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"True fact", granted it's two words.
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when people say "the n word" and "the c word"
just say it you dickhead, you're not using it to offend anyone, you're just giving a recount of what you heard.
just say it you dickhead, you're not using it to offend anyone, you're just giving a recount of what you heard.
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"at your earliest convenience"
"decadent"
"artisan"
"decadent"
"artisan"
It can't be true. Viv Richards used the word "batter" during his T20 commentary stint last night. Perhaps the great man was intoxicated by Damien Fleming's aftershave. There has to be some logical reason for this abhorrence.
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'Decadent' is a word which has been bastardised. It was once a supremely apt and profound word to describe a certain type of human behaviour. This is no longer so.
I don't mind it - I think it's usually used as an indicator of humility - kind of "I recognise my opinion isn't the be all and end all and others may disagree".
It's not so much the writer is telling you it's an opinion, more that they themselves recognise it's just an opinion.
As opposed to the quickstraw types - I know everything, I'm right, I can't possibly be wrong, if you don't agree with me you're just wrong.
I've heard a few cricketers use it - Dean Jones says it a bit.
Use of the word "scary" in a positive context.
Eg "they're so good, it's scary"
Sounds so ****in stupid i reckon.
Eg "they're so good, it's scary"
Sounds so ****in stupid i reckon.
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at what point did the word batter become such a strongly used word in cricketing commentary?
i've only noticed it in the last 12 months but it would be more used now than the correct term "batsman"
I think it's meant as a neutral term to cover both "batsmen" and "batswomen". Read or heard somewhere that Cricket Australia have been encouraging the Australian players etc. to use it. Personally I don't like it and wouldn't use it though.
One that annoys me for some reason is "ripping" when it is used as an adjective (as in "that was a ripping match").
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ffs i had a feeling that might be it
we could always just have batsman and a batswoman
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"Iconic"
Ridiculously overused.
Ridiculously overused.
Yep. Until this week I didn't know there was actually a restaurant called "The Iconic Stokehouse". How many times... just give us a spell.
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