"Please S T O P saying this" thread.

[YY1]

Ultimate ultimate?

Redundant, redundant?

 

[DeltaV]

Ultimate ultimate?

Redundant, redundant?

????? Never heard that one b4.....must be a colloquial or a regional expression......
BOB RENTON

I'm not familiar with that one.

You may occasionally hear the word penultimate used as an intensified version of ultimate, as in "a race they've called 'the penultimate challenge.'" This use isn't typically found in edited prose, however, or in dictionaries.

 

[Kern Dog]

The people I know and hang out with are car guys. We don't use such language in conversation.

 

[RJRENTON]

The people I know and hang out with are car guys. We don't use such language in conversation.


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There is MORE to life than a car.....maybe its it's time to broaden your language skills and learning horizons.....perhaps cooking or painting or golfing or learning about quantum computing or astrophysics or cold fusion......??....just a thought......btw...whose the pix of???
BOB RENTON

 

[DeltaV]

whose the pix of???

Some guy named George Clooney

 

[Kern Dog]

There is MORE to life than a car.....maybe its it's time to broaden your language skills and learning horizons.....perhaps cooking or painting or golfing or learning about quantum computing or astrophysics or cold fusion......??....just a thought......btw...whose the pix of???
BOB RENTON

I have plenty of things that interest me. THIS is a car site so that is my main focus. I have no interest in quantum computing, painting, golf or any limp wrist activities like that. I do love to play football, baseball and bike riding, you know, things that take a bit more physical activity.
Since we are on a car forum....
How about telling us all the things that you regularly do to your car, all the work that you have personally done as well.
You know, like the extensive search for parts, the rust that you cut out and the patches that you welded in....The bodywork and paint. The engine rebuilds, the suspension upgrades, the upholstery, the brakes, glass installation, tuning the carburetor, oh...AND the times you've had it on the road course or drag strip might be nice to add in.

 

[j-c-c-62]

How about "I'll be honest with you.... " does that mean you're NOT the rest of the time ????

I believe the intention here is to convey some special consideration towards "you" by claiming to being honest, that would not be given lessor other folks.
It's a subtle attempt at gaining endearment from the listener, honestly.

 

[WileE]

People that say “yeah yeah yeah” when just one yeah would suffice.

 

[WileE]

I believe the intention here is to convey some special consideration towards "you" by claiming to being honest, that would not be given lessor other folks.
It's a subtle attempt at gaining endearment from the listener, honestly.

I'll be honest with you. The last time I said I'll be honest with you, I was not honest with you.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I'll be honest with you. The last time I said I'll be honest with you, I was not honest with you.

You think your "tell" slipped by me?
That's rhetorical btw.

 

[WileE]

You think your "tell" slipped by me?
That's rhetorical btw.

"Now, be honest with me." That infers that I think you're lying the rest of the time.

 

[Cranky]

I never lie!

 

[MarPar]

 

[j-c-c-62]

"Now, be honest with me." That infers that I think you're lying the rest of the time.

Not from my perspective, it means here, don't lie to me like you lie to everyone else, because in some way I am special or above everyone else.

 

[WileE]

People here are too serious... you know what I'm sayin'

 

[Sahara]

I never lie!

Me too, but my wife is aware that I may not always volunteer all of the truth. But outright lie? I can’t do it.

 

[Cranky]

"ya know what I mean" which a buddy of mine says way too often. I used to say 'sorry bout that' but never added the 'chief' to it like from the show Get Smart. My dad let me know one day that he was sick of hearing me say it.

 

[Sahara]

In true Canadian fashion I end sentences with “eh”.
But American TV, while they get the “eh” part correct when they are poking fun at us never, ever get the accent right. While much of Canada now has a Chinese or Japanese accent the rest of us do not. American TV always gives us a semi-Wisconsin accent and nobody, in no part of Canada actually sound like that.

 

[Kern Dog]

VIN number.
PIN number.
HOT water heater.

 

[Ron H]

In true Canadian fashion I end sentences with “eh”.
But American TV, while they get the “eh” part correct when they are poking fun at us never, ever get the accent right. While much of Canada now has a Chinese or Japanese accent the rest of us do not. American TV always gives us a semi-Wisconsin accent and nobody, in no part of Canada actually sound like that.

Being a WI-nite, I sometimes end a sentence with ‘hey’. Wow hey, what the %$#& hey. Not used much in my part of the state, but more often in the northern parts. And I believe this is more owned in another northern-most state than mine…maybe N. Dakota.