Smashed!!

Ok ... and just further on the language tip ... why is the expression "smashed it" all over the place at the moment like blisters on a chickenpoxed child!!

For example - "you came out here and absolutely smashed it" or "you smashed it ... that was a beautiful dish"
(SSYTYCD & Masterchef respectively)

I looked it up on the Urban Dictionary site (mistake!) and apparently it means "when u do summet really cool/good" ... so by natural inference, it also means that you absolutely smashed it with grammar and spelling ... and by smashed I mean completely broken!!

Anyhoo, I'm not advocating some kind of nazi codified Standard English bullshit ... but I bet this comes from America via TV/Film/Gossip websites ... and that trully grates me ... yes I admit it ... I'm still a yank basher!! So if you want to go me over that (see I can do the yoof speak!!) then just STOP!

(ps ... for the astute amongst you, the pics from my last post and this one were taken on the same day - Office Christmas party 2009 - and I've been dying to use them in some way - spurious or otherwise)

Don't you love corporate speak ....

Ok ... don't you love corporate speak ... I swear to god they make it up as they go along ... here's a recent gem: Its not "downsizing" (when they decimate families and cause unmanageable levels of stress to people they "let go"), its "rightsizing"!!!

I just wish it would all go away sometimes.

Phrase of the Day

Ok ... been seeing this phrase cropping up all over the joint - sui generis!!
 
And I'd love to be considered as sui generis ... but sadly, no ... more like sui generic!!!

orang gilah

ok can we make it no punctuation day today just because im slowly going loco and believe it or not its harder than you think even typing this sentence without a comma fullstop and otherwise is proving quite a task somebody please come and save me as im surrounded by nuff nuffs and im starting to spout drivel

Shopping Cart? NO Winkelwagen

Ok ... did you know that Shopping trolley in dutch is Winklewagen ... haha ... that is too much ... and I sooo needed a laugh ... come up and make me smile!!