is gonna eat." Just horrible and must be killed before it multiplies.
Ditka Butkus
Footballguy
So
El Floppo
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
this thread is always an eye-opener for me... people really say this? how would that even work, anyways? yeah... teddy threw for 3 TDs today, but I'm only a shareholder, so I get... what.. 2.3 pts total.
Ditka Butkus
Footballguy
So the reason I called you here was to update you about the storm
What direction is the storm heading?
So the storm is tracking to the east.
What time will it make landfall?
So it should make landfall around 8:00 pm.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
So it is what it is. Let's dance!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
irish eyes
Footballguy
With the fantasy football ones being discussed, I imagine "to many mouths to feed" is in here somewhere. But I had to mention it because whoever says this should be killed on the spot. Absolute worst of the worst
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Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Agree. Related to the "X will get his, but Y is gonna eat" trash that I referred to a few posts up. It (and the "mouths to feed" atrocity) was really big on Rotoworld last season, but they seem to have moved on. Still worth a mention just in case, I deem.
mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
asphyxia sounds like fun! let's dance!!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I don't like it either. But since the "Update", the posts no longer have numbers to refer to. Joy.
-fish-
Footballguy
because they're comparing them to other people in their pantheon. they aren't comparing to just a single player, but players of a particular type.
HTH.
Cybergeek
Footballguy
But there was only one Babe Ruth, one Hank Aaron, one Mickie Mantle. Can't the comparisons take place without referring to people in plural form?
"He's as dominate as Ruth, Aaron, and Mantle". Or "He's as dominate as the Ruths, the Aarons, and the Mantles".
mr. furley
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
But it's so sub-macro ironic in the right hands. If i was a toothy Dominican girl, an army couldn't stop me saying it every 12 seconds
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