pet hate: close of play
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
One of my pet peaves is people who pronounce "Especially" as "Exspecially." Also, people who begin ever sentenc with "Uh." I.E. : "Uh, did you get the memo about those TPS reports" Also, I have the dumbest sister-in-law ever. She says the stupiest things. Last night we were at the in-laws and she microwaved something and got mad because when she took a bite of the food it was "Nuke Warm." I hate dumb people. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: As I remember more, I am sure I will be modifying this post
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Of all the b-talk, in all the world, it's the "ize"'s I hate most... Productize Monetize Incentivize Demoize Comminicize Not only are they complete bastardisations of a perfectly flexible, descriptive and other wise sound language, they're used ad nauseum by the most contemptuos berks on the planet. And if you're not careful, you too can be drawn into their world of mumbo-jumbo speak.
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
Strangely, like Marc Clifton, I have never encountered this "close of play" phrase before now. But I hate it already. Since you asked, another one that I hate more each time I see it is, "that being said," any its many related forms. That being said, thanks for the rant. I hope it helped. :-D BDF
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
People using the phrase, "personally I". That's a real big bugbear of mine.
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
Let me not forget "burglarized". What the heck is burglarized? When did this come into existence. I haven't got a problem with it being used by Americans, it's when I hear it being used by Brits that I want to bludgeon them over the head with a wet kipper. It's burgled people.
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Let me not forget "burglarized". What the heck is burglarized? When did this come into existence. I haven't got a problem with it being used by Americans, it's when I hear it being used by Brits that I want to bludgeon them over the head with a wet kipper. It's burgled people.
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Yes Pete, I hate burglarized too. How the hell did that come about? And on the same note how did car-jack come about? I mean hijack is not called "planejack". Its still hijack even if its a car, a boat your mobile phone. For that matter why did it have to change from just plane "stolen"?
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Going forward...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (when anyone I am speaking to says that, I inform them that "I don't do going forward!" and leave it to them to squirm and try to think of something approaching English :) ) Leverage! (always conjurs up a picture of someone with their arm up their back being "persuaded" by a hoodlum to do what they say - or "Once you have their b@lls in your hand their hearts and minds WILL follow") Synergy! (No - just NO!) For F sake - just speak properly, or not at all. Preferably not at all.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
Oh, how I HATE that one! If everything is going forward, why is the company/problem/issue going backwards?
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Yes Pete, I hate burglarized too. How the hell did that come about? And on the same note how did car-jack come about? I mean hijack is not called "planejack". Its still hijack even if its a car, a boat your mobile phone. For that matter why did it have to change from just plane "stolen"?
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Yes Pete, I hate burglarized too. How the hell did that come about? And on the same note how did car-jack come about? I mean hijack is not called "planejack". Its still hijack even if its a car, a boat your mobile phone. For that matter why did it have to change from just plane "stolen"?
J4amieC wrote:
just plane "stolen"?
Try 'just plain stolen', please. A 'plane stolen' (or stolen plane) would be the hijack case you mentioned.
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Now if anyone uses the 'Whatever' word within my hearing range, they usually end up running from the steam pouring out of my ears. :mad:
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
J4amieC wrote:
...we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business".
Or "close of day."
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Let me not forget "burglarized". What the heck is burglarized? When did this come into existence. I haven't got a problem with it being used by Americans, it's when I hear it being used by Brits that I want to bludgeon them over the head with a wet kipper. It's burgled people.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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J4amieC wrote:
why car-jack for cars and hijack for planes?
Because planes are typically higher than cars.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
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J4amieC wrote:
just plane "stolen"?
Try 'just plain stolen', please. A 'plane stolen' (or stolen plane) would be the hijack case you mentioned.
Software Zen:
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
Close of day is common and legit. I suspect that person is not a native english speaker or is mistakenly using play instead of day. My pet peeves of the day are: Moving graphics on tv sports or news programs that are accompanied by sound effects when they appear on screen and dissapear off screen. The current state of graphics in television reminds me of the horrible web sites from the '90s with the flaming text and blinking crap. I hope they all mature soon, it's a distraction. Also I hate the puns that are used on tv news, previously they were used for "human interest" type stories only on nightly news near the end of the hour, now they're used for nearly every story.
More people died from worry than ever bled to death. - RAH
