We
can also "terminate with extreme prejudice," a phrase we all learned from
watching TV spy movies, the feel-good phrases, "I feel your pain" and "Thank
you for sharing that." The downside is it would mean that for the other 14 weeks
of a semester, college interpersonal communications classes would have to find
other ways to communicate feelings.
Does anyone else think it's time to find replacements for "Bro," "M'man," Dude,"
and "You go, girl"?
And while we're dumping overused phrases, how about burying, "You're the man!" or its less grammatical brother, "You da man!"
Coming up "in the near future," a phrase also with no useful reason to exist, will be Spring. Your best friend bought a barbeque, and you're salivating for burnt burgers. When everything is ready, you, he, she, or any of a dozen other moochers will officially bless the event by declaring, "OK, let's fire up that Bad Boy." Of course, "bad boy" doesn't always apply to barbeques. It applies to just about everything imaginable. Buy a rusted-out 40-year-old car you plan to restore--"That's some bad boy you got there." You just fixed your vacuum cleaner--"Time to make that bad boy do its thing." The only thing that's not a "bad boy" is a prison- tattooed, scar-faced felon who may have been disrespected
So, let's also dump the word "disrespect" and its abbreviated version, "dis," as in "he just dissed you" and "the reason I shot that SOB is because he disrespected me."
But, we do have a way to atone for that shooting. As the person who you think disrespected you is lying in a pool of blood, just throw out a flip, "Oops, my bad." That should be more than enough to convince a DA that you're apologetic and shouldn't be in court.
[Dr. Brasch's latest book is Fracking Pennsylvania, an overall look at the health and environmental effects, as well as political and business collusion, and claims of economic benefits.]
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