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What cliches do you dislike the most? Thread poster: jyuan_us
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Edward Potter 
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To your point.
Ugh. I hear this one more an more.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Italian to English
North of.
As in "inflation is forecast to be north of 14% in the coming year"
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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The optics (i.e. what something looks like, or the impression it gives)
As in "the optics of Liz Truss's premiership were terrible".
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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To "speak to" something (i.e. talk about it).
As in
"Can you speak to the fourth item on the agenda?"
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| An interesting thread taking shape | Dec 28, 2022 |
Tom in London wrote: Isabelle Rodriguez wrote: ..... you are not humbled, you are PROUD, which is the exact opposite  Right? That's definitely an intolerable cliche. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins and comes before a fall
It's the first time I see the word "humbled" being used in this sense, but I can't agree more with the comment on "proud": I always thought the fact that certain people would start building their values around being proud of something was supposed to mean that their moral compass had gone haywire, but then I'm also confident I'd get a huge number of points on the bigot scale by appreciating things like religion, etc. I wonder if I should be ashamed of writing a post with "my two cents" in it. I guess I should have gone for the "my five kopecks" version. Btw, I like the "north of" thing. It doesn't deserve to be on the list of hatable clichés for the sole reason of being overused (I've been lucky to have avoided contact with people who overuse this expression in ways that would make it obnoxious to me)
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Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
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English to Russian
Metin Demirel wrote:
With that mindset (which I speculate that they have), any word in the English language can be found impersonal, lacking interest, passive–aggressive, or sarcastic. With that mindset 'How are you?' can be seen offensive by some too: when someone says 'How are you?' they don't actually care about you. And you don't even need to reply with 'Thank you, I'm fine' because that question does not require any response at all.
By the way
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
What I dislike the most is that English clichés tend to infiltrate other languages The How-are-you attitude has also infiltrated into the Russian language too. Several years ago this question supposed a brief convo. These days, when you meet somebody saying 'Как дела' (equivalent of 'How are you'), next thing you see in a moment is their fading back...
[Edited at 2022-12-28 12:02 GMT]
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Nikolay Novitskiy
Russian Federation
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Large agencies recruiting translators in thousands, they all call us "talents". While offering mind-blowing MT-editing tasks for 0.01 USD / segment, they still call us "talents" and sometimes even "contributors". As if we should feel flattered.
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Metin Demirel
Türkiye
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| under the sun | Dec 28, 2022 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
What I dislike the most is that English clichés tend to infiltrate other languages and to be translated literally...
In the last couple of years, I come across some expressions used in Turkish that were stolen from English, like "at the end of the day" or "under the sun".
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Andy Watkinson
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Tom in London wrote:
Uptalking. Just in general? Where every statement is voiced like a question? As in Valley Girl talk?
Valley Girl talk?
It's a well-known fact that Uptalking was invented by the Daleks.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Italian to English
Nikolay Novitskiy wrote:
Large agencies recruiting translators in thousands, they all call us "talents". While offering mind-blowing MT-editing tasks for 0.01 USD / segment, they still call us "talents" and sometimes even "contributors". As if we should feel flattered.
At least they don't call us "resources".
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Andy Watkinson wrote:
.... Uptalking was invented by the Daleks.
No - the way the Daleks talk is Glottal Fry.
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
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Tom in London wrote:
At least they don't call us "resources".
I and my peers were sometimes referred to in management materials as CFAs - "client-facing assets".
On a more serious note, Japanese companies use the phrase "human resources" with no awareness that it might have a dehumanising effect. It should be straightforward to explain that the implication that humans are fungible assets is not a good look for a company that claims to care, but in reality it isn't easy.
Dan
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MollyRose
United States
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I agree, Personnel is a better title for that department. Have you ever heard of human capital? Ew!!!
An annoying cliché I've noticed recently is "take-away." Or, what will you take away from the session today? On my answer to the survey question, I wrote what I would prefer that they take away, or eliminate!
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jyuan_us
United States
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TOPIC STARTER | Second to none | Dec 29, 2022 |
"Second to none." That's a good one.
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Michael Newton
United States
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Thank you for "reaching out" to us. Your call is very important. Please wait while the next available executive is able to assist you.
"Going forward".
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