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It's a little wierd, but I don't like it when people use the word "life" . Sometimes it's ok, in certain situations, but most of the time it bothers me a bit.
It's not anything serious, like I don't cringe every time I hear it. But it's kind of funny and it started probably less than a year ago, before I was fine with it and even used it myself sometimes.
"My life is..."
"Life is like..."
"It happens often in life..."
and many quotes using life are kind of annoying too.
I wouldn't use phrases like these.
But ones that don't bother me might be something like
"It's a matter of life and death"
"There is life on earth"
"You're a lifesaver!"
Yes, it does sound weird. I know exactly how you feel but its hard to explain. Its like, if you were watching a cartoon and hear a cartoon character say something like, "cartoons suck!" you will ask yourself, wtf? arent you a cartoon character? How can a cartoon be talking about being a cartoon? I also think you mean that using the word life is as if we are not within life itself and talking about a whole new dimension. I hope that makes sense.
Perhaps the French and Deutsch words for LIFE might help a bit [and learn if others are interested in "foreign" languages]:
1. Vie
2. Leben
I'm the same when people say "Cripes, Cadwallader and heavens to Betsy! Cor, my sainted trousers. My old man's a biscuit".