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The4thCircle wrote:Also, also, I was just reminded of this. Does anyone know what punctuation should follow the phrase "I know, right" ?
Is it a statement? A question?

It doesn't seem to contain any meaning at all and yet everyone seems to say it these days.

-Stacy

At first glance I suspect it should be "I know; right?" or "I know. Right?" as the "I know" bit is an agreement with whatever a previous speaker was saying and the "right" bit appears to be a shortened rhetorical question such as "can that be right?" or "is that really right?" so the two sections need to be seperated by either a semi-colon or full stop as they are from two different tenses.

There is a good chance that I'm wrong though.

Right?

The use I have seen most often is that the expression is uttered by the first speaker, like so:

A: "I don't believe he did that to me!"
B: "Totally!"
A: "I know, right?"

Perhaps we can say it is used to emphasise the agreement of the second speaker.

Or just ignore anyone who uses it.

People who take more than 30 seconds at a cashpoint.

Women who would like for military service to be reinstated as a panacea against dropping standards of morality and civility and all sorts of other social ailments. But not for women obviously.

The neighbour's dog barking all the time - although I found a lovely app on Android that emits high pitched sounds that shut him up - I might post that in the "what makes you happy thread".

Madelon Hoedt wrote:The use I have seen most often is that the expression is uttered by the first speaker, like so:

A: "I don't believe he did that to me!"
B: "Totally!"
A: "I know, right?"

Perhaps we can say it is used to emphasise the agreement of the second speaker.

Or just ignore anyone who uses it.

I guess it's one of the oddities of spoken English that doesn't really have a specific meaning that it can be nailed down to but when used in context everybody understands what it means- sort of like a linguistic flourish or verbal punctuation mark- that reiterates the disbelief without reusing the original expression. In the past it would be considered bad form to use them in writing as colloquialisms have always been discouraged however with the advent of the internet, a more relaxed and chatty style of writing has become the norm but the rules of grammar and punctuation haven't caught up with yet.

People who take FOREVER to take a snapshot.

No spankwire

Anyone who used words such as 'like' or 'literally' without thinking about what they are saying.

This morning I was like, making a cup of tea and I like dropped the tea bag and it literally burst and there was this like mess all over the bench. my mam came in and she was like OMG so I literally died.

People who say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less"

Discombobulator wrote:Anyone who used words such as 'like' or 'literally' without thinking about what they are saying.

The Oatmeal also has this bee in its bonnet: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally" target="_blank

greedoniz wrote:No spankwire

Again - Ha^n

Robmonster wrote:People who say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less"

Christ that one annoys me. It clearly makes no sense at all

Using the loo in someone else's house only to find they have hung their toilet paper the 'wrong' way round, that is to say with the paper hanging down closest to the wall.

Robmonster wrote:Using the loo in someone else's house only to find they have hung their toilet paper the 'wrong' way round, that is to say with the paper hanging down closest to the wall.

Oh Yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also people who put back EMPTY cartons of milk/packets of cereal etc