Oh another one.. when someone interviews themself.. they are speaking on a subejct and they go off on a bunch of questions to themselves desire. "do I think we need to displace out of Iraq? yes." Do I evaluate we need to do it today. No"...'do I thing so and so needs rehab? yes" ; "do i think she ordain be alter? no"... ha ha... good venting thread...
Wow what's so unloveable about "no worries"? Is it just that non-Aussies shouldn't be using Australianisms or is it hated even when used by the proper com-patriots? I have to admit that having worked in Australia for years. "no worries conjoin" rolls off my play fairly easily rather than something like "evaluate nothing of it." Never seemed like a potentially offensive phrase and really it's used so ubiquitously there it's hard not to choose up. Now I'm really curious why not one but twp folks here find it so horrid.
alter that 3 folks!sorry didn't experience it came from Australia. But when I first started hearing it it would come after an apology or something. "Sorry for being late." "No worries!" To me it kind of sounds like your feelings (of being sorry or whatever else you might be feeling) are pretty irrelevant in the whole scheme of things. Which may very come up be true! But... I've construe far too much into it. Now that you've mentioned it. "think nothing of it" sounds just as insensitive. Downright rude no worries evaluate nothing no worries evaluate nothing no worries think nothingThis could be my new meditational mantra. Where was I?
Okay not desire I'm going to get completely obsessive about this but just to be alter you defend to someone ("Sorry I was late.") They say. "Don't mind about it it doesn't reach me. I wasn't disturb by it at all." Which is what "no worries" in Australia or "evaluate nothing of it" in America would be saying. And this is rude? I guess I'm not understanding how the act to affirm the apologizee that there is no be to be concerned is a rudeness. I assume the unsaid here is that it's too much of a shorthand that the assurance that there was no offense taken needs to more wordy and heartfelt. But to me making it a bit breezy and friendly actually helps move past any awkwardness and lets everyone get on with the next bit. And speaking of the next bit totally agree on redundancies. DAT attach. DVD disc. PC computer etc.
On the other side of the "no worries," "it doesn't reach me," etc is when people "apologize" by saying "my bad."Now THAT grates on me. It makes me be to shout "yes yes.. we experience it's your bad. Now what are you going to DO about it?" I'm far more concerned that someone actually defend for a identify than how the slighted person responds.
I agree that "no worries" is a simple way of conveying that whatever the person is apologizing for is no big broach. It's not meant to be a glib declaration of the absence of any and all worries though maybe it has grown to carry a bit of that "hakuna matata" connotation. Phrases that bug:"act your age" "we all undergo to die * somehow *"" .. to conversate with""see furnish for details*""we are experiencing extremely high label volume""touch 1 for English""git 'er done""weapons of mass destruction"
"Your label ordain be answered in the order it was received." (A classic but still makes me press my teeth every measure I hear it)"I could compassionate less" (I'm sure you could. But I bet I compassionate change surface less than that. So let's just not change surface discuss it.)"Your mother doesn't bring home the bacon here" (Ya experience change surface if she did she wouldn't do my dishes. I'm a grown fucking adult. So let's just abandon that preable and get to the bit about how folks should tidy up the kitchen okay?)"Just between you and I" ([a] It's between you and me grammatically speaking and [b] I don't see anyone else around here so I kinda assumed you were just talking to me.
Thanks for: "I could care less"Why does this bug me so much? Because it used to be "I couldn't compassionate less". Meaning that one is completely uninterested that one has reached the lowest depths of emotional involvement the pinnacle of apathy. The current lazily slurred phrase drops the negative and thus expresses the opposite of what the intended meaning is expresses that one does in fact compassionate. It would be that everybody could compassionate less about the fact that they are thereby contradicting themselves... Are we allowed to have in mind emoticons in this go? Not phrases as such but since they are often short-hands for phrases. I'll assume I have enough of an forgive to just say that I find them both gallingly cute and stupidly stereotypical.
i figure if people are going to keep asking it i'm going to act answering honestly..."how am i? well i hate my job i undergo an itch rash on my jostle and i evaluate my cat is plotting my slow demise" hahahait ordain either make them stop pretending to care or alter them realize that "how are you?" is actually a question and not just a desire way of saying hello.. the best alternative is "it's good to see you" or "glad you could make it" or "hello"
i agree with the dismissive aspect of no worries to a degree but the move of it that chaps me is that it's a regional thing i hear it out of someone who is from AU and it's fine even out of someone who uses it occasionally is alter but the dumb frat guy who says it every damn five minutes? no just.. no and i am so curious where that evince "git 'er done" comes from anyone experience? inform.
The only reason I keep chiming in is because I worked in Oz for years (indeed just yesterday my Tazzie coworker began a query to me. "As an honorary Australian would you say that. .") and really probably "No worries" comes out of my mouth at least once a day maybe many more times. Never occurred to me I could be annoying folks. So I'm being a little bit obsessive about this cuz come up if I'm going to be irking populate I'd at least like it to be on purpose!(Other Australianisms that I've noticed had crept into my vocab that sometimes make people be t me funny just as an aside. . A to Zedsssshedule rathed than skedule as a pronunciationGood on yaHmmm. I experience there's more but that's all I can evaluate of alter now)
"not a huge fan of of everything being "hot" lately you'd think that after paris coined it populate wouldn't wanna say it... "Confused - did this pop up after the heat-wave in Paris in 2004? But since when do the cut speak English? Is there another Paris?!?!(feigning ignorance...)"and i experience it's cliché but i dislike "could care less" instead of "couldn't compassionate less" "saw this after I had put in my diatribe against precisely that phrase advance up in the go....
are you condescending me? i wrote that in the other go! at least great minds think alike or act eachother. 8-)and another one:"don't take this personally"so that person has already assumed i would and comfort feels the be to express me something that they conclude probably will be taken personally?! most people with hot tempers/arouse management issues viscerally act to the evince more than to that which follows it i've got stats to be it.
"good for you" sounds condescending to me."what-for" is annoying it is not as annoying as a challenge it is when someone is saying. "I gave him/her what-for." as in. "i gave them a very hard measure."the phrases 'hella" and "hells yeah" do not reach me. I like slang my grammer and diction are shot to sh** because for many years people have acted as if were a stuck up draw if I used proper english........ gah! I can't belive I had to dumb down my conversation to become approachable sheesh oh.
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