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10-02-2015, 01:08 PM
#51
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I ask, "Did I tell you...?" However, it's not mindlessly that I do; my memory isn't reliable. I might have simply thought it rather than said it, or I might have told someone else, and I don't want to annoy the hearer with a retelling if I have already told them. So I follow it up with a very short subject matter. "Did I tell you that my mom was in the hospital last week?" Then I wait for their answer. Or at least I try to remember to ask. Sometimes my inner elderly woman launches into last week's news without fair warning!
QUOTE=bearisgray;7333883]"Did I tell you...?" - when I've already heard the story at least three times!
"Have a nice day" - it's better than someone saying "Have a bad day" - but I am hoping for "nice" for longer than a day.
"It is what it is."[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=bearisgray;7333883]"Did I tell you...?" - when I've already heard the story at least three times!
"Have a nice day" - it's better than someone saying "Have a bad day" - but I am hoping for "nice" for longer than a day.
"It is what it is."[/QUOTE]
10-03-2015, 04:25 AM
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I didn't realize it, but while sitting with my best childhood friend at the funeral home, I was saying "Weird" a lot. "She is so weird", "That blouse looks really weird on her", It's so weird to be here today". I'm glad my friend brought it to my attention; I will try to not use it again. Weird that I would pick that word, huh?
10-03-2015, 05:22 AM
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I use "then" way too much when trying to teach something. You don't see it as much because I always read my posts before I click "Post". I try to correct my mistakes and goofs, but I'm not always successful at finding all of them. Sometimes I wonder where people are looking when they type in a post. Aren't they looking at what they are writing?
The editor of our newspaper says: "I bought a ticket for my wife and I." Did you buy a ticket for I? Take the "and" out and see if it works. Our club president always says: "If you have questions, see Cindy or I." Makes me cringe every time. You don't say: "See I."
Usually I is at the beginning of a sentence and me is at the end. Not always, but mostly.
The editor of our newspaper says: "I bought a ticket for my wife and I." Did you buy a ticket for I? Take the "and" out and see if it works. Our club president always says: "If you have questions, see Cindy or I." Makes me cringe every time. You don't say: "See I."
Usually I is at the beginning of a sentence and me is at the end. Not always, but mostly.
10-03-2015, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by maviskw
...The editor of our newspaper says: "I bought a ticket for my wife and I." Did you buy a ticket for I? Take the "and" out and see if it works. Our club president always says: "If you have questions, see Cindy or I." Makes me cringe every time. You don't say: "See I."
Usually I is at the beginning of a sentence and me is at the end. Not always, but mostly.
Usually I is at the beginning of a sentence and me is at the end. Not always, but mostly.
10-03-2015, 08:42 AM
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Me, myself, and I used incorrectly
The words basically, exited, neutralized, actually
The phrase "I'm gonna have to say"
mispronounced words such as "libarry and chimley"
I think I have a lot of pet peeves :-)
The thing that helped me the most was joining Toastmasters and having to pay a nickel for every umm, ahh, like, and so.
The words basically, exited, neutralized, actually
The phrase "I'm gonna have to say"
mispronounced words such as "libarry and chimley"
I think I have a lot of pet peeves :-)
The thing that helped me the most was joining Toastmasters and having to pay a nickel for every umm, ahh, like, and so.
10-03-2015, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by willferg
"Just." I read an article that said women tend to use this word to minimize what they are asking for, i.e., "I just wondered if you had made a decision yet," or "I'm just checking in." If I say those things and leave "just" out, I feel much stronger.
10-03-2015, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by oh munner
Well I don't know about anyone else, but IMHO I would much rather hear... awesome, like, fabulous, so, really, or any of the other words listed, over so many foul mouthed men AND WOMEN, young and old, we seem to encounter on a daily basis, who can't get through a sentence without using the "F" word to describe just about EVERYTHING!!!!! So, like, needless to say, I just think it's really, totally awesome when a sentence can be completed without the use of foul language. Seriously!!!! 
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