02-01-2016, 05:17 AM
(01-31-2016, 03:18 PM)Kosheh Wrote: - When people talk like video game localization. "Quite" doesn't fit into our modern langauge. We don't use it anymore as a word of emphasis and it comes off as a lack of confidence in one's words. Stop using quite. Quite's never gonna happen. Also phrases like "That's the ticket!" that like literally do not come up in our modern vernacular. Like...where was the last time you saw that phrase? Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon?
I'm sorry, but I don't really agree with this... My dad says "That's the ticket", and I often respond to certain things with "quite"... For example, if somebody says "It's rather hot today", I might respond with "Quite". I think you're just working this around things that you yourself might not say, or perhaps it's even a local thing for you. But I know in the UK at least, many people will use the word quite.
My pet peeve is "At the end of the day". Fucking, just say what it is you want to say, putting "at the end of the day" doesn't actually change anything else within that sentence. And if it does, that means that you've not really worked out what it is you want to say and you're just trying to start a sentence before what it is you want to say has reached your brain.