"A phrase that irritates me." Topic

"All time"

As in "all time best".
As in "all time favorite".

I have no idea why, but it just bugs the heck out of me. What does it mean?

thats one of my all time irritants too.

Best thing since sliced bread…

Mna this is the 'All Time' best thread ever!

Man

Dude!!!!!

DUUUUUUUUDE!

It can be used in non-irritating ways. Suppose you have a good day, and want to say that it is the best you have ever felt -- "all time high" conveys the message quicker than most every other option "the best I have ever felt", for example. You can't say " that was a time high", you need the "all".

Usually it is a carry-over from the way we speak, which is to repeat information so that the message is not lost. Redundancy is good in speech, but generally poor on paper.

All time best is short for best of all time. Best of all time being the grandest of the best of the year, best of the decade, best of the century. Generally, it's lame hyperbole used when the speaker/writter means the best of what I can think of (or best within his life span if he's actually thought about it a little). Ask a 20 year to list the All Time Best Films and the philistines won't even mention Star Wars.

Another salvo from the all time curmudgeon. INCOMING!

So, how's the driving back and forth to work going, John? Lots of time to think about… things?

Shouldn't it be 'all-time'?

Everything irritates you.

Oftentimes I see grad students use all time all the time.

OK

My new irritant is the use of the word like as in:

"I was, like, well shocked"

My Pet hate is the import to the uk and over use of 24/7 which even crops up on the BBC News.

All time is relative.

Okay yeah right like?

And, I'm like, yeah, right.

At the end of the day it's certainly irritating

Bottom line, it's just laziness…:-)

Ah…that's so old skool – oops, my bad

Well, all Americans use totally excessive numbers of superlatives all the time, you know.

I mean…

It turns out that…

long story short…

I swear down…( I am telling the truth )

'well, actually…'

'Obviously'

'The #1 movie of the year'….(every movie hyped in the last week….

My new irritant is the use of the word like as in:

"I was, like, well shocked"

That's your new irritant? People have been saying that for at least 30 years…

-Kle.

"I'm loving it" when talking of the past tense.

As in "McDonalds – I'm loving it".

The images that it conjures are best not thought about.

Why can't they just say I love it?

What's worse is that this phrase is spreading here in NZ.

I've lost interest in this thread…and what not.

Blah.

"outside the box"

My Pet hate is the import to the uk and over use of 24/7 which even crops up on the BBC News.

Then there's 24/7/356 -- shouldn't that actually be 24/7/52?

My bad.

I hate that phrase.

356?

I might coulda explained that…

Like, what does the 356 mean, like?

All of the above are "world class" suggestions and everyone here has had a "win-win" time.

George Carlin has this very subject in at least one of his concerts;words and phrases that really bug him.

British English…and multi-media…..media is already plural, the multi is just tautological overkill….and the Countdown clock….why not just make it a semi-circle…it offends my sense of left-right symmetry….

multi-media

I hate that, too. I'm always explaining why to people, and getting blank looks.

I also hate PIN number & ATM machine.

And people who use phenomena and criteria as singulars. Also Vertexes, Apexes, and all those other similar manglings.
-Kle.

multi-media…..media is already plural, the multi is just tautological overkill

Wrong, because they refer to different media.

A media presentation is a presentation to a form of "the media" -- newspapers, TV etc.

A multi-media presentation is one that uses several mediums, such as a bit of text, a bit of film and a bit of song. A speaker using a bit of film and a bit of drama is not giving a "media presentation".

It is quite reasonable to have a multi-media media presentation without any tautological overkill.

356?

It's an extension of 24/7 to mean year-round, as in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year.

In actuality,the progression should be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Wrong, because they refer to different media.

A media presentation is a presentation to a form of "the media" -- newspapers, TV etc.

Nope. That would be the 'news media'.

A multi-media presentation is one that uses several mediums, such as a bit of text, a bit of film and a bit of song. A speaker using a bit of film and a bit of drama is not giving a "media presentation".

Of course they're giving a media presentation.

It is quite reasonable to have a multi-media media presentation without any tautological overkill.

That would be a multiple medium presentation. Thus, multi-medium.
-Kle.

I'm with Kle, it's either multi-medium, or media, not multi-media…..

Klebert L Hall

My new irritant is the use of the word like as in:

"I was, like, well shocked"

That's your new irritant? People have been saying that for at least 30 years…

-Kle.

30 years???

, my Great Granny complained that it was something that ed her off about Liverpool people when SHE was a kid. And she saw the first "horseless carraige" in Liverpool, and remembered seeing Queen Victoria, about a year before vicky babes snuffed it. So 30 years is a bit, like, yesterday. Know warra mean loike lad?

One that gets my goat is the train annoncement about the next "station-stop"

There's no such thing.

It's that the "next station is" or "the next stop is" or even "the next station that the train will stop at is"

'Literally' especially when followed by a metaphor or simile.

"He literally went straight through the defender"
Medic?