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People who sign off emails with ‘best wishes’
Phrases you can't stand...
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best wishes
phrase of best
- an expression of hope for someone's future happiness or welfare, often written at the end of a letter.
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Yeah but not on business emails
best wishes
phrase of best
- an expression of hope for someone's future happiness or welfare, often written at the end of a letter.
Soldato
No. Understanding what you mean doesn't make them ignorant, but it doesn't make you less wrong when using it. Unless you use "I could care less" to show that you are interested in things?
@Freakbro Yeah, I've always been a huge comma fan!
Definitely due to your reason, where I'm thinking about how I would say something verbally.
While I sincerely appreciate your attempt to show me the error of my ways, I feel that you may be overthinking it.
In my opinion, I could care less is a long way from saying, it’s raining heavily, when it isn’t raining at all.
The “I could care less” thing is from the same stable as American-Yiddish inflections such as “I should be so lucky”, meaning “there’s no way that I’d ever be that lucky”, or “I should care” meaning “why should I care?” it’s a kind of veiled sarcasm.
In saying that, I realise that to lots of little Englanders anything American is infra dig.
Why use I could care less if we also have I couldn’t care less?
There are other pairs of phrases in English about which you could ask the same question.
Why say, “That will teach you to leave your car unlocked” when you really mean, “that will teach you not to leave your car unlocked?” or “You know squat about that” instead of “you don’t know squat about that.”
In addition, idioms don’t care about logic.
e.g. head over heels, shouldn’t it be heels over head?
As the famed linguist Arika Okrent M.A. Ph.D said, “People only use ‘I could care less’ to mean ‘I couldn’t care less’, never the opposite, it doesn’t cause legitimate confusion, although it does cause quite a bit of consternation, in any case, it’s here to stay.”
HTH
Soldato
Acrost instead of across. Loads of yanks say it over here.
Soldato
loose instead of lose, seen this plenty times..
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Having worked in retail for way too long, 'Karen' is a perfectly deserving stereotype.
The number of screaming, blithering drama queens over the 5p bag charge was the single greatest Karen-pocalypse I had to get through. Do that stuff anywhere else and all these types of people would be banned with a criminal record for abusing staff.
I don't understand why the hell its still allowed in retail.
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'If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you?' Was one that I heard throughout my childhood.
I know that there are plenty of people like it about and I’m not sticking up for self centred entitled idiots, but why call them Karen? Why not Donna, Alice, Julia, Meg or any other name?
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Because 'Karen' is just what they became called.
Retail literally trains you to just sit there and take it too. Getting confrontational / reacting in the same way is a one way trip to sackedville.
Proof of the Goodfellas origin, including the clip. Some disputed origins of Karen, but to me it will always be Goodfellas that started the Karen meme.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen
To be honest , also implies dishonestly as well too. (at least in my pretzel head of a mind).
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'Oi **** ' Never liked that phrase, unless Im the one using it.