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Friday, December 16, 2005

Top Ten Annoying Verbal Habits 

10. Upspeaking? The habit of transforming every statement into a question? As if to say that you are so totally unsure of yourself you need confirmation at the end of each sentence?

9. Wanna, gonna, coulda, shoulda, woulda. I should have, but I'm not going to make any other comment about this.

8. But at least it avoids the embarrassment of using "of" instead of "have". You should of known better.

7. Potty mouth. Nothing makes you sound more unintelligent than peppering your speech with words picked from the gutter. On the flip side, when the time is finally right to throw in a good expletive, people will really perk up their ears.

6. Ending a sentence with "so..." as if there is some obvious logical conclusion to be made. Having a whole nother of something. It's either another whole or a whole other.

5. In fact, the word "so" could be mostly eliminated from intelligent dialogue and it wouldn't bother me in the least. "I am so not going there."

4. Any combination in close proximity of "like" and "you know." If like they already know, you wouldn't be, like, you know, telling them.

3. Going instead of saying. It's dreadfully annoying to hear "So he goes... and then I go... and then she was all like... so I went... and after all that he goes..."

2. Using the word "is" twice in a row. What I mean is, is unless you have a stuttering condition, it just makes you sound like you have no idea what you're talking about.

1. "Huh?" This is perhaps one of the dumbest sounds ever uttered by the human tongue. It's so much more graceful to say, "pardon me?" "come again?" "como?" or even, "eh?"


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