Some phrases I've been hearing have been pissing me off lately:
1) "Making love" - This phrase makes me think of being in a factory with a big pot whizzing by on an assembly line... With pathetic losers (such as the ones who actually USE said phrase) putting things like puppies and flowers and rainbows into the pot and stirring them in a la Powerpuff Girls. Then it goes into the oven, and out pops a little conversation heart filled with "love". "Love" cannot be created. It's a stupid euphemism to cover up a simple verb: "********". That's right. "********". Doesn't sound so ROMANTIC now, does it? No. Of course it doesn't. People who use the phrase "making love" are simply trying gloss over their own carnal desires and to give the appearance of emotional attachment, when there most likely isn't.
2) "b*****b" - Is anyone actually BLOWING anything? In fact, if one were to blow on the part of the body being referenced in that euphemism, it wouldn't be such a good idea.
3) "Baby daddy" - [Yeah, this one has already been addressed by Foamy (Neurotically Yours), but I think it's so horrifically uneducated and dimwitted that it deserves a second rant on the matter.] This phrase is so grammatically incorrect it isn't even funny. It sounds as if the person saying it is using "baby" as an adjective. Which makes ME think of some little kid in diapers threatening a fetus with a leather belt if it doesn't do it's homework. One may simply say "the father of my child". Is that so much to ask? Are an article, preposition, pronoun, and non-halfwit-sounding nouns so much to ask? Yes, apparently it is. Because the English language is going straight to hell, no two ways about it. And don't give me any of that "Grammar Nazi" bullshit. If you're going to speak the language, do it right. If you truly want me to understand what you're trying to communicate to me, follow a few standard guidelines. And have some dignity about it!
4) "Fifty cent" or "fiddy cent" - Since when did "fifty" cause a noun to be singular? And don't EVEN get me started on "fiddy". Speak English. Not your own little "cultural" psuedo-language. Ebonics, or whatever the hell it is. If you want to talk to ME, speak MY language or at least pretend to try. Don't think that simply because my ancestors may or may not have enslaved your ancestors you're going to be excused from the simple courtesy of speaking properly. Which brings me to another topic, but that's another rant for another day.
Zombie Meat Puppet · Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 06:43am · 1 Comments |