kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"One less commonly used, but I'm starting to agree with my professor after she expressed hatred of the phrase: "The facts/figures speak for themselves"."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@Niomi: In academia, "arbitrary" has a different meaning, and is probably the only place where I see it used correctly most of the time."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@Ssscorpion: Taking it literally, "irregardless" = "not regardless" = "keeping what was mentioned in mind"."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@vered: Alongside countless grammatically-incorrect phrases, heheh :)"

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@kureshii: Damn, should have read the next reply first..."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@concordia: Ah, "literally", another pet peeve of mine..."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@LunaHill: I'd say "The [description of attachment] is attached."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@rpm773: "Just saying" is my cue to ignore whatever was said and pretend it wasn't said. "But you were just saying, right?""

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@inthefastlane: I usually take "thinking outside the box" to mean a short break out of the office ;) Not so sure about the "thinking" part, but at least I'm out of the box..."

kureshii commented on 30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward)

"@stomicron: Never found much use for "it is what it is", I usually shorten it to "what it says", or if online, "WYSIWYG". Can't get rid of 24/7 though."