Comments on: Schmenglish IX

By: Rat Fink

Rat Fink — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:09:12 +0000

That’s ok, Sammy. That’s why you have me.

Heh heh.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:38:28 +0000

I also hate it when I don’t proof read my comments.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:37:25 +0000

“Alls you gotta do is…” makes me want cut off my ears.

By: PKPudlin

PKPudlin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:25:07 +0000

My husband has a few of his own. They are totally mixed up and don’t mean a thing. Observe:

“It isn’t cracked up to what it’s supposed to be.”
“You hit the hammer right on the head.”

Then there’s the ubiquitous statement, “Six one-half”. Enough to make even a hardened escapee from the Department of Redundancy Department cringe.

By: Rat Fink

Rat Fink — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:38:18 +0000

Ah yes, Will…the old pleonasm trick. My favorite is “3 a.m. in the morning.”

Shoot to kill, my man.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:35:06 +0000

I work in a college bookstore and what gets on my nerves is when people call on the phone and ask for the “ISBN Number.” Part of this is that you don’t call Best Buy to get the product code on items so you can order them online so why should I do the same thing? But, mainly, ISBN is short for International Standard Book Number. It’s repetitive. It’s like saying “Want to get a Hamburger burger?” or “I’m going to decimate the population by taking out 1/10th.” You only need to say one or the other, not both.

By: Rat Fink

Rat Fink — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:28:19 +0000

AARRRG are you SERIOUS? Especially #2…that would make me want to pound some people. Poor Boom Boom!!!

By: BoomR

BoomR — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:44:07 +0000

Maybe it’s because I work in the tech world, but a couple of my peeves from co-workers:

1. Ping (“Does Johnny want to join us for lunch? Let me ping him…”)

2. Download (“Let’s get everyone together for a download after we get back from the conference …”)

…no, Really… UGH…