Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Anna]

HS has mentioned upthread one I hate, which is "For sure" (which is just nonsensical) and I've just noticed in ahinton's last post he has used another which sets teeth on edge "We've gotten to the point" Gotten? What's wrong with good, simple 'got' or even 'reached' or 'arrived'? (I confess I do say 'absolutely' when agreeing with a statement. Must stop doing so)

[3rd Viennese School]

Well yes, every year has been pronounced ten sixty six, eighteen twelve, nineteen eighty four etc.

But then it should have been twenty ten, twenty eleven. I’m sure they’ve called these years two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven.

Then now it’s twenty twelve.

I think I find it infuriating mainly because of it’s overuse. It’s all you ever hear!

I’m sure you guys agree really, deep deep down…

3VS

[anotherbob]

HS has mentioned upthread........

[Mr Pee]

Well yes, every year has been pronounced ten sixty six, eighteen twelve, nineteen eighty four etc.

But then it should have been twenty ten, twenty eleven. I’m sure they’ve called these years two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven.

Then now it’s twenty twelve.

I think I find it infuriating mainly because of it’s overuse. It’s all you ever hear!

I’m sure you guys agree really, deep deep down…

3VS

It WAS twenty ten and twenty eleven.

[ahinton]

I seem to recall plenty of uses of twenty-ten and twenty-eleven. I don't think twenty-twelve is unique- maybe it's just impinged more onto our consciousness because of the brilliant TV series of the same name.

I don't know about that, but twenty-twelve is at least consistent with nineteen-twelve, &c. so I don;t know why the first years of this century are not customarily spoken of as twenty-something...

[ahinton]

HS has mentioned upthread one I hate, which is "For sure" (which is just nonsensical) and I've just noticed in ahinton's last post he has used another which sets teeth on edge "We've gotten to the point" Gotten? What's wrong with good, simple 'got' or even 'reached' or 'arrived'? (I confess I do say 'absolutely' when agreeing with a statement. Must stop doing so)

Nothing wrong with that at all; "gotten" is simply Welsh I mean American for the alternatives...

[3rd Viennese School]

Nothing to do with this thread but what decade are we in?

We've had the nineties and the noughties.

Is this the tenties?

3VS

[Thropplenoggin]

Nothing to do with this thread but what decade are we in?

We've had the nineties and the noughties.

Is this the tenties?

3VS

Sir,

You're avatar recalls a Rorschach test. Am I the only one seeing a pudendum muliebre here?

[salymap]

It WAS twenty ten and twenty eleven.

Well we call Tchaikovsky's overture 1812, isn't that the same ?

[ahinton]

Nothing to do with this thread but what decade are we in?

We've had the nineties and the noughties.

Is this the tenties?

3VS

If so, this must be the time to take advantage of special offers on camping equipment, along the lines of the pseudo-promotion announced by a now deceased BBC journalist with the words "now is the discount on our winter tent"; "discounties" are perhaps at their best during the "tenties". Well, it was my best guess, anyway...

[Anna]

Nothing wrong with upthread, we say upstream, upriver, don't we?

[ahinton]

Well we call Tchaikovsky's overture 1812, isn't that the same ?

I call it cannon fodder, actually, but I realise that not everyone does; it would surely be a shame, though, wouldn't it, if that orotund windbag that is the same composer's G major piano sonata were his sole aberration?...

[ahinton]

Nothing wrong with upthread, we say upstream, upriver, don't we?

And sometimes some people also say "up yours" - though not, heaven forfend, to you!

[Anna]

If so, this must be the time to take advantage of special offers on camping equipment, along the lines of the pseudo-promotion announced by a now deceased BBC journalist with the words "now is the discount on our winter tent"; "discounties" are perhaps at their best during the "tenties". Well, it was my best guess, anyway...

No, that is the famous slogan on the Trekkit shop in Widemarsh Street, Hereford which ran:
"Now is The Winter of our Discounted Tents"

[ahinton]

No, that is the famous slogan on the Trekkit shop in Widemarsh Street, Hereford which ran:
"Now is The Season of our Discounted Tents"

Well, I don't know how recently they might have put that one up, but they'd probably nicked the idea - albeit tentatively - from whoever it was that had put it up for Brian Redhead's use on an edition of BBC R4's Today programme and, although I don't remember exactly when that happened, he's been dead for almost 19 years so it must have been quite a long while ago.

Where's this Hereford place, anyway? Anyone here know?...