Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[Partridge]

A little tautology from Daniel Rich: "I'm at the twilight end of my career"

Jimmy Buckley: "rivalryship"

Pretty simple explanation.

They're all morons. If they weren't in a very deep money trough controlled by their mates none of them would have jobs.

 

[peternorth]

 

[SuperMal]

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[peternorth]

First tick of the box
- sen caller

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Gerard Healey - Cripps started the day with one goal and he'll end up with a number by the end of it.

Pretty sure one is a number.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Gerard Healey - Cripps started the day with one goal and he'll end up with a number by the end of it.

Pretty sure one is a number.

It's the loneliest number.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson

Age

48

Ht

180cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.7

4star

K

8.6

3star

HB

5.1

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.0

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.4

4star

said on Triple M tonight that Nick Larkey

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Nick Larkey

Age

26

Ht

198cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.5

2star

K

4.6

2star

HB

3.9

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.5

3star

G

1.4

5star

D

7.0

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

3.0

2star

M

2.0

2star

T

1.0

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

8.8

3star

K

4.2

2star

HB

4.6

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.8

4star

was too busy demonstrating with the umpire about missed frees.

Presumably meaning remonstrating, rather than standing there waving a placard at the umpire.

 

[SuperMal]

Chris Johnson said on Triple M tonight that Nick Larkey was too busy demonstrating with the umpire about missed frees.

Presumably meaning remonstrating, rather than standing there waving a placard at the umpire.

We want a free, we want a free, the ump is a w***er, we want a free

Stevic, Stevic, he’s our man
If he can’t pluck it no one can

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Hamish McLachlan tonight discussing something and mentioning it was happening "ableat" something.

Presumably meaning albeit.

 

[arrowman]

Hamish McLachlan tonight discussing something and mentioning it was happening "ableat" something.

Presumably meaning albeit.

I think you mean "all be it"

 

[Registered User]

^ Yeah nah, it bugs me when people say "AL be-it". Damien Barrett and Tom Elliot do it

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

//

I think you mean "all be it"

it means although

conjunction

1. though.
   "he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"

I’ve heard it pronounced “al-bite”

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

I think you mean "all be it"

albeit

1. although: 2. although: 3. despite the stated thing; although:

dictionary.cambridge.org

 

[arrowman]

//

it means although

conjunction

1. though.
   "he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"

I’ve heard it pronounced “al-bite”

albeit

1. although: 2. although: 3. despite the stated thing; although:

dictionary.cambridge.org

I know. Just that I've seen people actually write "all be it".

 

[SuperMal]

So Huddo the duddo reckons it might be ‘nee on impossible..etc’

The word is ‘Nigh’. as in ‘Night’.

Clearly he’s been educated by the ‘Knights that say “Ni” ’

What a BUFFOON!

 

[peternorth]

On MMM, Boof Lehmann speaking about the efforts of Australia, including Gary Lyon.

Interviewers were JB and Billy Brownless.

awks

 

[MisterMarcus]

Just saw this on Facebook. Penguin Books no less!

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The comments were all horrified.

What am I missing here?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

What am I missing here?

Bored OF

The traditional construction is Bored WITH, or Bored BY.

You do hear "bored of" now and then but it ranks with "versing", rather cringey.

 

[Registered User]

Bored OF
....

Do you listen to much footy radio? Have you noticed the increased use of "it raises question marks about them", instead of, "it raises questions" that I mentioned recently? Man, I have. It's doing my head in. "There are a lot of question marks about his ability". F*cking dopey bogans

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Do you listen to much footy radio? Have you noticed the increased use of "it raises question marks about them", instead of, "it raises questions" that I mentioned recently? Man, I have. It's doing my head in. "There are a lot of question marks about his ability". F*cking dopey bogans

No I don’t, no footy radio in Qld TG. In fact I’ve given up all footy media.

 

[peternorth]

Concussion protocol.

"He's in the concussion protocol". Should it be "he's observing/following the concussion protocol"?

similarly "he's gone off with the blood rule". Gone off because of the blood rule?

 

[SuperMal]

Lets talk about ‘shooting ON goal’.

Back when artillery was the way you won a war, it was acceptable to say ‘The guns are firing ON the village’

Why? Because artillery bombardment followed a high trajectory..and shells literally fell ‘on the town’

So,

Some w***er chooses to apply the term to sport, but not only changes the ‘firing’ to ‘shooting’, but also adopts the aforementioned ‘on’

So we have something shooting ‘on’ something - which is hopelessly incorrect both literally and also physically.

(It may be splitting hairs saying you don’t ‘shoot’ artillery, you ‘fire’ it - but ‘shooting‘ implies a direct line of attack)

So you don’t ‘shoot’ a barrage, you ‘fire’ a barrage of rockets.

Also - we have it happening ‘on goal’, again the target doesn’t justify the use of ‘on’ - it should be ’at’, ’towards’ or ‘past’.

So it’s actually DOUBLE w***erDOM - to say shoots on goal - and reveals a degree of ignorance the depth of the Mariana Trench about how our language was formed.

 

[Registered User]

I've said before that the oldest mention of "shot on goal" I've seen was in a late '80s episode of Cheers. Norm Peterson says it while watching ice hockey, so it either started as an American thing or an ice hockey thing

 

[SuperMal]

I've said before that the oldest mention of "shot on goal" I've seen was in a late '80s episode of Cheers. Norm Peterson says it while watching ice hockey, so it either started as an American thing or an ice hockey thing

I know I’ve heard English football commentators say it - I think its used by people who think its clever.

 

[Partridge]

Lets talk about ‘shooting ON goal’.

Back when artillery was the way you won a war, it was acceptable to say ‘The guns are firing ON the village’

Why? Because artillery bombardment followed a high trajectory..and shells literally fell ‘on the town’

So,

Some w***er chooses to apply the term to sport, but not only changes the ‘firing’ to ‘shooting’, but also adopts the aforementioned ‘on’

So we have something shooting ‘on’ something - which is hopelessly incorrect both literally and also physically.

(It may be splitting hairs saying you don’t ‘shoot’ artillery, you ‘fire’ it - but ‘shooting‘ implies a direct line of attack)

So you don’t ‘shoot’ a barrage, you ‘fire’ a barrage of rockets.

Also - we have it happening ‘on goal’, again the target doesn’t justify the use of ‘on’ - it should be ’at’, ’towards’ or ‘past’.

So it’s actually DOUBLE w***erDOM - to say shoots on goal - and reveals a degree of ignorance the depth of the Mariana Trench about how our language was formed.

This. This. Motherfecking THIS!

James Brayshaw - the supreme feckwit that he is - is seemingly on a personal crusade to remove all prepositions from the English language (not that he'd know what one is) except the word "on". Everything to him is "on" something.

"Shot on goal" - no, it's a shot at goal (or for) you blithering moron. Just ask anyone who says it which part of the goal is the kick on actually? The top?
"Playing well week on week" - no, it's "week by week".
"Looking good on the night" - once more, it's "for the night".

This is what happens when pathetic fanboys end up in the media.