Stand aside! Grammar Police coming through!

[MooseMom]

I had my printed invitation to the pretentious table....

When callers asked for me on the phone I used to say, "This is she." Then I was told I was "hoity-toity" 

Now I just say, "Speaking." I surely don't want any callers to get their knickers in a wad! 

Uh oh.  I say, "This is she."  I haven't received my printed invitation yet, though. 

[Riki]

I had my printed invitation to the pretentious table....

When callers asked for me on the phone I used to say, "This is she." Then I was told I was "hoity-toity" 

Now I just say, "Speaking." I surely don't want any callers to get their knickers in a wad! 

Uh oh.  I say, "This is she."  I haven't received my printed invitation yet, though. 

I say that too.  My first college course was a Call Centre and Customer Service Excellence course, which, unfortunately, no longer exists.  It was drilled in me to not say "speaking" when answering a phone, because it's quite obvious that you are speaking.  I cringe sometimes when I hear how some answer the phone, because it's totally unprofessional

I once had an ex tell me that I was "too professional."  I still don't know what that means

[G.Lively]

Word police!  Got busted by the Nuns for not learning to diagram a sentence. Pounded, rapped, punished my knuckles with this inordinately long ruler.  Sadistic old bags.  The sole recollection of those lessons was, “Never use ‘got’.  Only the illiterate use “got”.”  So, I use got a lot.  I got this.  I got that.  Gotcha.  Get got.  Got it.  “So, how did your date go?”  “I got to first-base.”

In my biker days we rode our wheels wearing our lids and stopped on occasion to bogart a doobie.  Never got nookie on the road, too many cages.  Had to get off the asphalt.  We’d putt here and there looking for some suds.  Never wore colors, went solo.  Lotsa poontang around in those days.   

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[cattlekid]

I heard one on the radio this weekend.  The announcers were talking about a football game and called it "historical" in the context of "this afternoon's historical football game". 

Well, of course, since the game was already played, it was historical.  It wasn't in-progress and it wasn't in the future.   But what they were trying to say is "historic", in the sense of "this was a historic game between two storied teams" - not just two bottom-dwellers playing a game no one cared about.

I know this is the pickiest of all nits, but it just grated on me to no end.

[MaryD]

On the news last week - "There have been three fatal drownings this month"

[MooseMom]

Sports announcers are the worst, but to be fair, they have no script and have to blather for over three hours on live TV.  I've been hearing a lot of tortured grammar during the playoffs.

"Fatal" drownings as opposed to what other kind?   

[G.Lively]

How many times have you heard someone begin a sentence with "In fact . . . . " followed by an opinion?

[MooseMom]

On our local sports radio show, I've just heard "admittance" as opposed to "admission", i.e, an "admittance of guilt".