Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
> "think outside the box".

  Especially irritating since its overuse has diluted its meaning, and thus
it's seldom used for what it really is supposed to mean.

  One related thing which irritates me a bit is when people take an
English saying and then translate it *literally*, word-for-word, to
Finnish and start using this raped translation in Finnish with the
same meaning as it has in English. This is especially irritating if
there already is a perfectly good and established saying in Finnish
which means the exact same thing, and there's absolutely no reason
why it couldn't be used.

  The most widespread and infamous example of this is the English saying
"in the long run". There are actually several perfectly valid Finnish
expressions which mean that exact thing, yet many people use a literal
translation instead, which sounds stupid.

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