Sunday, November 23rd

Illustrating the use of the top ten most irritating phrases

Oxford compiled a list of the top ten most irritating phrases used in English texts: books, magazines, the Internet, etc. Before I stop using them, I thought that they deserved to be put together in what is probably, by extension, one of the most irritating paragraphs ever written:

With all due respect, I personally think that it's a nightmare that at the end of the day most people will continue using these irritating phrases 24/7. At this moment in time it is absolutely necessary to control this fairly unique phenomenon which shouldn't of taken off in the first place; after all, learning proper English is not rocket science, is it?

I think that the list is funny, but irritating language is something very subjective that I don't really core about. So, at the end of the day ;) I'll probably continue to use some of these.

As a side note, though, English altogether can be rather irritating to us non-native speakers. Try to read a little bit of poetry out loud, you’ll see what I mean.

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