Why do people say

[Joe Chartreuse]

They're built upside down.

If I were an Australian duck that would make me quack up.

 

[Yaworski]

Why are so many Millennials and Zs starting every sentence with the word "So"?

An extra nano-second to collect their thoughts.

 

[GasGuzzler]

So they start more sentences with the word like. But they put the word like in each sentence more than once so ...

 

[Elder User]

Was looking at TV with the wife and on The Price Is Right the announcer said that part of Showcase was "a brand new car". Why "BRAND"? Why not simply "new"?

It's an idiom, idiot.

 

[Elder User]

My grandma called her purse a pocketbook.

Many of the ladies in rural areas of OK and TX still do. It's an anachronism. Just like we eat breakfast, dinner and supper.

 

[Elder User]

irregardless, I need some more clips for my assault rifle

I've had my Ruger AR556 for months now and it has not assaulted anyone. I do keep a close eye on it and don't let it go outdoors by itself.

 

[Elder User]

Why do cars have glove compartments or glove boxes? Who still wears driving gloves????

When we traveled my father kept his Colt 1911 in the glove compartment. Who has room in their cluttered glove compartment nowadays for a 45acp or a pair of gloves?

 

[Taterman]

Why are so many Millennials and Zs starting every sentence with the word "So"?

It's the new "ummm".

 

[Elder User]

Why do people from the upper Midwest call a console a council? Why do we down south say we are fixin' to XXX?

My late uncle used to say "dreckly" as a modifier. Country version of "directly" but misused.

One of my helper trainees misuses "necessarily" half a dozen or more times per day. It is generally used with the negative "not" to show the difference in a certain a situation but he uses it as a positive ... "What is necessarily the reason we do XXX?". He also shows agreement by replying "bet" and expresses sorrow for error by saying "my bad, Nate" 20 times per day.

Most everyone on TV and in my life pronounces "jaguar" incorrectly as "jagwire".

My Dad used to love these discussions. As a former software editor, he saw the error in speech and writing as easily as in code.

I'm fixing to go to the next comment directly. Directly does not necessarily mean now, but can also mean sooner or later. Fixing means I am preparing to. My late law partner drove a jagwar but I bet he got rid of it because it was unreliable. I never say My Bad because that would admit error.

 

[eveled]

It’s ok to admit when you are wrong.

 

[peachhead]

Why are so many Millennials and Zs starting every sentence with the word "So"?

So what difference does it make?

 

[GasGuzzler]

It’s ok to admit when you are wrong.

Saying "my bad" 50 times a day is not admission it's a way to say "stop telling me what I did because I don't care."

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

If you don't eat meat, and can't spell vegetarian, you can say Vegan- but this word is pronounced with a SHORT "e" as in Las Vegas, the Chevy Vega, and the star of the same name. If you want to pronounce it with a long "e", add a damn second "e" to the spelling.

OK, here comes trouble: The word "woke" is a verb in the past tense being misused as an adjective in the present tense.

 

[Yaworski]

If you want to pronounce it with a long "e", add a damn second "e" to the spelling.

Vegean? Vegane?

The first vegan I ever met was in college ca. 1981. He pronounced it vej-un.

 

[GasGuzzler]

... or vajine ...