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WTF does this mean?
Where did this stupid word come from? Does it mean 'start' - which, by the way, has only one syllable. So is shorter to say!
Is it easier to say than the word 'beginning'?
Please someone help me to understand how or why anyone put these two words together.
is it normal to normal to be so annoyed at a word?
I love it when people discuss linguistics as if it's actually a logical modern creation. Etymology, dear, is a bitch of a mistress.
I always have do a double take in case the person said, "From the ghetto / gecko."
I understand it to mean 'from the outset'. It sounds a bit like sports terminology to me and I suppose people use it for extra emphasis and to make things sound more dynamic and urgent. In one of my jobs we were so busy that the word 'urgent' had lost all its meaning and people were starting to mark all their mails as ***TOP URGENT***, simply for a better chance of getting a response.
From the getgo, you could spend a lot of time trashing words in the current diction but it would have no result.
Better to move on and make up new ones to replace the ones you don't like. Nobody will understand what you are saying, but that's half the fun.
My favourite word or phrase to hate is "moving forward", it makes my skin crawl.
The purpose of language is to convey ideas. You got the idea. What's the problem?
Mari!
I don't much like it, either, even though I've found myself using it now and again. It's an Americanism which spread in the mid 1960's and was probably local slang much earlier than that, before television elicited its spread.