Terms that drive you crazy

Redundancy, especially from TV news, where they say, "Bob Smith, he was arrested." Bob Smith and He are the same. No need to say it twice.

Newscasters always say, "The White House said XXXX."
NO! The White House is an inanimate object, a building . It's incapable of speech. Say the Administration instead, or name the person who uttered the likely nonsense.

 

anything from the worst, most irritating movie EVER made about a fat drunk dork. The worst being
"the dude abides" oh maaah gawwwd I hate Jeff's character soo bad.

cept for this scene, so great.

 

An acquired taste, to be sure, but by midway through I couldn't help but laugh every time they said, "**** Donny!"

 

Lol. Cmon man. Give credit where it is due. He was stoned too. But I totally get this perspective although I loved the movie.

 

That is an example of Metonymy, a collective figure of speech where something is identified by something else associated with it. Wall Street, the Pentagon, Capitol Hill are others.

 

"Minty" makes my skin crawl.

 

Please don't "Pull the trigger" on a purchase, and don't refer to your instrument as an axe. You really gotta weaponize language because you're too insecure to say you wanted to go shopping?!?!

 

"Tone for days" Especially in the late 80's it seemed every magazine ad had a kid who looked like he was in Slaughter telling us that whatever he used had TONE FOR DAYS

 

I had my Armstrong stolen in the early 70's. Was a great guitar

 

The misuse of certain words makes my skin crawl. The worst of these is debacle. It's not Dee-bock-ul. No other word ending in acle is pronounced like that.
Spectacle, pinnacle, oracle, etc.

 

New-Q-Ler ala the Bushes...

 

I had one of the reissues and it was a lot of fun. Also very eye catching.

 

Great question! NONE! And a "jack" is NOT the cable between the guitar & the amp!!! OMG, it's a CABLE. A jack may be either input or output, because it's the same hardware at each end, defined only by its function. But the OUTPUT jack is on the guitar (or keyboard, whatever is sending a signal), and the INPUT, invariably is on the AMP, or whatever is receiving the signal.

 

Naahh... for some reason, the term "axe" has been around a lot longer that that. Not sure where it comes from... anybody know? Perhaps that an axe is an instrument used to cut or shape something? I suppose a guitar could be construed as an instrument for cutting or shaping as well... tone or music. Can't say I use the term much myself, either, though.

 

HAA!

 

The problem with anyone under 30 (and I'm sure that varies widely!), is that you CAN'T see 'em! Their faces are buried in their phones! And "conversation?" People of ALL ages are losing the ability to talk face-to-face; they have to text or it "wasn't said!" Same with "experience." If you're not live-streaming or recording it, "it didn't happen." One positive effect of that is that when you're performing, you know you're doing ok when all the phones pop up and start recording your show! At least you know you're alive and it's happening. HA!

 

Well it depends on what "is" is.

 

AYYY-MENNN!

 

And I'm sure we'd all thank you for that!